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The Greek artist who was selected by CERN
Nikos Papadopoulos is the winner from Greece of the Accelerate@CERN programme, a one-month research award for artists at CERN-European Organization of Nuclear Research in Switzerland. The award for Greece is held in collaboration with the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and is funded by the Onassis...
The richest Greeks of Australia
[:el] 7 Greeks are included on the 2014 BRW Rich 200 list, the list with the wealthiest people on Australia that is issued annually by the prestigious magazine BRW. On the 45th place of the list is Con Makris. He is the richest Greek of Australia. His...
Three ancient Greeks among the most influential personalities
An analysis of links within Wikipedia articles by Young-Ho Eom of the University of Toulouse, France, and colleagues gave Linnaeus the title after they used the Google PageRank algorithm to come up with their list. Google uses this algorithm to count the number of incoming...
9 out of 15 best classics books of all time written by Greeks
[:el] The ancient classics can still teach us about love, politics, history and legend. The Telegraph mad a list picking the must-reads of the classic writers. The list consists of 15 books and 9 of them are written by Greeks. See below the list: 1.The...
The 50 wealthiest Greeks in USA
[:el] The newspaper The National Herald issued the annual list of 50 Wealthiest Greek- Americans. The last few years that the special issue is being published, it brings to light successfull Greeks. Skill, knowledge, persistence, and timing. The people who populate our s annual list...
MIT: 6 Greeks among the 10 most famous people of all times
Pantheon is a new project from the Macro Connections group in M.I.T.’s Media Lab. It has collected and analyzed data on cultural production from 4,000 B.C. to 2010. With a few clicks on its website, which just went live, you can swing through time and geography,...
The richest Greeks in the world for 2014
The list of Forbes Magazine for the welthiest people of the world counted 1,645 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $6.4 trillion, up from $5.4 trillion a year ago. The list of 2014 includes 42 new women billionaires. In total, there are 172 women...
He returned with the gold medal
Late Monday night, the new world champion in the pole vault indoors, Kostas Filippides, returned to Greece two days after the gold medal in the world championship of Sopot . «We are very pleased both my and my coach. We are very happy with the gold...
Artist Gina Kalabishis wins the Rick Amor Prize
Melbourne award winning artist Gina Kalabishis has another award to put on her mantelpiece, having taken out the Rick Amor Drawing Prize for her work, Untitled. Along with the prestige, Gina also takes home $12,000 in prize money and will have her work displayed alongside...