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Yannis Xirotiris (Greek: Ιωάννης Ξηροτύρης, transcr. Ioannis Xirotyris; 1900 – 23 February 2004) was a Greek educator and writer. He completed his studies in Germany and worked as a teacher in several schools throughout Greece, until 1941.
Manuel Komnenos was born in 1145, the firstborn son of the future Byzantine emperor Andronikos Komnenos (r. 1183–1185). [1] The identity of his mother is unknown and disputed among scholars, [a] but she was most likely a member of the high Byzantine aristocracy. [4]
Maria Lioudaki (22 November 1894 – 4 December 1947) was a Greek educator, folklorist, and resistance fighter. She promoted social action in Lasithi with her friend, Maria Drandaki (1914–1947), with whom she was arrested and killed during the Greek Civil War.
During the Second World War, she was commissioned to photograph buildings that were likely to be bombed. She also worked as a nurse at the start of the war, but then trained in encryption, and worked in the British embassies in Madrid and Algiers before being posted to Cairo, where she first met her future husband Patrick Leigh Fermor in 1944.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1913. A few years later his family moved to Marseille and there he finished high school. He permanently relocated to Greece in 1935 at the age of 22 started studying at the Berkshire High Commercial School in Athens and also studied acting at the Drama School of Giannoulis Sarantidis.
Alexander Socrates Onassis was born at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. [2] He was the elder child of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 –1975) and his first wife, Athina Livanos (1929 –1974), herself a daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos.
Asvestochori (Greek: Ασβεστοχώρι) is a small town and a community of the Pylaia-Chortiatis municipality. [2] Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Chortiatis, of which it was a municipal district. [2]