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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great, at the National Geographic Museum is different from the typical variety of such presentations, the Washington Post reports.
First, there is the chronological range of the artifacts, with some estimated to be over 7000 years old, the Post writes.
Also, the sheer size of the display, the Post writes, 560 items, is the largest in the United States in decades.
Another rather unique aspect of the exhibit is that none of the artifacts are from American collections – they were borrowed from 22 Greek museums, the Post notes.
“The show is arranged chronologically,” writes the Post, “culminating with artifacts of Alexander and his father, Philip II. The Macedonian king is represented by a gold-and-silver diadem discovered just 25 years ago. It is believed to have been on Philip’s head the day he was assassinated in 336 BC.”
In addition to the physical display, there are audio and video accompaniments by National Geographic describing the event and providing historical background, as well as narrations in the voices of universally-known Ancient Greek figures, such as Plato and Aristotle.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.