The custom of Kyra-Lent is one of the oldest customs associated with the celebration of Easter, but today more or less forgotten. It has always served as a calendar to count the weeks from Clean Monday to Holy Week, as Kyra-Lent has 7...

Tall and strong you are, father! Nothing on earth frightens me. With you, every day is like a festival, and the night is restless until dawn. Your word, unbroken from your lips, leads us on the path of goodness. You are a solid beam, a stone pillar, my father, and...

The raindrops dance like a syrtaki on the back of my umbrella and I spin around with joy and get lost in my dream alone. I think that with work and perseverance I will become a prima ballerina and if I try even harder they might even take me to the Bolshoi!...

The English word Sock is an ancient Greek word (καλτσα) While the English word sock itself is West Germanic in direct origin, it ultimately has its roots in ancient Greek. The linguistic evolution of the word is as follows: Ancient Greek: It comes from the word συχός,...

In the autumn season, a light rain fell, the snails woke up and mushrooms sprouted. In our yard, like umbrellas, leopards appeared and drooling animals crawled around in their tiny houses. In the old elm tree, the birds found shelter. Two turtles surprised us and in the...

ROMA -AMOR - Latin Palindromes The original Byzantine fountain (bottle) that was located in the atrium of Hagia Sophia and bore the famous cancer inscription "NIPSON ANOMIMATA MI MONAN OPSIN" does not survive today. This phrase, which is read the same from the reverse...

The Phoenician origin of the Greek alphabet It is no shame not to be first in everything! Vasileios Argyropoulos Linguist Source: Excerpt from the linguistic website: http://www.geocities.com/vasargyr Some fanatics of Neopaganism, if anything, have...

- Sir, sir, Vasilis called Nineta a slut!... Leto slapped Themis!... Totos pushed Zeta!... The boys are saying dirty words!... Vangelis teased me!... Girls don't play with me!... Telis called me a martyr!... - You said it well, Dina!...

In the blue waters I swim like a dolphin, but grandma won't let me open up in the deep. - "Don't look at her sweet and peaceful," she tells me, "because, where she laughs, she turns blue and cries. Did you see how she swallowed your mask with a slur, just as you let your little hands go limp yesterday?"...

"Are we playing fly-fly?" said Vicki and laughed, because she had it in her mind to confuse her grandfather. The hawk and the falcon raise their little hand to the sky, but you never raise it when they say Antonis is flying. The seagull flies to the peaks, the...