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Matthaios Tsahouridis Performs At The Annual Akritai Dance
Upper Darby, PA – The Pontian Society “Akritai” of Philadelphia hosted its annual Thanksgiving weekend dance at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church this past Saturday. The 80th-anniversary affair commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Greek…
AHEPA Leads Protest in Washington DC
Washington, DC – Yesterday, Supreme President George G. Horiates flanked by members of the Order of AHEPA attended and participated at a protest in Lafayette Park, directly across the street from the White House in…
A Weekend With AHEPA Supreme President George Horiatis
Order of AHEPA Supreme President George G. Horiates has been spreading the message to communities worldwide on the need to become more civically engaged and AHEPA’s role to “Defend Hellenism”. With the current state of…
A Trip To Bosnia And To The Bridge On The Drina
One Bosnian says to another: “Have you read The Bridge on the Drina? Read it, I walked on it!” The former Yugoslavia is blessed with rivers, any number of which mightily fortify the Danube as…
Chris Jaymes, Sons Of Chaos – A Story Of The Greek Revolution
What does a modern-day American skateboarder from the beaches of California have in common with a Greek Revolutionary from 1821? Simple – the love of freedom. One man who fought for, it and the other…
The Golden Fleece, Greek Myth Matches Reality
One of the wonderful legacies that our ancestors left us is the rich tapestry of myths. Like most words of value, “Myth” derives from the Greek word “ΜΥΘΟΣ,” referring to a fantastic story told of…
Building The Church Of Saint Andrew, Patra, Greece
A Construction Project Manager’s Perspective Someone traveling through the modern city of Patra in northwestern Peloponnese will inevitably pay a visit to the magnificent Church of Saint Andrew, one of the greatest Churches in the…
The Wawa Phenomenon
For those of you from the east coast of the United States, especially the area around Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, you know what Wawa is. For those of you who don’t,…
Is It A Dialect Or Is It A Language?
It has come to my attention that a few Skopje surrogates in Greece headed by Alexandra Ioannidou wrote an article of some type back in February 2018 insisting that the Skopjan speech is a language,…
Greek BLAKS Friday
Sorry for not being around much lately, but I was on one of those self-improvement journeys in order to control my Greek anger management issues. I made an attempt to get a service dog, the…
Armenians And Greeks Commemorate Pontian Genocide At 79th Annual Dance
Upper Darby, PA – “Long Live the brotherhood between Armenians and Greeks,” said singer Kevork Artinian. Artinian was the featured singer with the Steve Vosbikian Ensemble that performed at the Pontian “Akritai” annual dance. The…
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…
