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Isolation with parents becomes an opportunity to record family’s story
Dora Houpis moved in with her parents on 25 March to be with them when the Covid-19 restrictions enforcing home isolation and social distancing came into effect. The previous week …
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10 things to do: Keep calm and think Greek
Feeling like Hollywood actor Charlton Heston, in the 1971 post-apocalyptic film, The Omega Man (remade in 2007 as I am Legend, starring Will Smith)? Can’t go out at night? Discovering that …
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Technology helps but priests feel pain of separation from their flock
As one priest told Neos Kosmos on Monday, the Church has faced wars, invasions plagues and famines but the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a response that is …
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Peter Triantos: “Dad, I made it!”
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world seems to have frozen in time. Nothing seems to interest us unless it contains the word “coronavirus”. So I was very …
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Free Covid-19 services for the aged
With the coronavirus disease making its way throughout Australia, infecting more and more people and putting the lives of entire cities at risk, Federal and State Governments have been forced …
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Lemnos comes to the aid of Australians … again
The name of Lemnos has again been emblazoned on the front pages of Australia’s major newspapers recently. This week saw the town of Lemnos, outside the north-eastern Victorian city of …
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Hydra: “The Rock of Liberty” tells its story
No narrative of the Greek War of Independence is complete without a central place given to Hydra. This tiny island, basically a granite megalith rising sheerly out of the Saronic …
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Greece’s Anzac Trail comes to Corinth
Members of Melbourne’s Pankorinthian community came together at Fairfield’s new Hellenic hotspot, Nikos Cakes and Café, to view their contribution to building Greece’s Anzac Trail. On show were two new …
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Greek folk festivals events, cuisine, at the heart of wide-ranging book
It took seven years for Terina Kalogeropoulos-Armenakis, a successful stockbroker and property investor, to compile the book A Greek Folk Journey, Travel, Culture & Gastronomy. But for a certain virus, …
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A Greek history of great plagues
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a …