Our golden modern Greeks!

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[glow=red,2,300]Pavlos Kerdemelidis[/glow]


from wikipedia.


The Grecheskaya Operatsiya (or Greek Operation)


The Greek Operation was a pogrom against the 450 000 Greeks of the Soviet Union that was ordered by Joseph Stalin.It begun in December 1937 and went on for 13 years.

Under Stalinism, USSR considered some nations to be "progressive" and some others to be "reactionary".[1] Reactionary nations included the Greeks, the Koreans, the Germans of Volga, the Tatars of Crimea, the Chechens, Eskimos in the Chukchi Peninsula facing Alaska, USA and others.[1] Stalin considered that everyone who was born in a "capitalist" nation was an enemy of his regime, no matter their personal political beliefs.[1]

The prosecution of Greeks in USSR was gradual: at first the authorities shut down the Greek schools, cultural centres, and publishing houses.[1] Then, the secret police arrested all Greek men 16 years old or older.[1] All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first.[1]

In many occasions the authorities sent telegrams to police forces with orders to arrest a certain number of Greeks, without giving any individual names,[1] and the police officers were expected to arrest at random any person of Greek origin until they reached the requested total number of arrests, until the process was repeated at a later date.


Survivors

Pavlos Kerdemelidis from Pontus was a survivor of the 1922 events at Smyrna who went to live in Crimea and arrested there in 1937 during Stalin's Greek Operation.[1] He spent 13 years imprisoned in Siberia, but he survived, making him one of the few survivors of the 50,000 Greeks who were affected by the Greek Operation.

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[glow=red,2,300]Pamphylia Tanailidi[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphylia_Tanailidi


Pamphylia Tanailidi (Greek: Ðáìöõëßá Ôáíáúëßäç) (1891, Bashkand – 15 October 1937, Baku) was an Azerbaijani actress of Pontic Greek origin.

Tanailidi was born in the village of Bashkand (then Zangezur district, Elisabethpol Governorate of Russia; nowadays the village of Mutsk, Syunik province, Armenia) to a family of emigrés from Kars. She first appeared on stage in 1905 as an Azeri drama trouper in Tiflis (the troupe was reorganized into the Tbilisi Azeri Drama Theatre in 1922), where she acted in plays by Hajibeyov, Jabbarli, Shakespeare, etc. in both Azeri and Greek languages. At that time, Tanailidi was often credited as Surayya of Zangezur (Azeri: Sürəyya Zəngəzurlu). In 1917, she toured Iran along with prominent Azeri actors of the time. Playing the part of Asya in Hajibeyov's Arshin Mal Alan musical comedy in 1919 brought her great success. In 1924, she settled in Baku and started working at the Azerbaijan State Drama Theatre. Later she starred in the movies Ismat (1934) and Almaz (1936).


In 1937, Pamphylia Tanailidi was accused by the Soviet government of being an Iranian spy. Her close friendship with Govhar Aliyeva (Azerbaijani actress and Tanailidi's co-trouper, who emigrated to Iran upon Azerbaijan's Sovietization in 1920) and Ahmed Triniq (Albanian-born journalist, who was imprisoned in 1936 and committed suicide a year later) was considered enough evidence to condemn her of espionage. Tanailidi refused to plead guilty. After a fifteen minute trial, she was given the death sentence, and on 15 October 1937 she was executed by firing squad. The location of her burial place remains unknown even today.

In 1957, Pamphylia Tanailidi was officially exonerated.

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[glow=red,2,300]Fyodor Yurchikhin[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Yurchikhin





Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin, Ph.D., RSC Energia Test-Cosmonaut, was born on January 3, 1959, in Batumi, Autonomous Republic of Ajara in Georgia to Pontic Greek parents Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin and Mikrula Sofoklevna Yurchikhina (they currently reside in Sindos, Greece). He has a brother who is two years younger than him. He is married to Larisa Anatolievna Yurshikina (born in Shyolkovo, Moscow region) and has two daughters. His hobbies include collecting stamps and space logos, sports, history of cosmonautics, and promotion of space. He also enjoys reading history, science fiction and the classics.


Space flight experience

STS-112 Atlantis (October 7–18, 2002) launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. STS-112 was an International Space Station assembly mission during which the crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition 5 by delivering and installing the S-One Truss (the third piece of the station's 11-piece Integrated Truss Structure). Three spacewalks were required to outfit and activate the new component. The crew also transferred cargo between the two vehicles and used the shuttle's thruster jets during two maneuvers to raise the station's orbit. STS-112 was the first shuttle mission to use a camera on the External Tank, providing a live view of the launch to flight controllers and NASA TV viewers. The STS-112 mission was accomplished in 170 orbits, traveling 4.5 million miles in 10 days, 19 hours, and 58 minutes.

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[glow=red,2,300]Dmitri Sinodi-Popov[/glow]


(wikipedia)


Dmitri Minaevich Sinodi-Popov(1855 – 1910) was a Russian artist of Greek descent.




Portrait of the Artist Seraphima Blonskaya/The Letter, 1890 from the collection of Taganrog Museum of Art



Birthhouse of Sinodi-Popov in Taganrog.Dmitri Sinodi-Popov was born in the city of Taganrog, where he received a good education at home: violin, French, Italian and Greek languages and was very good at the visual arts. In 1870, Sinodi-Popov entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where the amateur artist acquired good practical skills, but he had to interrupt his studies because he was suffering from epilepsy.

In late 1870s, the artist returned to his home city of Taganrog, continued his art studies and painted a lot. Most of the sketches available at the Taganrog Museum of Art and Taganrog State Museum date back to late 1870s - early 1900s. Most of the visual heritage left by the artist is in the form of drawings. His portraits of local Greeks are very expressive: Portrait of Doctor Divaris, Greek Boy and An Old Greek (1870).

Since 1880s, the artist worked in the context of Peredvizhniki traditions. The portrait of the artist Seraphima Blonskaya goes beyond the boundaries of its genre and transforms into a portrait-painting. The image of the young woman conveys seriousness and simplicity. Sinodi-Popov exhibited in Europe and his name became well-known, bringing new orders and fans. But with his illness progressing, the artist went for medical treatment to Rome and later Paris, where he died.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassilis_Hatzipanagis


[glow=red,2,300]Vassilis Hatzipanagis [/glow]


Vassilis Hatzipanagis (Greek: Âáóßëçò ×áôæçðáíáãÞò) (born October 26, 1954 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a retired football (soccer) attacking midfield who played for Iraklis FC in Salonica, Greece.

An attacking midfielder with Iraklis FC, he packed in the crowds at Thessaloniki's Kaftanzoglio Stadium, where his performances earned him the moniker of 'the footballing Nureyev'. However, the reason he gave for his fancy footwork was simple enough. "When I see defenders in front of me, I want to dribble around every one of them," he once said.

Born to Greek political immigrants to the USSR in October 1954, he was spotted by Pakhtakor, a club in Tashkent (a city of the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan). They wanted to invest in this raw yet refined player, but the law was strict: he had to apply for Soviet citizenship to be eligible for the Soviet top flight. After much pressure from Pakhtakor officials, Hatzipanagis's parents finally acceded to the request.

Their son made his professional debut at the age of 17, and was soon called into the USSR's Under-19 squad. He graduated to the senior squad, without playing a game, and represented the Soviet Union in the 1976 Olympic qualifying tournament. However, despite being told by national coach Konstantin Beskov that his ability was "way above Greece's level", he turned his back on the Soviet league - where as a left-sided attacker he was considered second only to the great Oleg Blokhin - to move to the land of his fathers.

Hatzipanagis signed for the Thessaloniki club Iraklis, and such was his reputation that he filled the stadium for his first match in December 1975. The Iraklis fans would be the reason this exceptional talent never joined another team. Plus the fact that transfer rules were much different back then. It was very difficult for a Greek player to join a European club in those days especially since the Latin American market was more available and reputable. Despite interest from S.S. Lazio, Arsenal, FC Porto and VfB Stuttgart, the club's board feared the consequences of selling the crowd favourite. So Hatzipanagis stayed at Iraklis until 1990 and made a farewell appearance in a UEFA game against Valencia CF in October 1991 - his 37th birthday.

Another highlight for Hatzipanagis was his only appearance for the Greek national side, in a friendly against Poland at the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium in May 1976. The Athens crowd were bewitched by the long-haired wonder, who seemed to do whatever he wanted with the ball. Afterwards, however, Hatzipanagis was notified that he was ineligible for international duty having played for the USSR at junior levels.

Further recognition did come in June 1984, when he was invited to join a World XI featuring Franz Beckenbauer, Mario Kempes, Kevin Keegan and Dominique Rocheteau, for a match against New York Cosmos in New York. And then, in November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's 50th anniversary, he was selected as Greece's Golden Player of the past 50 years by the Hellenic Football Federation. [1] Now aged 50, Hatzipanagis said: "It is very touching to see that you are not forgotten, that your contribution is appreciated even after so many years."

He added: "I regret not having been able to wear the Greek national jersey more than once. And I regret not having made a career abroad. I would have liked to play in a better league, to have enjoyed football at that level. If I could turn back the clock, I would do some things differently."

For many in Greece, who had the good fortune to see him play, he is regarded as equal to soccer legends such as Maradona or Pele.

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[glow=red,2,300]Victor Sarigiannidis[/glow]

A Greek-Russian archeologist

see category:THE GREEK SCIENTISTS part (A),page 1.






[glow=red,2,300]Ivan Savvidi[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Savvidi


Ivan Ignatyevich Savvidi, (b. March 27, 1959 in Santa, Tsalksky Region, Georgia), is a Russian businessman of Greek Pontian descent. Savvidi, a graduate of Rustov Institute of National Economy, has held numerous high ranking positions, from Deputy to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to Chairman of FC SKA Rostov-on-Don. He is married to Kyriaki Savvidi, the couple have two sons, Giorgos and Nikos Savvidi. He is also the president of the Federation of Greek Communities of Russia, and was a key figure in pushing for the newly created region by World Council of Hellenes Abroad for the Greeks of the diaspora in the Black Sea countries.







en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Kanidis


[glow=red,2,300]Yanis Kanidis (Ivan Kanidi)[/glow]


The Beslan tragedy,Ossetia,September 2004.








Yanis Kanidis also Ivan Constantinovich Kanidis,(January 1, 1930 – September 3, 2004) was a Greek-Russian physical education teacher. When armed Chechen extremists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004 in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia, in what has become known as the Beslan school hostage crisis, 74-year-old Kanidis insisted on staying with his students, helped them survive and ultimately died to save their lives.

Two days after the start of the hostage taking, a number of nursing mothers were allowed to leave the building with their babies. The commander of the terrorist squad saw Kanidis, an elderly sickly man, and offered to allow him to leave as well. But Kanidis refused, saying he would stay "with [his] students till the end". And throughout the ordeal, Kanidis guarded and fought for the lives of his students as best he could. When the children were succumbing to the sweltering heat, stuffy air and thirst, Kanidis approached the terrorists insisting that "You have to give them something to drink, at least to the smallest children". When he was heavily beaten with the butt of a rifle by one of the terrorists, Kanidis continued defiantly, "How dare you!? You claim you are people of the Caucasus region, but here in the Caucasus even a dog wouldn't turn down the request of an old man!" At which point the terrorists allowed Kanidis to wet one of the bibs of the children and pass it around to dampen the mouths of the smallest children who were choking from thirst.

The surviving hostages tell how he repeatedly risked his own life in order to save those of the children and how he moved explosives which had been placed near the children, and tried to prevent others from being detonated.

Kanidis was killed on the third day of the hostage taking. The circumstances of his death remains not fully clarified. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, he was killed when he jumped on a grenade the terrorists had thrown at fleeing children, sacrificing his life to save theirs. According to the Greek/English newspaper Kathimerini, he was shot when he tried to dismantle a ceiling fan that had been wired to an explosive device. According to a feature by C.J. Chivers, Esquire, June 2006[1] Kanidis was killed while struggling with one of the terrorists, trying to buy time for others to escape. His last words were: "Get the children out!"

Afterwards one of the saved students compared him to the Polish hero Janusz Korczak, who had accompanied his pupils to Auschwitz.

On December 9, 2004 Kanidis was posthumously awarded the medal For Protection of Human Rights by the Russian Government.Later in the same month, one of the two new schools being constructed to replace the school destroyed in the attack was named "Ivan Kanidis".



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24.THE GREEKS OF FRANCE






Notable Greek-French people


Nikos Aliagas
Constantine Andreou
Anna Mouglalis
Eugène Michel Antoniadi
Roger Apéry
Antonin Artaud
Costas Axelos
Charles Denis Bourbaki
Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi
Cornelius Castoriadis
André Chénier
Joseph Chénier
Georges Corraface
Jacques Damala
Diam's
Dimitri from Paris
Jean Focas
Costa Gavras
Laure Junot, duchess d'Abrantès
Tchéky Karyo
Apo Lazarides
Georges Moustaki
Savitri Devi
Anne de Noailles
Georges Panayotis
Nicos Poulantzas
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg
Patrick Tatopoulos
Tériade
Adolphe Thiers
Agnès Varda
Antonis Volanis


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[glow=red,2,300]Constantine Andreou[/glow]




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Andreou


Constantine Andreou (March 24, 1917 – October 8, 2007) was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades. Andreou has been praised by many as an eminent figure in international art of the 20th century.

Constantine Andreou was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1917 to Greek parents who had immigrated to Brazil a few years prior.[5]

In 1925, his family moved back to Greece where he settled in Athens until the end of World War II. During these years, Andreou dabbled in crafts and for a period worked as a carpenter making furniture while studying technical design.[6] He graduated in 1935.[5] In the same year, he started his study of sculpture,[5] the art form for which he would be most known later.

In 1939, Andreou participated at the Panellinio (ÐáíåëëÞíéï), but the judges disqualified his three sculptures.[6] In 1942], he tried again at the same competition and with the same artwork.[6] The pieces were so lifelike, he was accused of cheating by copying nature.[6] Three major personalities of the time in Greece, Memos Makris, John Miliades, and Nikos Nikolaou, came to his defense.[6][7] As a result of the publicity, he had his first taste of fame and major exposure of his artwork.[6][7]

In 1940, Greece entered World War II on the side of Allies, and by 1941, the country was under Nazi and Italian occupation. Andreou was initially drafted into the Hellenic Army in 1940 and during the occupation he was an active member of the Greek Resistance.The war years and occupation did not stop Andreou from continuing his artwork and studies, and in 1945 he won a French scholarship to go to France.


In 1947, Andreou began using a new personal technique employing welded copper sheets. This new technique allowed him to create a new way to express his creation in a way completely unrelated to tradition.[6]

A major impact on Andreou's method of expression and in the development of his personal "language" was his friendship with Le Corbusier. They first met in 1947 and worked together on and off until 1953.[6] At one time Le Corbusier asked Andreou, "Where did you learn how to work?" to which Andreou responded "I'm Greek, I carry the knowledge within me."This friendship instilled in Andreou Le Corbusier's view of architecture as monumental sculpture and, conversely, sculpture subject to the laws of architecture.[8]

In the same period, Andreou became a member of a select group of philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, who discussed various topics in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[9]

Andreou had his first exhibition in Paris in 1951, where he demonstrated the transformation of his style. In the group exhibition "Seven Greek Sculptors", Andreou was characterized as "the most famous Greek sculptor in the capital with a rich, varied and successful work".[10][11] By the end of the decade, Andreou was widely known in the French art scene and considered an equal to Mondrian, Picasso and Gastaud.[12] In 1982, he was given the lead as chairman of the Paris "Autumn Salon" for sculpture.

In 1999, the library of the town La Ville-du-Bois, where Andreou resided while in France, was named in honor of Constantine Andreou.

Throughout his time in France, he regularly visited his friends and family in Greece and many times exhibited his work in various cities and islands there. In 1977, Andreou bought a centuries old winery on the island of Aegina,which he converted it into a house.

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[glow=red,2,300]Georges Corraface[/glow]

wikipedia




Georges Corraface (Greek: Ãéþñãïò ×ùñáöÜò, Giórgos Choraphás) (born December 7, 1952 in Paris, France) is a French-Greek actor who has had an international career in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the famed Peter Brook Company. His film credits include To Tama, Escape from L.A., La Pasión Turca, Vive La Mariée, Impromptu, Christopher Columbus and a feature film debut in The Mahabharata. His most famous television appearances include La Bicyclette Bleue, L'Ete Rouge and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Corraface's multi-cultural background enables him to work extensively in French and Greek, his native languages, as well as in English, Spanish, German and Italian, with roles ranging from dramatic leads to eccentric caricatures. He is particularly popular in France, Greece and Spain, due to the box office hits, critical acclaim, Best Actor awards and television celebrity he has enjoyed in these countries. Corraface won the International Thessaloniki Film Award for Best Actor in 2001 for To Tama (Word of Honor).[1] In 2005, he was named president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.


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[glow=red,2,300]Marietta Karamanli[/glow]


Marietta Karamanli (born December 18, 1964) is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Sarthe department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.

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[glow=red,2,300]Cornelius Castoriadis[/glow]





A Greek philosopher, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary theorist.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Castoriadis


Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11, 1922-December 26, 1997) was born in Constantinople and his family moved soon after to Athens. After earning degrees in Political Science, Economics and Law from the University of Athens, he moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1945. He had been an active Trotskyist in Athens but broke with the Trotskyists in Paris in 1948 and joined Claude Lefort and others in founding the libertarian socialist group and journal "Socialisme ou Barbarie" (1949-1966), which included Jean-François Lyotard, Pierre Guillaume, as members for a while, and profoundly influenced the French intellectual left, notably Guy Debord. Strongly influenced by Castoriadis and "Socialisme ou Barbarie" was as well the british Group and Journal Solidarity_(UK) and Maurice Brinton.

At the same time, he worked as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development until 1970, which was also the year when he obtained French citizenship. Consequently, his writings prior to that date were published pseudonymously, as Pierre Chaulieu, Paul Cardan, etc. Castoriadis was extremely important and influential in the turn of the intellectual left during the 1950s against the Soviet Union, because he argued that the Soviet Union was not a communist, but rather a bureaucratic state, which contrasted to Western powers mostly by virtue of its centralized power apparatus. His work in the OECD substantially helped his analyses. In the latter years of Socialisme ou Barbarie Castoriadis came to reject the Marxist theories of economics and of history, especially in an essay on Le mouvement révolutionnaire sous le capitalisme moderne. Although he was active in the political movements of the 1960s, his interests shifted from direct political action and revolution towards seeking to understand the relationship of the human individual to social formations.

This led him towards more philosophical and psychoanalytic understandings of human social and political life and he trained as a psychoanalyst and began to practice in 1974. In his 1975 work L'institution imaginaire de la société (Imaginary Institution of Society) and in Les carrefours du labyrinthe (Crossroads in the Labyrinth) published in 1978, Castoriadis began to develop his distinctive understanding of historical change as the emergence of irrecoverable otherness that must always be socially instituted and named to be recognized. Otherness emerges in part from the activity of the psyche itself. Creating external social institutions that give stable form to what Castoriadis terms the magma of social significations allows the psyche to create stable figures for the self, and to ignore the constant emergence of mental indeterminacy and alterity.

In 1980 he joined the faculty of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

In his 1980 Facing The War text he viewed that Russia had become the primary world military power. To sustain this, in the context of the visible economic inferiority of the Soviet Union in the civilian sector, he proposed that the society may no longer be dominated by the party-state bureaucracy but by a "stratocracy" - a separate and dominant military sector with expansionist designs on the world. He further argued that this meant there was no internal class dynamic which could lead to social revolution within Russian society and that change could only occur through foreign intervention. This led some people to suggest he had become a cold war apologist.

One of Castoriadis's many important contributions to social theory was the idea that social change involves radical discontinuities that cannot be understood in terms of any determinate causes or presented as a sequence of events. Change emerges through the social imaginary without determinations, but in order to be socially recognized must be instituted as revolution. Any knowledge of society and social change “can exist only by referring to, or by positing singular entities ... which figure and presentify social imaginary significations.”

Concerning his political views, he has been called the "Philosopher of Autonomy". He defined an Autonomous society in contrast to a Heteronomous one. While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members do know this fact, and explicitly self-institute. In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity).

Castoriadis's work will be remembered for its remarkable continuity and coherence as well as for its extraordinary breadth. It was "encyclopaedic" in the original Greek sense, Morin noted, for it offered us a "paideia," or education, that brought full circle our cycle of otherwise compartmentalized knowledge in the arts and sciences. Castoriadis wrote essays on physics, biology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, society, economics, politics, philosophy, and art, never claiming a spurious "expertise" conferred by specialization or losing sight of the overall picture. Autonomy appears as a key theme in his early postwar writings. Not until his death did he stop elaborating on its meaning, applications, ramifications, and limits.


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www.columbia.edu/cu/news/00/11/Cornelius_Castoriadis.html


www.sociologyonline.co.uk/post_essays/PopCastoriadis.htm






en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Axelos


[glow=red,2,300]Kostas Axelos[/glow]


Kostas Axelos (Êþóôáò Áîåëüò) (June 26, 1924 – February 4, 2010) was a Greek philosopher. He was born in Athens and attended high school at the French Institute[1] and the German School of Athens. He enrolled in the law school in order to pursue studies in law and economics. With the onset of World War II he got involved in politics; during the German and Italian occupation he participated in the Greek Resistance, and later in the Greek Civil War, as an organiser and journalist affiliated with the Communist Party (1941–1945). He was later expelled from the Communist Party and condemned to death by the right-wing government. He was arrested and escaped.

At the end of 1945 Axelos moved to Paris, France, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. From 1950 to 1957 he worked as a researcher in the philosophy branch of C.R.N.S, where he was writing his dissertations[1], and subsequently proceeded to work in Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. From 1962 to 1973 he taught philosophy at the Sorbonne. His dissertation "Marx, penseur de la technique" (translated as "Alienation, Praxis and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx") tried to provide an understanding of modern technology based on the thought of Heidegger and Marx and was very influential in the 1960s, alongside the philosophy of Herbert Marcuse.

Axelos was a collaborator, columnist, and subsequently editor of the magazine Arguments (1956–1962). He founded and, since 1960, has run the series Arguments in Edition de Minuit[2]. He has published texts mostly in French, but also in Greek and German. His most important book is "Le Jeu du Monde" (Play of the World), where Axelos argues for a pre-ontological status of play.

Axelos lived in Paris, France and once a year he spent a month in Greece.

His main works are:

Heraclite et la Philosophie,
Marx Penseur de la Techique,
Vers la Pensee Planetaire,
Le Jeu Du Monde,
Pour Une Ethique Problematique,
Systematique Ouverte,
Metamorphoses.

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[glow=red,2,300]Costa Gavras[/glow]


Director.


see category : 7.ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS-part (B)

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[glow=red,2,300]Nikos Aliagas[/glow]


A French-born Greek host of the French music reality program named Star Academy.


See category : 7.ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS-part (B).

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[glow=red,2,300]Georges Moustaki[/glow]


Yussef Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki, (born in Alexandria, Egypt May 3, 1934) is a singer and songwriter from France of Greek Sephardic origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs. He has written songs for Édith Piaf (including "Milord"), Dalida (including Gigi l'amoroso), Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, and Cindy Daniel.





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[glow=red,2,300]Patrick Tatopoulos[/glow]


wikipedia


Patrick Tatopoulos is a renowned French-Greek production designer, who lives and works in the United States. His designs have appeared in numerous box office hit motion pictures, including Underworld, I, Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Independence Day, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stargate, Godzilla, Stuart Little, I Am Legend, and Live Free or Die Hard.


also see category: 7.ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS-part (F)

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[glow=red,2,300]Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi[/glow]


wikipedia


Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877-10-02 in Marseilles, France – 1944-02-01 in London, United Kingdom) was a music writer and music critic of Greek descent.

Calvocoressi studied music in Paris, however he was mostly self-educated. He also studied in the social sciences. He moved to London in 1914 writing music criticism for French journals. He mastered the Russian language and was a fervent proponent of Russian music. He also was responsible for the translation of Russian and German songs into English and French. He was also a member of the Apaches music society.

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[glow=red,2,300]Jean-Henri Focas [/glow]


wikipedia


Jean-Henri Focas (20 July 1909 – 3 January 1969) was a Greco-French astronomer. In Greek he was known as Ioannis Focas. He worked at the Pic du Midi Observatory, investigating the surface features of Mars using visual and photographic techniques. Focas crater on the Moon and Focas crater on Mars were named for him.


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[glow=red,2,300]Eugene Michel Antoniadi[/glow]


Wikipedia.

Eugene Michel Antoniadi (1870 – February 10, 1944) was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France. He was also known as Eugenios Antoniadis. His name is also sometimes given as Eugène Michael Antoniadi or even incorrectly Eugène Marie Antoniadi.

He became a highly reputed observer of Mars, and at first supported the notion of Martian canals, but after using the 83-centimeter telescope at Meudon Observatory during the 1909 opposition of Mars, he came to the conclusion that canals were an optical illusion.

He also observed Venus and Mercury. He made the first attempts to draw a map of Mercury, but his maps were flawed by his incorrect assumption that Mercury had synchronous rotation with the Sun.

A crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor.


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[glow=red,2,300]Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Ahrweiler


Helene Ahrweiler, née Glykatzi is an eminent French university professor and Byzantinologist of Greek origin. She is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Greece. In the 2008 show Great Greeks, she was named amongst the 100 greatest Greeks of all time.

Life
She was born in Athens on 29 August 1926, to a family of refugees from Asia Minor. She finished school in Athens, and graduated from the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. After working in the Center for Asia Minor Studies, she moved to Paris in 1953 to continue her studies in the École pratique des hautes études graduating with doctorates in History and Letters. In 1955, she was accepted into the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and on 7 November 1958, she married the French Army officer Jacques Ahrweiler.

In 1970-1973 she was first vice-president, and in 1976-1981 president of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the first woman to hold that post. In 1982, French President François Mitterrand named her as Rector of the Academy of Paris and Chancellor of the Universities of Paris, a post she held until 1989. From February 1989 to August 1991, she was president of the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Honours
She is a corresponding member of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and an associated member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. She holds a number of honorary doctorates, and has received numerous decorations from the French government:

Commander of the Légion d'honneur
Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Publications
Byzance et la mer, 1966
Études sur les structures administratives et sociales de Byzance, 1971
L'Idéologie politique de l'empire byzantin, 1975
Byzance : les pays et les territoires, 1976
The Making of Europe, 1999
Les Européens, 2000
Le Roman d'Athènes, 2004



For further reading:

www.greece.strabon.org/cecd/sc_delphes/biographie/index_en.html

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[glow=red,2,300]Teriade (Efstratios Eleftheriades)[/glow]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9riade

www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-Triade.html


Greek art critic, editor, and publisher, active in France.He was a native of the greek island Mytilene who went to Paris in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law, but who instead became a publisher.He worked for "Cahiers d'art", founded by his countryman Christian Zervos, and then from 1933 to 1936 he served as artistic director on Albert Skira's Minotaure, a journal that became famous for its superb production values.


From 1937 to 1975 he commissioned various individuals of the pinnacle artists and philosophers such as Picasso, Matisse, Ren¦É Daumal in the first half of the century to produce series of works for his legendary quarterly journal Verve or the later Grands Livres.


Teriade wrote a book on Leger (1928) as well as art criticism that was published in various journals. An exhibition devoted to him was held at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1973.


There is a TeÉriade Museum, which opened in 1979 in the southern Mytilene suburb of Varia. The books are displayed in sixteen rooms over two floors of the specially built museum.

In France, there is a donation of Teriade at the Departmental Museum of Le Cateau-Cambreisis.

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[glow=red,2,300]Jacques Damala[/glow]


wikpedia





Aristides Damalas, known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala, (15 January 1855 – 18 June 1889), was a Greek military officer-turned-actor, who is mostly remembered as being husband to Sarah Bernhardt for a number of years. Damala's characterization by modern researchers is far from positive. His handsomeness was as notable as his insolence and Don Juan quality. Writer Fredy Germanos describes him as an opportunistic and hedonistic person, whose marriage to the great diva would inevitably intensify and maximize his vices, namely, his vanity and obsession with women, alcohol, and drugs.

Damala was born at Piraeus, Greece on 15 January 1855 [1] to an aristocratic family. He was the second of three children to Ambrosios (Ambrouzis) Damalas (2 June 1808 – 29 July 1869), a wealthy shipping magnate, who later served as mayor of Ermoupoli and Piraeus and his wife, Calliope Ralli (6 June 1829 – 14 February 1891), whose father, Dimitrios Rallis, had also once served as mayor of Piraeus and was a member of the Executive Committee which attempted the liberation of Chios in 1827, during the Greek War of Independence. The family later moved to Marseille, France, where they spent several years, until they relocated to Ermoupoli, Syros, after Ambrosios was appointed mayor there. The family later returned to Marseille and eventually to Piraeus.


By the early 1880s, he had earned a post as a military attaché to the Greek Diplomatic Corps. He quickly acquired a reputation of being "the handsomest man in Europe", as well as the nickname "Diplomat Apollo" by his friends and the assumption of being the most dangerous man in Paris, among the several husbands who feared their wives would fall victim to his charms and be seduced by the young diplomat [3]. Damala was indeed considered as the epitome of handsomeness of his time, and many women of the high society of Paris were infatuated with him. He rapidly earned the reputation of being a merciless heartbreaker and womanizer of the high circles.

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[glow=red,2,300]Georges Panayotis[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Panayotis


Georges Panayotis is a French/Greek businessman and consultant for the tourism, hotel and hospitality industries. He has contributed to establishing more than 2,500 hotels (150,000 hotel rooms) in France and throughout Europe, representing a global investment of over 10.5 billion euros.


Born into a family of hoteliers, Georges Panayotis left Greece at the age of 18 to study Political Science and earn a management degree at the University of Paris, Dauphine. Panayotis began his professional career at Novotel, now part of the Accor Group and rose through the ranks to become International Marketing Director. Having developed specialised marketing and management tools for the hotel industry, Panayotis left the group in 1986 to establish a company, now considered one of the world’s foremost tourism, hotel and hospitality consulting agency.

Business career
Over the past 20 years, Panayotis has led MKG Conseil, now known as the MKG Group. As of 2008, the company has over 90 employees across Europe and the Middle East, specialising in four core activities: market surveys, quality control, database management, and industry press. In 2006, the company’s turnover equalled 12 million euro and was ranked 1st in France, specialising in marketing and the tourism industry, and ranked 20th in the national classification of the top 100 market research institutes by Marketing Magazine.


[edit] Public career
Panayotis is constantly involved with a number of extracarricular and public activities. He has helped launch industry publications HTR Magazine and Hôtel Restau, and has created two major annual events: Worldwide Hospitality Awards and the Global Lodging Forum. Meanwhile, his published work include Constat et Plan Marketing (Marketing Status and Planning), Marketing Opérationnel des Services (Operational Marketing of Services), and L'hôtellerie française et son évolution (The Hotel Industry in France and its evolution).

Other endorsements include:

Professor at the ACCOR Academy in Evry, France and Lecturer at University of Marne la Vallée, social sciences, tourism and leisure.
Consultant for several radio (France Inter, Radio Classique and BFM) and television stations focussing on the economy, travel and hospitality industry.
Sitting on the advisory panel for the Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment (France).
Candidate in the 13ème circonscription for the 15e (Saint-Lambert, Javel) arrondissement elections in 1988.
Official National Distinctions Medals: Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur and Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite.


www.mkg-group.com/Quisommesnous/Management/tabid/57/language/fr-FR/Default.aspx

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25.THE GREEKS & GREEK CYPRIOTS OF U.K




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_Britons




www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART38889.html

Greeks In Pre-Twentieth Century London



www.stsophia.org.uk/greekcommunity.htm

History of London's greek community.




(The Chiotic diaspora:The Argentis, the Agelastos, the Schilizzis, the Rodocanachis, the Mavrogordatos,the Scaramangas,the Vlastos,the Petrocochino.)



www.greekrichlist.com

THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF BRITAIN'S TOP 100 GREEK MILLIONAIRES.

The value of their property is about 10,7 billion english pounds in total.


www.greekrichlist.com/index.html


Quote:The richest 100 are worth a total of £10.708 billion – no mean feat for a community only established in the last half century. The average figure among the top 100 is almost £108m, making the Greek Community one of the most successful ethnic groups in Britain. In fact, the average wealth amongst them has increased by nearly 44% since last year – the highest increase ever recorded in any British rich list in a single year since the first such list was produced 20 years ago.Greek Rich List is compiled by Philip Beresford, Editor of The Sunday Times Rich List.






Quote:ÓõíïëéêÜ, ïé 100 ðëïõóéüôåñïé Åëëçíåò ôçò Âñåôáíßáò êïóôßæïõí... Þ, ìÜëëïí, áîßæïõí ðåñéóóüôåñá áðü 10.700 äéó. óôåñëßíåò, êÜíïíôáò ôçí åëëçíéêÞ êïéíüôçôá ìßá áðü ôéò ðéï åðéôõ÷çìÝíåò åèíéêÝò ïìÜäåò ôçò Âñåôáíßáò. Ïé äéêïß ìáò ðëïýóéïé óå ðïóïóôü 85% åßíáé áõôïäçìéïýñãçôïé, óå ðïóïóôü 75% æïõí óôï Ëïíäßíï êáé Ýêáíáí... ÷ñÞìáôá óå åðé÷åéñÞóåéò, åðåíäýïíôáò óå áêßíçôá êáé óå ôïìåßò äéáóêÝäáóçò êáé øõ÷áãùãßáò.

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[glow=red,2,300]Sir Eddie Kulukundis OBE[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Kulukundis


Sir Eddie Kulukundis OBE (born 1932 in London) is a member of*greek shipping family whose professional career has spanned shipping and the theatre.

The well known philanthropist has donated in excess of £2 Million to British athletics and theatre groups.[1] Kulukundis was made in OBE for services to British sport in 1993, and Knighted for services to British theatre and sport in 1998. He is married to the popular British actress Susan Hampshire


Biography
Eddie is a member of the Kulukundis family, a Greek shipping family who had made their home in London. Eddie was born at 26 Warbeck Street, W2 in 1932.

Kulukundis's parents moved to New York when he was eight, and not being much of an active sportsman, Kulukundis became the next best thing: the statistician, the guy who would keep the score and carry the sweaters. He graduated from Salisbury School in 1950, and is an Emeritus Trustee[2]


Shipping
The family had formed shipping company London and Overseas Freighters. Eddie learnt his trade in the shipping industry on tramp steamers: small freighters who plied their trade around the Mediterranean working where the loads were required to be shipped from/to. After the death of his uncle John Kulukundis in September 1978, Eddie joined the board of London Overseas Freighters.[3] However, in light of mounting losses, after the company had sold all but two of its ships and all shore side assets, Eddie resigned on 11 December 1985. He rejoined the board of the much reduced company in 1988 post the death of company president Manuel Kulukundis, and the resultant death of his nephew, Minas Kulukundis,in the Lockerbie disaster while flying to attend his uncle/godfather's funeral (Captain Nicholas Kulukundis).[3] On 1 November 1997 London and Overseas Freighters was sold to Frontline Freighters AB of Sweden, and Eddie resigned form the board. He still holds positions with family company Company Rethymnis and Kulukundis Ltd, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1998.


Theatre
A theatre impresario, Kulukundis started producing plays while resident in the United States. He co-produced the 1976 Tony award winning play Travesties by Tom Stoppard.[citation needed] Kulukundis later formed Knightsbridge Productions, with theatre artist/educator Jack Lynn.

In 1993, Kulukundis was part of a consortium which took over the struggling Duke of York's Theatre on St Martin's Lane.[4] The consortium became the Ambassador Theatre Group, of which Kulukundis is presently Chairman and a major share holder.[5]


Athletics
Kulukundis has given more than £2 million to British athletes over the last 25 years,[6] including Steve Ovett, Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell, Roger Black, and Denise Lewis. Currently it is estimated that Kulukundis supports about 60 to 70 athletes.

In November 1998 Kulukundis was beaten by former Olympic champion David Hemery to become the first elected president of UK Athletics.[10] Kulukundis is currently: chairman of the London Coaching Foundation; the Midland Coaching Foundation and Athletes Youth Performance; vice-president of UK Athletics; chairman of the British Athletic Field Event Charitable Trust; chairman and patron of the Belgrave Harriers athletics club[8]