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• Christmas in Athens
• Exhibition on women in ancient Athens for the 10th anniversary of Onassis Foundation in NY
• Special NY event in memory of Maria Callas
• London presentation of the New Acropolis Museum
• Event honours academics seeking Parthenon Marbles return
• A manifesto for the Parthenon Marbles
• Photo exhibition of ancient artifacts at Greek embassy in US
• GREECE: REPOSITIONED AND REBRANDED
• Vatican returns Parthenon fragment to Athens
• Opinion poll results on expatriate Greeks
• Alexis Stamatis' novel 'American Fugue' at the Embassy of Greece
• Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Appeal Trial of Socrates
• Culture minister meets Chinese counterpart in Beijing
• Modern-day 'Argo' arrives in Albania
• Famous "Gospel at Colonus" staged in Athens
• City lights lead astronomers to the Pindos range in NW Greece
• Event dedicated to Cavafy, Kazantzakis to be held in Bucharest
• SE Europe Heads of State Summit ends in Athens
• Reconstructed 'Argo' to sail on Saturday
• Amateur astronomers to repeat Eratosthenes experiment
• Cretan herbs museum in Hania
• Conference on inter-cultural dialogue opens in Athens
• Exhibition on new Acropolis Museum opens at Athens airport
• Events commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Battle of Crete
• Exhibition on Greek coins and banknotes since ancient times in Washington
• Rhodes voted top European holiday destination
• Austrian FM Plassnik holds talks with Ecumenical Patriarch
• Ancient lekythos returned from Switzerland
• President Papoulias visits Ukraine’s Marioupolis
• Radiothon against child trafficking on Thursday
• Orthodox bishop surviving Congo aircrash talks to ANA-MPA
• Public awareness event on the problem of refugees
• Book, ‘The Greek Press of Istanbul’, presented
• Metropolitan Ignatios survives air crash in Congo
• Olive trees to return to inner city neighborhood
• Parliamentary delegation in New York
• Education Minister Stylianidis visits Washington
• Greek parade in Manhattan
• Film director Jules Dassin buried in Athens
• Film director Jules Dassin passes away at 97
• Greek President Papoulias’ March 25 message
• Olympic Flame begins journey for Beijing Games
• Prime minister's address
• Four arrested during Olympic Flame ceremony
• Olympic flame lighting ceremony on Monday
• Greece hosts int'l con'f on return of cultural property
• Greek tourism campaign on E!Entertainment
• Dinner in honor of Culture Minister Liapis in New York
• MoMA director Glenn Lowry to visit Athens and Thessaloniki
• Minister Liapis officially inaugurates Minoan exhibition in New York
• Int’l conference in Athens on ‘Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin’
• New Philippi finds presented
• Exhibition on Minoan civilization inaugurated in New York
• 'International Year of Planet Earth' events planned by Lesvos Petrified
• Greeks awarded by the state of Israel
• Culture minister gives tour of New Acropolis Museum to international travel agents
• Greek culture minister to inaugurate exhibition in New York on Minoan civilization
• Greece, China sign cooperation memorandum to crack down on smuggling of antiquities
• Greek design for euro's 10th anniversary coin
• Greek Ambassador to U.S. visits Los Angeles
• Event in memory of Maria Kalas in Washington
• Greece returns antiquities stolen from Albania
• Greek excavations on Kuwait's Failaka isle reveal Hellenistic period findings
• New Acropolis Museum presented during lecture in Vienna
• Outdoor museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Kria Vrisi
• Greek Language Proliferation Organization helping minority schools in Albania
• National Day in Memory of Greek Jews
• Baby monk seal back to the wild – with mobile!
• Pope Benedict invites Alexandria Patriarch to Vatican
• Greek Academy building inaugurated in Harare, Zimbabwe
• Book launch on Sarkozy’s ties with Thessalonica
• 4th of July celebration in Kastoria turns into local tradition
• First Chinese book on contemporary Greece published
• Greek culture in ‘performing arts market’ promoted in the U.S.
• President Papoulias tours new Acropolis Museum
• Culture Minister Liapis on 2008 state budget
• PM tours New Acropolis Museum before departing for Moscow
• Athens Mayor presents book on 'Maria Callas, the Global Greek'
• First caryatid transferred to new Acropolis Museum
• Culture minister visits northern Greek archaeological sites in Macedonia
• Group of int'l scholars aid efforts to restore ancient Olympia
• John Malkovich the honored guest at 48th annual Thessaloniki Film Festival
• Culture minister briefs President Papoulias
• Alonissos honors Vythoulkas, father of modern homeopathy
• Int'l promotion of Kazantzakis’ work in Asia
• Greek poet's work to be presented at U.S. literary translators' conference
• Ninety-four stolen neolithic artifacts returned to Greece
• Exhibition on Giorgio de Cirico at Onassis Cultural Center in New York
• Greek culture in China
• Athens Academy to honour AHI's Eugene Rossides
• Greek Film Festival to be held in New York
• French Academy gives award to Greek writer
• Hellenikon Metropolitan Park to be the largest park in the world
• Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos addresses Inter-religious Conference in Naples
• "Cafavia 2007" congress dedicated to philosopher Castoriadis
• Event in Washington on new Acropolis Museum
• Events begin in China for Greek Cultural Year
• 'Cultural Year of Greece in China' begins in Beijing this week
• 'El Greco' exhibition opens in Athens
• Transfer of antiquities from old to new Acropolis Museum begins
• Sophocles’ ‘Electra’ to be performed in New York
• Re-enactment of 1571 Battle of Lepanto held in Nafpaktos
• Dry run for transfer to new Acropolis Museum on Thursday week
• Conference on Philhellenism held in Geneva
• Conference on Greek language to be held in Rome
• Conference on protection of monuments, archaeological sites
• 'Cultural Year of Greece in China' debuts this month
• All-night readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey on Chios
• 2007 Wolf Trap Ball - Discovering Greece
• PM Karamanlis inaugurates Praxiteles exhibition
• Delphi Centre ancient drama conference explores role of women
• Transfer of exhibits to new Acropolis Museum begins
• Culture minister to table bill on cultural heritage protection
• Black Sea ministers discuss linking culture with development
• Chinese-language edition of 'Civilisation of the Olive and Olive Oil' debuts
• Greece, Cyprus sign memorandum of cooperation in culture sector
• Old city of Corfu added to list of world heritage monuments
• Plácido Domingo honored by City of Athens
• Contract signed for new nat'l museum of contemporary art
• Rhodes international film festival 'Ecofilms' awards announced
• Fulbright scholars and donors honored in Athens
• Deputy culture minister for sport holds talks with Shanghai mayor
• Council of America president calls for liberation of Agia Sophia Church
• Event honors departing heads of foreign archaeological schools
• International conference on Lord Byron
• 2nd int'l con'f on disability, mass media begins in Athens
• Children's Museum of Manhattan interactive exhibition on ancient Greece
• Roussopoulos addresses 10th int'l festival 'Documentary and Disability'
• Delian Apollo by Theatro alla Scala on Delos on September 1
• Stolen statue of Apollo returned to Greece
• The Vatican to help save Cyprus' Turkish occupied heritage
• Al Gore presents 'Inconvenient Truth' slideshow in Athens
• Cooperation memorandum between Greek State and ‘Stavros Niarchos’ Foundation signed
• World Congress of Greek Gastronomy held in Crete, Santorini
• Defence minister, Tufts professor discuss possible cooperation
• Filio Haidemenou, symbol of Asia Minor Greeks, dies at age 108
• PM Costas Karamanlis visits Thessaloniki International University installations
• Hellenic Foundation for Culture branch to be founded in Melbourne
• Exhibition of ancient art photographs at Greek Embassy in Washington
• Transfer of old Acropolis museum artifacts to new cutting-edge facility begins in September
• Colonel Mordechai Frizis' bust to be unveiled in Thessaloniki
• Documentary projected in New York on ‘The voyage: the Greek-American dream’
• Delphi Centre unveils events for annual festival; dedication to Constantine Karamanlis planned
• Six bears in NW Greece fitted with satellite transmitters
• Arts Academy to open in September 2009, Voulgarakis says
• Contract signed for creation of International University of Greece
• Tourism photo competition by gov't, tourism organisation
• President Papoulias inaugurates 4th Thessaloniki International Book Exhibition
• Women's Empowerment event at Greek embassy in Washington
• Ministry to back new art shows in bid to boost local art
• Thessaloniki International Book Fair to open doors on May 17
• Greek painters to exhibit their work in London
• British Museum rules out return of all Parthenon Marbles
• Premier Karamanlis inaugurates exhibition on Maria Callas
• Int'l symposium on human valueshosted by Athens Academy
• Restoration works at Mount Athos cathedral
• Conference of Byzantinists held at Queens College, New York
• Culture minister comments on remarks by British Museum director
• Priceless miniature vases returned to Ancient Agora
• Greek envoy honoured by Jewish-American group
• Mike Dukakis addresses ACT event
• Memorial service on occasion of WWII Roupel Fortress battle
• B'nai B'rith events on 'Odyssey of the Jews of Greece'
• Memorial service in Thessaloniki for city's Holocaust victims
• Acropolis proclaimed top European Cultural Heritage Monument
• Ancient, Modern Greek to be taught at Zagreb's Classical Gymnasium
• Wireless audio guide, automated ticket systems OK'd for museums, sites
• 'Homecoming' for Zack Snyder's '300' on Wednesday in Sparta
• Greek Cinema Festival to be held in Los Angeles
• Rare 17th century icon identified
• Athens pays tribute to literary figure
• Conference on Greek author Kazantzakis at New York University
• Site of ancient theatre discovery to be expropriated
• Greece to host ‘SportAccord 2008’ exhibition
• Culture minister reviews past work, future plans
• Events marking birth centennial of poet Engonopoulos
• Regular midday nap, healthier heart
• Symbolic proclamation of Acropolis as top European monument
• Afghanistan's deputy culture minister visits Greek Parliament
• Contested Greek antiquities to return from Getty Museum by end March
• Event in honour of author Samarakis in New York
• Minister of State Theodoros Roussopoulos inaugurates 'Thessaloniki: Photographic Archive 1900-1980' exhibition
• Culture minister: Athens will claim objects from recent 'royal auction' in London
• Noted Greek actor Nikos Kourkoulos
• Children circle Acropolis, demand return of Parthenon Marbles
• 'Multi-colored Gods' exhibition arrives in Athens
• Events in Egypt mark 50th anniversary of Kazantzakis' death
• Greece proposed as theme country at 40th Cairo International Book Exhibition
• Tree planting by Greek-American foundation at Dion site
• Origins of lots in Christie's auction must be clarified, Greece says
• Greece again asks Christie's to stop auction
• Culture ministry sends extrajudicial protest to Christie's
• Sophocles' Antigone presented in Istanbul
• Former Getty Museum curator true free on bail
• Greece ratifies three international agreements of UNESCO
• Greek ministers attend Athens State Orchestra concert in Istanbul
• Cyprus Church launches protest campaign for occupied religious sites
• UNHCR-sponsored concert in Athens this month
• Presentation of Greek-language edition of 'Salonica: City of Ghosts'
• Noted Greek-American writer Pagoulatou dies
• President Papoulias inaugurates 'Paris-Athens 1863-1940' exhibition at National Gallery
• Six stolen icons from Cyprus were found in New York
• Bakoyannis opens exhibition on Greek EEC accession talks
• Archbishop Christodoulos visits Santa Maria Majore church and catacombs of Saint Priscilla
• Archbishop Christodoulos arrives in Rome for historic visit to the Vatican
• Archbishop Christodoulos to meet Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Thursday
• Premier Karamanlis inaugurates exhibition on 'Greeks of the Diaspora'
• Native American Indians photo exhibition this month in Athens
• Getty Museum returns Greek antiquities
• Athens-Sparta exhibition opens in NY
• Unique exhibition of Nobel collection at Athens International Airport
• UN unanimously adopts 'cultural property return' Resolution tabled by Greece
• Athens-Sparta - 8th-5th Century BC exhibition in NY
• 'Athens-Sparta - 8th to 5th Century B.C.' exhibition in New York
• Antikythera ancient Greek computer yields its secrets
• Delivery of personal archives of statesman Eleftherios Venizelos
• 'Athens-Sparta' exhibition in New York
• Prosecution for gold wreath sold to Getty Museum
• Univ. of Crete events in 2007 devoted to Kazantzakis
• Figures of prominent late Greek politicians unveiled at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
• President attends screening of Gavras' 'Mon Colonel' at Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival beginning on Friday night
• US the “honored country” at March education exhibition
• Greece and Italy to sign joint cooperation memorandum on antiquities smuggling
• Pope expresses regret over destruction of religious heritage in Turkish occupied Cyprus
• Erechtheum fragment returned to Greece
• Theopetra Cave: Continuous human presence for 100,000 years
• Restoration works at Mt. Athos monasteries
• Rare Armenian manuscripts to be loaned to Greece
• UN: Greece seeks return of artworks to countries of origin
• Greek Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago
• PM briefed on Niarchos Foundation initiatives
• UN Day celebrated with Greek culture, music
• UNSG Annan hails Greek concert at UN General Assembly hall
• Tourism minister launches Greek Week in Russia
• 'Greece: poetry and music' anniversary concert at UN General Assembly
• Roman-era busts unearthed under the Acropolis
• Event in honor of painter Moralis
• Ecumenical Patriarch opens conference about Mount Athos
• 'Monument of Hellenism' unveiled in Hungary
• President Papoulias presents Alexander S. Onassis 2006 Awards
• Major concert by Greek state broadcaster (ERT) orchestra at UN
• Greek composer honored for Turkish film at Ghent film festival
• Onassis Foundation awards to 3 Hellenic studies institutes, physicist Nanopoulos
• Premier visits new Acropolis Museum under construction
• Bill on Islamic mosque tabled in Parliament
• New Modern Art Museum in Athens
• PM inaugurates 'Aristotelis Onassis' exhibition
• Aristophanes’ "Lysistrata" at Boston Greek Cultural Center
• New bill encourages private sponsorship of arts and culture, minister says
• Bill against antiquities smuggling in the wings, Voulgarakis says
• Culture minister in Chicago for opening of 'Greek Academy'
• Culture Minister George Voulgarakis to visit New York
• Crete Polytechnic develops new low-impact measuring organ for monuments
• 12th Athens Int'l Film Festival begins next week
• PM inaugurates new permanent exhibition at Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum
• Europarliament approves Sifounakis report on conserving Europe's architectural/cultural heritage
• Returned artifacts from Getty Museum on display here next week
• Concert by renowned Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Patras next week
• Delphi to honor composer Vangelis with 'Golden Lyre of Apollo' distinction
• Getty Museum returns important antiquities to Greece
• Exhibition of Mt. Athos treasures opens in Thessaloniki
• Derveni Papyrus' text finally read
• Culture minister Voulgarakis visits Herod Atticus Odeon in Athens
• Fernando Botero sculptures at the Athens Concert Hall
• Permanent prehistoric exhibition opens at Thasos Archaeological Museum
• Finland wins 51st Eurovision song contest in Athens
• Production of books in Greece increasing
• Talks in progress for return of antiquities to Greece by Getty Museum
• Kevin Spacey honored by Greek embassy in Washington
• Looting of cultural treasures in occupied Cyprus detailed in Washington
• A woman in the sweep of history
• A stranger in a strange land
• The Olive Tree Routes awarded title of CoE "Major European Cultural Route"
• Council of Europe Awards Olive Initiative
• Holy Synod criticizes 'Da Vinci Code'
• Film on life of painter El Greco planned
• Finance and culture ministers hold talks; Voulgarakis to meet Getty Museum's director
• Orthodox Church leaders issue messages for Easter
• Culture Minister Voulgarakis on Schinoussa antiquities smuggling case
• John Cleave's book on Athens presented in Washington
• Balkan theatre festival to take place in Thessaloniki as of 2007
• PM Costas Karamanlis visits Greater Hellenism Foundation
• 'Society of Friends'(Filiki Eteria) headquarters discovered in Chisinau oldest building
• Greek 'mountain tea' or ironwort may guard against osteoporosis
• Stamps in circulation commemorating total eclipse of the sun
• Data on Mauthausen concentration camp on the Internet
• Event held in memory of Andreas Politakis, founder of the 'Abdi Ipekci' prize
• 'Golden Aristotle' for centegenarian academic Kriaras
• Book on Alexander the Great stresses his contribution to science
• Sweden returns ancient coins to Greece
• Unknown ode by Greek poet Andreas Kalvos discovered
• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF THE PARTHENON SCULPTURES
• Crete to host int'l philosophical conference in May
• Officials say first exhibition halls at new Acropolis museum to open in 2007
• Acropolis Museum to display hidden ‘masterpieces’ in 2007
• 1st World Congress of Greek Gastronomy held in Athens
• Conference on Greek Gastronomy
• Greek, Israeli writers on heroes
• British, US companies interested in Kozani saffron
• Patras launches Carnival with spectacular show
• Recent Greek titles reflect fresh new style in cookbooks
• Wine-tasting evening held at Greek Embassy in Washington
• THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY
• Greek flair imbues new haute couture creations
• Heidelberg Univ. to return fragment of Parthenon frieze to Greece
• PM briefed on initiative for return of Parthenon frieze section from Heidelberg University
• No damage caused to monuments and antiquities by strong earthquake
• Culture ministry on listing of Knossos as World Heritage Site
• Exhibition of Acropolis photographs opens
• Israel donates copies of Einstein's letters to Greek mathematician
• Deputy Culture Minister Tatoulis holds talks with Greek-American community members in NY
• Deputy Culture Minister Tatoulis inaugurates Greek art exhibit in NY
• Onassis Foundation to host significant post-Byzantium exhibition in NYC
• Gov't insists on legal action against Getty museum over antiquities
• Exhibition 'From Byzantium to modern-day Greece' at Onassis Cultural Centre in New York
• President, PM meet campaigners for Parthenon Marbles' return
• Parthenon foundations in no danger of subsidence, erosion
• Gov't to take Getty Museum to court over antiquities
• 'Variety' magazine dedication to Thessaloniki Film Festival
• Archaeologists unearth ancient city of Verge in Serres, Macedonia
• Cacoyiannis an honorary professor of Thessaloniki University film school
• The International Thessaloniki Film Festival
• Concert in Athens on Wednesday for hurricane hit New Orleans
• 'Constantine Mitsotakis' Greek Studies Chair inauguration ceremony at Stanford University
• Athens University and Onassis Foundation partner in promotion of Greek culture abroad
• Latest publication details impact of Macedonia, as a name, on modern Greece since 1912
• George Costakis, an unusual collector
• Greek composer Theodorakis honored in Cyprus
• Education minister says Center of Byzantine Studies will be founded in Mystras
• Hellenic Foundation for Culture to celebrate 10th anniversary
• 'Sopranos Friendship Award 2005' given to Mikis Theodorakis and Zulfu Livaneli
• Concert dedicated to Theodorakis' 80th anniversary to be held in Germany
• Fulbright Foundation announces US University Fair in Athens
• Exhibition of Titanic's relics inaugurated at Zappion Mansion
• Anglo-Hellenic Review
• A tribute to Yiannis Ritsos at New Benaki Museum
• BBC FILMING DURRELL’S ‘MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS’ IN CORFU
• World Heritage Exhibit in Athens
• TRIBUTE TO Iannis Xenakis, Athens, Benaki Museum - Pireaus Street Annexe
• Stanford University to acquire Greek studies dept
• Two Emmys go to Greek artists
• 1st International Symposium on the Theban Cycle
• Celebrating wine in Nemea
• New hope for SkopelosPhotography Center
• Tinos fine arts school turns 50
• Rediscovering the essence of ancient Greek drama
• International conference honors renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis' 80th birthday

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