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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 – It’s a dubious honor of sorts, but a Greek film is the country’s first to be nominated for Best Foreign Production at the so-called Porn Oscars ceremony that will be held in Las Vegas on Jan. 25.
Greece’s Sirina productions and its owner, film director Dimitris Sirinakis – also known as the Greek King of Porn – will take part in the Adult Video News (AVN) Awards that are porn films biggest event and has interest around the world.
Nearly 100 awards are given out in categories as diverse as Best Video, Best New Starlet, Most Outrageous Sex Scene and Best Group Sex Scene, said Kathimerini in a report that also showed that Greece is 27th worldwide in data traffic for people watching pornography, which is the most watched on the Internet.
The popular site Pornhub said that it received a 42 billion hits in 2019, with 6.83 million new videos uploaded by users themselves who aren’t ashamed of depicting themselves in every type of sex act on display for all to see, which has made some become celebrities.
The most commonly searched category in Greece was “lesbian,” which was also the main search word in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.