Born into an age of revolutions in the wake of a pandemic, Prince Philip lived through a tumultuous century and worked to make the British monarchy a rock of stability in changing times.
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On Friday, June 10, 1921, anxious cries disturbed the peace in the spacious rooms and beautiful gardens of the palace of Mon Repo in Corfu. Princess Alice and Prince Andrew, members of the Greek and Danish royal families, were expecting their fifth child. Later that evening, Margarita, Theodora, Cecilia and Sofia welcomed their brother, Philip.
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Iakovos Tsounis, a shipowner and well-known donor to Greece’s armed forces, who was also the youngest veteran of World War II’s Albanian front, died Saturday. He was 96.
Robert Mundell, who died on April 4, was a Canadian Nobel Prize-winning economist known as the “father of the euro”
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Walter LaFeber, a Cornell University history professor and author whose unvarnished version of American diplomacy drew hundreds of students and spectators to his Saturday morning lectures, and whose acolytes went on to influence the nation’s foreign policy, died Tuesday in Ithaca, New York.
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Yiannis Costopoulos was a true gentleman and a special part of Greece’s history. He was, above all else, a deeply fascinating man who possessed a wide range of interests, from sailing to history.
Ioannis K. Mazarakis-Ainian, general secretary, since 1979, of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, which operates the National Historical Museum, died Friday at the age of 97.
Greek Canadian billionaire Andreas “Andy” Apostolopoulos died at his home on Monday. He was 69 years old.
Pavlos Samios, who passed away so unexpectedly at the age of 73 earlier this month, was a man full of life. A man who was humble and kind.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has expressed his grief over the death of Greek-American author Harry Mark Petrakis who passed away Tuesday.
The rural town of Salisbury, Maryland is an unlikely place from which a young man imbued with the high ideals and values of Hellenism would make his way to the world stage. It is in this small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that on February 3, 1933, Panagiotis Spyros Sarbanes was born, who would in time grow into the legendary Senator Paul S. Sarbanes.
Record producer Takis Lambropoulos, credited with revolutionizing the Greek music industry in the 1960s and 70s from the helm of the Columbia Gramophone Company Greece, has died at the age of 91, it was announced on Friday.
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Sifis Valyrakis, a former minister and resistance fighter against Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship, was found dead at sea Sunday night, the coast guard has announced. He was 77.
How wit, integrity and expertise made America’s first Greek-American senator a behind-the-scenes Washington power player.
US Senator Paul Sarbanes, who passed away at the age of 87 on December 6, is a major reason we Hellenes are held in such high regard in the United States. The powerfully positive impression he made for decades on hundreds of influential American policymakers and opinion leaders is unsurpassed.
I believe that the unsung success of Sarbanes’ efforts – especially in the area of bilateral Greek-Turkish relations but also with regard to the Cyprus issue – lay in his ability to convince the American side that supporting Greek positions would not only serve Greek interests but, mainly, American ones.
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