93 Seconds Over Athens: How an Olympic Airways Plane Survived the Unthinkable
The Olympic Airways Plane That Almost Crashed Into Athens. Credits: YouTube screenshot The dramatic near-crash of an Olympic Airways Boeing...
Why Did Byzantium Preserve Pagan Texts in a Christian Empire?
Christian scholars copied, annotated, and repurposed pagan texts, sending them from Constantinople into Islamic science and the Renaissance....
Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat?
“Helen of Troy,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1799. Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearl...
Christina Onassis’ Influence on Her Daughter, Athina
Athina Onassis (right) is the only daughter of the late Christina Onassis, who tragically lost her life at the age of 37. Credits: Left: Unk...
The Shortest Flight in Greece Takes Less Than 5 Minutes
Credit: T ilemahos Efthimiadis / flickr CC BY NC 2.0 Greece was the country that held the title for having the shortest flight in the wor...
Middle Greek: The Language That Shaped Modern Greek
The Greek language has ancient origins. Credit: Zde / CC BY-SA 4.0 / via Wikimedia Commons Middle Greek, also known as Medieval Greek, is ...
Majestic Swans Make Kerkini Lake in Greece Their Home for Winter
Credit: Marek Szczepanek /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Dozens of migratory swans are arriving from northern Europe to the Kerkini Lake ...
Christina Onassis: The Short Life of an Unhappy Heiress
Christina Onassis in 1978. Credit: public domain On a warm, South American day on November 19, 1988, Christina Onassis, the golden heiress ...
Windmills of Mykonos: The History of a Landmark
A local at the windmills of the Greek island of Mykonos. Credit: Greek Reporter In Mykonos, the wind blows all year long. This is the reaso...
Top 10 European Cities With the Most Single Women
Riga City Council Riga, Latvia. Credit: PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A recent study has identified the top 10...
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