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There is a history in all men's lives.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)


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submitted by Kytherian World Heritage Fund on 30.11.2010

Life in Australia, 1916….how history unfolded in the ensuing generations.

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Damian N Andronicus (Diamianos Andronikos) ……the last man standing…..



Damian N Andronicus, in his home, September, 2010



Life in Australia , written in 1916, was the first book published in the Greek language in Australia. It was also an important first chronicle of ...

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submitted by George Vardas on 21.05.2006

The Village of Watermills

THE VILLAGE OF WATERMILLS


“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”


When you leave the town square of Milopotamos, a handwritten sign “to the mills” beckons on a track leading just off the main road. Before long you find yourself walking along a well-beaten path gradually descending into a world of long-abandoned ...

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submitted by George Vardas on 19.06.2005

The hand that scrawled graffiti: A Scottish traveller on Kythera in the nineteenth century

The hand that scrawled graffiti:
A Scottish traveller on Kythera in the nineteenth century

This is a story about a simple inscription, “GALT 1810” which can still be found in a limestone cave on the island of Kythera. What it represents and how it came to be etched onto a rocky formation in one of the inner chambers of the cave of Agia Sofia will take us on a journey of the Romantic imagination, a journey back into the nineteenth century of travellers, dreamers and the ...