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Autumn-Foliage-Strike-Fun     It's often said that the Greeks have a word for everything, but, as a matter of fact, that's not true ...

Seven Baby Geese   Raphael Park, (May 2024)     Watching Maria interact with seven recently hatched goslings in the local park, I was remind...

Curbing their enthusiasm: Socrates, Maria Thanassa & Larry David       I.    According to Maria Thanassa [1] , notions of sobriety and ...

Bronze sculpture of Virginia Woolf seated on a riverside bench  in Richmond Upon Thames by Laury Dizengremel (2022)  Photo by Maria Thanassa...

Maria Tănase (1913-1963)   "He who betrays love will be punished by God ..."     Whenever the Little Greek travels to Romania, her...

Photo of a fox in the backgarden  by Maria Thanassa (2021)     I.    Despite new laws to prevent animal cruelty coming into force in June as...

Xi Jinping: General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party President of the People's Republic of China 世界皇帝        I.   However you ...

  Admit it, we're so much nicer than     the real thing mewling and puking ... If I were asked by some kind of investigative...

Portrait of C. P. Cavafy: the Onassis Cultural Centre www.sgt.gr More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe by...

I knew the slugs in the garden ate the vegetation and had a particular liking for Maria's flowers (much to her chagrin and my amu...

In June 2013, the then Greek government unilaterally decided to shut down and dissolve the state broadcasting corporation (ERT). No p...

  The recent spate of attacks by crows on young blonde women jogging in a South London park, has once again highlighted the fascinating re...

People often ask: What's in a name? Well, quite a lot when that name happens to be Hamas : an acronym of Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al...