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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.
Actor Tom Hanks’ famous line as Forrest Gump as he was holding candy in his lap in the movie that, “Life is like a box of chocolates,, you never know what you’re going to get,” has finally been answered.
And it cost Ripley’s Believe it or Not! $25,000 to find out, buying the box on Valentine’s Day and see that there weren’t any chocolates, or choices, but four ounces of sand as weight to keep it from sliding off as the film was shot.
The box from the film was synonymous with the words the character’s mother told him about the uncertainty that life brings in one of the more iconic rules for the Greek-American actor that delighted and thrilled audiences.
It won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1994 and Best Actor for Hanks and the box, signed by Hanks, was obtained by the company that collects rare and bizarre artifacts, said the British newspaper The Independent, no word why.
Forrest Gump follows the story of the life of Gump and his childhood friend and love interest and grossed $678 million and is one of Hanks’ most beloved roles by fans although he likes The Road to Perdition, in which he goes against being typecast and plays a menacing 1930’s gangster hit man.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.