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  • June 2008

    • Astronomers Trace Homer's Wandering Hero

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 24, 08 9:39 AM CDT

      Astronomers Trace Homer's Wandering Hero

      Homer's Odyssey is 2,700 years old, and the events it describes happened centuries earlier. But two scientists claim in a new paper that they've traced one line in the epic poem—a possible reference to an eclipse—to a real astronomical event. Classicists might take issue, writes the New York Times , but the astronomers say that Odysseus' return to Ithaca coincided with a solar eclipse on April 16, 1178 BC. More »

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      astronomy  • Greece  • poetry  • eclipse  • solar eclipse

    • 10 Spots to Vacation in Style

      newser  |  GQ  |  Jun 1, 08 12:41 PM CDT

      10 Spots to Vacation in Style

      What's the modern traveler to do in a world of ever-shrinking borders and ever-fewer spots of true exoticism? Why, simply crib off GQ 's list of the classiest spots slightly off the beaten path: Cesme, Turkey: the Hamptons of Anatolia Formentera, Spain: No foam parties allowed Stockholm, Sweden: Land of Viking nurses More »

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      California  • France  • Turkey  • England  • Spain  • vacation  • Greece  • holiday travel  • Tripoli  • Stockholm

  • 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

    • Lesbos Islanders Sue Gays on Name

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 2, 08 7:50 AM CDT

      Lesbos Islanders Sue Gays on Name

      Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have decided that lesbianism is the love that must change its name, the BBC reports. Islanders, fed up with the word being used to denote sexual orientation, are suing a Greek gay rights organization with "lesbian" in its name and say if they succeed they'll take their campaign global. More »

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      lawsuit  • homosexuality  • civil lawsuits  • Greece  • lesbians

  • April 2008
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  • February 2008

    • Greek Cypriots Elect Prez Committed to Unifying Isle

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 25, 08 4:00 AM CST

      Greek Cypriots Elect Prez Committed to Unifying Isle

      Greek Cypriots have elected a communist president committed to reunification with the Turkish northern section of the divided island. Dimitris Christofias, educated  in the old Soviet Union, won 54% of the vote in a race against his right-wing rival. The new leader has promised to hold negotiations with the president of the Turkish part of Cyprus, who has already agreed to begin talks, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

    • Cyprus Vote Raises Hopes for Unification

      newser  |  AFP  |  Feb 18, 08 1:55 PM CST

      Cyprus Vote Raises Hopes for Unification

      After decades of division, Cyprus is a step closer to unification, AFP reports. Greek Cypriots ousted incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos in a three-way election yesterday, and the two remaining candidates will face off in another vote on Sunday. Both seem willing to reach out to Turkish Cypriots, mending bridges the hard-line Papadopoulos administration nearly burned. More »

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      Turkey  • Greece  • Cyprus  • Dimitris Christofias  • Greek Cypriots  • Ioannis Kasoulides

    • 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

    • Kosovo Independence Splits EU

      newser  |  BBC  |  Feb 18, 08 6:11 AM CST

      Kosovo Independence Splits EU

      A meeting of EU officials today to discuss Kosovo is likely to reveal deep-seated divisions within the European Union. While Britain, France and Germany are expected to recognize the newly independent Kosovo immediately, other states like Cyprus, Greece, Romania and Spain worry about the message such recognition will send to their own restive separatists, BBC reports. More »

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      China  • Great Britain  • France  • Russia  • United Nations  • Germany  • European Union  • Spain  • Serbia  • Kosovo  • Greece  • Cyprus  • Romania

    • Newfound Altar Predates Zeus Worship

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 5, 08 11:15 AM CST

      Newfound Altar Predates Zeus Worship

      Archaeologists in Greece have unearthed the remains of an altar that predates Zeus worship, the New York Times reports. The evidence of animal sacrifices to an unknown deity thousands of years ago turned up during excavation of a temple to Zeus in Greece's Arcadia region. “We went from BC to 'BZ'—before Zeus," quipped one archaeologist. More »

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      archaeology  • Greece  • discovery  • Zeus

  • November 2007

    • Ex-Getty Curator Ducks Relic Charge

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Nov 27, 07 6:38 PM CST

      Ex-Getty Curator Ducks Relic Charge

      Greek judges cleared a former Getty Museum curator today of buying a looted golden wreath, the Los Angeles Times reports. They said the statute of limitations had ended on the charge that Marion True okayed purchasing the illegally dug up Greek artifact. But "at no stage of these proceedings was any proof of a crime presented by Greek prosecutors," her attorney said. More »

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      Italy  • Greece  • J. Paul Getty Museum  • looting

  • September 2007

    • Greek PM Wins New Term Despite Wildfire Fallout

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Sep 17, 07 4:51 AM CDT

      Greek PM Wins New Term Despite Wildfire Fallout

      Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis won a second four-year term and his conservative New Democratic Party retained its parliamentary majority, according to early results from yesterday's elections. The wildfires that recently ravaged southeastern Greece threatened to topple Karamanlis and his party, but they wound up losing only 8 seats in the 300-member parliament. More »

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      election  • wildfires  • Greece

  • August 2007

    • Desperate Greeks Look to TV for Help

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Aug 30, 07 11:17 AM CDT

      Desperate Greeks Look to TV for Help

      Desperate Greeks have resorted to calling TV stations with pleas for rescue from wildfires that have been raging for the past week, Der Spiegel reports, highlighting what one critic calls a "deep mistrust of the capability of the state machine." And the stations have gotten results: "Wherever we broadcast live links, helicopters would come and drop water," says one reporter. More »

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      television  • wildfires  • Greece  • Peloponnese  • Greece fires

    • 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

    • Greek Fires Probed; Toll Hits 61

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 27, 07 7:26 AM CDT

      Greek Fires Probed; Toll Hits 61

      A day after flames were beaten back at the ruins of ancient Olympia, Greek officials are considering whether the blazes still raging across the country can be considered terrorism, and arsonists prosecuted accordingly. Wildfires started in may disparate places have killed at least 61 people. Several people have been held on suspicion of arson, and one man charged with arson and homicide. More »

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      wildfires  • Greece  • arson  • Olympia

    • Greek Fires Continue to Rage

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Aug 26, 07 9:12 AM CDT

      Greek Fires Continue to Rage

      Greece is under a state of emergency as rampant fires continue to torch villages and threaten the vicinity of historic Olympia, Reuters reports. At least 51 are dead and thousands have fled their homes from a swath of flame that spread over 100 miles. PM Costas Karamanlis blames arsonists, and two individuals have been arrested so far. More »

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      Israel  • European Union  • wildfires  • Greece  • arson  • Olympia  • Costas Karamanlis

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