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Friday, August 16, 2013

Greek teen's death after argument with bus ticket inspector sparks anti ...


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Greek teen's death after argument with bus ticket inspector sparks anti ...
Raw Story
ATHENS (Reuters) – A 19-year-old Greek student who died after an argument with a bus ticket inspector has come to symbolize the plight of a population ground down by worsening poverty and unemployment. Thanassis Kanaoutis suffered a fatal head injury ...
Protesters clash with Greek police over death of youth during trolley bus ...Washington Post
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The changing face of Greek anarchism


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The changing face of Greek anarchism
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Many self-proclaimed anarchists - the word stems from the Greek "anarchia" or absence of authority - say they are pacifist, but certain groups have few qualms about using violence. Six years of recession have fuelled a new wave of left-wing militancy, ...

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UCA Board discusses Greek Village on campus


UCA Board discusses Greek Village on campus
THV 11
Friday, The UCA Board of Trustees held their monthly board meeting with Greek housing high up on their agenda. Just now in the presenting stages, the Greek village would add a new housing complex to campus specifically meeting the needs of every ...


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Ataturk museum reopens in his Greek birthplace

Greek and Turkish government officials said the museum, at the house where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is believed to have been born in 1881, would help efforts to strengthen ties between the two historic rivals.

Ataturk, who led Turkey's defeat of Greek expeditionary forces in the 1919-22 war, lived part of his childhood in Thessaloniki.

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Rosalia Mera, world's richest self-made woman, dies aged 69

Co-founder of fashion retailer Zara, who was Spain's richest woman with an estimated worth of $6.1bn, had stroke in Menorca

The world's richest self-made woman, a Spanish former seamstress who co-founded the fashion retailer Zara, has died at the age of 69.

Rosalia Mera was the richest woman in Spain with an estimated worth of $6.1bn (£3.9bn), although her fortune represented a fraction of the wealth accumulated by her former husband and Zara co-founder, Armancio Ortega.

Mera suffered a stroke while on holiday on the island of Menorca. She died on Thursday night in a hospital in the town where she was born, La Coruna in northern Spain.

Having left school at 11 years old, Mera worked as a seamstress in her teenage years before setting up a company with Ortega that would evolve into one of the biggest clothes retailers in the world.

Originally, the pair had planned to name the store Zorba, after the exuberant fictional Greek, but the store sign was modified to avoid confusion with a nearby bar. Today the rearranged name sits above 1,763 Zara stores around the world. The couple, who had two children together, separated in 1986.

The Zara model grew up from the idea that first sent Mera into business: producing speedy and cheap imitations of the latest catwalk or pop culture trends. Mera was one of the great pioneers of so-called "fast fashion", which sees Zara branches rapidly replace its stock with new ranges.

The chief source of Mera's wealth was the single-digit shareholding she retained after retiring in 2004 from the board of the parent company Inditex, which owns a range of fashion brands including Massimo Dutti and Bershka as well as Zara and employs 120,000 people worldwide.

Inditex said: "The group wishes to send its sincere condolences to her loved ones and friends at this extremely difficult time, after the loss of a person who contributed so much to the origins and development of the company."

Despite her vast wealth, Mera stayed close to home and was often seen socialising in Galicia's salsa bars and taverns. She added her voice to opposition to cuts to public services in Spain. She also spoke out against government plans to make it more difficult for young women to get abortions.

According to Forbes magazine, Mera was the world's richest self-made woman, and the 20th richest overall. Ortega took a much bigger stake in Inditex and is now the world's richest man with a fortune of $57bn and rising.


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Museum dedicated to founder of modern Turkey reopens in Thessaloniki, Greece


Museum dedicated to founder of modern Turkey reopens in Thessaloniki, Greece
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THESSALONIKI, Greece – A museum dedicated to the founder of the modern Turkish state has reopened in his native city in northern Greece following a year's restoration work. Greek and Turkish government officials said the museum, at the house where ...

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My family heirloom project

Photographer Joakim Blockstrom collects other people's treasures. He invites people to write about a treasured inherited object and then takes a picture of it. The record is added to a growing online archive

Two years ago, Joakim Blockstrom began to think about heirlooms. "Not about my own inheritance," says the photographer and father of five. "But how most things these days are mass produced, so that when the time comes, what will we have to hand on?"

He asked friends if he could photograph special objects they'd inherited, and stories came flooding out. Afterwards, people thanked him for giving them the chance to think deeply about something – and someone – they had taken for granted. "I gave people an opportunity to reconnect with their feelings about people they had known. The exercise shines a light on a particular member of the family. Quite often they would say something like, "I have never really thought about my grandfather like that before."

As word spread about Blockstrom's project, he began to hear from strangers who had objects for him to photograph and their own stories to tell. Gradually, he concluded that we all have heirlooms, though they are not always what you would imagine. "I have one person who has nothing from her dad except for one of his teeth. It's a bit gory, but does an heirloom have to be beautiful?"

Another woman wanted Blockstrom to photograph her naked body: she'd had a mastectomy because her mother had breast cancer.

People's stories almost always stirred him up. "Father-son things especially because I didn't grow up feeling very connected to my own father," he says. Indeed, his own heirloom is a photographic book about the Vikings that belonged to his father. "Maybe it's got something to do with holding on to my Swedish side" – Blockstrom left Sweden to live in London in 1987 – "and having something to pass on to my own children. Even if they can't read the Swedish, the book can become a symbol of their heritage."

The past has value, Blockstrom says, because it teaches us who we are. "But this project is not only about looking back. It's also about creating a catalogue of things that might be lost. Among his own possessions, he hopes to leave behind a handmade table designed by Conran, and expensive Italian pans. Which of his five children – Scarlett, 25, Kyle, 16, Kodie, 14, Johnny, nine, and Lola, seven – will inherit them? "Oh, I'll leave that to them."

Though his children have lived mostly with their mothers, he says he sees a lot of himself in them. "We all inherit a part of ourselves from our family. Good and bad. And we should treasure that. When I shout at my children, I can hear my father shouting. But my father, as well as shouting sometimes, is very creative, and my mother is very thoughtful. I have inherited both of those qualities. And they should be cherished."

The heirloom project started as a photographic exercise but quickly became a project about family. "It's asking people to think what we really value. What are our experiences within a family? And I think it's also a message to my own children." What is that message, exactly? He thinks for a moment before answering. "That they are important, and we are all connected, and I love them."

Interview by Alex Whyte

Here we publish a selection from the heirloom project:



Sermons

My dad was a fundamentalist born-again hellfire preacher and I grew up in a very antagonistic relationship with him. My normality as a teenager was hoping that new girlfriends wouldn't notice the faith-healing, amens and hallelujahs going on in the front room. I left home as soon as I could and it took me over a decade to sort out the mess that kind of religion leaves you with.

Then I was able to notice the man my friends saw – funny, eccentric, generous (he loved cartoons, he regularly gave away more money than he could afford, he taught himself Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic so he could read "what the Bible really said"). We still disagreed on almost everything but found we had a lot of common interests.

Shortly before he died he gave me his sermons. It was a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek gesture from him (mixed with some earnestness). They are dated, with where he preached and what hymns they sang, and passionately annotated and reworked. They were the thing that I most wanted, because they were him put down on paper.

I can never read more than a couple of lines, though, because they are so intolerant, aggressive and angry, and that's not how I want to remember him. But that's also why they are so great because their accidental message to me is about not being too hasty in dismissing someone because I dislike their attitudes. I'd have missed some great conversations that way.

My heirloom reminds me that we're all weird and we only think we aren't because we choose friends who are weird in the same way as us. John Wyatt-Clarke



Rotring pens

My dad died when I was just a lad, leaving me with just a few vague memories of things we did together. The things I tend to remember more, funnily enough, are the things he did. He was always doing something: making furniture, printing his photography in the darkroom, screen printing, painting or just sitting drinking whisky late at night playing his guitar. He never made it feel like we couldn't join in – it was just that he was busy and we were all happy to fit in around him because it made him what he was. Memories can be triggered by many things, none more so than our sense of smell. So if you put a bottle of Rotring ink under my nose today I'm straight back to Dad's study. His wooden swivel chair, his blood red desk, Letraset pages scattered all over and his Rotring pens all laid out, as he toiled over his latest poster for a local theatre or communist party poster.

I always loved the coloured collars the pens had and thought they must be very special. By day, his proper job was teaching kids with behavioural problems, but at night he'd let loose on his current creative outlet and we might not see him for hours. Its funny, but as I write, I realise I'm becoming exactly the same. Every night I escape to my studio at home, somewhat oblivious to everything around me, and sit there and make music or work on images until the wee small hours. Got a lot of my dad in me, I guess, although I never did get the taste for whisky. Owen Gale



Doll

I inherited Cassie from my mum years ago – guess I kind of just took her one day, as she had been shoved in a cupboard for years and was wearing no shoes, no knickers, no top, just a rather chunky, unattractive knitted pink skirt and braces, and even though the smile (obviously) remained intact, she looked somewhat chipped and neglected. I felt a bit sorry for her. She was my mum's first doll, and sported hair "back in the day", but like a well loved grandad, I'd only ever known Cassie as a baldie. But the broad metal staples that held three strategically placed tufts of hair remain in her head – another reason to feel for her! My mum passed away a few years ago, so Cassie's presence in my home has taken on even more significance. I like to move her around a bit, so that I never quite take her for granted.Although most visitors think she's rather creepy, to me she's always just my mum's Cassie and I think she looks really rather magnificent in all her naked, ebony glory, albeit a bit chipped. Suzanne Stankus



Leatherman knife

My grandfather was a great sailor and taught me a lot about boats and sailing. He always carried a Leatherman sailing knife, for cutting ropes or just tinkering. I remember how he kept it so well oiled and it smelled like his workshop. He passed away a few years ago, and unfortunately we had to sell his yacht. My grandmother wanted to give her grandchildren one special thing to always remind us of how gentle and nice he was, and I was given his sailing knife. I now sail all the time, training and competing around the country, and always hope that he can see what I'm achieving. I carry the knife in my kit bag everywhere and use it just like my grandfather did. Hopefully, when I am older, I will own a yacht and use it as much as he did. Stan Chick, aged 13



Roberts radio

When my grandfather passed away, my whole family went to his beautiful home in Gloucestershire to say goodbye for the last time and collect his belongings that had meaning to us. One of the possessions I picked was this classic vintage Roberts radio. I was very close to my grandfather and have fond memories of making him tea and sitting in his sunroom, where I would quiz him about his time serving during the war and we'd listen to the soothing sound of the cricket commentators on the radio – he played cricket for Gloucester in his youth – before his afternoon nap. Rosie Nicholls



Stuffed crocodile

When I was five, my grandfather gave me this "stuffed" baby crocodile. It was already a very old specimen. He claimed it was found on the banks of the Nile in 1904. While it probably dates from around this time, I think he may have made up the story to appeal to a child's imagination. I thought it was incredible and it became my most treasured possession. It was the centre-piece of my bedroom "museum" and undoubtedly sparked my interest in taxidermy and curiosities. Many years later, I discovered just how ordinary such things are, but it never lost its appeal. It now has pride of place housed under a glass dome in my "cabinet of curiosities" at home and it's my children's favourite piece. Alexis Turner



Pin cushion

This miniature pin cushion was given to me after my grandmother passed away when I was 16. She was a seamstress, and I remember playing with it as a child while she was busy making me rag dolls. It sat in a drawer for years like most memories are left untouched in a part of your mind until you need them around you again. Elise Dumontet
 
 
 
 
 
 



Camera

This Kowa camera used to belong to my Japanese grandpa in Osaka. He died when I was 19 and I inherited it. He was a keen amateur photographer, loved taking photos in camera clubs and used to show off the images of beautiful models posing. He was also a keen English learner who would translate his favourite Abba records into Japanese. Now he must be enjoying his second life living inside me, speaking English every day and being a photographer in England. Without his influence, I would not be what I am now. Mayumi Hirata



Toolbox

My father died when he was only 41. I was 14. He was a craftsman and enjoyed working with wood. Apart from losing him, one of my biggest regrets is that he died before I had the chance to learn this craft from him. My most treasured possession is his old toolbox with his metal initials on, "MSC – Michael Stanley Cook". This box contains some of his most-used tools. It's a strong wooden box he made and the felt lining shows the respect people had for tools back then, trying to minimise damage and scratches. In recent years I've become accustomed to using these and now also collect vintage tools to add to my collection. Soon I will need to make my own toolbox. Gary Cook



Diver's watch

In the early 1970s I was nine years old when my family scrimped, saved and borrowed to take a train from Liverpool to Jersey for our first and only holiday "abroad". The hotel had palm trees and a swimming pool, and seemed like the most exotic place in the world. My sister, Joanne, was five years younger and hadn't yet learned to swim, but on our first evening she walked backwards into the swimming pool. There was nobody else around, so I jumped in fully clothed and lifted her from under the water to the side of the pool. I was more concerned about being in trouble for getting my clothes wet, but my parents were beside themselves with gratitude, and recounted the story to everybody in the hotel. We never had much money at the time, so I was amazed when they offered to buy me a watch the next day while out in the town. They were thinking of something small, inexpensive and age-appropriate, but I pointed to a large, ostentatious diver's watch, which was well out of their budget.

We left the shop empty-handed, and I thought nothing more of it until the next day when they surprised me with the watch. I wore it constantly for years afterwards and it sits in the bottom of a drawer now, but in my mind it will always be a most valued possession to pass on, representing the love and selflessness of my parents. Ian Pendleton

If you would like to take part in Joakim Blockstrom's project, contact him at theheirloomproject.co.uk


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How Greek Financial Crisis Is Bringing Out The Good In People


How Greek Financial Crisis Is Bringing Out The Good In People
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While the Greek economy survives on rescue loans, the unemployment rate hovers around 26 percent, and the public sector protests against the government's austerity measures, Greek citizens are coming together to turn their country around. Many Greeks ...


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TANAP tender in Turkey attracts 28 bids



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At least $8 billion in investment will be made in Turkey during the construction of the Trans Anatolian Pipeline or TANAP, the President of the Turkish arm of Azeri state oil company SOCAR, Kenan Yavuz, told Turkey’s daily Hürriyet. The gas pipeline will carry Azeri gas from the Shah Deniz field through Turkey and connect with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) on Turkey’s border with neighbouring Greece. TAP will go through Greece and Albania and then cross the Adriatic Sea to Italy.


TANAP’s construction is expected to start by the end of 2014 and begin operations by 2018 with a 16 billion cubic metre capacity.


On 14 August, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 28 companies, nine of which local ones, have submitted applications in a pre-qualification tender for pipes suppliers for TANAP. The applications will be reviewed by 27 August, Yildiz said in a statement published on the ruling Justice and Development Party’s website.


The project’s owner TANAP Dogalgaz Iletim AS is controlled by SOCAR and 20%-owned by Turkish state-owned firms BOTAS and TPAO. TANAP Dogalgaz Iletim invited expressions of interest by 15 August for pre-qualification for the construction of onshore pipeline and block valve and pigging stations for the project. The construction of the approximately 1,800 kilometre onshore pipeline section of the pipeline system may be divided into different construction contracts, TANAP Dogalgaz Iletim said in its tender announcement.







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Protest planned in Athens over death of youth during trolley bus ticket inspection



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Ticket inspection death prompts protest in Greece


Associated Press - 16 August 2013 09:16-04:00



ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have temporarily suspended a trolley bus service in western Athens ahead of a planned protest over the death of a youth during a ticket inspection.


Police said the Peristeri service was expected to resume later Friday.


Left-wing groups and friends of the dead teenager were planning a protest march in Peristeri ahead of the funeral later Friday.


The 19-year-old man was killed when the trolley bus doors unexpectedly opened and he fell out, following an altercation with an inspector because he had not canceled his ticket. The circumstances of Tuesday night's incident are being investigated.


Greece's main opposition party, the Syriza Radical Left Coalition, linked the death with the economic crisis, saying the victim was unemployed and could not afford the 1.20-euro ($1.60) fare.





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Ticket inspection death prompts protest in Greece

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have temporarily suspended a trolley bus service in western Athens ahead of a planned protest over the death of a youth during a ticket inspection.

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Student's death touches nerve in austerity-hit Greece


Student's death touches nerve in austerity-hit Greece
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The incident quickly touched a nerve in Greece, where the government is using increasingly tough methods to collect revenue under pressure from its international lenders to fix its finances. As anti-bailout groups prepared to hold rallies during ...

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A-Level results: Student with 7 A*s heads to Stanford after being REJECTED by Oxford University

Alastair Herron, from Bangor, County Down, achieved top grades in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, further maths, Latin and Classical Greek - but received a standard rejection letter from Oxford University.

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Restaurant review: Stamna Greek Taverna in Little Falls


Restaurant review: Stamna Greek Taverna in Little Falls
NorthJersey.com
The menu at Stamna Greek Taverna includes, from above left: a complimentary bread plate with plump, lemony olives, which are flown in from Greece; a crock of grilled octopus; the mixed grill platter, with an array of moist, flavorful meats. Whether you ...


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Another era, another world: 1960s rural Greece

The picture of Greece that emerges in the photographs taken by Constantine Manos during his travels around the countryside in the early 1960s is a rocky, dusty, wild land with mostly unsmiling people. Even shots taken at weddings and festivals are dominated by a sense of sadness.

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Report: Bundesbank sees new Greece bailout in 2014


Report: Bundesbank sees new Greece bailout in 2014
Las Vegas Sun
Der Spiegel reports Sunday that the Bundesbank told Germany's Finance Ministry and the International Monetary Fund that a recent 5.7 billion euros ($7.62 billion) payment to Greece was approved "due to political constraints." The central bank ...


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Inside Greece's violent new anarchist groups


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Inside Greece's violent new anarchist groups
Kathimerini
Most media coverage of political radicals in Greece has focused on the far-right Golden Dawn party, which has risen to as much as 14 percent in voting polls after winning support with free food handouts for Greeks and fierce anti-immigrant rhetoric ...


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Family escapes apartment fire through bedroom window in Greece


Family escapes apartment fire through bedroom window in Greece
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Two adults and a child scrambled out of a bedroom window of a first-floor apartment to escape a fire in Greece early Friday. There were no injuries in the fire at 315 Whitehall Dr. in the Dorsey Garden Apartment complex. The fire was reported about 1 ...


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Hot Picks: Make a movie, eat up, go greek, and get jazzed


Hot Picks: Make a movie, eat up, go greek, and get jazzed
Anchorage Daily News
A group of food trucks gathers at the Chilkoot Charlie's parking lot at Spenard Road and West 25th Avenue on Thursdays from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. The event, known as the Food Truck Carnival, has quickly grown in popularity since it began just a couple ...


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No Greek Cypriot leader ever wanted to reach an agreement in Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot president said Turkish Cypriots and guarantor state Turkey are running out of patience on Cyprus problem President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Dervis Eroglu on Saturday said that "no Greek Cypriot leader ever wanted to reach an agreement with the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus".President Eroglu`s remarks came after a luncheon he attended at the Adiyaman ...

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Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister

Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...

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Second Local Products Festival in Sitia

Festival, Local Products: Nutritional and Curative Properties, opens its doors and welcomes the audience in Sitia, Crete, from September 20 to 22. The festival lays the groundwork for the promotion of the town of Sitia, located in the east of Agios Nikolaos and northeast of Ierapetra, in Lasithi, Crete, as a gastronomical destination for Greek and foreign visitors. The aim of the festival is to ...

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Greece Was Feta for Scottish Couple

At the same time many Greeks are forced to abandon their country because of the crisis, a couple of Scottish journalists took their dog and moved to Greece. Marjory and Jim, along with their dog Wallace, settled in Mani, the southernmost and middle peninsula of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece. They ignored the warnings of their friends and of Greek people and came to live in Greece, inspired ...

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Stocks post fresh losses in thin trade

Greek stocks headed south for a second straight day on Wednesday, albeit at a milder pace, after a streak of nine winning sessions earlier this month.The Athens Exchange general index shed 0.35 percent, closing at 957.68 points in thin trade on the eve of the religious holiday.Blue chips came under strong pressure early in the session but partly recovered before the close. National Bank shed 2.26 ...

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Closed-shop professions still not pried open

By Dimitra Manifava Greece continues to lag in the liberalization of so-called closed-shop professions despite having agreed to terms set out by the ...

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Number of tech-related jobs set to rise 17.7 pct by 2020

Specialized technical staff and those with technological vocations in general are projected to benefit most from developments in the labor market until 2020, albeit not as strongly as in previous decades, according to the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP).Referring to Greece in particular, the center projects a 17.7 percent rise in their numbers, against a 51.3 ...

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A 300-Year Drought Ancient Greeces Downfall

(Photo/Tatiana Popova) The ruins of an acropolis in Greece that was built by the ancient Mycenaen culture, which flourished during the Bronze Age. Some scientists say climate change put an end to it. A 300-year drought may have caused the demise of several Mediterranean cultures, including ancient Greece, new research suggests. A sharp drop in rainfall may have led to the collapse of several ...

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The Islamic Treasure House of Athens

(Photo/Asharq Al-Awsat) Gold jewelry on display at the Benaki Museum for Islamic Art in Athens. The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art is located in the heart of the Greek capital city of Athens, and has become a popular destination for visitors from various nationalities and religions. Its collection spans four floors and is considered one of the most important museums in Greece. The museum was opened ...

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Greeces Surplus Is Just A Mirage

FORTUNE -For the past few years, we've heard little but bad economic news from Greece. Now though, something unexpected has developed: the financially-strapped nation in the middle of Europe's ongoing debt crisis has reported a budget surplus during the first seven months of this year following months of deep cuts to government spending. If this continues, it could post its first budget ...

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Jazz Fest Set For Kozani

Kozani, a town in northern Greece, is known for its music tradition and has various talented musicians, who are recognized worldwide in the field of classical music, jazz and other music genres, and it’s going to show off the genre with an international festival Sept. 4-7. A connection with jazz with the town has been developed for several years, both by its musicians and of the ...

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More than 2M Visit Museums and Archaeological Sites

The significant rise in tourism can interpret to an extent the rise in the number of visitors to museums and archaeological sites around Greece. According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), in the period January-April 2013, visitors to museums reached 833,105 in total presenting a rise of 19 percent in comparison with the same period in 2012, while at archaeological sites the number ...

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2nd Medieval Byzantine Festival Begins In Kastoria

The 2nd Medieval Byzantine Festival named Alexiada, will begin in Kastoria under the auspices of the municipality of Kastoria and the citizens who contributed to the organization of the festival, which will start on August 22. The festival will start with the presentation of a theatrical play that was dedicated to the Greeks of the Diaspora from Kastoria and the tradition and history of the ...

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