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2 days ago · Some of these descendants would later rule as monarchs over several European countries, including Greece, Russia, and the United Kingdom. The families of Christian and Louise, their children, and their grandchildren are described below.
2 days ago · Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Philip’s mother, was a little-known member of the British royal family, who lived a tumultuous life of tragedy but also of great philanthropic work in Greece. Princess Alice, who was the mother of Prince Philip and who became the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II in 1947, spent half her life in Greece.
5 days ago · Princess Thyra of Denmark (Thyra Amalie Caroline Charlotte Anna; 29 September 1853 – 26 February 1933) was the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. In 1878, she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover.
1 day ago · Constantine II ( Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, romanized : Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonstaˈdinos ðefˈteros]; 2 June 1940 – 10 January 2023) [1] was the last King of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973. Constantine was born in Athens as the only son of Crown Prince Paul ...
4 days ago · Academy, in ancient Greece, the academy, or college, of philosophy in the northwestern outskirts of Athens where Plato acquired property about 387 bce and used to teach. At the site there had been an olive grove, a park, and a gymnasium sacred to the legendary Attic hero Academus (or Hecademus).
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5 days ago · From their tragedies of the 5th century, they learned who they were, something of the possibilities and limitations of the spirit, and of what it meant, not merely what it felt like, to be alive in a world both beautiful and terrible. Aeschylus has been called the most theological of the Greek tragedians.
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4 days ago · (Don McCullin) In 1964, communal violence broke out after Greek-Cypriots expelled Turks from government posts. That led to the arrival of the first Canadian Blue Helmets, drawn from the First...
