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G.Britain: 90-year-old teacher honored for six decades of teaching Greek
Christoforos Cartoudis, a retired Greek teacher, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Honours List for dedicating six decades to teaching Greek. He has taught over 5,000 pupils during his time as principal at the city centre’s Apostolos Andreas Greek School. The 90-year-old, who...
Herald Tribune: Live happy and healthy like a Greek!
Live happy and healthy, like a Greek is entitled the article by Marilynn Preston for Herald-Tribune. This is the time of year I live, work and play on a tiny, remote Greek island with no airport and fewer than 8,500 residents, including goats. Genetics play only...
Angie Harmon traces her greek roots in a tv show
Angie Harmon will be appearing on an episode of TLC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” to trace her ancestral roots. Airdate unknown but will probably be Summer 2015. The actress, whose mother is Greek, has been sharing photos on social media of her experience so far....
El Greco in New York
The exhibition «El Greco in New York» will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614). A special collaboration will bring together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado...
Scientists grow miniature stomachs from stem cells
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, among them the Greek researcher Yana Zavros, have used human stem cells to create for the first time functional, 3-D stomach tissue, little miniature versions of the organ in its earliest stages of development.The breakthrough is important because it will...
Greek robot octopus takes to the sea
The famous by now octopus robot created by Greek engineers at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Greece has finally conquered the sea! The world’s first robotic octopus, just like a real-life octopus, the robotic octopus propels itself forward by pumping its eight limbs in...
How the Acropolis sculptures influenced the Western World
On the occasion of the Greek National Holiday of Tuesday 28 October 2014, the Acropolis Museum Archaeologist-Hosts will present visitors the effect of the Acropolis sculptures in the creation of Hellenic Renaissance in the western world. The occasion for this will be the quadriga with the goddess...
Amphipolis 3d model with the magnificent mosaic
For first time since the discovery of tomb of Amphipolis by archaeologists, an online 3D digital model presents the findings. The 3D model can take you to the ancient tomb and you have the capacity of twisting, turning, zooming in and out to observe the details of Caryatid...
Site for Greek church near WTC gets blessing
Hundreds of members of New York’s Greek Orthodox community attended a blessing ceremony Saturday for a new church near ground zero in Lower Manhattan that will replace the one destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In his remarks at the construction site, the leader of...
8 years old greek among the finalists for best Wildlife Photographer of 2014
«The Watchful Cheetah» a photo by Leon Petrinos of a female cheetah in Kenya is among the finalists of the prestigious international competition for best Wildlife Photographer of the Year, presented by London’s Natural History Museum and BBC. Leon is participating in the category «10...