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Canadian loyalty, Canadian tragedy: Parallels of ancient Greek war
Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you’re ...
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Greek War of Independence Symbol Sacrificed for Parking Spaces
A 300-year-old mulberry tree, a symbol of the Greek War of Independence and a candidate for protected status, has been ...
CounterPunch1d
Greece and Turkey – a Millennium of Warfare — and the Fading West
Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...
Greek Reporter2d
The Liberty Ships and the Beginning of Greece’s Maritime Rule
The mass-produced Liberty ships that played a significant role in WWII eventually helped Greece become the world's leading ...
Greek Reporter3d
Greek Olympian Giorgos Roubanis Dies at 95
Giorgos Roubanis, Greece’s oldest living Olympic medalist, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. He won bronze in the pole vault at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, earning Greece’s first post-war Olympic ...
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WW2: The Liberation of Siena – Then & Now
Step back in time to July 1944, when the Germans retreated from Siena, Italy, without a fight! This medieval city could have ...
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Trump uniquely placed to ‘whisper’ in Erdogan’s ear over Turkish regional ambitions: Greek defense minister
FIRST ON FOX: Expansionist rhetoric has been a major concern in NATO for several years amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but according to Greece’s top defense official, the security alliance ...
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Brazilian navy confirms location of World War II shipwreck
The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...
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'World's first industrial pollution': Evidence of toxic lead found in ancient Greece
Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...
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Imia: How Turkish journalists nearly provoked Greece-Türkiye war – Complete timeline of events
By midday on January 31, 1996, all military forces and flags had been withdrawn ... the Dodecanese island complex. After World War II, it was ceded to Greece under the 1947 Treaty of Paris ...
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WWII soldier from Bloomington identified in 1943 remains from Italy
BLOOMINGTON — The remains of one of Bloomington's own who died in Italy during World War II have been identified after 80 long years. He will be buried in Richmond, Virginia, this coming April.
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Increased volcanic activity detected in Greece's popular tourist island of Santorini
ATHENS, Greece — Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster ...