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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.
MAGNESIA. Located near Almyro in the foothills of Mount Othryos and at a height of just 130 metres above the sea, the Zerelia Lakes are hardly known to anyone barring the locals, in spite of their unusual shape and the manner in which they were formed, which makes them unique in Greece and one of the few of their kind in Europe and the world.
Small and perfectly round, they are believed to be crater lakes formed by the fall of meteorites during the Holocene, between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago. The size of the meteorite fragments that hit the earth is estimated at around 10-30 metres across.
Both can be easily reached from Almyros, which is about four kilometres away. Big Zerelia has a diameter of about 250 metres and is about eight metres deep, while Small Zerelia has a diameter of 150 metres and a depth of six metres, while the bottom of both is plate-shaped.
There are no more than 40 such locations in Europe and 178 worldwide, while the area also has archaeological remains of a Bronze-age prehistoric settlement at a distance of 200 metres from the lakes.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.