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July 27, 2005
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As tempted as we’ve been and as easy as it would be to have made fun of every
random Greek strike that’s taken place, it’s pretty remarkable when it even
knocks out the Greek TV news. The Mom @ DCGreeks.com tipped us off to the fact
that there must have been a strike when she called to tell us that ERT was
showing old movies all day. Is it really a successful strike if no one’s there
to report on it though?
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Congressional leaders on Tuesday, including members of the Greek-American and
Italian-American contingents, gathered in the Capitol Rotunda to celebrate the
200th birthday of Greek-Italian immigrant Constantino Brumidi, the
artist who painted “The Apotheosis of Washington,” the mural under the dome.
Born in Rome to a Greek father and Italian mother, Brumidi moved to the U.S.
and devoted the majority of his 27-year career stateside to the Capitol
Rotunda, after painting frescos in the Vatican back in Italy. His heritage
gives a new appreciation for, and certainly explains, the depiction of George
Washington being drawn to heaven surrounded by Poseidon and Athena.
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A Turkish soccer team, Trabzonspor, visited the Greek Cypriot part of Cyprus
for the first time since the 1974 invasion, losing 3-1 to Anorthosis Famagusta
in the first leg of the second qualifying round of the Champions League. The
match was witnessed by about 16,000 fans, with 2000 having crossed over from
the Turkish-occupied part of the island. Heralded as a start to promoting peace
between the two sides of the island, heightened security and a ban on coins,
lighters, plastic bottles, fireworks, and free speech (i.e., no banners with
political slogans) led to a relatively uneventful game otherwise.
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Archaeologists have recently uncovered a tower and the remains of a town wall
dating back to the fourth century on the island of Tinos in the Aegean Sea. As
with many discoveries in Greece lately, construction work on a road led to the
unearthing of the tower, which measured at least two meters high. We all know
that Greeks aren’t the typically the tallest of people and were much shorter
back in the day, but seriously, a two meter high structure is only a tower in
Smurf village.
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