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Friday, October 9, 2015

Panathinaikos Busts Olympiacos, 70-64

Panathinaikos, shaking a jinx, eliminated Olympiacos from the Greek Cup basketball tourney with a 70-64 win. The post Panathinaikos Busts Olympiacos, 70-64 appeared first on The National Herald.


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Mad GREEK vying for take-away award success in Leeds

Mad GREEK, an authentic GREEK restaurant in Leeds, is one of the independent local takeaways in the running for a British Takeaway Award.


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Church that hosts Tulsa GREEK Festival has new pastor, new icons

Father George Gartelos, priest of the Holy Trinity GREEK Orthodox Church, stands near the 15- by 40-foot, wood-carved icon screen that was recently ...


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Northern Arizona University shooting leaves one dead and three injured

‘Our hearts are heavy’ school president says as 18-year-old student taken into custody after confrontation early Friday morning that escalated into shooting An early morning confrontation between two groups of Northern Arizona University students escalated into a shooting that left one student dead and three more injured, campus police said on Friday. An 18-year-old NAU student, identified as freshman Steven Jones, was taken into custody after allegedly killing one student and injuring three others outside of a Greek-life dormitory, NAU police chief Gregory T Fowler said during a press conference on Friday morning. Continue reading...


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Coming out of the dark: why black is such a positive colour

It has been associated with death and negativity throughout history. But without black, you wouldn’t be reading this, fashion would lose its power to flatter – and there’s only one cat that’s lucky, isn’t there? Is black a colour? No, say scientists. In the visible spectrum, white reflects light and so is actually a presence of all colours. But black absorbs it, sucks it all in. True black is the absence of colour. Black is what happens when no light at all reaches your eye. Except, of course, that we almost never see pure black. Unless you happen to have the misfortune to be gazing into a black hole, everything you perceive as black has some light, however small, bouncing back at you. Throughout history, for many cultures and societies, black and white have stood as opposites: white the positive, pure light, black its negative counterpart. From the Greeks, who sat the god of the underworld, Hades, on a black ebony throne to the Romans – death, in Roman poetry, was the _hora nigra_, or the black hour – black was not a friendly colour. Continue reading...


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Greece needs debt relief, significant extension of ...

LIMA Oct 9 Greece cannot deal with its public debt through reforms alone and needs a significant extension of grace periods and longer maturities from its ...


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High Commissioner Guterres to visit GREECE

High Commissioner António Guterres is scheduled to begin a two and a half-day mission to GREECE tomorrow (Saturday) aimed at assessing the ...


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