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Greek-American James A. Koshivos, 21, Killed after Car Plunged into Ocean
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
To the Editor:
Thank you for the op-ed piece “No Greeks Need Apply” (Aug. 12) by Andrew S. Gounardes and Maria AvgitidisPyrgiotakis, of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, and Hellenic Professional Women, respectively, but I would like to add that the authors forgot to mention that there was earlier settlement of Greeks even before the United States existed.
Dr. Andrew Turnbull, aScottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna, organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, FL, named for his Greek wife’s birthplace, in 1768.
Turnbull was married to Maria Gracia Dura Bin, the daughter of a Greek merchant from Smyrna in Asia Minor. The colony was located in the province of British East Florida, and was 101,400 acres,almost three times the size of the colony at Jamestown.The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, FL is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768. The settlers moved north to St. Augustine and established a church, even older than the one in New Orleans.
Soula Z. Pappas
New York, NY
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. George Santos of New York is facing a critical vote to expel him from the House on Friday as lawmakers weigh whether his actions, fabrications and alleged lawbreaking warrant the chamber's most severe punishment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a record-breaking start as Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou is experiencing the other side to life in a job that has proved too much for some of the biggest names in soccer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.