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PANHELLENIC GAMES
Not much survives the demise of the infamous Council of Greeks Abroad, also known as SAE. After a babble of world and local councils (babble being the collective known to describe such talkfests),...
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FILM FESTIVALS AND ΑΓΕΛΑΔΕΣ
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."Alfred HitchcockI have had an idea for a movie for a very long time and have already written the screenplay. It...
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THESSALONIANS AND JEWS
Last week, the Thessaloniki Association “White Tower,” in the course of various annual events celebrating the liberation of Thessaloniki and the sisterhood between that city and that of Melbourne,...
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GENOCIDE DENIERS AND THEIR CRONIES
Hasan Fehmi Bey: “Why did we impute the title of murderer to our race? Why did we enter into such decisive and difficult struggle? That was done just for securing the future of our country that we know...
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THE GREAT CHURCH
"Solomon, I have surpassed you.” Emperor Justinian.One of my chief sources of pride derives from the fact that my family’s origins lie in Tralles, modern day Aydin, home of the great Modern Greek...
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ΠΑΣΤΟΥΡΜΑΣ
«Μες το μαχαλά πέφτει κουμπουριά οι Ζεϊμπέκηδες χορεύουν στου Δελή Θρακιά Πίνουνε ρακί τρώνε παστουρμάκαι χτυπάνε τα ποδάρια με τα γεμενιά Παλληκάρια ένα κι ένα με σαλβάρια κεντημένακαι χρυσά κουμπιά...
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REMEMBRANCES OF THE FESTIVE SEASON
Generally speaking, the festive season in Australia is a relatively complacent and bourgeois affair. Preceded as it is by droves of determined shoppers ploughing down department store aisles in search...
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ΠΑΠΠΟΥ ΝΙΚΟ's ETERNAL EXILE
"It was all for nothing , all my struggles, all my privations and I'm alone. I try to figure out the reason for this and each time, I am more and more at a loss."Nikos Syrmos. Final LetterMy youthful...
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PEACHY
In the vernacular, a kopanos is held to be a person possessed of sufficient mental and physical density as to render themselves able to be pummelled in frustration, hence the verb «κοπανάω,» wherein...
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MELISSA
I have been fascinated by bees ever since the time that I had, as an infant, I shrank in fear at the appearance of Mr Doobee making an appearance on Romper Room accompanied by an ear-splitting racket,...
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THE GREEK GATSBY
I had reached halfway through M Karagatsis classic novel “Junkermann,” about the life and times of a particularly resourceful White Army refugee who settles in Greece and achieves the pinnacle of...
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AMBASSADOR DAFARANOS AND THE GREEK FINANCIAL CRISIS
"For what is Europe basically? It is an idea before it is a market. More precisely, it is only a market because it is , first of all, an idea. And it is this idea, a knot of the three threads of the...
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THE MOBILE EPIRUS MUSEUM
In Orhan Pamuk's brilliant novel, "Museum of Innocence," his hero is so besotted with his beloved that he collects various trivial ephemera arising from the times that he has spent with her and houses...
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GREEKS ON THE MARGIN OF HISTORY
The personage of Chris Moustakis has fascinated me for years. Possessed of a master’s degree in history from Harvard, he was one of Leon Trotsky’s secretaries in Mexico, just months before the old...
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VB
As far as it is possible for me to know, my earliest memories of being among Greek people are inextricably interwoven with the alcoholic beverage known as Victoria Bitter, herein after referred to as...
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THE AUTONOMY OF NORTHERN EPIRUS
The 28th of February 1914, was 100 years ago. It is a date that falls within the last gasp of the ‘Belle Epoque’, which is as historically remote to us today, as was the Battle of Waterloo to the...
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GREEK ANARCHISTS IN THE UKRAINE
I have always been attracted to the theory that government, in all of its manifestations, is a form of social oppression. It is for this reason that I find the Makhnovshchina, that is, the largest,...
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GREECE IN TIME AND SPACE
The origin of this week’s diatribe, is the exasperation of a friend at the particularly crackpot, even by FYROMian standards allegation of a historian, that Greek archaeologists had deliberately...
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SOUVENIRS
“Souvenirs are perishable, fortunately, memories are not.” Susan SpanoA decade ago, when I last visited the palaeontological museum of my ancestral village of Mytilinioi in Samos, I did so with the...
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SOTIRIS MANOLOPOULOS: MYTHOMOTEUR
Every origin myth is a tale of creation, describing how a new reality came into existence. In a large numbercases, myths of origin also justify the established order by explaining just how this order...
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