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Comedienne Nellie Nichols Was Once Cathachakes
  • Steve Frangos
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  • August 16, 2010
Helene Cathachakes was the first successful Greek American comedienne of vaudeville, musical theatre, and Hollywood film. Cathachakes’s nearly 40- year career extended from her first great acclaim in ...
Georgia Drake, Greek Goddess of Song
  • Steve Frangos
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  • July 16, 2010
Georgia Drake (Tsarpalas) is the first woman of Greek descent to have hosted her own television program: The Georgia Drake Show. A lost moment in the Golden Age of American Television, to some perhaps...
Remembering The Golden Greek, Harry Agganis, the Greatest There Ever Was
  • Andy Dabilis
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  • July 05, 2010
Who was the greatest Greek American athlete? This being 2010, there will be a lot of support for Pete Sampras, who was one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as he showed when, in retirement,...
Greek Paradise in Virginia
  • Steve Frangos
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  • June 28, 2010
It is almost incredible that John Paradise is a forgotten figure in Greek-American history. During the heady days of the European Enlightenment, Paradise was a highly respected intellectual, socially ...
John Paradise Conquers Virginia
  • Steve Frangos
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  • June 20, 2010
In a time when it is claimed that studies of the Greek Diaspora are on the rise worldwide it is well worth re-considering the life of John Paradise. This one man’s life brings together many of the end...
Now A Spelling Bee Contestant Blames the Greeks
  • June 04, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tim Ruiter studied some 20,000 note cards to prepare for the National Spelling Bee, only to be stumped by a skirt worn by men in the Balkans. The 13-year-old from Centreville, Va. an...
Greeks of the Great Northwest
  • Steve Frangos
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  • May 23, 2010
America was not the land of every foreigner’s dream. It is now forgotten that many, if not the vast majority, of the early Greek pioneers wanted to return home as soon as financial obligations and opp...
The Greeks of the Great Northwest
  • Steve Frangos
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  • April 17, 2010
CHICAGO - The history of the Greeks in the Great Northwest is well recorded. Still, it must be said that the vast majority of Greek Americans have not yet discovered the readily available historical a...
Oregon’s HACCM is a Greek Gem
  • Steve Frangos
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  • April 09, 2010
CHICAGO - While June 2006 is always cited as the year the Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum of Oregon and Southwest Washington (HACCM) was established, that date is really only a technicality...
Springfield's Greek ‘godfather’ made and lost fortunes twice
  • Tom Stafford - Springfield News-Sun
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  • March 08, 2010
SPRINGFIELD — If Springfield had a Greek godfather, it was Tom Lagos — the grandfather of the Tom and Jim Lagos who now practice law here. The godfather figure is “overdramatized in the movies,” an...
Support Collectivism in New Preservation Movement
  • Steve Frangos
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  • February 12, 2010
CHICAGO- How can those dedicated to preserving Greek American history at the local level get the job done? The answer is quite simple. We need to stop seeing every problem as solved by money alone. No...
Nea Historia: The Meaning and Significance of Greek American Autobiography 
  • Steve Frangos
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  • February 04, 2010
CHICAGO - The Nea Historia is the collectivist form of biography writing Greek Americans have been producing since the 1980s. Rather than follow the traditional single narrative perspective of Western...
The Poignant Recordings of Oct. 25, 1927
  • Steve Frangos
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  • January 15, 2010
CHICAGO- In the late autumn of 1927, Koula Antonopoulos’ life was in total chaos. Andreas, her husband, had just died of a sudden violent heart attack. Without a second thought, Koula closed the vastl...
The Greek Rhigas: Grecian ‘Houdini’ Lured Audiences with Amazing Circus Feats
  • Steve Frangos
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  • January 07, 2010
CHICAGO - In the summer of 1825, during the approximate middle of the Greek War of Independence, a circus performer known to the public only as ‘The Greek Rhigas’ first performed in the United States ...
Epiphany cross divers recount blessings
  • Demoriss A. Lee - St. Petersburg Times
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  • January 03, 2010
TARPON SPRINGS — For Metropolitan Nikitas Lulias, it's something he has understood for as long as he can remember. Things happen because of God's will and it's that will that governs and directs li...
Pontian Genocide Remembered
  • May 20, 2009
A priest in Thessaloniki leads a memorial service in memory of the hundreds of thousands of Greek people of Pontian descent killed between 1919-1924 by Turkish forces, on Tuesday May 19, 2009. May 19
George Baptiste: The Grecian Gladiator of St. Louis
  • Steve Frangos
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  • April 08, 2009
George Baptiste: The Grecian Gladiator of St. Louis George Baptiste is one of the outstanding Greek champion wrestlers of the late 1890 to early 1900 era. Baptiste only differs from those other H...
The Remarkable Monsieur Bon Bon
  • Steve Frangos
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  • April 08, 2009
The Remarkable Monsieur Bon-Bon Every day the Old Man would write at his favorite Parisian cafe. Weeks passed beneath the fluttering awnings above the small round glass-topped table where he wrot...
The Archdiocese Under Athenagoras I
  • Alexandros K. Kyrou
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  • April 03, 2009

GEORGE PAPAIOANNOU. From Mars Hill to Manhattan: The Greek Orthodox in America under Athenagoras I. Minneapolis, MN: Light and Life Publishing Company, 1976. Pp. 288. $10.95 (paperback).
When fo...

TNH correspondent Steve Frangos' e-mail compromised, hackers making false ransom claims
  • March 10, 2009
The National Herald's correspondent Steve Frangos recently fell victim to an electronic crime. Hackers took over his e-mail and began sending fraudulent messages to his contacts reporting that he was ...
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