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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 – Proving its immense and immediate popularity as one of the most-visited sites in the country, the still-shiny Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Athens’ coast drew 5.3 million visitors in 2018, equivalent to half the population.
That was based on a survey conducted by QED and presented by Kathimerini which found awestruck visitors lured by a park and cultural and environmental activities that have made it a magnet.
It would be the centerpiece between Piraeus and the long-stalled $8 billion development of the old Hellenikon International Airport southeast of the foundation but elements in the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA are trying to block both, including a $580 million renovation of Piraeus’ port the Chinese company COSCO which operates it.
One in two respondents said they had been to the cultural foundation at least once in 2018 and it got rave reviews from 99 percent from visitors, most of whom were families and people aged 18-44, well-educated individuals and residents of southern suburbs.
The center is a complex in the bay of Faliro in Athens which includes new facilities for the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, as well as the 210,000-square meter Stavros Niarchos Park.
The center was designed by architect Renzo Piano and its construction was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation with a 566-million euro ($643.15 million) donation and donated to the Greek state in 2017.
Located in the Kallithea district in the south of the Greek capital, it also showcases a 170,000-square meter sloping park next to a 400-meter-long rectangular lake. The donation came from a charity set up after the death of billionaire Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.