There is a history in all men's lives.
I’ve been researching my ancestor Ioannis Venardos (John Peter Venardos), and I thought people here might appreciate his story because it really feels like the classic Kytherian immigrant experience. John was born on 10...
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NOTE: This lecture will take place at the Greek Centre Location: Greek Centre, Level M, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Date: Thursday, 23 April 2015, 7:00pm Lecturer: Dr Maria Hill Entry: Free Synopsis Australia's preoc...
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Produced for the The JOINT COMMITTEE for the COMMEMORATION of the ANNIVERSARY of the BATTLE OF CRETE and the GREEK CAMPAIGN COURAGE • SACRIFICE • MATESHIP • PHILOTIMO 1899-1902 – Greek Australians Frank Manusu (above), C...
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The pamphlet contains the 115 years of the Greek Australian Alliance map in the centre pages. A high resolution copy of the map can be viewed or downloaded here: Greece-Australia_115_year_alliance_map_s.pdf These documen...
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Athens, Wednesday, 1956, Reuters. A small deserted island, only 24 miles from the Isle of Kythira, where so far that only visitors have been goats and sheep, is to become soon a place of international intellectual meetin...
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ANASTASIOS TAMIS The Greek emigration and settlement circle in Oceania comprised four important stages: the stage of exodus of approximately 300,000 Hellenes from their ancestral residences (1829-1974), the painful and a...
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MICHAEL SWEET THE AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE, THE AUSTRALIAN, SEPTEMBER 06, 2014, pp 24-28. ......In a quiet olive grove on a Greek island, and aboriginal smoking ceremony marks the unsung heroism of Anzac soldiers...... Photog...
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The historic Greek family Café De Lux at Brewarrina NSW was destroyed in a conflagration at Brewarrina in Western NSW on Sunday night 24 August 2014. This marks the end of an era of the Greek Cafes at Brewarrina which wa...
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Greek Meets Greek 1890 This report in the Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners Advocate of Saturday 20 December 1890 gives a glimpse of the working conditions in some oyster saloons, facing immigrant Greeks before any thoug...
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UNIQUE WEDDING Cordato – Manucoe (from Northern Star – Lismore NSW, Saturday 29 July 1916) --- A wedding of an unusual character, writes our casino correspondent, was solemnised at St. Marks Anglican Church on Wednesday....
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“TERPSICHORE BENETOS COMINOS” (16 November 1926 to 19 April 2013) 86 years, 5 months and 3 days “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TERPSICHORE BENETOS COMINOS” Terpsichore Benetos Cominos the wife of the late Benetos Victor Cominos...
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Ioannis Karachristos / Athens Michail Warlas / Athens We think that our paper legitimises in a way Antonis Liakos’s suggestion that all our studies have an autobiographical character. As a matter of fact our paper denote...
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Newspaper article, 2nd July, 1971 Patrons and staff wept and sang Greek and English songs when the Athenian Club, Castlereagh Street, closed yesterday. The building will be demolished to make way for a huge development...
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Paper delivered at the Delivered at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand . Abstract My aim in this paper is to investigate aspects of the political, social, an...
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New South Wales Parliament, Thursday, 6th December, 2012. On the occasion of the Symposium for the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Crete and Greek Campaign . I am privileged to attend today a Symposium which will enhan...
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Inverell Times, Friday, 3 June, 1932. GREEK WEDDING Samios – Psaros A most attractive wedding, which created considerable interest locally, was celebrated in Greek at St. Augustine’s Church of England yesterday by the Gr...
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DOUBLE WEDDING AT ARMIDALE St. Peter’s Cathedral, Armidale, was crowded with guests and onlookers, when two sisters were married according to rites of the Greek Orthodox Church at a spectacular double wedding on Wednesda...
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Gengos Trefilly Wedding 1916 Inverell Times, Tuesday 13 June 1916 Greek Wedding The local Greek community (Inverell) had a gala day on Wednesday (7 June) of last week when a large number of friends and relatives from var...
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Grafton 27 October 1944 Grafton Examiner, page 2 Greek Community Presents Greek Flag to High School The Greek community of Grafton yesterday presented a Greek flag to the Grafton High School to commemorate the liberation...
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SOLOMOS SOCIETY GREEK - AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION President: Francine Hinton. Email: francine.hinton@westnet.com.au Phone 3366 3585 Secretary:Dawn Whyte. Email:dawn@toadshow.com.au Phone 3870 1747 220 Swann Rd Tari...
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