April 10, 1826…. The “Free Besieged” of Messolonghi carry out the heroic exodus. Christos Kapsalis blows up the gunpowder store in Messolonghi. The story by the historian Ekaterini Flerianou in a text published in Eleftherotypia, Historical Magazine, “The Escape from Messolonghi”, issue 180, April 10, 2003. The hut withstood the first siege of the Turks […]
Dear Friends, Good morning and Happy Birthday, I prepared this lecture to present it at EL.I.S.M.E. on March 26, 2020 to commemorate the anniversary of the National Rebirth. However, the protection measures for the coronavirus pandemic did not allow me to present it live and in front of an audience. But let's move on to the speech, […]
Preface Desire and appetite are the basic characteristics of life, as long as they are kept in their true measure. With anorexia and acedia, a person is as if he is not living. From desire and appetite emerge needs that cause the search for pleasure, but also distress and dead ends. Thus a will develops to acquire a good, […]
In 1976, the Greek language suffered great (historical) damage. It was then that we threw away Katharevousa. Together with Katharevousa, we threw away a treasure. We were led there by passions and not by reason. It was not Katharevousa that we should have thrown away, but the two words: "katharevousa" and "dimotiki". In place of these two words, we should have put [...]
Introduction It is an indisputable fact in the philosophical world that Plato was the foremost philosopher of the ancient and modern era, who so deeply inspired later Philosophy1. With the method of dialogue and the dialectical art, Plato investigated almost all philosophical issues. He spoke about Gnosticism, Ontology and Cosmogony, about Justice […]
Two or three months ago, in one of my posts, Patriarch Grigoris Nousias wrote a comment in which he referred to the “Akashic Records”. Since the comment probably went unnoticed and no one has yet wondered what these “Akashic Records” are, I am taking the initiative and giving the answer myself! Akashic Records A first approach […]
On February 08, 2018, the Turkish Ministry of Interior released an electronic application on the Internet for public access, using which every Turkish citizen can find his family tree. That is, to locate his ancestors as well as their place of origin. The interest and curiosity of the Turkish public […]
UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND GOVERNANCE THESIS TOPIC: "THE RELATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH THE COUNTRIES OF EURASIA. THE CURRENT SITUATION AND APPEARING PROSPECTS" POSTGRADUATE STUDENT: ATHANASIADOU POLYKLETA SUPERVISOR PROFESSOR: 1st EXAM. NIKAS CH., 2nd EXAM. SPYROPOULOS G. SUMMARY In this thesis, a study is carried out on the […]
The Air Force celebrates . . . << Commanders of the heavenly armies, we the unworthy ones despise you, that your prayers may be fulfilled, wall us, the shelter of your wings, the palace of your glory, guarding us as we fall, stretching out and crying out, From dangers you redeem us, as Commanders of the Forces above>>. The Air Force chose Michael, of the Old and […]
*“It should be called “entropy” for two reasons: First, this function is already used in thermodynamics under the same name. Second, and more importantly, most people don’t know what entropy really is, and if you use the term in a counterargument, you will always win.”John von Neumann* | 1903 – 1957 Entropy regulates the balance in […]
