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The Nicholas Anthony Aroney Trust, the Kytherian Association of Australia, and www.kythera-family.net have fostered the work of Maria Hill and others in uncovering details about the Anzac campaign in Greece and Crete dur...
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The Japan Times Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 By LISA GAY and FINTAN MONAGHAN Special to The Japan Times One hundred and twenty years ago, Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn first arrived in Japan; in Matsue, a provincial backwate...
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Title: Old Greek Fragments Author: Lafcadio Hearn The other day when we were reading some of the poems in "Ionica," I promised to speak in another short essay of Theocritus and his songs or idyls of Greek peasant life, b...
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Quiet day looking over some old Emails. My name is Theodore Panaretos, son of Minas Panaretos. My Grandfather, Theodore had children, Panagiotis, Alexandros, Minas, Aspacia, Maria, and Eleni. Granmother Anthe had lost a...
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Sunday Telegraph 28th October, 2012 Page 26 ROSIE SQUIRES Breast cancer sufferer Patricia Samios is lucky to be alive after her GP and oncologist missed numerous chances to diagnose the deadly disease. After noticing a r...
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Bon Koizumi poses with a portrait of his great-grandfather, Lafcadio Hearn. (Photo by Doug MacCash / The Times-Picayune. ) By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune (Newspaper_ - Greater New Orleans on October 19, 20...
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In the time she lived in Sydney, Anna Perivolaris taught many Kytherian children - Ed by John N. Yiannakis Anna Perivolaris (c.1888-1963), schoolteacher, was born about 1888 on the island of Samos, Greece, daughter of Co...
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Yet another tribute to Lafcadio Hearn. As reported in an article in Yaizu. The exhibition was organised by Takis Efstathiou.
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Confucius This one particular journey started for a young Kytherian boy Paul Theodore when he stepped on board a plane bound for Australia. The world war one t...
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A high profile jeweller, a property developer and a doctor are just some of the Greek Australians who have been awarded with the Queen's Honours Neos Kosmos 20 June 2012 HELEN VELISSARIS A high profile jeweller, a proper...
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Diana Rudkin, (nee) Lianos in c. 1950. Photograph, below. The Lianos sisters. Standing: Stella and Coralia. Seated: Theodora, Diana, and Aspacia. Diana (christened Diamantoula), was born in Sydney on the 4th August 1920...
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My Grandparents were Agapi and George Lianos from Kythera,Greece. Papou was born on the 9th June1873 in the village of Liananika to Emmanuel and Relia, farm owners. He was the only son and had four sisters, Irene, Kerani...
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By Marcus Megalokonomos Download a .pdf version of this article here: Castrission_E06-E08_Alfa_Magazine.pdf If there is any truth in the saying that ‘we live in deeds, not years’ then the other day I met two young men wh...
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Tsitsilias was son of the mayor of Potamos Kosmas Tsitsilias, who was closely associated with Eleftherios Venizelos, whom he supported after the Thessaloniki government during the First World War. Panagiotis Tsitsilias l...
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The man who Hellenised Australia's flying icon Harry Corones, in his forties, is standing second from the right, in the back row. Other persons in the front row cannot be identified. Do you know them? In the back row Lef...
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Dr Achivides Kalokerinos has been awarded the Sydney Medical School Alumni Award for Community Achievement 2012. The award will take place on the 24 May 2012, at a small reception in the Edward Ford Building beginning at...
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Panayota's latest book is Greek Proxy Brides in Australia: Experiences and Testimonies. It will be launched in September, 2012. This book seeks to fill part of the gap in the story of Greek women emigrants to Australia a...
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Creator: Andronicus, Charles D., 1929 Subjects" Andronicus, Charles D., 1929-; Andronicus Coffee (Firm); Coffee industry - Australia - Biography.Summary: Charles Andronicus, coffee merchant, speaks of his family backgrou...
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This article was written by Tas Psarakis, Secretary of the Australian Hellenic Historical Society. The Society's research aided historian Hugh Gilchrist's historical endeavours immeasurably. The discovery of gold by Edwa...
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Massaaki Noda is one of Japan's most prominent artists. His sculptures, in particular are superior. Through his freindship with Hearn Society, Athens, President, Takis Efsathiou, Noda has developed a profound interest i...
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