Winston Churchill

Novinite is publishing the second of three articles about Morocco, where a group of journalists was invited to spend more than a week in November and get to know a country which is not far from Europe, looks fantastic on tourist billboards and draws millions of visitors every year, but Europeans don't know about it as much as one would expect.

In a rather kitsch scene reminiscent of Turkish and former Soviet bloc celebrations, thousands of locals proudly watched students, fire brigades, Red Cross workers and others parading on the main promenade of a Greek island in the northern Aegean. The locals saluted the parade for "Ohi Day," or "No Day," commemorating the rejection by Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas of the ultimatum made by Ital

“No” (Ochi) day commemorates the events of October 28,1940, when Emanele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador, delivered an ultimatum to Greek Dictator Ioannis Metaxas at 3 a.m. in the morning. The message from Benito Mussolini demanded that Metaxas allow the Italian army free passage to enter and occupy strategic sites in Greece.

Experts in Athens, Greece, say people should follow in the footsteps of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher by taking siestas.

“Our study shows that not only is midday sleep associated with lower blood pressure, but longer sleeps are even more beneficial. Midday sleepers had greater dips in blood pressure while sleeping at night, which is associated with better health outcomes.”

Tommy Lee, Greek-American musician who founded heavy metal band Motley Crue, was inspired by the tragic situation in Greece to write a poem about his birthplace.

A very, very laconic — pun intended – answer by the ancient Spartans to a threat by Phillip of Macedon to topped a list of the 15 best-known responses in history — a list that includes the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Liz Taylor and even … Eminem.

Here’s the Spartan reply:

Borrowing Winston Churchill?s famous line about Russia, Turkey, under a suffocating Islamist rule, is no longer quite ?a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.? In many ways, the Turkish political behavior is relatively as predictable as it was two decades ago.

Days before the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Gallipoli Campaign, Ankara has discovered a military graveyard for Ottoman soldiers on a Greek island where Turkish and Egyptian soldiers were buried by British forces.

Details of Princess Diana’s will were revealed this week after almost 18 years since her accidental death at the age of 36.

Russia on Feb. 5 defied anger by unveiling a controversial monument to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Britain's Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt at their fateful meeting in Crimea in 1945.