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Aris Sklavenitis is a graduate of the Department of Oenology and Technology of Beverages of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, has worked in the Donkey Microbrewery in Santorini, while in recent years he belongs to the

  Yannoulis Chalepas was the most notable sculptor of modern Greece and his work has been influencing young sculptors in Greece and abroad. Chalepas’s work is divided in three periods. The first period, 1870-1878, covers the years of his youth and later mental illness. The second period, 1902-1930, covers the

Born in July 20, 1934 in Maroussi, Attica. Her father, John, was a lawyer and region leader of Arcadia. Pneumonia that she  suffered few days after her birth, urged her parents to baptize her immediately. The name: Aliki – Stamatina. Her difficult childhood was overshadowed by the murder of her father during the German occupation. Her mother, Emilia Koumoundourou,

The Greek professor of physics at the University of Birmingham was among the three scientists awarded by the European Research Council. Another distinction for the Greek professor of physics at the University of Birmingham , Costas Nikolopoulos who continues to make the country proud and to advertise

 

Actress Kakia Igerinou recently wrote about the sad news of the death of Mikis Theodorakis Greece is in mourning, as internationally acclaimed Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis has passed away at the age of The tragic news of the death of Mikis Theodorakis broke a few minutes ago. The huge, perhaps the most important Greek composer of all time passed into immortality at the age of 96. Actress Kakia Igerinou recently wrote about the sad

Love, a noun - alias substantive, indeed substantive, in the singular form, neither feminine nor masculine,

Athanasios Thomas Karvelas was born in Athens, in 1906, and at the age of 4 he immigrated with his parents to New York, and like most expatriates, when he grew up, he tried to earn a living by doing many different jobs, including being a drummer and a test driver for Studebaker cars. In 1932, he borrowed $ 15 from his then girlfriend and future wife, Agnes Stewart, and bought a used truck from the back part of which, he sold ice cream. On May 30, 1934, on Memorial Day in New York, Tom Carvel, as he was now called, was

Konstantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor at MIT, is the scientist who solved within a year Nash’s “riddle” (John Forbes Nash), the equation all mathematicians around the world had been trying to solve for 60 years without success. For his thesis, he has been honored by the International Game Theory Union, with the IT & Game Theory award. He has received many other awards and distinctions

-What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. -Why isn't anything going on in the senate? Why are the senators sitting there without

Kiki Dimoula’s mature poetry added an altogether new dimension to Modern Greek poetry. Having experienced the drama of the existential dissolution of post-war humanity and at the same time the dead ends in a world that has lost the gift of faith, her poetry mapped a world that’s both

Bouboulina (1771-1825): An illustrious name that arouses feelings of patriotism, sacrifice and bravery in the heart of every Greek. She is the celebrated heroine of the sea, one of the most famous figures in Greek history. She was

Stefanos was born in Athens and it didn’t take him much time to reveal his musical talent. At the age of 4 years old, although unaware of musical notation, he had the ability of memorizing with great ease pieces of classical music and reproducing them on the piano almost intact. He began his studies at the Conservatory of Athens under the

His origin is from Ioannina. He has recently visited for the first time Thessalonici for the Film Festival, and he did not hide his satisfaction that he came in Greece, for which as he says knows very few things, although as he claims

Born in Athens on 13th of September in 1948 and he is origin is from Argos. He studied physics at the Athens University and continued his studies at the University of Sussex in England where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 in High Energy Physics. Dimitris Nanopoulos was a Research Fellow

Born Odysseus Alepoudelis on November 2nd, 1911, in Heraklion on the island of Crete, with origins in Mytilene, Odysseus Elytis is his literary alias. Some of his famous poems are Worthy it Is, Sun the First, Orientations and many more. He’s acknowledged as

The Brazilian virtual reality film entitled “The Line”, directed by Ricardo Laganaro, won a Primetime EMMY award in the category Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Programming.  The EMMY award is the culmination of a series of film

“I hope to see the Marbles back in Athens before I die. But if they come back later, I shall be reborn Melina Mercouri on the Parthenon Marbles issue. Year of Melina Mercouri.  Today we celebrate the 100-year anniversary since the birth of internationally-acclaimed Greek actress, activist and much-loved former Minister of Culture.

You spoke of things they did not see and they laughed. But you row the dark river upon the waters; you take the unknown road blindly, stubborn and search for deeprooted words like a multiknotted olive tree –