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Polytechnic: 50 years of celebrations – Large marches, deaths, arrests & the “view” of the US Embassy
From the massive crowd of one million in 1974 to the single-digit thousands in recent years – The bloody marches of 1980 and 1985, with the 2+1 dead – The burned Rector's Office in 1991 and the record number of arrests in 1995
Donald Trump: Τhe record he broke after almost two centuries
His re-election as President is a historic event because he achieved something that has only been done once before
The Epic of Elytis: From the Albanian Front to the Nobel Prize
The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in 1940, where he served on the front lines as a reserve officer, returns symbolically to the museum bearing his name, now inaugurated in the heart of Plaka
Maria Efthymiou: In Greece we are in a civil war since 1915, it’s stupid
"I've been watching ourselves lately and I think we're looking at ourselves in the mirror and we don't want that situation anymore, there's a resistance in society to easy blame"
How the goat fields became Kolonaki – The story of a pasture that turned Into an aristocratic neighborhood (photos)
The sheep pens, the old streams, the square, the Dexameni & the rare mansions, the shepherds who used to milk their animals in the middle of the street, the "Voidopniktis" torrent on Akadimias Street, the "Frog Island" (Vatrachonisi) on the Ilissos River, the "Pantremenadika" neighborhood that became Mets & Monastiraki
Saint Demetrius: Who he was and why he is considered the patron saint of Thessaloniki
In the Orthodox Tradition, he holds a special place because of his miracles and his direct relationship with Thessaloniki, a city where he is considered the patron saint and protector for centuries
