Our golden modern Greeks!

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Lina Nikolakopoulou


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Nikolakopoulou


Lina Nikolakopoulou is widely recognised as one of the foremost lyricists in Greece. She was born in Methana at 30 June-1957 and she studied social and political sciences at the Panteio Panepistimio university in Athens. This is where she met the composer Stamatis Kraounakis, who is the man that she made the mosts records with. They combined their work (Lina on lyrics and Stamatis on Music) at many hits. Kukloforo kai Oploforo by Alkistis Protopsalti, Mama Gernao by Tania Tsanaklidou, Meno Ektos by Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Di Efchon by Haris Alexiou and many many others are only some of the records that she has participated in.

In 2007 she made the record Dama Coupe with Dimitra Galani and in 2008 she took a quite new band "Trifono"(three voices) and made a record with them, which was made quickly famous.

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Pete Sampras

From Wikipedia:

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is a retired Greek American tennis player and former World No. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles, and had a 203–38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances.[2]

He debuted on the professional tour in 1988 and played his last top-level tournament in 2002 when he won the US Open, defeating longtime rival Andre Agassi in the final. He was the year-end World No. 1 for six consecutive years (1993–1998), a record for the open era and tied for third all-time. His seven Wimbledon singles championships is a record shared with William Renshaw. His five US Open singles titles is an open-era record shared with former World No. 1 player Jimmy Connors and current World No. 1 Roger Federer. American journalist and television sportscaster Bud Collins has named Sampras as one of the top five men's tennis players of all time,[3] and Tennis Magazine has named him the greatest tennis player from 1965 to 2005.[4] On July 17, 2007, Sampras was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.[5]. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sampras

Δεν τον βλέπω εδώ;;; leandros αν είναι double up μπορείτε να το σβήσετε.

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Michalis Patrinos( ;D)

He is the Smyrniotis composer of the song "Misirlou" back in 30s with his rebetiki orchestra. The song is about a Misirlou, a blackeyed muslim Egyptian girl and his exotic beaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou

You all have heard this song, not in the original version though...
The original:



The American:



Misirlou as in Pulp Fiction


The hebrew:


Acoustic:



Guitar:



Orchestra:


Opera style...:



And....her ...thing on fire... ;D




And the best voice, and the best singing by Glykeria.

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Jeffrey Eugenides


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Eugenides


Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent


Eugenides was a descendant of Greek and Irish immigrants. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating in 1983. He later earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University.

In 1986 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story "Here Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit". His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. The novel was reissued in 2009.

Eugenides is reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details the influence of Detroit and his high-school experiences on his writings. He has said that he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit.[1]

Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, the photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, and their daughter.[2] In the fall of 2007, Eugenides joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.

His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Ambassador Book Award. Part of it was set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004, but it was chiefly concerned with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, against the rise and fall of Detroit. It explores the experience of the intersexed in the USA.[3] Eugenides has also published short stories.

Eugenides is the editor of the collection of short stories titled My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead. The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center 826 Chicago, established to encourage young people's writing.

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Did you know that Rudolf Hess' mother was Greek from Alexandria....a Georgiadis...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess

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Dimitris Papaioannou (born 21 June 1964) is a Greek avant-garde stage director, choreographer and visual artist who drew international media attention and acclaim with his creative direction of the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.[1] His varied career spans three decades and has seen him conceive and direct stage works for Edafos Dance Theatre and Elliniki Theamaton, direct operas and music stage shows, work as a costume, set and make-up designer, and publish over 40 comics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_Papaioannou

He did amazing work back in 2004...










some more of his work guys...

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgiadis


Nicholas Georgiadis


Nicholas Georgiadis CBE (14 September 1923, Athens – 10 March 2001, London) was a painter, stage and costume designer, renowned for his work in ballet, particularly in collaboration with Kenneth MacMillan.

From 1956, to his death in 2001, Georgiadis worked on some of the most acclaimed productions in ballet, opera and theatre. For MacMillan, he designed a great number of ballets, including Noctambules (1956), Romeo and Juliet (1965), Manon (1974), Mayerling (1978), Orpheus (1982) and The Prince of the Pagodas (1989). Many of these productions continue to be performed to this day, both at the Royal Opera House, London, and internationally. He also collaborated closely with Rudolf Nureyev on such works as Sleeping Beauty (1966), The Nutcracker (1968), The Tempest (1982) and Michael Conway Baker's Washington Square (1985).

He received the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to the arts in 1984. He had been awarded the London Evening Standard Ballet Award the previous year for his work on Orpheus and The Tempest — the first time a designer had received this outstanding achievement award. In 1999, he was admitted to the Greek Academy of Arts.


www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1326750/Nicholas-Georgiadis.html

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Malbis Memorial Church, formally the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of the Presentation of Theotokos, is a Greek Orthodox Church located in Malbis, Baldwin County, Alabama. Although not a part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, it is one of only roughly six Greek Orthodox churches in the state of Alabama. It is known for its intricate and extensive mosaics and paintings. Officially dedicated on January 3, 1965, the opening service for the church was conducted by Archbishop Iakovos of America.[1][2] It has never had an active congregation, but religious observances, special services, and events, such as weddings, do take place.[3]

History

The history of the church at Malbis begins with the foundation of Malbis Plantation by Jason Malbis, a Greek immigrant. Born Antonios Markopoulos in the settlement of Doumena, he spent the early years of his life in a monastery. He initially emigrated to Chicago around 1900. He changed his name to Malbis while there and then, along with one of his friends, William Papageorge, he traveled around the country in search of a place to establish a Greek community. They purchased 120 acres (49 ha) near Daphne, Alabama in 1906 at $5 per acre, this formed the nucleus of Malbis Plantation.[4]

Other Greek families then joined the ex-monk and Papageorge and began building the plantation in the thickly wooded and unsettled area, with an additional 600 acres (240 ha) purchased in 1909. The population had grown to 85 by 1920. The group was self-sufficient, farming the land. They eventually had their own power plant, dairy, cannery, bank, garage, nursery, timber company, motel, a bakery in nearby Mobile, and more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of property.[5][1]

Malbis died while on a trip to Greece in 1942. He had left written instructions for his survivors to "Build a Greek Orthodox church for me in Malbis."[1] The community accomplished this in 1965, with the construction of the church financed through the sale of the plantation's bakery on Broad Street in Mobile by the Malbis Plantation president of that era, Sam George Papas.[6] The remains of Jason Malbis were then interred in a crypt within the church, to the right of the iconostasis.[1][2] The church was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on November 30, 1977.[3][7] The Malbis Plantation Historic District, which includes the church, was designated by the Alabama Historical Commission in 2008, a year that also saw the death of the last of Malbis Plantation's original Greek settlers.[3][6]
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View from the northwest

The Byzantine Revival church was designed by the architectural firm of Frederick C. Woods and Associates in Mobile. Built of brick, limestone, and marble, it was modeled after the Church of Panagia Chrysopolitissa in Athens. The structure is cruciform in plan.[3] Domed towers flank the western entrance facade, which features a stone arcade. This porch contains three sets of entrance doors topped by arched mosaics of Theotokos (Mary), Jesus, and Saint Paul. The arcade is surmounted by arched windows and mosaic panels depicting Saints John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew. This is crowned by a pediment covered in a mosaic depicting the Dove of Peace. All exterior mosaics were created by Italian artist Sirio Tonelli. The were executed in Tonelli's workshop in Pietrasanta and then shipped to Malbis and installed.[8]

Almost every available surface in the interior of the church is covered with hand-painted iconography. This work was done by a Greek iconographer, Spyros Tziouvaras, and two assistants, Haralambos Tziouvaras and Chris Tziouvaras. The dome above the transept is notable for a painting of the Pantocrator (The Almighty), which was painted by the Tziouvaras team while lying on a scaffold 75 feet (23 m) from the floor. The nave is supported by Corinthian columns and pilasters of red marble. The iconostasis, bishop's throne, and pulpit are carved white Pentelic marble. [8]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbis_Memorial_Church

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Gilles Marini

Gilles Marini (born January 26, 1976) is a French actor.
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Marini was born in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France to a Greek mother and Italian father.[1] After working as a baker in his father's bakery since he was eight years old and graduating from high school, Gilles joined the French army and was stationed in Paris, where he acted as a fireman for the famous Brigade des Sapeurs Pompiers de Paris. It was in Paris where Marini met Fred Goudon, a famous photographer who introduced him to the world of modeling. After fulfilling his military duties, he went to the United States to learn English while working as a model.

Marini began his career as a model in his early twenties. One of his first jobs was a television commercial for Bud Light beer. He made his acting debut at the age of 29, in the 2005 horror flick "Screech of the Decapitated".[2]

He is most well-known for playing the role of Dante in Sex and the City: The Movie in which he did a full frontal scene. He has been seen on the television shows Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series), Ugly Betty, Dirty Sexy Money, Criminal Minds, Windfall, Nip/Tuck as well as several daytime dramas, including The Bold and the Beautiful and Passions. His recent film credits include "One and the Other (L'Une et L'Autre)," and "The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down."

He has a wife, Carole, a son, Georges, and a daughter, Juliana.[3][4]

This fall he was introduced as a recurring character on ABC's hit family drama Brothers & Sisters. He has been playing the love interest of Rachel Griffiths' character Sarah Walker in what was originally was supposed to be a five episode arc, but has now been extended four more episodes with the potential for even more.[5]

Marini is featured in the book "About Face" shot by celebrity photographer John Russo on obsolete Type 55 Polaroid film, published by Pixie Press Wordwide.

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The 100 list of the most influential people of 2009...and its Greeks!
www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1894410,00.html


Jamie Dimon


Warren Buffett famously said that when the tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked and who isn't. Well, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon still appears to be wearing his pants. As head of the second largest bank in America by assets, Dimon, 53, has found himself serving not only as captain of his own behemoth financial ship but also, as his Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual deals showed, as an occasional life raft for the U.S. government in its efforts to stave off financial calamity.

Known for his blunt mouth and detailed operational expertise, Dimon currently sits atop a massive financial institution that in the most recent quarter was lending $150 billion in more than 50 countries. While many of his peers assumed trillions in risk with pennies in reserve, Dimon's superior risk management, along with some taxpayer help, made it possible to dodge the early bullets that took down institutions like Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Wachovia and Lehman Brothers. Still, his greatest challenges may lie ahead, especially if rising unemployment and lower home prices continue to blow hard against JPMorgan Chase's consumer-credit and commercial-real estate businesses. At a time when millions of Americans are underwater financially and scouring the beach for answers, he'll need all his management skills to navigate an even lower tide.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Dimon

His grandfather, a Greek immigrant from Turkey, was a broker and passed on his knowledge of the business to his son and partner, Theodore.




Nicholas Christakis

Social scientists used to have a straightforward, if tongue-in-cheek, answer to the question of how to become happy: Surround yourself with people who are uglier, poorer and shorter than you are — and who are unhappily married and have annoying kids. You will compare yourself with these people, and the contrast will cheer you up.

Nicholas Christakis, 47, a physician and sociologist at Harvard University, challenges this idea. Using data from a study that tracked about 5,000 people over 20 years, he suggests that happiness, like the flu, can spread from person to person. When people who are close to us, both in terms of social ties (friends or relatives) and physical proximity, become happier, we do too. For example, when a person who lives within a mile of*good friend becomes happier, the probability that this person's good friend will also become happier increases 15%. More surprising is that the effect can transcend direct links and reach a third degree of separation: when a friend of a friend becomes happier, we become happier, even when we don't know that third person directly.

This means that surrounding ourselves with happier people will make us happier, make the people close to us happier — and make the people close to them happier. But social networks don't transmit only the good things in life.

Christakis found that smoking and obesity can be socially infectious too. If his thesis proves out, then the saying that you can judge a person by his or her friends might carry more weight than we thought.

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Creator of ask.com Apostolos Gerasoulis...look I found his flickr account:

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panagiotis_Kondylis

Panagiotis Kondylis

Panagiotis Kondylis (Panajotis Kondyles) (17 August 1943 – 11 July 1998), was a Greek writer, translator and editor who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his work into Greek. He can be placed in the tradition of thought best exemplified by Thucydides, Niccolò Machiavelli and Max Weber. Other thinkers such as Montaigne, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Spinoza, La Mettrie, de Sade, Clausewitz, Marx, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Aron were amongst the important points of reference in his thinking, notwithstanding the significant differences he had with some of these writers.



Work

The great bulk of his corpus was written in German, and most of his writings were translated by Kondylis himself into Greek. He was interested in a number of areas of study including: the Enlightenment and the preceding Renaissance-era critiques of metaphysics; the philosophy of war and Clausewitz, as well as the work of Hegel and Marx; Western bourgeois culture and its decline; Conservativism; post-Modernity, and International Affairs. He was also a prominent translator, e.g. he has translated Machiavelli, Montesquieu and Carl Schmitt into Greek. His best known books are: Die Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) and Macht und Entscheidung (Power and Decision). His final major work Das Politische und der Mensch (The Political and Man) remained unfinished at the time of his death, but nevertheless managed to present a unified social-scientific theory encompassing socio-ontological, sociological and historical aspects of the study of human affairs. Much of the nearly completed first volume (three volumes had been planned by Kondylis) emphasised the distinction between "socio-ontic observation" and "socio-historical observation" in dealing with social relations, understanding and rationality by way of an extensive examination and/or critique of numerous renowned authors such as Durkheim, Dilthey, Habermas, Heidegger, Husserl, Luhmann, Mead, Parsons, Popper, Simmel, Tönnies, Weber and von Wiese.

Apart from being a comprehensive survey of the major (polemical) trends in the European History of Ideas from the end of the Middle Ages until the post-Kantian period of Schelling and Hegel, Die Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) together with Die neuzeitliche Metaphysikkritik (Modern-era Criticism of Metaphysics) and The Decline of Bourgeois Thought- and Life- Forms (see below) can be seen as a three-part analysis of the European Modern Era's struggle against value-relativity and nihilism, which were the logical conclusion of the overall rationalist positioning in the European Modern Era. Against the Aristotelian metaphysics of essence, the notion of function was recruited, and then the danger of breaking-down all essences into variable functions had to be confronted with the invention of new beings: "Nature", "Man" and "History" thus succeeded God and the (transcendental) Spirit. However, the notion of function totally prevailed in the course of the twentieth century in the context of overthrowing essence on a global scale (notwithstanding the on-going and socially inevitable influence of various ideologies and religions). Throughout both these books, self-preservation and power appear as key concepts in interpreting human affairs and in putting aside all dualisms and Platonisms, all the traditional distinctions between Hither and Thither, the ideal and reality, understanding and volition. Whilst the philosophers who did just that were few and far between (e.g. Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, La Mettrie), quantitatively, philosophers expounding versions of the traditional distinctions mentioned above prevailed for much of the European Modern Era, and Kondylis analysed the basic stance(s) of such thinkers as Alembert, Bacon, Bayle, Bruno, Condillac, Descartes, Diderot, Galilei, Helvetius, Herder, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Maupertuis, Newton, Rousseau, Shaftesbury, Voltaire, and Wolff in considerable detail.

In Macht und Entscheidung (Power and Decision) Kondylis claimed that human perceptions, beliefs and ideologies were nothing more than an effort to give personal interests a normative form and an objective character, deriving from a "decision" on what means should be used, who should be a friend and who a foe, in the big "Hobbesian" struggle for what is the most primitive and common goal of all humans — self-preservation. Therefore, personal and/or group world-views and ideologies in general are used as a weapon in everyday struggle for the purpose of power-claims and self-preservation. Social and historical Being and Becoming consist of transitory existences - regardless of whether they invoke Reason and ethics or not - seeking power. That is how Nature's (and society's) creatures are, and they cannot do otherwise.

In his book Theorie des Krieges (Theory of War), Kondylis opposed Raymond Aron's liberal interpretation of Clausewitz's theory. According to Aron in Penser La Guerre Clausewitz was one of the very first writers condemning the militarism of military elites and their war-proneness (based on the famous sentence "war is a continuation of politics by other means"). Kondylis claimed that this was a reconstruction not coherent with Clausewitz's thought. Clausewitz was, according to Kondylis, morally indifferent to war, and his propounding of the value of political rule over war had nothing to do with pacifistic claims. For Clausewitz war was just a means in the eternal quest for power in an often anarchical and unsafe world. Kondylis continued with an analysis of Lenin's, Engels's and Marx's theories of war, articles about military staff and politicians, technological and absolute war, and concluded (in the Greek edition) with an analysis of a possible Greek-Turkish war.

In Der Niedergang der bürgerlichen Denk- und Lebensformen. Die liberale Moderne und die massendemokratische Postmoderne (The Decline of Bourgeois Thought- and Life- Forms), Kondylis used Weberian ideal-typical analysis to outline the great "paradigm shift" of post-Modernity from around 1900 onwards, in bringing to an end the previously dominant bourgeois-liberal hierarchical and humanist world-view, and ushering in a new era of mass-democratic pluralism and levelling of hierarchies based on mass-democratic social formations characterised by, inter alia, historically unprecedented mass production and mass consumption, atomisation and mobility, and, not least of all, the various forms of mass-democratic ideology.

In Planetarische Politik nach dem kalten Krieg (Planetary Politics after the Cold War), Kondylis dealt with a number of matters e.g. conceptual confusion in the overtly polemical and unhistorical use of "conservative", "liberal" and "(social) democracy"; mass democracy as the world's first international social formation; the impact of communism on the twentieth century; and "human rights" as predominantly American ideology but also amenable to interpretations contrary to American interests, i.e. the dissemination of universal human rights ideology will lead to a significant increase in international conflict and increase the world-wide trend towards anomy.

Kondylis's published works as a whole can be seen as a unified series of analyses based on an unwavering adherence to empirical fact and logical consistency no matter what aspect of study is being emphasised at any given time. He thought of himself as "an observer of human affairs" or "writer" rather than as a "philosopher", producing a body of work that bears little resemblance to any other author, apart from perhaps Max Weber.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Kondylis

Georgios Kondylis


Georgios Kondylis (1878–February 1, 1936) was a general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece. He was nicknamed Keravnos, Greek for "Thunder" or "Thunderbolt".

Military career
Kondylis was born in Proussós. He enlisted in the army as a volunteer in 1896, and fought with the Greek expeditionary corps in Crete. He was later commissioned and participated in the Macedonian Struggle (1904–1908) leading his own guerrilla band, and was promoted to Captain during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913). He supported the Movement of National Defence of Eleftherios Venizelos during the First World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. A firm Venizelist, he opposed the restoration of King Constantine I in 1920, fleeing to Constantinople together with other Venizelist officers and organizing there the "Democratic Defence" (ÄçìïêñáôéêÞ ¢ìõíá). He returned after the 1922 Revolution as a Major General, suppressed the royalist revolt of 1923, retired from the army, and became involved in politics.

Political career
He was successfully elected to Parliament, and founded the National Democratic Party. He was war minister from March to June 1924. On August 21, 1926, he overthrew the dictatorship of Theodoros Pangalos in a bloodless coup and formed a government, proclaiming elections for November. Notably, his party did not participate in these. In the elections of August 1928, his party elected nine MPs, with himself being elected in Kavala. In 1932 he became war minister again in the Populist government, and from this post he was instrumental in crushing the March 1935 Venizelist revolt.

When, on October 10, 1935, the chiefs of the Armed Forces overthrew the government of Panagis Tsaldaris, on the same day, the former Republican Kondylis declared himself Regent, abolished the Republic and staged a plebiscite on November 11 for the return of the monarchy. After the return of King George II on 25 November, however, he soon quarreled with the king, and resigned. In the January 1936 elections, he cooperated with Ioannis Rallis and managed to have fifteen MPs elected. Soon after, however, he died of a heart attack on February 1, 1936, in Athens.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriana_Huffington


Arianna Huffington


Arianna Huffington (born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the progressive news website The Huffington Post.

In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election.In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media.[2] She has also moved up to number 42 in the Guardian's Top 100 in Media List.

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Betty White



Betty Marion White (born January 17, 1922) is an American actress comedian and former television host with a career spanning over sixty-five years. Her television roles include Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.

White has won six Emmy Awards[1] and received 18 Emmy nominations[1] over the course of her career, and was the first woman to ever receive an Emmy for game show hosting. She has also made regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game and played recurring roles on Mama's Family and Boston Legal. She is also recognized for her affiliation with animal charities such as "Actors and Others for Animals" and the Morris Animal Foundation.

White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, daughter of Horace L. White, a traveling salesman and electrical engineer, and his wife Tess Cachikis.[2][3] She was raised in Los Angeles, California. White attended Horace Mann Middle School in Beverly Hills, California, and Beverly Hills High School, where she graduated in 1939.





www.hollywoodyesterday.com/betty-white-101/

She’s of German and Greek ancestry.

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South Melbourne Hellas

South Melbourne Football Club (SOUTH MELBOURNE FC)


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Melbourne_Hellas

South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian association football club based in South Melbourne, Victoria.


The club was formed in 1959 with the amalgamation of three struggling Melbourne football clubs – South Melbourne United, the oldest of the three clubs with a history dating back to the early 1900s, the Greek-backed Yarra Park Aias (Ajax), and Hellenic[3]. Theo Marmaras, initiator of the merger proposal and president of Hellenic, became the first president of the new club. In recognition of the large Greek Australian support base of Hellenic and Yarra Park, which were also the best-supported of the three clubs, the new club was named South Melbourne Hellas, the name by which it was to be known for the majority of its 50 years. The first emblem reflected the colour scheme of the Flag of Greece. The first uniform was that of South Melbourne United, which consisted of white with a red 'V' around the collar. Later on they would adopt predominantly blue and white strips, with various designs throughout the seasons, with the most common being a predominantly royal blue strip.


According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an international organization recognized by FIFA, South Melbourne were Oceania's best club of the 20th century.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieronymos


Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens


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Ieronymos II (born March 10, 1938, Latin: Hieronymus II, English: Jerome II) is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.


He was born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia.He is an Arvanite.Ieronymos holds degrees in archaeology, Byzantine studies, and theology from the University of Athens. He has undertaken postgraduate studies at the University of Graz, the University of Regensburg and the University of Munich.Following a stint as lector in Christian archaeology at the Athens Archaeological Society under professor Anastasios Orlandos, he taught as a philologist in Lycée Léonin and he was ordained deacon and then presbyter in the Orthodox Church in 1967.

Ieronymos served as Protosyncellus of the diocese of Thebes and Levadeia, abbot of the monasteries of the Transfiguration of Sagmata and Hosios Loukas, and Secretary, later Archsecretary, of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. In 1981 he was elected Metropolitan Bishop of Thebes and Levadeia. In addition to his pastoral ministry, Ieronymos has been pursuing his work on Christian archaeology and has published two major textbooks: "Medieval Monuments of Euboea" (1970), and "Christian Boeotia" (2006).

On 7 February 2008, Ieronymos was elected the new Archbishop of Athens and All Greece by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

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THE GREEK JEWS



[glow=red,2,300]Mordechai Frizis[/glow]

5.MARTYRS AND WARRIORS-part (C) (WORLD WARS)




[glow=red,2,300]Roza Eskenazi[/glow]

6.MUSICIANS-part (D) (REBETIKO MUSICIANS)




[glow=red,2,300]Nicolas Sarkozy[/glow]

24.THE GREEKS OF FRANCE




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

24.THE GREEKS OF FRANCE


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THE GREEK RIGHTEOUS GENTILES


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_among_the_Nations


Righteous among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם‎, Chassidey Umot HaOlam, more literally: righteous men of the world's nations, also translated as "Righteous Gentiles") is used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.




[glow=red,2,300]The 306 Greek righteous among the Nations(Righteous Gentiles)[/glow]

The complete list

www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/pdf/virtial_wall/greece.pdf



Some of the greek Righteous Gentiles are:

Archbishop Damaskinos

Princess Alice of Greece

Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos

Angelos Evert, head of Athenian police

Bishop Ioakim of Volos

Lukas G. Karreri, mayor of Zakynthos

Dr. Kostas Nikolaou

Yerassimos Paloumbis Kephalonia

Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_Damaskinos_of_Athens

According to the The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation the appeal of Damaskinos and his fellow Greeks is unique as no document similar to the protest against the Nazis during World War II has come to light in any other European country.

The letter in part reads:

“ The Greek Orthodox Church and the Academic World of Greek People Protest against the Persecution... The Greek people were... deeply grieved to learn that the German Occupation Authorities have already started to put into effect a program of gradual deportation of the Greek Jewish community... and that the first groups of deportees are already on their way to Poland...
According to the terms of the armistice, all Greek citizens, without distinction of race or religion, were to be treated equally by the Occupation Authorities. The Greek Jews have proven themselves... valuable contributors to the economic growth of the country [and] law-abiding citizens who fully understand their duties as Greeks. They have made sacrifices for the Greek country, and were always on the front lines of the struggle of the Greek nation to defend its inalienable historical rights...

In our national consciousness, all the children of Mother Greece are an inseparable unity: they are equal members of the national body irrespective of religion... Our holy religion does not recognize superior or inferior qualities based on race or religion, as it is stated: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek' and thus condemns any attempt to discriminate or create racial or religious differences. Our common fate both in days of glory and in periods of national misfortune forged inseparable bonds between all Greek citizens, without exemption, irrespective of race...

Today we are... deeply concerned with the fate of 60,000 of our fellow citizens who are Jews... we have lived together in both slavery and freedom, and we have come to appreciate their feelings, their brotherly attitude, their economic activity, and most important, their indefectible patriotism...
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Damaskinos went on to publish the letter, even though the local Schutzstaffel commander, Jürgen Stroop, threatened to execute him by firing squad. Damaskinos's famous response to him was:

“ According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our prelates are hanged, not shot. Please respect our traditions!”

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George Papapavlou


European Commission


George Papapavlou is head of the unit ‘Internet-related services’ in the European Commission. His current responsibilities include Internet naming and addressing and cybercrime, but he has also been involved in the European intellectual property and personal data protection initiatives. His work has involved being co-author of the Directive on the protection of personal data (1995), the Communication on illegal and harmful content on the Internet (1996), the Regulation on a .eu Top Level Domain Name (Apr 2002), and the Communication on Computer Crime (Jan 2001). Additionally he authored the Green Paper on public sector information (Jan 1999) and the Framework Decision on Attacks Against Information Systems (Jan 2002).




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(Greeks of Turkey)


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Neoklis Sarris

Professor of sociology

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences,Athens

Neoklis Sarris was born in Constantinople (Istanbul).He is a graduate of the "Megali tou Genous scholi" (Grand School of the Nation).

He studied law, and political and economic sciences at the Universities of Istanbul and Athens and psychology in Geneva. Honorary Doctor at the University of Thessaloniki.
He is a Professor of Sociology of History at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.
Former Head of the Sociology Department.
At the age of 20 he was political advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch, Athinagoras.

He excelled in student contests both in Greece and Turkey.
He was associate consultant and friend to the presidents of E.DE.Ê, Georgos Mavros and Giannis Zigdis. Following the latter’s death he was elected president of the Union of the Democratic Center party, thus taking fourth place in the prestigious succession of leaders which had begun with Georgos Papandreou.

He is a distinguished author of publication and teaching material, and has been published in numerous scientific journals as well as in the daily and periodical press. He has also taken part in many international conferences in Greece and abroad.


His main books are:

•“The other Side- Political and Diplomatic Diary of the Invasion and Dismemberment of Cyprus”

•”Ottoman Reality”

•“Foreign Policy and Political Developments of the first Turkish Republic”

•“Pre-revolution Greece and Ottoman Rule”

•“Greek Society and Television”

•“Philosophy of Society and State; first vol Ancient World”

•“second volume of Patristic Orthodoxy and Byzantine Thought”

•“The Family in Turkey”

•“Introduction to Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama”