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Post by leandros nikon on May 26, 2009 6:19:47 GMT -5
Modern Athens was build too fast,bcz of urban immigration back in the 60's and 70's...Gigantic masses of people evacuated the countryside and left for the big cities.But Athens was much worse before the olympics.Many new constructions were made,plenty of money was spent.New highways,the new airport,the subway,the tram,new stadiums are parts of this modernisation.
what's very inspiring for the future of the city is that the area where the old airport was located,at Ellinikon,will become a gigantic metropolitan park as we were told by several ministers...we keep on waiting,Athens desperately needs a big park...Even bigger than Central park... ;D
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Post by leandros nikon on May 25, 2009 11:54:31 GMT -5
The tower of winds. www.sailingissues.com/yachting-guide/tower-of-the-winds.htmlOn the Roman agora, overlooked by the acropolis and the parthenon stands the octagonal marble edifice of the Horologion of Andronicos, which was erected by the Macedonian astronomer Andronicos around 50 BCE. Pentelic marble is quarried from the Penteli mountains just north of Athens and has a mesmerizing white crystalline surface.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 25, 2009 11:50:59 GMT -5
some other Athens church.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 25, 2009 11:45:49 GMT -5
Kapnikarea,a small byzantine church.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 24, 2009 16:03:47 GMT -5
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Post by leandros nikon on May 24, 2009 15:53:42 GMT -5
Athens pics,lets not forget...
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Post by leandros nikon on May 24, 2009 14:29:55 GMT -5
Elia Kazanen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_KazanKazan was born Elias Kazanjoglou in the Anatolian city of the Ottoman Empire, Kayseri , Turkey) to a Greek family. Elia Kazan,September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003, was an award-winning film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. Kazan was a three-time Academy Award winner, a five-time Tony Award winner, a four-time Golden Globes winner, as well as a recipient of numerous awards and nominations in other prestigious festivals as the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 21, 2009 15:39:57 GMT -5
George Seferisen.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeferisGiorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs ( 13 March 1900 - September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was also a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.Seferis was born in Urla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens, as well as a poet and translator in his own right. In 1963, Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by Odysseas Elytis,who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). His nationality, and the role he had played in the 20th century renaissance of Greek literature and culture, were probably a large contributing factor to the award decision. But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus." [2] While Seferis has sometimes been considered a nationalist poet, his 'Hellenism' had more to do with his identifying a unifying strand of humanism in the continuity of Greek culture and literature --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_SotiriouDido SotiriouDido Sotiriou (née Pappa; 18 February 1909 – 23 September 2004) was a Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright. Life Sotiriou was born in Aydin, in western Anatolia and at that time part of the Ottoman Empire, as the daughter of Evangelos Pappas and Marianthi Papadopoulou,in a wealthy and polyglot bourgeois Rûm family who lived in a stately home. Her childhood, Sotiriou said, appeared to her as an "endless fairy tale". She had two older and two younger siblings. After her father, an entrepreneur, went bankrupt and her family became poor, Dido, who at that time was about eight years old, was sent to her wealthy uncle and his wife in Athens, where later she was educated. Sotiriou later described this separation from her family as "my first experience as a refugee".In 1919 the family moved to Smyrna (now Izmir), at that time occupied by Greece, but in 1922 Turkey repulsed the Greek invasion of Asia Minor (Greek-Turkish War), and Sotiriou's family had to leave Smyrna because of the Greek-Turkish population exchange. The family landed in the port of Piraeus, where the father worked in the docks and on ships as a clerk. In Athens, she was raised in her aunt's house in the affluent, middle-class milieu. There she completed her studies, attending the French Institute and having as teachers Kostas Paroritis and Sophia Mavroeidis-Papadakis,and later attending the Sorbonne.However, as she herself explained, she developed in that period a strong sense of social justice, especially because of the contrast between her own privileged situation and the humble way of living of her parents and siblings.She became a member of the union and so came to the leftist movement. In 1933 she joined the anti-fascist front. In 1935 she met in Geneva Vladimir Lenin’s comrade Alexandra Kollontai and in 1945 she was cofounder of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Paris.In 1936 she began her career as a journalist.She fought against the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and later, in the period of Axis occupation, she joined the Communist Party of Greece and worked for an underground anti-fascist newspaper. Sotiriou declared in a 1989 interview that since the beginning of her political engagement in 1932 she always stood "on the left wing". She was proud of having waived both her inheritance and the patrimony of her aunt, having the goal of being free and being able to do what she wanted. Traveling to Paris, she met writers as André Malraux, André Gide and Louis Aragon. In the 1950s she herself began to write novels, "to tell the truth." In 1959 she published her first novel, The Dead Await ("Οι νεκροί περιμένουν").In 1962 appeared Bloody Earth ("Ματωμένα Χώματα"; title of the English edition: "Farewell Anatolia"), probably her greatest success. The book deals with the trauma of the Greek-Turkish population exchange and the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor. In the preface Sotiriou mentions that she wrote the novel on the basis of the memories of a little Asia Minor farmer named Axiotis Manolis, who had lived the events as an eyewitness. From his perspective, the book is written in first person. The book was (and still is) also very popular in Turkey, probably because, as the author said, "there are no evil Greek and Turk, but only people who are victims and pay dear for it". The book has been reprinted sixty-five times in Greece and translated into six languages, including Turkish in 1970 and French in 1996.Subject of a novel published in 1976, Commandment ("Εντολή"), is the time of the Greek Civil War and the secret machinations against the Greek democracy. Depicted therein is the fate of Nikos Beloyannis, a Communist resistance fighter who was executed in 1952.Another work is Katedafizometha ("Shattered"), appeared in 1982. Sotiriou was chief editor of a women's magazine, Gynaika ("Woman"), and foreign policy commentator on various newspapers, as Neos Kosmos ("New World") and the Greek Communist Party's daily Rizospastis, where she became editor-in-chief from 1944.[2] As a novelist, she received many awards. In 1986, she was with Zulfu Livaneli and Mikis Theodorakis among the founders of the Association for the Turkish-Greek Friendship (Daphne/Defne). She died in Athens at the age of 95 years because of pneumonia. The Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize, issued by the Hellenic Authors' Society, is named after her. Dido Sotiriou is a realistic writer who uses self biographical elements participating emotionally to the adventures of her protagonists.Her novels deal with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war period and the post-war period in Greece. WorksProseThe dead are waiting. Kedros, Athens, 1959. Elektra (Fictionalized biography of Elektra Apostolou). Athens, 1961. Bloody Earth. Kedros, Athens, 1962. (English edition: Farewell Anatolia). Commandment. Kedros, Athens, 1976. Through the flames. Kedros, Athens, 1978. Guests. Kedros, Athens, 1979. Shattered. Kedros, Athens, 1982. Random encounter and other stories. Kedros, Athens, 2004. Coincidence. Pyrsos, Athens, 1939. TheaterTwo theatrical texts and a monologue. Kedros, Athens, 1995. Theatre. Kedros, Athens, 1995. Non-fictional worksThe Asia Minor catastrophe and the strategy of imperialism in the Levant. Kedros, Athens, 1975 (essay).
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Post by leandros nikon on May 21, 2009 15:38:14 GMT -5
Elias VenezisElias Venezis was a Greek writer. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books throughout his career as an author. His most famous book is Number 31328. Elias Venezis is not his real name, but his pen name. He is categorised among the writers of "the generation of the 30s". During the Asia Minor Catastrophe he was 18 years old and was conscripted to a labour battalion of the Turkish State. In his book The Number 31328 - The Book of Slavery he describes the 14 months of his life that he had spent in a concentration camp, forced to hard labour. BooksAeolia The Number 31328 Peacefulness Exit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.oocities.com/xenpanu/GreekScouting.htm Nikos AvgeridisThe martyrdom of the 31 Aidini's boy scouts.A sacrifice and a world shocking tragedy for "faith in Christ and our nation's Freedom" was the slaughter of 31 Greek Boy Scouts by Turks in Aidini of Asia minor,in 1919. These young martyrs prefered to be murdered by the Tsetes (Turkish irregulars) instead of changing their religion.Their leader was Nikos Avgeridis,who was the first one who was murdered. Their memory is celebrated in the end of May.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 12, 2009 7:21:03 GMT -5
R.I.P
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 17:05:40 GMT -5
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis
see category
15.AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 17:05:19 GMT -5
Aristotelis Onassis
see category:
1.THE GREEK SHIP OWNERS-part(A)
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 17:05:00 GMT -5
Elena Nikolaidien.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_NikolaidiElena Nikolaidi (June 15, 1909–November 14, 2002) was a noted Greek-American opera singer and teacher. Nikolaidi sang leading mezzo-soprano roles with major opera companies worldwide and made numerous recordings. Early life and musical study Elena Nikolaidi was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (which is now Ýzmir, Turkey). In 1922 , after the invasion of Turkey in Smyrna, she moved with her family to Greece. She studied voice on scholarship at the Athens Conservatoire under Thanos Mellos. She made her debut with orchestra in Athens in a performance conducted by Dimitris Mitropoulos. Her first stage appearance was in the premiere of The Ghost Bridge by Theophrastos Sakellaridis. Nikolaidi married Mellos, her voice instructor, in 1936. However, she would retain "Elena Nikolaidi" as her professional name. Career In 1936, Nikolaidi traveled to Vienna to compete in the Belvedere vocal competition. She placed fourth but earned a second hearing with the great conductor Bruno Walter, which resulted in her being cast as Princess Eboli, a leading role, in Verdi's opera Don Carlos with the Vienna State Opera on December 16, 1936. Nikolaidi was "an instant, memorable success." She became a star in Vienna; after one performance as Carmen she received an ovation reported as being between 15 and 30 minutes in length—the longest ever recorded there. In 1948, Nikolaidi came to the United States with her husband and their son, Michael. She made her Town Hall debut recital in New York City in January 1949. The following morning, Jerome D. Bohm of the New York Herald Tribune wrote: "In 20 years of music reviewing and in twice that number spent in listening to most of the world's best singers, I have encountered no greater voice or vocalist"; the New York Times critic wrote of her "rare brilliance." She made her American operatic debut as Amneris in Verdi's Aïda with the San Francisco Opera and reprised the role for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1951. In the early 1960s she retired from opera but continued concertizing extensively for a number of years. In 1960 Nikolaidi accepted a position on the voice faculty of Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 1977 she came to Houston, Texas, as the primary voice instructor for the newly established Houston Opera Studio, a young-artist training program that was at that time a joint venture of Houston Grand Opera and the University of Houston; she also instructed a select few university students who were not in the HOS program. Nikolaidi's students have since sung major roles in many of the leading opera houses of the world. Among her most successful protégés are Bruce Fowler, Richard Paul Fink, Bruce Ford, Denyce Graves, Eric Halfvarson, Diane Kesling, Susanne Mentzer, Erie Mills, Robynne Redmon, Chris Pedro Trakas, Stella Zambalis and Linda Zoghby. Nikolaidi retired from teaching in 1994 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2002. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_FlemingAmalia Koutsouri-Vourekas (Lady Amalia Fleming)Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, Lady Fleming (1909 - 26 February 1986) was a Greek doctor, activist and politician.Fleming was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1909. She moved to Greece and, during the Axis occupation, took part in the National Resistance, for which she was jailed by the Italians. In 1946, she received a scholarship to study in London. There, she met Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. After his wife died in 1949, she married him in 1953, becoming the second Lady Fleming. She was widowed less than two years later, in March 1955. She returned to Greece in 1963 and was arrested by the Greek junta during the period of the dictatorship (1967-1974) for acts of sabotage. She was released from prison due to health problems in 1971 but was stripped of her Greek citizenship and exiled. While in exile, she wrote a "A Piece of Truth," a personal account of her imprisonment as well as of the trial of Alexandros Panagoulis. Lady Fleming returned to Greece after the fall of the junta in 1974. She joined PASOK and was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977, 1981 and 1985. She also was active in several human rights organisations, notably Amnesty International, Democratic Concern, and Human Rights Union. Fleming initiated and funded the establishment of the Greek Foundation for Basic Biological Research "Alexander Fleming" (1965) which was later transformed to the Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming", a governmental, non-profit institution which is actively involved in research areas covering immunology, molecular biology, genetics and molecular oncology. Amalia Fleming died in 1986. www.nybooks.com/articles/10419
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 16:57:31 GMT -5
USN Admiral James G. Stavridisen.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_StavridisAdmiral James G. Stavridis, USN has been selected as the prospective NATO Supreme Allied Commander / European Command (SACEUR) and is the current Commander, United States Southern Command. He is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a native of south Florida. He has been recommended to be the next Supreme Allied Commander Europe, to replace General Bantz J. Craddock when the latter retires.[1] A Surface Warfare Officer, he has served at sea in carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. Stavridis commanded destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) from 1993-1995, completing deployments to Haiti, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. Barry won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet under his command. In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 21 and deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1998, winning the Navy League’s John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership. From 2002-2004, Stavridis commanded Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, conducting combat operations in the Persian Gulf in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Afterwards, VADM Savridis served as senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. In October 19, 2006 he became the first Navy Commanding Officer of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, FL. Ashore, he served as a strategic and long range planner on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the start of the "Global War on Terror," he was selected as the Director of the Navy Operations Group, Deep Blue. He has also served as the executive assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Stavridis earned a PhD and MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in International Relations in 1984, where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student. He is also a 1992 distinguished graduate of the National War College. He frequently publishes his thoughts, opinions and analyses at myriad publications, including the Western Hemisphere policy publication Americas Quarterly. He holds various decorations and awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal and five awards of the Legion of Merit. www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121249.htmlU.S. NATO chief blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing' of Greeks, including own family -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chrysostomos of Smyrna
Chrysostomos Kalafatis (8 January 1867 – 10 September 1922) (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης), known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna,Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (Izmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again from 1919 until his death in 1922. He was born in Triglia (today Zeytinbağı), Turkey in 1867, considerably aided the Greek Invasion of Turkey and was killed by a lynch mob after Turkish troops took back the city at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.He was declared a martyr and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on 4 November 1992.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asa JenningsAn American benefactor of Asia minor Greeks. www.websteralumni.org/history_masonicbuilding2.phpEven after World War I drew to a close, much of the world was still in chaos. Asa Jennings was sent to Smyrna which at the time was largely a christian city on the western coast of Asia-Minor. Only 14 days after Asa and his family arrived in Smyrna, The Turkish army invaded the city. The il-equipped Greek army quickly withdrew. Most foreigners in the city quickly left, but 350,000 Greek, Armenian and Jewish refugees were trapped with no way out. The sea was to the west and the approaching Turkish army to their east. Homes were looted and set ablaze, many were raped, tortured and killed. Scores drowned trying to reach foreign vessels anchored near by. American and British warships were stationed off the coast to observe the situation but as neutral parties stayed clear of any involvement. Asa had sent his family home but had remained behind to see how he could assist with the situation. He arranged for food supplies to be brought in to feed the refugees. Determined to prevent the impending massacre, Asa, at great risk to his personal safety traveled through combat and managed to arrange a meeting with Ataturk, the imposing and much feared Turkish leader. Amazingly, Ataturk agreed to allow the refugees to leave and gave Asa 11 days to find them safe passage out of the country. Asa contacted the Greek Government to encourage them to provide ships to pick up the refugees. The Greek government showed little enthusiasm for Asa's request and were quite puzzled as to who he was. As Asa appeared to be the only American left in Smyrna, it wasn't much of a stretch for Asa to identify himself as the top American official in Smyrna. After much persistence and threats to expose the Greek governments inaction, the Greek government cabled that they were putting Asa in charge of 26 of their ships. Asa directed the ships into port under American flags and picked up the refugees within the 11 day window. theopavlidis.com/AsiaMinor/jennings.htm
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 16:48:29 GMT -5
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Vartholomaeos)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_Bartholomew_I_of_ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (born 29 February 1940) is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch,and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991. He is thus the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world.
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Post by leandros nikon on May 11, 2009 16:45:49 GMT -5
28.THE GREEKS OF TURKEY
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Post by leandros nikon on May 8, 2009 14:44:01 GMT -5
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Post by leandros nikon on May 8, 2009 2:00:16 GMT -5
that reminds me of Zorba the greek somehow...
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Post by leandros nikon on May 8, 2009 1:56:49 GMT -5
Portuguese people experienced the Reinessance and we the Otthoman occupation...so,its deeper,the reasons are historical...
Athens is getting better though,remember the photographs?the subway,new highways,the olympic constructions,the new airport...its much better than the 80's...
how about Tirana...
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Post by leandros nikon on May 2, 2009 13:59:02 GMT -5
go to kitchen woman!!!make me coffee,leave politics to men...
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