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Angie Harmon is a well-known fashion model and actress. She gained fame for her roles in the popular television series Baywatch Nights and Law & Order. Thanks to her mother’s Greek descent and her father’s English and Cherokee Native American ancestry, Angie was born a...

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...

Awarded by the Global Board of Contemporary Art

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Bill Balaskas is a visual artist. “I believe that I do everything through the eyes of an artist who tries to motivate the public to see old, familiar things from another, fresh point of view” he mentioned in an interview to ellines.com. He was born in...

A flavor of Greece in the U.S. TV

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Maria Menounos is an actress, a journalist, a television host and occasional professional wrestler who fascinates the United States with her talent and her beauty. Menounos was born on 8 June 1978 in Massachusetts, to Greek immigrant parents Costas and Litsa Menounos. At the age...

The “heavy artillery” of U.S. Diplomacy

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John Negroponte entered the US diplomatic corps in 1960, when the War was on in Vietnam, he began his tour of duty in Saigon embassy in South Vietnam. From 1971 to 1973 he was the right hand of Henry Kissinger. From 1981 to 1985 he...

“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...

Moved deeply the entire Greek community with her offer

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A young Greek girl, Christina Leventis, organized a charity event with the support of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and a lot of foreigners. She successfully collected $120.000 which will go to Make a Wish Greece Foundation for needy children in Greece. “During my summer vacation...

A Greek professor who connects philosophy with everyday life

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[:el] Alexander Nehamas is a professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. He was born in 1946 in Athens. In 1964, he relocated to the United States to study economics, even though his dream was to study business....

Ranked among the top 5 chemists of the past decade

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[:el] Dr. Paul Alivisatos is a distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and former Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). He also directs the Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute (ENSI), and holds professorships in UC Berkeley’s departments of materials science and chemistry. In...

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The pioneer of neon

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