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The First Philosopher of Greece Thales of Miletus was the first man, on record, in ancient Greece to suggest that perhaps humans were not the creation of the gods; perhaps all came from water. Traditionally regarded as the...
LESBOS, GREECE -- "Stop the boat! Stop the boat now!" the captain of the Greek Coast Guard patrol vessel yelled over the bullhorn, turning a spotlight on the flimsy dinghy as it chugged toward this island in the Aegean Sea.
280 arrested, many after being 'kettled' pre-emptively, in groups of up to 50 Central Athens occupied, by cops Report of shoppers being dragged out of supermarket and arrested Not since the state murdered two comrades in 1985...
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StealthGas Inc. (Nasdaq:GASS), a ship-owning company primarily serving the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector of the international shipping industry, announced today its...
The domestic passenger airline market was stunned yesterday by the announcement that neither of the two major local airlines has landed any of the state-subsidized unpopular services, mostly to Greek islands, with contracts...
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 13, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StealthGas Inc. (Nasdaq:GASS) (the "Company"), a ship-owning company serving primarily the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector of the international shipping industry, announced...
Ian Robert Smith is all at sea on a ferry from Thessaloniki to Rhodes STANDING on the dock at Thessaloniki on a balmy June evening, I watch the makings of a classic ferry journey unfurl. Arriving in northern Greece, bound for...
BERLIN - Creating a work of art that will stand right next to the famed Brandenburg Gate in Berlin must be quite a challenge. The presence of history is strong and the symbolic connotations of the monument so imposing as to...
Saint Nectarius was born in Selyvria of Thrace on October 1, 1846. After putting himself through school in Constantinople with much hard labour, he became a monk on Chios in 1876, receiving the monastic name of Lazarus; because...
• Mood shifts between neighbouring countries • New PM keen to forge new ties with former enemy When three Greeks opened the Island of Mastic in Izmir, the once famously cosmopolitan town that many of their relatives had hailed...
