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Appointed to the District Court of Queensland on the 21st August 1998. Address: Judges Chambers District Court of Queensland, PO Box 167, Brisbane Albert Street Queensland. 4002.

THE FIRST KYTHERIAN WOMAN DOWN UNDER. [Picture: 10th December 1902.] The logical sequence to my research on the “First Kytherian" [man] to arrive in Australia, is the endeavour, to furnish the answer to the question of w...

Born in Brisbane 05/03/1960 Mayor - Belyando Shire - elected March 2004 First elected to council in March 1997. Appointed Deputy Mayor in 2000 and appointed Mayor in August 2003. Council appointed committees: Belyando S...

The Grecian Gladiators Steve Frangos, c. 2005 Little is recalled today of the various Greek immigrants who worked in American vaudeville. Chance references in archival sources and rumors within the Greek-American commun...

Photograph. 2001 – taken by NSW Department of Education & Training for Maria's State & National Discovering Democracy Award WEBSITE: http://www.mariahill.com.au Curriculum Vitae October 2006 Personal Profile Name: Maria...

Photograph: Hugh Gilchrist. Ambassador to Greece. Presenting his Credentials. Hugh Gilchrist is additionally, the premier Greek-Australian historian of the 20th century. An hagiography, and a A Biographical Sketch hagio...

Professor Minas Coroneo and the bionic eye. Epsilon Magazine. Vol 1. Issue 14. October 2006. pp. 1, 22-29. Professor Minas Coroneo talks about the bionic eye, the latest breakthrough in the field of ophthalmology, the p...

Photographer Turn the leaf of any Kytherian photo album and you will certainly come across the work of Manolis Sofios. An analytical witness to the revolutionary changes of this century. Manoli’s seized the opportunity w...

President Anastasia Condas accepts a philanthropic award on behalf of the Kytherian Society of California and the West for its many contributions to the Gerokomio of Kythera over the years. These donations have included...

Simos, Zacharias Theodore (Jack) (1897 - 1976) (1897-1976), confectioner and café proprietor, was born on 15 August 1897 at Kousounari, Kythera (Cerigo), Greece, eldest of four children of Theodore Zachariou Simos, farme...

Nicholas A. Meligakes, Author of The Spirit of Gettysburg, 1950 (From "http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digitalbookshelf/bookindex.cfm?oclc=28366248") The Spirit of Gettysburg "There is no recorded parallel in history where...

The First Kytherian Immigrant to Australia. The ‘First Kytherian’ Question First Published in The Greek Australian Vema, April 2006. pages 10/28 and 11/29. Original Pdf format: Page 11/28. 28 - APR 06 P.10-28.pdf Page 11...

Benefactor of Kythera Efstathios Dilaveris was born at Karavas, Kythera in 1853 of poor parents. At the age of ten he came to Piraeus and made a living as a labourer but at the age of twenty he was a contractor. In 1888...

15.08.1835 — 13.06.1920 One day in Port Pire, South Australia in mid - 1875, in a large store made available by the Whitings company for the townspeople to hold meetings, concerts and church services, during an especial...

Harry Corones, Jim Corones and their sister, Charleville, ca. 1914 For other photo's follow the links at the end of this article. 1883—1972 On 14 June 1965 people poured in and out of the Hotel Corones in Charleville, Q...

Battling the Establishment From, The New Boy Network Ruth Ostrow William Heinemann Australia Richmond, Victoria 1987 Sir Arthur George is disarming. He wastes no time skirting round questions with platitudes. He says: ‘W...

The Andronicus Family Becoming a cafe society From, The New Boy Network Ruth Ostrow William Heinemann Australia Richmond, Victoria 1987 Charles Andronicus makes no bones about what is at the root of his family’s success....

The following is an Obituary of Alex Freeleagus, published in Clayton Utz's magazine Proctor. Freeleagus ACF Clayton Utz article August 2005 (1).pdf Report of Alex Freeleagus's funeral in The Vema. Freeleagus ACF Greek N...

Air Force Master Sergeant. From, The (Philadelphia) Enquirer - National Wednesday, September 3, 1997 After decades of secrecy, U.S. honors Cold War’s lost fliers The crews were on spy missions along the borders of the So...

A lot has been written about the cafes which Kytherians set up and ran after they migrated, comparatively little though about the cafe culture on the island. Anyone who regularly visited the village of Mitata in the 1980...