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Ox”The struggle now is for everything,” Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas, 28 October 1940. At 3:00 in the morning on 28 October 1940, the Italian ambassador in Athens delivered a message to the Greek government.  Allow the Italian army to enter Greece and occupy strategic positions, it said, or there will be war. “Alors, c’est …

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It is well known that Mark Twain said “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,” while writing “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County.” This was an 1865 English rewriting of an ancient Greek-language frog tale set in classical Greece, two or three thousand years old.  All these facts are well known. And yet, …

  • October 24, 2020
  • Greece
  • Comments Off on The Battle For Greece

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Young. Charismatic. Athletic. Leader.  Conqueror.  And… Feminist. Granted, the form feminism took in 336 BC was not the same sort we see today describing themselves as a numbered wave or discussing the glass ceiling.  In Greek culture the ceiling wasn’t made of glass, it was impenetrable stone, and it was stone that whichever male in …

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Historical anachronisms can be fascinating, nowhere more than in the Balkans, a region which can itself be seen as a living historical anachronism.  Named by German geographer August Zeune in 1808 after what he considered to be the dominant geographical feature in the area, the Balkan Mountain Range, the highest peak in the Balkans is …

  • May 20, 2020
  • Montenegro , Serbia
  • Comments Off on Ancient British Silk Garters, Modern Greek Kilts, and Surplus WWII American Rifles

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