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EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): The fantastic natural talent of Manos Hadjidakis in composing music has been the subject of numerous stories, but this one of how the "Waltz Of the Lost Dreams" was composed is worth telling.  Here it...
Με πρόλογο από τον Κώστα Καραμανλή! ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΗ ΣΥΝΤΑΞΗΣ (Νίκος Σταματάκης): Περιμέναμε αρκετό χρόνο τον καλό φίλο και πολύπειρο δημοσιογράφο Γιώργο Χαρβαλιά να ολοκληρώσει το πολύκροτο βιβλίο του για τον πολύπλευρο αρνητικό ρόλο των Γερμανών στα 77 χρόνια της μεταπολεμικής Ελλάδας...
By Nick Stamatakis It's a long-time ritual for me and my family to welcome the New Year near the Sea... This time the 55-degree weather in Long Island was extra inviting and, as you see in the photos from Robert...
By Nick Stamatakis It was Christmas of 1994, and I was walking in a shopping mall in Long Island when my eye caught the cover of a cd on the front window of a music store (in our main photo),...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): "Greeks are those who share our Culture", is the famous motto of Isocrates and Prof. Roderick Beaton certainly follows this eternal principle when he traces the Ecumenical nature of the Greek language - one of...
By Nick Stamatakis I was born in Kokkinia (Nikea) of Pireaus, a town wholly built after 1922, almost exclusively by refugees from Asia Minor, many of them from Smyrna... The main street of my neighborhood, one block away from my...
PHOTO: You may be able to recognize Demis Roussos (right), but is the guy in the middle Vangelis? Yes, he is... On the left Loukas Sideras... The whole Greek "pop" lineage, starting with "Aphrodite's Child" has great importance to us...
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Prince of the Lilies, fresco in the palace of Minoan Knossos, Crete, about 1,650 BCE. Wikipedia. Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): This year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution, but in many ways, we missed some of the essential meanings of this great event.  Top among these essential meanings appears in the second...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Evagoras Pallikarides, a member of EOKA, was executed by hanging by the British colonial forces on February 26, 1959, at the age of 19. He is one of the most celebrated heroes of the anti-colonial,...