Culture

From Yiannitsa to the American Ballet Theater

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Alexandra Avramis’s origins are from Yiannitsa in Pella and she has successfully managed to be selected by the internationally prestigious group of classical ballet, the American Ballet Theater, among thousands of dancers from all over the world. “It was beyond my imagination, a life’s dream...

Achievements

A young composer conquers the world at 24

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Young composer Ioannis Angelakis is the First Prize Winner of the 2012 International Composition Competition at Tokyo, Japan. Despite his young age, Ioannis has also ranked among the first in two other international competitions in Prague and Sofia. Born in 1988, Angelakis graduated the School...

Famous Greeks

On the list with the world’s most powerful celebrities

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[:el] Jennifer Aniston is a well-known actor all over the world. She started her career with the TV series Friends and now she stars in major Hollywood productions. Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Her Greek full name...

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“Avatar” with a sense of Greece

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While «Avatar», the movie, is still «breaking» one record after another, in Box Office, few are those who know that behind the dream world «erected» by James Cameron is the Greek’s origin executive producer and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis, a woman, who is characterized by many...

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The pioneer of neon

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[:el] Stephen Antonakos was born in 1926 in Saint Nikolaos of Lakonia and by 1930 his family relocated to New York, where he lived and worked. He died in New York City aged 87 on August 17th, 2013. Since the ‘60s, Antonakos has been distinguished for...

Famous Greeks

From mathematics to fiction, to arts and to Logicomix

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Greek writer and director, Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Brisbane Australia in 1953 and grew up in Greece. Despite his initial interest in the novel and the arts, early in his life, «a sudden sensual attraction to maths» –as he says – led him to...

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The charmer of the keys

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He has won international recognition as an extremely gifted artist, classical pianist, a performer of music of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also being recognized for his skills in synthesis, and for his improvisations. Vasilis Tsampropoulos was characterized as a child – miracle,...

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The Greek-American who revealed the annual slaughter of 23,000 dolphins

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[:el] L. Psihoyos was born in America by immigrant parents. His origins are from Sparta in Peloponnesos. Photography has always been his greatest love. He first started photography as a hobby and then it turned to be his profession. His pictures were used by hundreds...

Famous Greeks

Low profile with a Pulitzer in his collection

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[:el]American Writer of Greek origin, Jeffrey Eugenides was born on 8th of March in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan. His father’s parents immigrated to America from Asia Minor, while his mother has Irish roots. He graduated with honors from Brown University and got a postgraduate degree...

Famous Greeks

“My Greek is so sloppy that I am … «ashameding»”!

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She was born 79 years ago in Lowell Massachusetts, from a Greek immigrants’ family with immense political action. Dukakis though she received rich studies, she has been devoted to the seventh art, however, she continues to develop vigorously act as an activist, with particular sensitivity...

From Yiannitsa to the American Ballet Theater

A young composer conquers the world at 24

On the list with the world’s most powerful celebrities

“Avatar” with a sense of Greece

The pioneer of neon

From mathematics to fiction, to arts and to Logicomix

The charmer of the keys

The Greek-American who revealed the annual slaughter of 23,000 dolphins

Low profile with a Pulitzer in his collection

“My Greek is so sloppy that I am … «ashameding»”!

A Nobel Prize awarded Greek poet

Between mountains and sea

A Greek Moulin Rouge dancer holds a Guinness World Record

Giorgos Kougioumtzidis – The first Greek “golden” World Champion in wrestling

Lucas Samaras – The Greek “father” of selfies

From doctor in Australia, to Hollywood famous director

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