Category: GREEK DIASPORA
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Martin Luther King’s Great Greek Friend and Supporter
However, Iakovos was also a champion of civil and human rights who showed his support to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. not only with his words, but also with his actions. He was one of the first powerful people to embrace the ideas of Dr. King and march hand in hand with him in 1965 in Selma, Ala.…
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Greece Among Countries With Most Citizens Living Overseas
There are approximately 35,300 Irish migrants living overseas. These people fled the country between April 2014 and April 2015. A graph published by Forbes shows the top ten countries in the list, including New Zealand, Portugal, Mexico, Luxembourg and Iceland. Greece was ranked 11th, with 6.6% of the native-born population living abroad in 2014. Countries with…
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First MS treatment to bear Greek signature
A long-term and costly venture by a group of four medical researchers, in collaboration with the University of Patras and VIANEX SA, the largest Greek pharmaceutical company in Greece and founded by the Giannakopoulos family, seems to be bearing fruit. Yiannis Matsoukas, professor of chemistry at the University of Patras, and his team obtained the…
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Ted Sarandos Talks Netflix Boom and Greek Heritage
Ted Sarandos, a Greek-American whose family hails from the Greek island of Samos, has been credited as the visionary executive who reshaped how, when, and where we watch entertainment. Sarandos’ strategy for Netflix over the past years included a push to create original content on the streaming service, which has since led to many critically…