> > Ikaria’s unusual past may explain its communal inclinations. The strong > winds that buffet the island — mentioned in the “Iliad” — and the lack of > natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its > history. This forced Ikaria to be self-sufficient. Then in the late 1940s, > after the Greek Civil War, the government exiled thousands of Communists > and radicals to the island. Nearly 40 percent of adults, many of them > disillusioned with the high unemployment rate and the dwindling trickle of > resources from Athens, still vote for the local Communist Party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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