Kotsanas Museum in the Running for European Museum of the Year 2019
ATHENS – The Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Kostas Kotsanas, the Athens annex, was nominated as the European Museum of the Year 2019 by the European Museum Forum (EMF) before completing one year...
View ArticleTechnology Brings Images of Holocaust Survivors to Life
DALLAS (AP) — Max Glauben was 17 and had already lost his mother, father and brother at the hands of the Nazis when U.S. troops rescued him while he was on a death march from one German concentration...
View ArticleEcumenical Patriarchate Planning to Send Delegation to Athens
ATHENS – The Ecumenical Patriarchate on Sunday announced plans to send a delegation to Athens for talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos, as well as...
View ArticlePhilip Christopher, Mantatos Family Speak about Nikos Mouyiaris
BOSTON – Philip Christopher, the well-known entrepreneur, President of PSEKA and fighter for the liberation of Cyprus from Turkish occupation, spoke exclusively to The National Herald about his close...
View ArticleFederation of Dodecanese Societies’ Taverna Night and Vasilopita (Video)
ASTORIA – The Federation of Dodecanese Societies USA held its Taverna Night and cutting of the Vasilopita at Nick Andriotis Hall in Astoria on January 12. Archimandrite Nektarios Papazafiropoulos, Dean...
View ArticleLoizides Dedicates Medea Performance to the Late Nikos Mouyiaris
NEW YORK – Producer/Director Leonidas Loizides is dedicating the upcoming performance of Euripides’ Medea to the memory of Nikos Mouyiaris, founder and benefactor of the Pancyprian Association of...
View ArticleGoing on in Our Community
JANUARY 14 MANHATTAN – The American Hellenic Institute Business Network requests the pleasure of your company at its Monthly Informal Networking Reception at Avra Restaurant, 141 East 48th Street in...
View ArticleInauguration Speech of Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis: “Eureka”
At a moving inauguration ceremony in the Tsakopoulos Library in Sacramento, CA on Jan. 7 Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis took the oath of office as the first woman to serve as California’s Lieutenant...
View ArticleGreek Scientist Among Researchers on Titan’s Single-Port Robotic Surgical...
TORONTO (BUSINESS WIRE) – Titan Medical Inc. (TSX: TMD) (Nasdaq: TMDI) (“Titan” or the “Company”), a medical device company focused on the design and development of a single-port robotic surgical...
View ArticleOur Everyday Greek: You Already Know the Number 2019 in Greek
Most of the words for the numbers in Greek are well known, mainly from geometry and sports. Let’s check one example: the number of the New Year 2019 = δύο χιλιάδες δέκα εννέα (DEEo hiliAdes DEka eniA)....
View ArticleBuilding at Renowned Kiev Monastery Complex Catches Fire
MOSCOW (AP) — Fire has broken out in a building at the renowned Pechersk monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, but is not endangering any significant buildings and there have been no...
View ArticleGreek Scientist Wins UC’s Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research
NEW YORK (PRNewswire) – Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D., a leading researcher at the Gladstone Institutes and the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, is the winner of the...
View ArticleHockey Hall of Famer Chris Chelios Sold Building that Housed His Sports Bar...
DETROIT – Former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Chis Chelios sold the building which housed his sports bar Cheli’s Chili Bar to Ilitch Holdings, the company which began Little Caesars in 1959, according...
View ArticleMunicipality of Athienou Opens Book of Condolences for Nikos Mouyiaris
NICOSIA – A book of condolences for the late Nikos Mouyiaris was opened in his hometown of Athienou, Cyprus. In a written statement by the Municipality of Athienou announced that “the book that opened...
View ArticleOld Tappan Zee Bridge over Hudson is Demolished (Vid & Pics)
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A big chunk of the Tappan Zee Bridge has gone down in history. The eastern section of the old bridge in New York dropped straight down into the Hudson River as it was demolished...
View ArticleFormer Michigan State Coach Gus Ganakas Passed away at 92
EAST LANSING, MI – Former Michigan State men’s basketball head coach Gus Ganakas, who coached the Spartans from 1969-76 and was part of the athletics department from 1964 until his retirement in 2000,...
View ArticleBishop Apostolos of Medeia Presides over Vasilopita in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia, the chief secretary of the Holy Eparchial Synod and newly appointed spiritual advisor of the National Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society,...
View ArticleFull Length Documentary to Feature Astoria
ASTORIA – Queens College, City University of New York, (Sociology Department) and the film production company “dotmov” based in Athens, Greece announced their cooperation for the terms of the...
View ArticleVideo on The National Herald by SNF Columbia Journalism Scholar
NEW YORK – As part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Scholarship Program at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, journalist Athina Kastrinaki created a video about the newspaper of the...
View ArticleThe Missions Institute at Holy Cross School of Theology and the Contributions...
BOSTON – The Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity has been established since 2010 at Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, directed by Fr. Luke...
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