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The ancient ore mines of Lavrio hold fresh promise
When the allied Greek cities found themselves facing the invading Persian Army in 480 BC, it was an existential battle between East and West. Greece, representing all the values of the West, as we know it today, used its "wooden walls" - its ships - to face the Eastern invaders.
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Marinos Ritsoudis - ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΟΛΥ!
Marinos Ritsoudis, who in 1999 refused to participate in NATO's bombing of Serbia, 18 years later says he is proud of that moment.
Speaking for the Belgrade-based daily Blic, the former Greek navy officer also said that it was "a fantastic feeling" to support Serbia "in the fight against all."
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Funeral service held for Aristides Alafouzos
Aristides Alafouzos was honored on Thursday at a funeral service at the Church of Aghios Dionysios Areopagitis in Kolonaki, central Athens, attended by his loved ones, friends, business associates and compatriots, fellow travelers on land and sea.
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Arisitides Alafouzos, owner of Kathimerini, dies
Kathimerini owner Aristides Alafouzos has died. He was 93.
Alafouzos was born on the Aegean island of Santorini in 1924. He qualified as a civil engineer in 1949. He founded his own construction company in 1956, before entering the shipping industry in 1964. During the military dictatorship in Greece he moved to London, where he stayed until 1988.
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