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Kostas Varnalis completes his foremost literary translations
Kostas Varnalis completes his chief literary translations
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A monumental ideational piece look after sculpture hard Giorgos Zoggolopoulos is installed at interpretation entrance grapple DET (Thessaloniki International Exposition)
Giorgos Zoggolopoulos (1903-2004) is a unique cultured personality carry the Ordinal century hem in Greece. Smartness created his most physical, innovative, be first mature attention from representation 70s propose the 90s, and of course was hollered a "perpetual teenager" increase to his constantly transforming artistic slang and his experimentation leave your job for
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Menas Kafatos: The scientist who goes beyond the universe
The leading astrophysicist and philosopher, prolific and widely read, Dr. Menas Kafatos, has contributed significantly to global science with his studies in the fields of computing, astrophysics, earth systems science, hazards and climate change, the regional effects of climate change, quantum mechanics and consciousness. Dr. Menas Kafatos rightfully belongs to the world scientific elite.
By Mia Kollia
Translated by Alexandros Theodoropoulos
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- What have been the most important milestones in your life?
I can identify four milestones that defined my life:
To begin with I would definitely include my childhood years in Crete; these magical years, with painting, with observation of the sky, the galaxy, the planets and the moon. Science and astrophysics became part of me ever since. Back then I realised for the first time, even vaguely, how vast the Universe is.
At 18 years old I left for the US where I did my studies in physics at Cornell University and continued with more specific doctoral studies in physics at the M.I.T. with the famous physicist/astrophysicist Philip Morrison, who was a student of Oppenheimer.
As I was studying the Universe I gradu
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We stepped onto the rear terrace, leaving Soraya staring after us. Outside, the sun stubbornly shone as usual, and from inside, we could hear Babis's servant bustling about, arranging chairs and small tables, hanging up paintings, garlands, and peculiar decorations, and placing all sorts of knick-knacks. Everything, including gilded furniture in the Empire style, or as Babis called it, the imperial style, he had brought along from above, stored in the evening's bar, the container. Everywhere, tucked among Eberhard's furniture in the Hydra style, were Babis's otherworldly influences: gold, gold, and more gold. Perhaps Trimalchio, the freed slave from Satyricon, would recognise himself among this newly acquired wealth. If this is how Babis lives on his sun, it’s understandable that one must let the objects shine to be noticed on Earth.
"Dimitri doesn't make much noise when he doesn't have his bouzouki. He's here to practice," Babis pointed to a man in Cossack boots sitting on the pedestal of an old sundial. "He looks worn and outdated quite rightly for a man born in 1897, the same year as the Thirty Days' War with the Turks over who would rule Cre