Στη φωτογραφία ο καθηγητής Εµµανουήλ Αρώνης τσουγκρίζει πασχαλινό αυγό µε την Κυβερνήτη της Κουηνσλάνδης κα. Quentin Bryce. Αριστερά τους βρίσκεται ο Εντιµότατος Πρόξενος της Ελλάδας ∆η. Ράπτης ενώ δεξιά ο πρόεδρος του...
p266 "Kythera's coming up" Traver's says and points to a faint outline etched on the western horizon. Bathed in light from the rising sun, the long silhouette of Kythera slips by. Legend says that on its shores, Leda con...
Very good article on the Stamps of the Ionian Islands, including Kythera, in Capital Philately November 2006 – VOL. 25, NO. 1. Available as a .pdf file here: Capital Philately 25 1 Ionian.pdf The Philatelic Society of Ca...
The question of Kytherian slavery is seared deeply into the consciousness of most knowlegeable Kytherians. The surname SKLAVOS (slave) is a common Kytherian surname. The name is a reminder (perhaps a memorial?) of an unc...
On the occassion of Con & Dean & Sebastian (Tzortzo)Poulos's Big Fat Kytherian Birthday Party. Held on Sunday 29th October, 2006, at the Alexander the Great Club in Marrickville, Sydney. Pappou Con was 90 years of age. N...
Double Headed Eagle and Greek Iconology. Overview from Wikepedia It may seem surprising that one of the most recognizable (other than the cross) and beloved Greek symbols, the double-headed eagle, is not a part of the mo...
Flag Ratio: 2:3 (Naval Flag 1822-1828, Sea Flag 1828-1969; 1975-1978, National Flag 1969-1975; 1978 to date) The flag of Greece is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue c...
The National Emblem of Greece consists of a blue escutcheon with a white cross totally surrounded by two laurel branches. The emblem is painted or woven, mainly on the hats, uniforms and buttons of the military, the sec...
The notions of Exo Dimos and Mesa Dimos arose historically out of the relationship between the old and sizable town of Ayios Dimitrios (which later came to be known as Paliochora, "the old town"), and the emergence of th...
From, The KYTHERIAN The Newsletter of the Kytherian Association of Australia P0 Box A203, South Sydney, NSW 2000 Join the Kytherian Association of Australia March 2001 pp. 1, 9 & 10 Con Malanos has kindly written an arti...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos The late historian and folklorist Helen Zeese Papanikolas once told me of a conversation she had with Theodore Saloutos. Professor Saloutos was the noted American historian w...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos Ongoing abuse by a variety of native-born Americans against all the newly arrived Greek immigrants of the 1880 to 1920 era can not be questioned. But then neither can we deny...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos When I was small boy my yiayia told me that whenever one of the old Greek men entered the room I was to stand up and give him my chair. On more than one occasion, when I didn...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos ‘Gaslight New York’ is the phrase meant to invoke that transition period of the 1880s into the 1890s. The 1890s, also known as the ‘Gay 90s,’ was the era that marks the begin...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Crimes against the newly arrived Greek peddlers took many forms and by various attackers. It must be recalled that between 1880 and the very early 1900s, the average worker made a dollar to two dol...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos From the late 1880s onward Greek peddlers quite literally fought to earn their daily bread. For those who scoff at such a claim we need only turn to the daily press of New Yo...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos It is one thing to say “Greeks had to struggle to succeed in America,” and another to be able to quote reports from the New York Times of Greek immigrants fighting in the str...
Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos Rough laborers and street peddlers are the two most enduring stereotypic images we have of Greeks who arrived in North America during the 1880s. Without turning too close an...
Neos Kosmos English Weekly, 28th February, 2000, p.6. One of the important issues tabled at the three day conference was correcting a historical belief about the first book published in Australia in the Greek language....
