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Herald Tribune: Live happy and healthy like a Greek!

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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...

Famous Greeks

Obama’s speechwriter for 8 years

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Jon Favreau is a political speechwriter. For more than 8 years he was President Obama’s speechwriter. After his departure from the White House, he created his own company, Fenway Strategies. He was born at June 2nd, 1981 in Winchester, Massachusetts. His mother Lilian is of...

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Angie Harmon traces her greek roots in a tv show

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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....

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Her chocolate creations fascinate the world

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Katrina Markoff is the owner and founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, a luxury exotic truffle company that last year made $30 million, up 50% on the previous year. She makes chocolate mixed with unlikely ingredients from all over the world. Bruce Springstein, Cameron Diaz Ryan Gossling,...

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El Greco in New York

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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...

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Scientists grow miniature stomachs from stem cells

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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...

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Nearly 30 years of presence in Hollywood

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Elizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress of Greek descent who fascinates the audience with her talent. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night…, and Avalon and she is also well known for her role as Celia...

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Site for Greek church near WTC gets blessing

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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...

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A multitalented Greek Canadian impresses Hollywood

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[:el] Marie Avgeropoulos is a Greek Canadian actress and model best known for her roles in the television series Cult and Hunt to Kill. She also took part in the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians as the daughter of Aphrodite. She recently starred with Taylor Lautner at...

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NY: Exhibition about the greek influence in Egyptian culture

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An exhibition about the interactions between Greek and Egyptian cultures during the nearly 300-year period when Egypt was under Greek rule, is presented at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of New York University on October 8, 2014. The exhibition is entitled...

Herald Tribune: Live happy and healthy like a Greek!

Obama’s speechwriter for 8 years

Angie Harmon traces her greek roots in a tv show

Her chocolate creations fascinate the world

El Greco in New York

Scientists grow miniature stomachs from stem cells

Nearly 30 years of presence in Hollywood

Site for Greek church near WTC gets blessing

A multitalented Greek Canadian impresses Hollywood

NY: Exhibition about the greek influence in Egyptian culture

The man who mapped the human brain

Dr. Ioanna (Joan) Vernikos – The first Greek female scientist at NASA

Katerina Gogou – The carefree girl of Greek cinema who was anything...

Rania Bellou – The artist of memory

Alec Issigonis – The Greek behind the legendary Mini Cooper

Metsovo – An Autumn Fairytale in the Pindus

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