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MONKS RETURN TO SPIRITUAL DESERT
From: United Press International
Date: 20010612
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United Press International
06-12-2001
Monks return to spiritual desert
WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- If Europe has a wounded heart, western Bohemia fits this description. Once famous for Marienbad and Karlsbad, its glamorous Spas that attracted the likes of Russia's Czar Peter the Great and German Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this has been a wasteland since World War II.
Even now, the villages and towns in the surrounding countryside are almost empty since the Communists had driven out millions of Sudeten Germans.
In the thick forests many trees are ...
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