… more than any other time in the history of modern Olympic Games, the Greek national team has captured 13 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze) in this year’s games. Bimis & Siranidis (G) Iliadis (G) Mpekatorou & Tsoulfa (G) Tampakos (G) Dimas (B) Kelesidou (S) Polymeros & Skiathitis (B) Tsoumeleka (G) Devetzi...
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Thomas Bimis – Nikos Siranidis Ilias Iliadis Vasilis Polymenos – Nikos Skiathitis Sofia Bekatorou – Emilia Tsoulfa Anastasia Kelesidou Pyrros Dimas Dimosthenis Tampakos Athanasia Tsoumeleka 8 medals (5 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) for the Greek Olympic team. And hopefully, many more medals will come until the end of the games. Despite the dopping...
… but the silence of our friends
In the end, we will remember, not the voice of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. This wonderful quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr came to mind after the now old news regarding Greece’s two star sprinters, Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. If you just arrived on planet Earth or were...
information does not equal knowledge
A very quick addendum to the previous posting. I was reading and re-reading my last entry about information not being knowledge and I wondered about the accuracy of the statement. A quick google search and the first hit gave the title to this entry. Apparently, it comes from an article titled “Information Does not...
Information is not knowledge
I was updating my Quotes page with this unusual quote from author Caleb Carr: For it is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge I started wondering about the implications of his statement. Is information knowledge or not? Is knowledge something more that bits of information piled together? True, Carr had...
turn that mobile phone off …
when you are in the theater. If there is one thing that annoys me the most, this must be the sound and sight of a mobile phone ringing (or lighting or vibrating) in a theater. The other day, I was attending a wonderful performance by Deborah Myers with the Plucked Strings Orchestra of the...
On the field of battle, victorious
Well, I am not going to comment on the night-long celebrations and festivities held in Athens, Greece upon the return of Greek national football team. The major news networks have already done so in splendid fashion. You can read what the BBC wrote. However, I believe that this quote by legendary football (as in...
Otto Rehhagel for President
In the general climate of pan-hellenic euphoria after the 1-1 draw against Spain, I think that Otto Rehhagel, coach of our national soccer team, should be our next president of the hellenic republic. He deserves it 100%. Mostly, because he took a bunch of overpaid, under-stimulated, super-egotistical players and turned them into a superb...
It is Zeus’ anathema
Hello, I had planned something else for today, but I heard on the radio that Prof. Xenophon Zolotas, a well-known public figure in Greece passed away at the age of 100. He was one of the youngest professors of the University of Athens, Governor of the Bank of Greece, member of the National Academy,...
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