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Piraeus Honours Greek Revolution with Flag in the Sea on March 25 Anniversary

Greek City Times 24 Mar 2025
Happy birthday to all Greeks and Piraeus residents!” ... Christos Pozidis, Vice President of the Association of Greek Frogmen, highlighted the enthusiasm of the volunteers who brought the vision to life.
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Montreal Marks Greek Independence Day with Vibrant Parade

Greek City Times 24 Mar 2025
Montreal’s Greek community filled the streets of Park Extension with pride and celebration on Sunday, March 23, 2025, as the city’s annual Greek Independence Day parade brought the weekend’s festivities to a rousing close.
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Commemorating March 25, Greek Independence Day

Greek City Times 24 Mar 2025
Each year on March 25, Greeks across the globe unite in celebration of Greek Independence Day, a national holiday in Greece that resonates deeply with the Greek diaspora ... For many Greeks, life under Turkish rule was unbearable.
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Enjoying springtime around ancient Miletus

Didim Voices 24 Mar 2025
It was a realm of the Ancient Greeks where the spirits of ordinary souls and mortals resided after their death ... The Greek poet Hesiod described it as the ‘fortunate isles’ with their location in the western ocean at the end of the earth.
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Army men's basketball erases 21-point deficit, beat Elon in CBI tourney opener

recordonline.com 24 Mar 2025
In Greek mythology, it's the Phoenix that rises from the ashes to new life. The same can be said for Army men's basketball in its College Basketball Invitational opening-round matchup with the Elon Phoenix in Daytona Beach, Fla ... X / Twitter.
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Meet the architect who designed Crosley Field and other famous Cincinnati buildings

Cincinnati.com 23 Mar 2025
So, local architect Harry Hake was hired to design a new ballpark ... Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. (1916). The company’s Greek Revival headquarters building at Fourth and Broadway looks like a temple with massive Ionic columns ... Sources ...
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Greek Revolution-Era Costumes Come Alive in Amazing Photos

Greek Reporter 22 Mar 2025
Modern Greek embroidery flourished in all regions of Hellenism from the mid-18th to the late 19th centuries ... This collaboration breathes new life into historical attire, highlighting the richness and craftsmanship of Greek cultural heritage.
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Greece Falls in Global Happiness Rankings

Greek City Times 22 Mar 2025
Released on Thursday to coincide with the UN’s International Day of Happiness, the report signals a notable decline in how Greeks perceive their quality of life ... a snapshot of global life satisfaction.
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Sit down for a conversation with 'One Hundred Years of Betty'

NewstalkZB 22 Mar 2025
On board the SS Asturias she meets three people who will influence the course of her life—Pearl, a good-hearted party girl; Athena, a Greek woman on her way to marry a man she has never met; and Leo, ...
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Gaming in Ancient Greece: The Most Popular Board Games of Antiquity

Greek Reporter 21 Mar 2025
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, often identified as Five Lines, a common theme in ancient Greek artwork ... Ancient Greeks spent much of their time playing board games practically on a daily basis ... The ancient Greeks loved their board games.
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IOC Elects Kirsty Coventry as First-Ever Female President

Greek Reporter 21 Mar 2025
Credit ... Outgoing President Bach was named honorary president for life on Wednesday issuing a call for global peace and for respect to the Olympic ideal. “The Greeks and the Greek civilization have given humanity two things that we are grateful of ... ....
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Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) review – a bit too tasteful

The Observer 21 Mar 2025
But on a record teeming with big themes – flawed humanity, Greek myth and the brevity of life; one regularly stacked with great lines (“Pissing in the corner of a hotel suite, do you always remember ...
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Shabbat Teaches the Jewish People to Be Different — and We Should Embrace That

The Algemeiner 21 Mar 2025
If you had to choose one word to describe what human life depended and depends on, fire would be it ... Imagine city life with no electricity — air conditioning, heating, elevators, transports, communications all cease to function.
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Honoring Women: Renowned Greek Sculptor Unveils Work at UN

Greek Reporter 20 Mar 2025
In 2023, Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum (NHM) hosted the “Hellenic Heads” exhibition by artist George Petrides, featuring six larger-than-life busts inspired by key periods in Greek history spanning 2,500 years, from ancient times to the present.
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