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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 — Culture and Sports Μinister Lina Mendoni inaugurated the exhibition "Under the Light of Apollo: The Louvre in Delphi" at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, in the presence of the Honorary President-Director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez. The exhibition, which will last until January 31, 2022, is a collaboration of the Louvre Museum and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Fokis region.
Mendoni said in her greeting that it is part of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Revolution of 1821 and is closely connected – in the context of reciprocity – with the major anniversary exhibition, which is dedicated to Greece and is organised by the Louvre Museum entitled "Paris – Athens. The birth of modern Greece, 1675-1919 ". The exhibition at the Louvre, in which Greek museums participate with works of exceptional importance, will be inaugurated on Monday, September 27, by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
In her greeting, Mendoni also stated that "the evolution of Delphi into the centre of the ancient world was not a coincidence, nor is it a coincidence and it has preserved its glamour and radiance to the present day, which led to the recognition of the sacred and the wider natural environment as a world cultural asset. The Delphic Landscape is rightly a symbol of outstanding universal significance, inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. At the same time, it is an internationally recognised name, a brand name with a clear growth potential. The Exhibition "Under the Light of Apollo: The Louvre in Delphi" pays homage to these elements of universal and timeless value in Delphi. The exhibition of Delphi includes 28 rare masterpieces from the Louvre collections – antiquities of Greek, Egyptian and Cypriot origin, the oldest of which date back to 1400 BC, as well as works of art of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries – that have been distributed in sections on the premises of the permanent exhibition of the Museum, in such a way that they are in direct conversation with some of its most important exhibits."
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.