My favourite destination of all for a 'trip out' is the Greek island of Corfu, a journey of approximately 1,200 miles from my home in Devon via the ...
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How the world sees Greece
Monday, December 27, 2021
The Olympic Airways Uniform Design that Made Fashion History
Pierre Cardin, who passed away in late December, designed the Olympic Airways flight attendant uniforms in the glory days of the airline. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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TikTok Beats Google to Become the Most Popular Website of 2021
TikTok, the video-focused social networking service, has beaten Google to become the most popular website for 2021, according to IT security company, Cloudflare. According to Cloudfare the top 10 most popular domains in 2021 are: 1 TikTok.com 2 Google.com 3 Facebook.com 4 Microsoft.com 5 Apple.com 6 Amazon.com 7 Netflix.com 8 YouTube.com 9 Twitter.com 10 WhatsApp.com […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Greece Sees Arrivals Up at Hotels and Campsites in Jan-Sept 2021
Arrivals and overnight stays in hotels and tourist campsites in Greece were up during the first nine months of 2021, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).
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Tourism Min Kikilias presents plan for extension of tourist season
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias in an interview with CNN Greece presented the plan for the extension of the tourist season in Greece. Kikilias said that tourism growth is a national issue and referred to the agreements signed with tourist organisations and tour operators to achieve this goal, but also to the growth dividend that tourism […] The post Tourism Min Kikilias presents plan for extension of tourist season appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Three Greek Airports Show Pre-pandemic Performance in October
Three Greek airports in popular holiday destinations managed to exceed pre-pandemic passenger traffic performance in October, according to ACI Europe.
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron
Omicron is the latest coronavirus variant of concern to be given a Greek letter. But there aren't many letters in the Green alphabet left.
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Ancient Greek Experience Renamed A.G.E. in Group Rebrand
Athens-based travel group ‘Ancient Greek Experience’ has unveiled its new logo after rebranding to the company title ‘A.G.E. Group’.
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Olympia Anastasopoulou Appointed New GREEK Tourism Secretary General
Olympia Anastasopoulou has been appointed as the new Secretary General for Tourism Policy and Development of the GREEK Tourism Ministry.
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Azerbaijani president offers condolences to Greek counterpart
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev sent a letter of condolences to his Greek counterpart Katerina Sakellaropoulou, News.Az reports.
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Ilham Aliyev expresses condolences to President of Greece
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a letter of condolences to President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou on7.
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EETE report: "ENGRAVING-From Prehistory to GREECE Today"
The entrance is free. "ENGRAVING - From Prehistory, to GREECE Today" "Nikos Kessanlis" Hall, School of Fine Arts, 256 Piraeus, Tavros December 29 ...
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Armenian President offers condolences over the death of the former President of GREECE ...
President Armen Sarkissian sent a letter of condolences to the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on the death of former ...
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Monemvasia Villa Steeped in History Up for Sale in Greece
A villa in Monemvasia, Peloponnese is perhaps one of the most sought out properties in the Greek estate market at present. Due to the restricted amount of historical properties available within Monemvasia, Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited castle town, real estate opportunities are rare and hard to come by. The villa named “Monopati,” built and lovingly […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Bill Gates Major Concern Leading to 2022
Bill Gates is overall optimistic about 2022, but writing in his blog recently he identifies one major concern: people’s distrust of governments. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder in a blog post, titled “Reasons for optimism after a difficult year” made multiple rosy prognostications — from the Covid pandemic potentially ending to the oncoming rise of the […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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GREEK Moussaka dish guilty of large carbon footprint say researchers
The iconic and emblematic dish of GREEK cuisine, moussaka has been embroiled in the climate change debate, threatening our gastronomic future, ...
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GREEK wanted in Germany for money laundering arrested in Thessaloniki
A 36-year-old GREEK national was arrested in Thessaloniki on Sunday on a European warrant over charges of fraud and money laundering.
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Autobibliography by Rob Doyle review – charmingly provocative
The author and critic reveals his weakness for lugubrious writers in this mischievous, enthusiastic guide to his favourite books, interspersed with reflections on his druggy youth In 2019, when he was living in Berlin, the Irish author Rob Doyle wrote a short weekly column about his favourite books for the _Irish Times_. The series began with _The Unwomanly Face of War_, Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history of Soviet war widows, and ended, 51 books later, with _The Colossus of Maroussi_, Henry Miller’s Greek travel memoir of 1941. In between came, well, everything, from Virginia Woolf to Virginie Despentes, via Carl Jung, Philip K Dick and _The Tibetan Book of the Dead_, each introduced with unstuffy critical acuity and lapel-grabbing comic hyperbole: “Is it preposterous to suggest that Fyodor Dostoevsky prophesied the election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the seething hate-pits of social media?” Readers of Doyle’s autobiographical novel _Threshold_ won’t be shocked that these columns, collected in his new book, fall hardest for writers mischievously lugubrious in outlook – Michel Houellebecq, say, or the Romanian author EM Cioran. Freud’s _Civilization and Its Discontents_ gets a thumbs-up for its “honest theoretical acknowledgment of the unbridled aggression, depravity and lust for annihilation that constitute the dirtiest secret of the individual in society”, while Nietzsche’s _On the Genealogy of Morals_ “might be one of the greatest horror novels ever written”; Joris-Karl Huysmans’s _À rebours_, “a kind of 19th-century _American Psycho_” about a sickly aristocrat’s outré self-help programme, which Doyle read while tripping on psychoactive cacti in Bolivia, is plain “evil”. Inserted between these snippets of high-grade consumer advice are longer, looser reflections written upon Doyle’s return to Ireland early in 2020, a visit that became a long-term stay on account of you know what. Thus does the book morph into a Covid-era tour of Doyle’s psyche, as he reflects while stuck at home on a roving youth spent in druggy squats and house shares in London and Paris, bumming around Asia and Latin America with the cash earned from sorting supermarket coupons on a Dublin industrial estate. Uppermost on his mind is sex, relegated by the pandemic to a memory, save for half-hearted clicks on PornHub (“like a nightmarish roam through an infinite wet market”), to say nothing of a lockdown-breaking “amatory visit” to his girlfriend. Amid moist-eyed recollections of a three-way at a Berlin nightclub or the Vietnamese lover he followed to San Francisco, we’re told how Doyle didn’t attempt to be faithful, even in a serious relationship. In the darkest days of 2020, he lost his nerve while drafting a tongue-in-cheek Facebook post that he feared his friends might take seriously, because it actually wasn’t wholly light-hearted: “If there’s a silver lining to all this, it’s that the new generation won’t get to enjoy the freedoms I made such a beast of myself exploiting.” Doyle’s self-guying impulses make him good company on the page. When he imagines writing a book such as Thomas Bernhard’s _My Prizes_, in which the Austrian writer recalls his experience of accepting various awards (Doyle’s version would be made up of “acerbic speeches to mark the literary prizes I did _not_ win”), the ensuing rant about “some schmoozing chump win[ning] the latest popularity contest with her bullshit book” is funny, not only bitter, in part because Doyle recognises he’s no outsider. He talks of an ex-lover who is a lauded French novelist and says Geoff Dyer (a heavy influence) still texts him about an epic night out they once shared; Rachel Kushner told him that, inspired by an idea about a Houellebecq scholar he gave up after 10,000 words, she’s going to make the French writer a character in her forthcoming novel. Continue reading...
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[Ticker] NGO rescues 446 people from Mediterranean Sea
German NGO Sea Watch rescued 446 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea in five operations over the holiday weekend, including a heavily pregnant woman and a two-week old baby, DPA reports. The rescues came after Greek authorities recovered 27 drowned bodies on Christmas Eve. Libyan authorities said another 28 bodies washed up on its beaches on Sunday in what has been one of the deadliest years on record for migrant sea-crossings.
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Greece Seals Deals for More Tourist Arrivals in 2022
The Greek Tourism Ministry has made two important agreements that are expected to boost the number of arrivals to Greece in 2022.
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In Mersin, a small community celebrates Christmas
Whiffs of incense from the thurible Father Coşkun İspir Teymur swings drift through the Greek Orthodox Church in the southern province of Mersin as it begins to overflow with the faithful.
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Greek cruiser Georgios Averof
Fun Fact: (Greek: Θ/Κ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) is a modified Pisa-class armored cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of t ...
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“Greek Philosopher” App Brings Wisdom from Ancient Greece In Your Fingertips
The "Greek Philosopher" app gathers more than six hundred of the most profound words of wisdom from the major schools of ancient Greece ...
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GREECE expresses condolences on death of Desmond Tutu
GREECE extended its condolences to the people of South Africa over the death on Sunday of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate ...
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Underage boys in Greek orphanage forced to have sex by employees
An investigation is underway following revelations that young boys in an orphanage in Athens, Greece were being forced into sexual acts by staff members. The name of the facility remains ...
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GREECE Coronavirus: 4036 New Cases, 79 Deaths
GREECE Coronavirus: 4,036 new cases, 79 deaths. By. Gct. 35 seconds ago. New cases of the coronavirus fell, as usual, Sunday, but deaths rose ...
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A life well-lived: Gary Beikirch, American war hero and Greece native
News10NBC honors Gary Beikirch, a Vietnam War veteran who received the U.S. Medal of Honor for his services as a combat medic in the U.S. Army Special Forces.
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Earthquake of 5.4 magnitude strikes Crete
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 was registered on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday, with no immediate reports of injuries or damage, ...
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Metsovo: The Greek Winter Gem of Lakes, Forests and Ski Resorts
Metsovo is a renowned mountainside town straddling the Pindus mountain range where Epirus converges with western Macedonia and Thessaly.
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Morning news brief: Brazil dams' failure, Greece tremors and more
To get your day started, here are some stories. Heavy rains induced floods triggered failure of two dams in northeastern Brazil while Greece's southern islands witnessed two strong tremors. You can ...
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German NGO rescues over 400 migrants over Christmas weekend
The Greek and Tunisian coast guards have also reported successful rescue missions. Nonetheless, dozens of people have died in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the past several days.
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2 strong tremors of magnitude 5.2, 5.4 strike off Greek island of Crete
Two tremors with a magnitude of 5.2 and 5.4, respectively, have jolted Greece's southern islands. No damage or casualties have been reported so far. The first tremor, a 5.2-magnitude, struck at 5.15 pm (1515 GMT) east of the island of Crete and at a depth of 9 kilometres (5.6 miles), the Institute of Geodynamics reported in Athens. The earthquake was felt in Crete and the islands of Karpathos, Kassos, Rhodes and Santorini, according to local media. An even larger tremor of 5.4 magnitude struck at 8.59 pm (1859 GMT) about 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) northwest of the first, at a depth of 6.3 kilometres (3.9 miles), the Institute of Geodynamics reported. The mayor of the small island of Kassos, closest to the epicentre, told state news agency ANA that no buildings were damaged in either earthquake. An unrelated 4.0-magnitude tremor also hit at 6.14 pm (1614 GMT) west of Athens, the Institute of Geodynamics reported. The epicentre was at a depth of 16.7 kilometres (10.4 miles), it ...
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Greek Orthodox families devastated on Christmas as they find graves at Fawkner cemetery vandalised
It was not a happy Christmas for several Greek Orthodox families in Melbourne as they arrived at Fawkner cemetery to pay their respects to their departed loved ones. Visitors arrived ...
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Greece's southern islands witness two strong tremors
Greece's southern islands witnessed two tremors of a magnitude of 5.2 and 5.4 on Sunday. There were no reports of any damage or casualties till now. According to local media, the quake was ...
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How Was Cancer Treated in Ancient Greece?
It was Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who identified and gave the name cancer to the illness that blights humanity to this day. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Vasilopita Recipe: Greek New Year’s Cake
The story of the Vasilopita with the lucky coin inside began 1600 years ago. Here's a recipe for Vasilopita and the story of the tradition.
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Three earthquakes hit Greek island of Crete on Boxing Day
Tremors take place within two hours
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5 Gorgeous Greek Restaurants in York, UK
Have you got an appetite for some Greek and Mediterranean food? If so, explore five of the best Greek restaurants in York.
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Magnitude 6 Quake Rattles Greece's Crete, EMSC Says
… Sunday east of the Greek island of Crete, the European Mediterranean Seismological … 74956456601 MIA „Rosiya Segodnya“ greece, crete, euro-mediterranean seismological centre (emsc), … Sunday east of the Greek island of Crete, the European Mediterranean …
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Moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes holiday island of Crete
… holiday island of Crete – the third to jolt Greece so far on … shook the Greek holiday island of Crete – the third to jolt Greece so … magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Crete - two weeks after another … killed a man on the Greek island and damaged hundreds of …
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Human Brain Cells Learn Faster Than AI Study Finds
Researchers have recently taught human brain cells in a petri dish to play the retro videogame Pong faster than artificial intelligence (AI). Scientists created what they dubbed the “cyborg brain” in order to measure biological neurons against AI. This “brain” consists of just brain cells in a petri dish grown on microelectronic arrays. These arrays […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Tarpon Springs Epiphany: Greek Orthodox Prepare for 2022 Celebration
The annual Epiphany celebration of the Baptism of Jesus Christ by St. John the Baptist in the River Jordan will be held on January 6, 2022 at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs, Florida. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, will be […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Becomes a $1 Billion Movie
Spider-Man: No Way Home, premiered at the Fox Village Theatre in Los Angeles on December 13, 2021, became over the Christmas weekend a $1 billion movie. After having the third-biggest worldwide opening of all time last weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home has earned $467.3 million from domestic and $587.1 million from international markets to reach […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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GREEK Deputy Minister Replies To Hulusi Akar Turkish Minister Of Defense From Kastellorizo ...
And they [the GREEKS] are claiming a maritime area of 40,000 square meters for this island. And when we say 'no' to this, they accuse us of being ...
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Two strong tremors strike off Greek island of Crete
Two tremors with a magnitude of 5.2 and 5.4, respectively, have jolted Greece's southern islands, but no damage or casualties have been reported so far.
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Two quakes strike off Greek island of Crete
The tremor struck at 5.15 p.m. (1515 GMT) east of the island of Crete and at the depth of 9 kilometers (5.6 miles), the Institute of Geodynamics reported in Athens. The earthquake was felt in Crete ...
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