EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Yiannis Smaragdis is the director of many excellent movies about historical personalities, such as "El Greco" and "Kazantzakis." (If you have not seen them, I strongly recommend them. They are excellent, and they come with...
By Georgios Gialtouridis (*) On January 8, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson presented his 'Fourteen Points' to a joint session of the United States Congress. President Wilson's 'Fourteen Points' was a blueprint designed to convince the Germans to cease World War...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): In the last few days, weeks, and months, we have been witnessing most Greek-American media suddenly "seeing the light" regarding the malaise of our Church and community, caused mainly by our dependence on corrupt leadership,...
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By Nick Stamatakis
This is truly a unique musical and cultural experience! Absolutely perfect for the Holy Week and especially tomorrow morning - Good Friday! It's a concert sponsored by St. Maxim, the Greek Insitute (link here) of Mt.Athos. This...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This is a truly amazing story, based on research by journalist Dimitris Symeonides. It refers to the etymology of "iridescent," in Greek, "ιριδίζον." In short here is the story:
Light as electromagnetic energy has a large...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Helleniscope is naturally in a "historical mood" these days... I am sure you can all recognize the line of the US Marines' Anthem, "...To the shores of Tripoli..." which refers to the First Barbary War...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This is an exceptional video, an interview by geopolitical analyst and friend of Helleniscope Savvas Kalenteridis and Dr. Meletis Meletopoulos, a historian and a specialist in the Greek Revolution... You will be surprised to learn...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): This is an excellent video explaining the agreements between the Austro-Hungarian Emperor and the Russian Czarina Catherine the Great in the late 18th century, along with the many wars between Russia and Turkey. One could...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis) Helleniscope has noted several times that among Greece's ecumenical foundations (Culture, Navigation, Orthodoxy, Diaspora), the most powerful is Culture for apparent reasons. And Greece's diplomats, who have shown us many signs of diachronical incompetence, think...
