The Hellenic American Union presents an exhibition of works by 70 GREEK comic artists and illustrators in a show organized by Comicdom Press and ...
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Tsitsipas Sets Sights on Masters 1000 Glory and Top 8 ATP Finish
Tsitsipas, who helped guide GREECE to March's Davis Cup Group II play-offs told reporters in New York that he was having trouble finding inspiration, ...
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New Cosmetic Fortnite Celebration Pack Announced – Free PlayStation Plus Exclusive
A new Celebration Pack has been announced by PlayStation GREECE for PlayStation Plus users who play Fortnite. Here is what the pack will contain.
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‘I’m desperate to reach him’: Syrian trying to save brother in UK stranded in Greek refugee camp
Chocolate birthday cakes, each with a sparkler squidged into the middle of them, are carried into the tent amid a chorus of “Happy Birthday” followed by clapping and cheers. It is the 35 th birthday ...
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Baton-wielding Greek riot squads clash with protesters marching through Athens
Officers armed with riot shields and batons were deployed to the capital's Exarchia district to squash the public display of anger - resulting in violent clashes with the activists.
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Irvine's 4 favorite spots to find low-priced Mediterranean food
Located at 16569 Von Karman Ave. in the Business District, the GREEK spot is the highest-rated budget-friendly Mediterranean restaurant in Irvine, ...
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The Hellenic Initiative Applauds Cyprus' RIF for €500K Grant to Cyprus Seeds Program
The initial promoters of Cyprus Seeds are THI, the Leventis Foundation, as well as individual Cypriots and GREEKS of the Diaspora in the Boston area, ...
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Lowering primary surplus target hinges on higher growth rate after 2020
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) chief Klaus Regling indicated on Friday that GREECE'S lenders may consider reducing the country's high primary ...
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This Week in History – September 13th to 19th
On this day in 1948, Dimitri Nanopoulos, the GREEK physicist, was born in Athens. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and graduated in ...
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Yiannis Psychopedis
The Citronne Gallery presents an exhibition of works by acclaimed GREEK artist Yiannis Psychopedis at the Poros Archaeological Museum, running ...
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How Jessica Ogunnorin survived UCR women's basketball
teammate Natasha Hadley said in a 2012 interview. “She tells us, 'Basically, he just told me I'm not worth anything and I should go back to GREECE.'”.
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Is Trump's America Tougher on Asylum than Other Western Countries?
In 2015 and 2016, more than one million migrants reached GREECE from Turkey, most of them making their way to wealthier countries like Germany.
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Michelle McManus all smiles as she laps up the sun in swimsuit while in GREECE
MICHELLE McManus was all smiles as she posed in a swimsuit, enjoying the sunshine while on holiday in GREECE. The Scots singer took to Instagram ...
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10 Things You Should Definitely Know Before Visiting GREECE
GREECE is a country where the locals are as warm as the sunny Mediterranean climate. The cuisine is colorful, the architecture is stunning, the history ...
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St. George Festival to highlight the Greece culture in Fishers next weekend
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- If you have ever wanted to experience Greece without leaving the state, your opportunity is only mere days away. The St. George Festival will be held next weekend at the St ...
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Kobe Bryant on Giannis and the GREEK NT: “They must build around him”
Kobe Bryant answers to our own @AravantinosDA question about Giannis and the GREEK NT: "They must build around him"#FIBAWC2019 ...
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With Tesla's Elon Musk and Rivian's RJ Scaringe, we have the Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan of electric vehicles (TSLA, GM, F)
[Rivian R1S] * Henry Ford created the Great American Car and the first Great American Car Company. * Alfred Sloan made General Motors into the Great American Corporation. * Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe could revive that business story for the 21st century. * VISIT BUSINESS INSIDER'S HOMEPAGE FOR MORE STORIES. Regular Business Insider readers know that every weekend, I write a take on something Tesla-related. This time around, I'm going to ask for patience as I preface the effort with a short auto-industry history lesson. The development of the car business in the 20th century followed a predictable pattern: daring innovators gave way to savvy managers. The early days were the Wild West — or Wild Midwest, and the burgeoning industry was located mostly in the middle of the US, with Detroit as its capital — but after World War II and the emergence of a vast American consumer culture, automotive startups morphed into multinational corporations. _READ MORE: In the battle of the Tesla Model S and the Porsche Taycan, it's really no contest_ The two most important men in this story were Henry Ford, who needs no introduction, and Alfred Sloan, who does. It was Ford who laid the groundwork for the modern auto industry and pioneered both the effective moving assembly line and the idea of mass-market motorized transport with the Model T. The company that bears his name and that's still run in part by his great-grandson, board chairman Bill Ford, remains the No. 2 US car company. Sloan, a more obscure personality, created the modern corporation in General Motors. At its peak in the 1950s, GM controlled half the US car market; it still controls about 20%. (The Germans and Japanese weren't really selling vehicles in the US during the Eisenhower administration.) [Henry ford] THE UTOPIAN FORD VS. THE PRAGMATIC SLOAN The key distinction between Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan was that Ford was something of a utopian (and, more troublingly, given to anti-Semitic propaganda) who harbored visionary, paternalistic attitudes toward his workforce and his customers. He believed that his workers should be paid enough to buy the cars they produced, and thereby created a virtuous circle, but he disliked credit and figured that there was no reason to sell Model T's that weren't black. Sloan, by contrast, thought that the buyer was always right — or at least that the consumer should enjoy abundant choice, and that GM as a corporation should provide it. Some of this was expeditious: GM was created by combining brands — Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac — so Sloan was simply managing reality as GM's president. But GM has always concentrated on the pull of consumers, rather than Ford's push to deliver singularly great products. The symbols of the two American giants capture this distinction. Henry Ford's great achievement was the mighty River Rouge factory, where train cars loaded with iron ore pulled up to one end of the plant and finished cars rolled out the other. Sloan's work of genius was GM's organizational chart, the blueprint for American managerial capitalism. _READ MORE: With a US Department of Justice move against automakers, the Trump administration is now officially antibusiness_ [Alfred Sloan] OK, HISTORY LESSON OVER. NOW LET'S SEE HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF The two biggest names in the electric car realm are Tesla CEO Elon Musk (obviously) and a guy you probably haven't heard of, RJ Scaringe, who leads Rivian, a startup electric SUV and pickup-truck maker. In my cycles-of-history framework, Musk is Ford and Scaringe is Sloan. (There's some irony here, by the way, as Ford has invested $500 million in Rivian, while Tesla hasn't seen a major automaker take a stake since Daimler and Toyota bought equity prior to Tesla's 2010 IPO.) The big difference between Musk and Scaringe is that Musk, the visionary, wants nothing to do with the legacy auto industry anymore, while Scaringe is running Rivian sort of like a junior OEM. When I saw the photo below, of Scaringe and Bill Ford after the Ford investment was announced, I speculated that I was looking at Ford's next CEO. [Rivian Ford] Like Henry Ford, Musk is preoccupied with the manufacturing process — Tesla's Gigafactories, in Musk's view, are more important than Tesla's cars. They're the "machine that builds the machine," and Musk would like them to become radically automated. WHY RIVIAN IS MORE LIKE A TRADITIONAL AUTOMAKER THAN TESLA Scaringe — like Sloan, an MIT engineering grad — is creating an electric automaker that's designed to reach the consumer; he's not trying to reinvent manufacturing. To achieve that, he wants _everything_ to do with the legacy auto industry. Where Sloan had his org chart, Scaringe has partnerships and deals, all intended to make Rivian vehicles easier to manufacture, sell, and service. His most recent investment, of $350 million from Cox Automotive, is representative. (Ford and Amazon have also kicked in, giving Rivian a $2 billion total.) Cox owns Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, among other properties. These entities are designed to facilitate the car buying and leasing process and are heavily organized around the consumer. By investing in Rivian, they're getting a piece of the future, the chance to integrate sales not just of EVs, but of SUVs and pickups, the most popular vehicles in the lucrative US market. Rivian is getting a huge pipeline to buyers from the deal. In the history of the car business, Ford is seen as stubborn and idealistic while Sloan is considered adaptable and pragmatic. Of course, both Ford and GM are still around, so it's not clear that Ford's vision lost out to Sloan's technocracy. Musk likes to note that Ford and Tesla are the only two American car makers that haven't gone bankrupt. But Ford did have to recruit a cadre of number-crunching efficiency experts after World War II — the so-called "Whiz Kids" who had brought statistical analysis to the war effort — to modernize its business. Nonetheless, Ford has often been home to outside-the-box thinkers, from the brash Lee Iacocca to the former Boeing exec Alan Mulally, who rescued Ford from insolvency before the financial crisis. GM continues to embrace the skilled manager, although in current CEO Mary Barra the company has been making tough call after tough call on issues that the pre-bankruptcy GM had endlessly postponed, such as selling the perennially money-losing European division, Opel. _SEE ALSO:__ __Apply here to attend IGNITION: Transportation, an event focused on the future of transportation, in San Francisco on October 22__._ A CONTEST OF ENGINEERS [Tesla D Getty 2] Interestingly, with Musk and Scaringe we also have a contest of engineers. Or more accurately, technologists, as Musk's background is in physics while Scaringe has a PhD in mechanical engineering. Don't interpret that as meaning Scaringe is a superior engineer; Musk likely knows more about electric-vehicle design than most people in the business. But while the auto industry is full of engineers in leadership roles, Musk likes to _express _engineering in a way that's wonky and unique (as well as sort of irritatingly didactic at times). Scaringe is more low-key. But in Scaringe, Musk has a potential rival who can actually out-engineer him, something he hasn't really had to deal with up to this point. What we don't have with Musk and Scaringe is a contest of celebrities. Musk is world-famous, the basis for the "Iron Man" Tony Stark character — a real-life billionaire and occasional playboy (Musk gets around, but he also has five kids). Scaringe is unknown outside the car business, and not even that well-known in it. I've been covering cars for over a decade and I'd never heard of him prior to about a year ago. But obviously, even if you know nothing about cars, you're probably familiar with Henry Ford, while Alfred Sloan might ring a bell only if you live in the New York area and are aware of the Sloan Kettering medical centers or the Sloan Foundation's philanthropy. [elon musk iron man] The historical comparisons aren't perfect. Musk is a creature of Silicon Valley and its embrace of risk-taking, rapid-iteration, launch-now-and-debug-later ethos. He's been compared with Steve Jobs. The business dynamics of the tech industry in the early 21st century are not the same as the car business in the early 20th. Scaringe, meanwhile, has just begun to hit his stride, after almost a decade of developing and pivoting Rivian. He seems fresher because Rivian missed out on the EV-startup surge of the 2010s — a fortunate thing, as most of those startups, save for Tesla, have vanished. Scaringe is a creature of the next wave, which entails a lot more cooperation with Detroit and recognizes that building vehicles at scale is extremely difficult. Prior to Scaringe, Musk's main rival was often seen as Henrik Fisker, a car designer who founded Fisker Automotive, which went out of business in 2013 (Fisker himself had resigned by then, and the automaker's decline was due to bottlenecks with its battery supplier and the unfortunate destruction of a load of cars in Hurricane Sandy). If anything, Fisker was a more flamboyant and compelling personality that Musk; I've talked to him on several occassions, and his talents as a raconteur are formidable. He's currently engaged in a wide range of projects, from building a supercar to resuscitating electric mobility with a new company, Fisker, Inc. _READ MORE: The spectacular story of Ferrari's 7-decade journey from an upstart racing team to a $30 billion-dollar luxury brand_ THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG [tesla factory] To borrow a famous analysis from the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, Fisker is a fox to Scaringe's hedgehog (according to Berlin, referencing from an early distinction in ancient Greek literature, the fox knows many things, while the hedgehog concentrates on one). Musk, too, is a fox, engaged with space exploration, tunneling, and artificial intelligence. At first glance, Henry Ford might seem hedgehog-like, but in my view, he was probably a fox, or perhaps a fox-hedgehog hybrid (as was the novelist Leo Tolstoy, by Berlin's reading). Foxes function well as entrepreneurs, even though they might be single-mindedly devoted to their companies and their missions; Ford started two failed enterprises before the Ford Motor Company — and maybe even three, depending on how you assess his fortunes. Sloan, meanwhile, found his glory in melding GM with the American consumer, and in a larger sense, postwar life. The definite GM quote didn't come from Sloan, but he enabled the automaker's World War II-era president, Charles Erwin Wilson, to tell Congress during his confirmation hearings to become Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, that he could make a decision that would place GM and the US in conflict because "I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." We're now watching this business narrative of the 20th century repeated in the 21st. Ultimately, this is important because the gestational electric-vehicle industry needs big personalities to sustain and grow it. The first decade has been a mixed bag, with Tesla stumbling through a decade of infrequent profits and serial controversies while the major automakers approach a market that's still quite weak, with halting steps. Ford and GM are both producing electric cars, but we really need the new Ford and new GM. In Tesla and Rivian we could have not just that, but the leaders who can do for EVs what Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan did for internal combustion. FOLLOW US: ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE CAR AND TRANSPORTATION CONTENT! Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Amazon invested $700M into an electric vehicle startup. Here's how Rivian is doing exactly what Tesla isn't.
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GREEK President Pavlopoulos: British Museum's Refusal to Return Parthenon Sculptures 'Offensive ...
President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday delivered a clear message on the immediate return of the Parthenon sculptures ...
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Erdogan blasts GREEK Cypriots for not sharing natural gas
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused the GREEK Cypriot side of not wanting to share natural gas with the Turkish Cypriots, while ...
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GREEK Actor Takis Spyridakis Passes Away at 61
Takis Spyridakis was born in Aegina on February 4, 1958 and was an actor, director and screenwriter. He was a graduate of the National Theater ...
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Classical-era Shipwreck off Greek Island of Alonnisos Accessible to Visitors Next Summer
This is an innovative, modern and unique for GREECE exhibition center that combines virtual reality displays and digital technologies with traditional ...
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Cement carrier grounding, GREECE
Cement carrier SIRIOS CEMENT I with load of cement while departing for Italy, ran aground in Gulf of Saloniki, GREECE, at around 1100 LT Sep 14.
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PlayStation GREECE reveals new Celebration PS Plus Pack in Fortnite
A brand new PlayStation exclusive Fortnite cosmetic pack has been revealed by PlayStation GREECE – and it looks pretty sweet. While Fortnite is ...
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Civil weddings gaining popularity since start of crisis
Civil weddings in GREECE have been on a steady rise ever since the country was struck by the financial crisis in 2009, mainly due to the fact, analysts ...
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For Roderick Beaton, GREECE is a 'work in progress'
Beaton kept traveling to GREECE as he got older and his first time in Kefalonia was in 1973. “I was a student, just starting to learn the language, and ...
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The Soul of Epirus: Petroloukas Halkias and Vasilis Kostas Perform in NY
NEW YORK – The living legend of Greek traditional music Petroloukas Halkias and the virtuoso laouto player Vasilis Kostas will join forces for a special […] The post The Soul of Epirus: Petroloukas Halkias and Vasilis Kostas Perform in NY appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Team Competed with Monaco and Was Victorious
Initially, Michail Pervolarakis won Romain Arneodo (2-1) and then Stefanos Tsitsipas won Lucas Catarina (2-0) (1st set 6-2, 2nd set 6-1). Stefanos had an easy […] The post Greek Team Competed with Monaco and Was Victorious appeared first on The National Herald.
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Tasty Weeknight Meal: GREEK Baked Chicken Thighs
As everyone settles into their back-to-school and back-to-work routine, weeknight meals are an opportunity to spend time with family and catch up on ...
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GREECE'S Ellinair to focus on A320ceo, wet-leasing unlikely
GREECE'S Ellinair to focus on A320ceo, wet-leasing unlikely ch-aviation PRO ... GREECE'S Ellinair considering expanding Airbus fleetch-aviation PRO ...
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US TV Reveals Smuggling of ISIS Members to Europe
One of the network's centers is Athens, GREECE, the channel said. ... that ISIS members are being moved through GREECE to the rest of Europe,” ...
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'Purge' of migrants in Istanbul sparking concerns in GREECE'S Evros
The October 30 deadline given by Turkish authorities to Istanbul's Syrian refugees to leave the megacity for their provinces of registration or face ...
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Prominent GREEK national freed of financial crime charge locally
The charges reportedly stemmed from a situation where due to variables between GREEK and English linguistics, a 'K' was used in some instances to ...
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Stunning photos offer rarely seen glimpse inside Liverpool's only GREEK Orthodox Church
As one of only four purpose-built GREEK Orthodox churches in the UK, the grade-II listed building has welcomed worshippers for nearly 150 years.
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Round Up for Music benefiting local students
The campaign continues through Oct. 31 at Distillery Restaurants on West Ridge Road in GREECE, South Winton Road in Henrietta and Mount Hope ...
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GREECE – SARONIDA – WILDFIRE #Gallery
ATHENS, Sept. 13, 2019 (Xinhua) — A firefighter tries to put out a wildfire in Saronida, GREECE, on Sept. 13, 2019. A wildfire which broke out at the ...
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Historic bridge restoration closer to completion
Work to restore the 19th century single-arched stone bridge of Plaka that collapsed during the February 2015 floods in northwestern GREECE is ...
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GREEKS Google It: Here are the most popular things GREEKS want to know
Want to know the top queries that GREEKS searched on Google? The auto-recommend tool has the following popular GREEK responses for what GREEKS ...
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From homeland to diaspora: Romioi in Australia
In 1998 the Hellenic Parliament recognised 14 September as a day of national mourning for the Genocide of the GREEKS of Asia Minor. The past two ...
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Texas Equusearch to continue searching for Cheryl Coker
In true GREEK tradition the festival both the young and old flocked to the festival to enjoy live music, dance performances and of course- the food.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas makes perfect Davis Cup debut for GREECE
GREECE finished second behind Poland who collected all three wins and Stefanos was the player to beat on the clay court at the TATOI Club, scoring ...
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Milwaukee Bucks Daily: Giannis Antetokounmpo presses on following GREECE'S World Cup exit
The latest Milwaukee Bucks Daily is here as Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo makes his first public comments since GREECE'S World Cup exit ...
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33rd Athens Run: The GREEK Capital Races for the Cure
The City of Athens' Culture, Youth and Sports Organization (OPANDA) has joined forces with the Hellenic Association of Women with Breast Cancer ...
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Turkish President Erdogan repeats threats of letting in refugees to EU in Reuters interview
He accused the Greek-Cypriot side of violating international law
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Turkey's President Wants Europe to Share Refugee Burden From Syria
Erdogan's threat coincides with a surge of migrants entering GREECE from Turkey. "People are pouring in," said professor of political science Cengiz ...
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The enigma of bronze age tin
Now researchers have solved part of the puzzle. They were able to proof that tin ingots found at archaeological sites in Israel, Turkey, and GREECE do ...
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Is GREECE going to back down on asylum 'reform'?
Athens, GREECE - GREECE'S announcement that it would "simplify" its asylum procedure has met such concern from human rights groups and the ...
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GREECE willing to host one of the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments
GREECE is expected to be one of the candidates to host one of the four Olympic Qualifying Tournaments next summer. The president of the Greek ...
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The West of England P&I Club celebrates 50 years in GREECE
Dealing with all types of ships, the Club is proud to have worked with some of GREECE'S leading shipping companies. Over the years the office has ...
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Dozens of Tourists Evacuated from Hotels as Wildfire Rages on the GREEK Island of Kefalonia
A wildfire broke out in a forest land in the area of Lourdata on the island of Kefalonia early on Saturday, forcing local authorities to call for the ...
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Why Queen Elizabeth II Has Not Officially Toured These Countries
While GREECE is a famous tourist destination, the Queen never went there on an official visit. The reason might be Prince Philip's father, Prince Andrew ...
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