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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 — Two museums of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation's (PIOP) thematic museums network have been certified by the Ministry of Culture & Sports, it was reported on Monday.
One of the museums is the Rooftile & Brickworks Museum, housed in the old factory founded in the 1920s by Nikolaos and Spyridon Tsalapatas, at the city of Volos in Thessaly. It showcases the city's rich industrial history and preserves the original machinery for the production of bricks and rooftiles.
The second museum is the Environment Museum of Stymphalia, at Corinthia. The area is associated with Greek mythology hero Hercules as the site he killed the Stymphalian birds. The Stymphalia Lake, the largest mountain lake of the Peloponnese, is part of the European Network of Protected Areas NATURA 2000. It is also the southernmost mountain wetlands of the Balkans, with rich flora and fauna.
These two museums are the first to be certified from the PIOP group of museums, while a similar certification procedure will be followed for state-run museums too, a ministry statement said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
ATHENS – The Divani Palace Acropolis, nestled in the heart of Athens, is set to elevate the city's dining and nightlife scene with the grand opening of its much-anticipated rooftop restaurant and bar next month.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez may seek exoneration at his May bribery trial by blaming his wife, saying she kept him in the dark about anything that could be illegal about her dealings with New Jersey businessmen, according to court papers unsealed Tuesday.
It was a close brush with death but a 40-year-old British tourist bitten by a deadly viper while at a yoga retreat on Cyprus is recovering after getting swift hospitalization to counteract the venom.
ATHENS - After Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system - with help from French, American and British fighter jet pilots - knocked Iranian missiles and drones from the skies during an attack, Greece is looking to create a similar protection method.