General History

A THEMATIC HISTORY OF GREEK SETTLEMENT IN NEW SOUTH WALES CRAIG TURNBULL AND CHRIS VALIOTIS PRODUCED BY THE CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES HERITAGE OFFICE, UNDER THE...

Mad Max III Beyond Thunderdome by, LES TURNER Fan reaction to the third Mad Max film is a little varied. Some like it, some don't. I have mixed feelings about the film, sometimes I think it is a better film, and then som...

Doctor's script for film recovery November 17, 2003 Australia's film industry is not in terminal decline but it needs urgent treatment, George Miller tells Garry Maddox. A more aggressive approach to film financing, mor...

BRW Richest 200, Cover, 19th May 2004. Every year the Business Review Weekly (BRW) magazine publishes a list the 200 wealthiest men and women in Australia. See, http://www.brw.com.au Appraisals of the "200" issue of BRW...

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The Glory Box of Yesterday Many traditions have been erased by the redefinition of female roles in modern society. Changes in these roles were slow in reaching Kythera, and even though village women were often the back-b...

THE GREEK DIASPORA (page 356) . . . According to Richard Clogg in The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century, the countries with the largest Greek Diaspora population, in descending order, are: United States of America,...

The NSW State election of 1925 had the ‘riff raff of Southern Europe’ ducking for cover, and demonstrated how hard economic times let the racism genie out of the bottle. Here’s how it panned out at Murwillumbah. The peri...

In the early 1920s the economic base of the Richmond-Tweed region started to look pretty shaky. Post WW1 soldier settlement blocks had been created everywhere, substantially increasing the number of dairy farmers and fru...

From, ANTIPODES No 43-44, pp.51-60 Melbourne 1998 An interview with Mr Hugh Gilchrist, the author of the History volumes Australians and Greeks Thank you to Ellen Blunden, the University of Technology, Sydney, and Halste...

AWARDS May 1998: The Archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia awarded Hugh Gilchrist the Gold Cross of St Andrew. June 2003: The Australian Hellenic Council conferred the prestigious Niki Award on Hugh Gilch...

Hugh Ghilchrist and his Australian school - Cranbrook School, Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia. As Hugh confesses in an interview conducted with him by Christos Fifis, published in Antipodes, No 43-44...

REVIEWS Australians and Greeks Volumes I and II By Hugh Gilchrist Selections from reviews “Hugh Gilchrist has virtually set the benchmark for study of major ethnic communities in Australian society and culture” Centre fo...

The Poulos [Tzortzopoulos] Family People who have helped shape and develop Katoomba The fact that Theo Poulos Real Estate is celebrating forty three years in business, only tells half the story about the influence the Po...

Hugh Gilchrist. Ambassador to Greece. Presenting his credentials. hagio-graphy, from Grk. - hagios (saint) - graphy - writing. BIOGRAPHY Hugh Gilchrist was born in Sydney on 8 August 1916. He was educated at Edgecliffe...

Gear ratios and continued fractions It is interesting to speculate how the first century B.C. designers of the Antikythera Mechanism were able to discover the excellent rational approximation 254/19 = 13.36842105 to the...

Images by Bill Casselman. These two images give a schematic version of De Solla Price's general gear plan; on the bottom the color picks out the sub-assembly connecting the sun's motion to that of the moon. The sun mark...

THE TEAM The project has assembled a team with a very broad range of skills, as well as specialists in the archaeology of the region and archaeologists with close community ties to the area. Dr Ian Johnson has been invol...

THE RELEVANCE OF PALIOCHORA Paliochora is of great relevance on many levels. Some aspects of its significance are outlined below Research Significance At the local level, the project will produce information that will he...

QUESTIONS A thoughtful visitor meandering through the lanes of Paliochora stopping at one of the twenty-two churches identified within the town walls may ask: "Why does there appear to be more churches than houses in thi...