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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.
ATHENS – There was a 4.3 pct increase in the number of visitors to Greece’s museums in August 2019, year on year, while the number of visitors qualifying for free admission fell by 0.8 pct and revenues increased by 28.2 pct, the independent statistical authority ELSTAT announced on Wednesday.
There was a 5.4 pct increase in the number of museum visitors over the first eight months in 2019, a 3.4 pct increase in free-admission visitors and a 29.3 pct increase in revenues.
Visitors to archaeological sites also increased 2.5 pct year-on-year in August, ELSTAT said, while free-admission visitors dropped 6.5 pct and revenues increased 9.4 pct. Over the eight-month period from January to August, visitors increased by 4.9 pct, free-admission visitors by 0.7 pct and revenues by 9.6 pct.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.