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[:el] Terry Dougas is the Greek who conquers the movie industry in Hollywood by his directing skills. Nektarios, which is the Christian name of Dougas, was born on 25 May 1977 in Vancouver, Canada. Terry Dougas, accompanied by his parents, came to their homeland Greece....

His “Children” are the Rolls & Bentley of the celebrities

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Can anyone imagine a car mechanic to earn from his craftwork so much money that would be envy by many others of a pretty high payrolls? This applies to the case of Charles Agapiou, who turned his love for cars and his knowledge in a...

The «Golden man» of Hollywood

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[:el] Having a professional experience of more than 30 years in the audiovisual industry, Jim Gianopulos is one of the top players in show business, media and new technologies. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment until 2016. He...

The Greek “Mr Oscar”

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[:el] Sid Ganis is the former president and current member of the American Film Academy, the organization that determines where the Oscars go to. He is a motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, The...

The modern tracker of “Greek” New York

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Roula Kotseta was born in 1963 in Chania, Crete. She involved in journalism in 1987 from the newspaper «Kerdos», «24 Ores» and the magazine «Kai». From 1988-1997 she lived in New York where she worked for the GreekAmerican newspaper «Proini», the «Reporters» and the GreekAmerican...

He researches the usefulness of bacteria

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[:el] Nikos Kyrpides is a biologist, a Researcher and Director of the Genomics Biology program at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab. He has won many international awards and he was also included in the Thomson Reuters list with the most important...

Greek physicist who has been honored with the Sakurai Prize

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[:el] Savas Dimopoulos is a distinguished professor of Particle Physics at Stanford University, in fact he started teaching there at the age of 28. He is one of the 2 Greek physicists having been awarded with the Sakurai Prize as a recognition and encouragement to his...

“Plant Your Roots in Greece”

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Brilliant carrier in building skyscrapers

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One of “Manny’s” favorite sayings is, “If it ain’t broken, break it and then make it better.” He means: You may be doing OK, but you can always do better”. He is considered to be one of the leading civil engineers, not only in the...

Portraits of prominent Greeks in the U.S.

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