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Sons of Opy Zouni root out fakes attributed to their artist mom
Yannis Zounis had learned to identify his mother's works. He didn't only have a detailed photographic archive she had left him and his brother to consult. Whenever Opy Zouni, the famed Greek artist, finished a painting or other creation, she would show it to her family first. "Look at it," she would tell them.
Frappe, cigarettes and dusty records
A guard dances the zeibekiko, a messenger receives greetings on his name day, with offers of whisky and cola, an employee with a Panathinaikos flag on his back leans over a coffee pot, and a storage keeper and messenger pedals on a stationary bicycle during working hours. Each image becomes increasingly surreal, capturing the daily lives of public servants.
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Perseid meteor shower seen from Gavdos
In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a Perseid meteor sparks, while entering the earth's atmosphere as a man sleeps in Tripiti beach in Gavdos island, the southernmost point of Greece and Europe, early Sunday, on August 13, 2023. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]
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Tsitsipas brothers ousted by French teenagers in first round
Stefanos Tsitsipas and his younger brother Petros finally got a chance to finish off their first-round Wimbledon doubles match that started on Friday but, unfortunately for the Greek duo, their day out on Sunday proved to be short and not very sweet.
Limeni – The stone and the light of Laconic Mani
Limeni, port of Areopolis, is a historic place, home of the prominent family of Mavromichalis, is admittedly one of the most beautiful residential complexes of Laconic Mani.
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Luring Greek tourists could help save the tourism sector
By Petros Makris
The shift of the Greek tourism sector toward luring Greek tourists could really solve to an incredible degree the plunge of many hotels, other quarters, restaurants, and even entertainment, after the mass cancelations or restrictions on air travel, due to the pandemic, for the caravans of foreign tourists.
Charting the great migrations of people
The 100 Memories research program of the National Hellenic Research Foundation marks the 100th anniversary of the largest refugee movement in Greek history with the arrival and settlement of some one million refugees from Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) to Greece. The project charts arrivals and departures to and from the country, focusing on four Greek cities-ports.
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Fighting Covid, still an uphill struggle
A man runs up Philopappou Hill under a cloudy sky with the city of Athens visible in the background on Tuesday. Apart from the greater Athens area, the other regional units under strict lockdown are Viotia, Rodopi, Kozani and the islands of Kalymnos and Lesvos.
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Streets remain empty as holiday season approaches
A man wearing a face mask to guard against the coronavirus looks at his phone as he walks in front of a mural created by street artist INO in Psyrri, central Athens. Greece is set to extend its lockdown measures beyond the end of November given the pressure on hospitals, the country's health minister warned on Monday.
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