LARGE SWATHS OF GREECE TO BE SNOWBOUND ON MONDAY

 Snow will cover large parts of Greece and will cover the whole of the country.

THE OLDEST GREEK SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES STILL STANDS

 

The oldest school in the United States was a Greek school operated by Greek immigrants.

It was built in the historic city of St Augustine, Florida and amazingly still stands today despite the ravages of time.

BOYCOTT OF 2024 LOOMS OVER RUSSIAN ATHLETES

Up to 40 nations could boycott the Olympics if  Russian athletes were allowed to compete in 2024 said Poland/s Sports and Tourism Minister Kamil Bacttimenzuc.

Bacttimsnzuc's comments came after the International Olympics Committee announced last week that they would explore a pathway to allow Russian athletes to compete  in the Paris Olympics next year.

SPEAKING ENGLISH USING GREEK WORDS, ZOLOTAS HISTORIC SPEECH.

 Many Greeks recall the speeches in English peppered with Greek-origin words and phrases used by Xenophon Zolotas given by ecomist and polytician Xenophon Zolotas in the late 1950s 

Zolotas was Director of the Bank of Greece when he appeared in front of an audience of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Developement conference in 1959.

He delivered two speeches in Ebglish using only Greek words for emphasizing the wealth of the Greek Langiage and the fact that countless Greek words enrich English. here is his speech:

"It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch of and the heresy of economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Cherybdis of ecomomic anaemia. It is not my diagnosis that politicians could be cleptoplethorists. Although they have emphatically stigmatized nomismatic plethora they energize it through their ethics and practises and should be based more on their economic than  political  creteria. Our gnomon has to be a metrion between economic stratigic and phianthropic scopes. In an epoch charectized by monolicies, monopolistic antagonism which is endemic among acsdemic economists.  

       

GREECE MOURNS AIR FORCE PILOT MARIOS TOUROUTSIKAS

 

Greece is mourning the death of Marios Touroutsikas the co-pilot killed on a fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea and his funeral was held at Tripolis on Thursday.

His  coffin was draped with the Greek flag and an Air Force contingent was outside the church The service was attended by the Presdent of the Greek Republic and  the Prime Minister

 On Friday, the President of the Greek Republic will travel to Necropolis to attend the funeral of Efstathios Tsitalides 31-year-old pilot of the jet whose remains will be burried on Wednesday. 

CANADIAN STUDENTS FEAST ON ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN FOODS

 Students at the University of Toronto in Canada recently had the choice to dine on ancient Greek and Roman food during an "Ancient Food Day" hosted by the univrsity.

About 40 students tried delicacies enjoyed by the Greeks and Romans.  Recipes for the dishes were found in an ancient cookery book.

The dishes on offer ranged from tuna steak with sauce to sweet desserts served with honey.

THE FIRST OF THE MONTH

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Today is the 1st  February 2022 "Kalo Mena" as we Greeks say, have a Good Month!