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This Date In History: The Nightmare of Greece
In the United States, when the name, Benedict Arnold is mentioned, everyone immediately thinks, “traitor.” What General Arnold did to undermine the American Revolution and figuratively stab George Washington in the back, has resonated through…
This Date In History: The Duke Of Sparta
January 20, 1895: George Lycurgus, a Hawaiian businessman, is arrested with others and charged with treason for supporting the Royalist against the Americans who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii and declared the Republic of Hawaii.…
The Battle Of The Atlantic: The Gruesome Tale The Numbers Tell Of Triumph And Tragedy
I have always been a textual type. I am a writer, a lawyer, and now a historian in training. I have always been text-heavy. Having said that, I have a business degree, I own part…
This Date In History: First Greek Orthodox Church in a New State
January 12, 1959: The Greek Orthodox Church of Anchorage, Alaska (later changed to Holy Transfiguration) filed its Articles of Incorporation, nine days after Alaska officially became the 49th state. In the early Eighteenth Century, Greeks…
This Date In History: A Greek and a Polar Bear Go for a Swim
January 1, 1920: Greek-Canadian, Peter Pantages, forms the first Polar Bear Club in Vancouver, Canada. Peter Pantages immigrated from Greece to Vancouver, Canada, and ran the Peter Pan Café with his three brothers. Prior to…
This Date In History: Coming to America
December 15, 1963: Greek-American Elia Kazan’s movie “America America” is released. Greek-American Elia Kazan, born Elias Kazantzoglou in 1909 in the Phanar district of Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents. He emigrated to the United…
This Date In History: The ‘Noble’ Poet
December 10, 1963: Greek poet, Giorgos Seferis delivers his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature at the Nobel Banquet, City Hall in Stockholm. Seferis was born in Urla, known in Greek as Voula,…
This Date In History: The Finding of a King
November 8, 1977, Dr. Manolis Andronikos, Professor of Archeology at the University of Salonika, discovers the Tomb of Philip II of Macedon in Vergina. Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, was assassinated…
Smederevo: Last Stand of Serbian Byzantium
Serbia is a small country, filled with so much history on so little land. This provides the traveler with ample opportunities to visit places of immense historical interest and importance, all within easy reach. In…
The Absent Byzantium
Late 1912, in a stormy Aegean lately thundering with the cannonades of the Greek and Turkish flotillas, a victorious Greek squadron sends marines ashore to the island of Lemnos, only recently under Turkish rule. With…
Mystra: Byzantium’s Indian Summer
Mystra figures less prominently in historical commentary and touristic itineraries than other Greek sites, but for profundity and for a true taste of sublime, understated beauty, it is peerless. Here is where Byzantium expired, yet…
Venice: Modern Greece’s First Diaspora
Diaspora is a Greek word, connoting a dispersion of seed or people. It is quite appropriate, as Greeks from time immemorial have left their shores. Greeks in America or Australia are part of a long…
