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Rigas Pheraios: My Kind of Hero
I “met” him rather early in life, through his immortal words of the Thourios Ymnos, drummed into our heads by our Greek School Teacher in anticipation of the March 25th Celebration. In the Pantheon of…
Prominent Greek-American Reporter, Ike Pappas – Front Row Seat To History
November 22, 2013 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald and for those that were alive on November 22, 1963, they remember…
A Partisan Chat: Alexis Parnis
“You see, I still live like a partisan,” as he showed me his house on the slopes of Mt. Hymettus, in the rapidly suburbanized and gentrified suburb of Peania, outside Athens. The modest house with…
The Exodus From Greece
“Thirty years ago there were scarcely any Greeks in these United States. At the present time they number over a quarter of a million, scattered throughout the length and breadth of our country, an important,…
Balkans: End of the First Balkan War
The Treaty of London, signed by the belligerents in May 1913, ended the First Balkan War. The Balkan League had crushed the Ottoman Empire and sent the borders of Turkey in Europe to the Chatalja…
A Patriot’s Death Ignites the Struggle to Free Macedonia
It’s 1904 and the ancient land known as Macedonia, once ruled over by King Philip and Alexander the Great, but now part of the Ottoman Empire, is, once again, at war. There is a struggle…
The Exiled Greeks
At the beginning of the century, thousands of young Greeks began coming to Utah to live their first years of exile in a new land. Like myriad Greeks since ancient times, forced to leave their…
A Street Car Named Desire, Remembering Elia Kazan
Sixty-two years ago today, the film, A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning stage play by Tennessee Williams, had its United States release on September 18, 1951. Its director was the Greek-American,…
A Greek Savior At The Goliad Massacre
During the Texas War of Independence, between October 2, 1835 and April 26, 1836, Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna sent General José Urrea into Texas to find the Republic of Texas Army and…
Corfu, the island that may have saved the West and Christianity
Toward the end of the 14th Century, after years of the Venetian’s attempt to annex the Island of Corfu (Kerkyra) from the Sovereignty of Epiros and the Byzantine Empire, the Venetians made a successful attack…
The impossible Hatzis dive of 1913
In mid-July of 1913, the Italian battleship Regina Margueritta was passing through near the island of Karpathos and found itself stuck when its anchor got fouled up along the seafloor. Knowing that the Italians needed…
Drexel University Revisits The 300 Hellenic Warriors
John Trikeriotis of “The Hellenic Warriors” (Living History Group) spoke at a lecture at Drexel University last week, on the topic “300 revisited: Fact and fiction in Hollywood’s depiction of the Battle of Thermopylae”. Trikeriotis…
