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  • May 2008

    • Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT

      Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh

      A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr. Gachet—though a notebook found with the portrait has been dismissed as not van Gogh's. More »

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      Nazi  • World War II  • Greece  • Vincent Van Gogh  • Athens  • Fine art market

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Snowstorm Wallops Greece

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Feb 18, 08 9:02 AM CST

      Snowstorm Wallops Greece

      A freak snowstorm stranded as many as 200 Greek villages and halted hundreds of flights yesterday and today in Athens, reports Bloomberg. Power and water supply problems were reported across the country and civil defense authorities were on alert. Up to six inches of snow buried the Greek capital, a rare occurrence in the usually balmy town, and temperatures plunged below zero. More »

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      weather  • Greece  • snowstorm  • snow  • Athens  • Acropolis

  • August 2007

    • Fires Are 'National Humiliation'

      newser  |  BBC  |  Aug 29, 07 5:21 PM CDT

      Fires Are 'National Humiliation'

      Firefighters in Greece said today they have tamed the wildfires that have ravaged the countryside, the BBC reports, but the political tempest over the handling of the crisis is just heating up. As protesters demonstrated in Athens against the government, crews said the fires that have claimed 63 lives are “generally receding” but admitted that some blazes continued. More »

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      wildfires  • firefighters  • Greece  • Socialist Party  • Athens  • Peloponnese  • Greece fires  • Costas Karamanlis

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