She was the woman who invented the term call girl. Madame Claudes life was a real legend that grew between pink and gray. Six years after her death, the life of Frances most famous brothel promoter is being made into a movie on Netflix, premiering on April 2. Fernande Grudet passed away, just day
About two months ago, a citizens initiative came to bring to the fore an issue that is directly related to the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821. The Movement of Greek Citizens for the Secularization of the State (KEPEK) has again put on the table o
In the first book of the Old Testament, Genesis, where the creation of man by God is described, we read that the firstborn ate a forbidden fruit and fell from Paradise. In the evolution of religious literature over the centuries, this fruit was identified with the apple. The reality is quite differe
On this day, March 29, 2005, one of the greatest poets that our country produced. Nothing touches the poet, not even time. Because he has within him the childish, the old and the demonic at the same time said Miltos Shaktouris describing poetry. Miltos Sakhtouris is not of this world or the other.
It was June 2017 when the great fighter of the Left, Manolis Glezos, who left us a year ago, presented his book Acronymia in the event hall of the Hellenic Parliament. In an emotionally charged speech, Manolis Glezos with tears in his eyes then sent his own message which has a huge symbolic value.
Thus, when the Greek Revolution broke out, classical Greece had become the model for every European bourgeois society. The younger Greeks, therefore, did not, like other peoples, have to invent or reinvent their own historical past. Despite the fact that the time of the Revolution did not allow the
On this day, April 4, 1968, the great AEK of the American, Trondzos and the other children, became the first club (in a team sport) in the history of Greek sports to climb to the top of Europe, conquering inside the Panathinaiko Stadium and in front of 80,000 delirious spectators, the Cup Winners C
The sieges of both regions began at the end of March 1821, after the Revolution had broken out in various regions of the Peloponnese. Apart from the Turks of the city, the Turks of Kyparissia, including many women and children, were closed in Neokastro, while the besiegers of the two castles also ca
Exactly 80 years ago today, the first Nazi troops attempted to invade Greece. The diary read April 6, 1941. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias wrote the following on his personal twitter account:80 years since the invasion of the Nazi troops, followed by the long night of the Occupatio
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI) at Columbia University is hosting the webinar Walking in History:The Occupied Famine and the Athens Resistance Movement as Public History with historian Menelaos Charalambidis on Thursday, April 15 at 19:00. This month marks 80 y
The calendar showed April 9, 1970, when Paul McCartney gave a press conference in London, as part of the promotion of his first solo album, McCartney, which was scheduled to be released on the 17th of the same month. The conversation revolved around the content of the record, until Paul was asked ab
The new Mathesis course The Antikythera Mechanism was created out of the love of a special person who is no longer with us for astronomy and archaeology, and was completed with the help of friends who generously participated in this effort. Giannis Seiradakis researched the Antikythera Mechanism li
On the occasion of the 200 Years of Independence 1821-2021, Renos Charalambidis participates in the great tribute of NEWS 24/7 and tells rare stories of the revolution through the podcast Eyewitness. In the second part of the series The Siege of the Acropolis, takes us to Herodion and reveals the
Vasos Mavrovouniotis (Vasa Brajević) /Васо Брајевић) was one of the most characteristic figures of the period he lived. The fugitive of Montenegro, and then the overseer of a tsiflika prison and a bandit in the province of Aidinium, an inmate of the prisons of Athens and a bairaktar in the army of t
Does he wish to read masculine thoughts, tender feelings, brave ideas, expressed with the graces that were reserved for the female race? Lets read the letter from the Greek women to the Philhellenic women of America This is how the anonymous editor of the newspaper Friend of the Law describes wit
More than 75 years have passed since the end of World War II battles in Italy and the heroic effort of the Italian partisans to free Italy from the boot of the Nazis an hour earlier. However, no matter how many years pass, the world does not forget. Especially in Bologna, one of Italys leftist str
The stories of serial killers usually begin with intense phenomena (of any kind) of violence in the family environment that often cause trauma to the piece of the brain responsible for the conscious control of our actions, judgment and emotional reactions (see frontal lobe). A role is always played
Elias Koukounakis made his first voyage as a sailor in 1963 at the age of 16. The then young Cretan had decided to work on the ships but could not yet travel abroad because he had not completed his military service. In 1966, at the age of 19, he was a cabin boy on the ship Heraklion, which, after 15
The calendar showed May 2, 1972, when J Edgar Hoover He died of a heart attack at his home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 77. A highly controversial figure in the USA during the 20th century, Hoover, racist, fanatical anti-communist, amoral, treacherous, dark, behind-the-scenes, extortionist, ma
Ioannis Kapodistrias is one of the most central figures of modern Greek history, inextricably linking his life with the foundation of the Greek state, of which he was the first Governor. He was a politician, diplomat and scholar decisively participating in shaping the conditions for the rebirth of H
Journalist Clavis Rossi called him the first daredevil in Latin America. And it is impossible to deny him that he is right. While his countrymen were starving, Fidel Castro was basking in luxury. He ate in the best hotels, drank the most expensive alcohols and devoted himself to carnal pleasures wit
“The army is mostly made up of idle and idle types. Without the constant supervision of the commander, this machine quickly disintegrates - said Frederick the Great. And indeed - out of concern for the army, this philosopher-king and ruthless perfectionist made his soldiers more afraid of their offi
Black magic, devilish frolics, and even returns of the dead. This is how our ancestors had fun before the New Years Eve tradition was born. You dont believe? Check for yourself how the last night of the year was spent in the 19th century. Just be careful not to pay for the fun with your life ...
The movies got us used to the image of the pirate as a cute, if somewhat crude brawler. Unrestricted freedom, tropical holidays, a girl in every port ... There is not much truth in this vision. Pirates paid for freedom with a noose, malaria raged in the Caribbean, all suffered from rheumatism and di