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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.
NEW YORK – Greeks who fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire were a celebrated cause around the world at the time and volunteers from other countries joined them, including Vermonter Jonathan Miller, who was at the ill-fated third siege of Missolonghi where famed poet Lord Byron died of a fever by the time he arrived in 1826.
The defenders were facing starvation after a year behind fortifications and decided to attempt a mass charge of 3,000 men against a Turkish and conscripted army of 20,000, resulting in a massacre that Miller survived, living to tell the tale of what happened as resulting atrocities rallied other countries to Greece’s aid, wrote VTDigger.
He came back with Byron’s sword, which is now in the Vermont Historical Society. He wrote that Greek women would approach him to ask “if all the Christian world has forsaken them.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.