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Dimitris Nikolaidis
Dimitris Nikolaidis ( el, Δημήτρης Νικολαΐδης; 1922 – 21 January 1993) was a Greek actor. Career He was born in 1922 in Asia Minor and died in January 1993. His journey of life began on a ship that headed from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to Piraeus, between them two youngsters, Eftalia and Nikos. His family moved to Greece to escape the Turkish raids. During his transfer trip, his father got sick. The family settled in Athens as the father's sickness did not retreat (the problem was mainly genetic as from the father's organism that shook an enzyme, it cleaned the blood without knowing that revived the body). He died soon after at Sotiria hospital from galloping pneumonia. Nine days earlier Dimitris was born. From his young age he loved sports even track and field. He was a good student which he was one of the 30 children that passed with scholarship from the Experimental School in Kolonaki which was the greatest school in Athens on Skoufas Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
America, America
''America America'' (British title ''The Anatolian Smile''—a reference to an ongoing acknowledgment of the character Stavros' captivating smile) is a 1963 American drama film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, adapted from his own book, published in 1962. Inspired by the life of his uncle, Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou, Kazan used little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis, twenty-one years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie. ''America America'' is one of Martin Scorsese’s favorite films. In 2001, ''America, America'' was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation. Plot In the late 1890s, Cappadocian Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Giallelis) lives in an im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pos Pernoun I Pandremeni
POS, Pos or PoS may refer to: Linguistics * Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence * Poverty of the stimulus, a linguistic term used in language acquisition and development * Sayula Popoluca (ISO 639-3), an indigenous language spoken in Veracruz, Mexico Music * P.O.S (rapper) (born 1981), or Stefon Alexander, American hip hop artist * Pain of Salvation, Swedish progressive metal band * Posdnuos (born 1969), or Kelvin Mercer, New York hip-hop artist Places * Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago * Piarco International Airport (IATA code), Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago * Pomona (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code), California, US Science and technology * Political opportunity structure, an approach to explain social movements * Polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease of the ovaries * Probability of success, in statistics * Product of sums, a canonical form in Boolean algebra Computing * P/OS, operating system of DEC Professional PCs from Digital Equipment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YENED
The Armed Forces Information Service ( el, Υπηρεσία Ενημερώσεως Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων, ΥΕΝΕΔ, ''Ypiresia Enimeroseos Enoplon Dynameon'', ''YENED'') was the television and radio station of the Greek Armed Forces, operating from 1966 until its conversion to a civilian broadcaster in 1982. History TED begins The station was set up on an experimental basis on the grounds of the Hellenic Military Geographical Service, and began broadcasting on 27 February 1966, a few days after the start of television broadcasts from the National Radio Foundation (EIR). Originally it was called Armed Forces Television (Τηλεόρασις Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων, ΤΕΔ). TED becomes YENED In November 1970, it was renamed the Armed Forces Information Service, now including radio stations as well. It remained under military control until 3 November 1982, when it was renamed ERT2. Last years under the civilian control as ERT-2 In 1987, ERT2 and ERT1 were amalgama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souli Sabah
Anastasia Christodoulou ( el, Αναστασία Χριστοδούλου; 16 February 1932 – 2 May 2023), known professionally as Souli Sabah ( el, Σούλη Σαμπάχ), was a Greek actress and singer. Biography Sabah was born on 16 February 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father came from Polemi and her mother from Chios. In the 1950s, the family came to Athens and Sabah started singing at the secular center "Gaki". She made her first film appearance in the film ''Laterna, poverty and honor'', together with Tzeni Karezi, Vasilis Avlonitis and Mimis Fotopoulos Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos ( el, Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist. He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School o .... She also performed on television and in the theater in major productions and reviews. Sabah was also the wife of actor Dimitris Nikolaidis, while living in Athens. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi Aroni
Mairi may refer to: Given name Mairi or Màiri is a given name, a Scottish Gaelic form of Mary. Notable people with this name include: *Mairi MacEwan, (born 2003) Scottish dancer from Aberdeen *Mairi Campbell, Scottish singer and musician * Mairi Chisholm (1896–1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War *Mairi Hedderwick (born 1939), Scottish illustrator and author * Màiri McAllan, Scottish politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Clydesdale * Màiri Anna Nic Leòid (English: Mary Anne Macleod), mother of 45th President of the United States Donald Trump Other uses *Mairi, Bahia, municipality in Brazil See also *Mhairi, variant of the given name *Mairu Mairu (plural: mairuak), also called Maideak, Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in mount ..., creatures of Basque mythology {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Gynaika Mou Trellathike
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekeines Kai Ego
Ekeines kai Ego (Greek: Εκείνες και Εγώ) was a Greek television sitcom starring Yannis Bezos and Tasos Kostis. It is written by Bezos and Andreas Morfonios and directed by Morfonios. The series aired 1996, and lasted two seasons. It is one of Bezos' most popular sitcoms. Title The title means "Those and me". "Those" refers to the women surrounding the series' main character, a hopeless womanizer. It was based on Costas Pretederis' earlier hit series ''Ekeines kai Ego'' (1996), and featured Lambros Konstantaras in the role of Lambros Donganos, Antonis Yakovakis as his friend Dimitris Marikos and Rena Voutsina as Debora. The original series was directed by Dimitris Nikolaidis. Pretederis was also the writer for the 1996 version. Main characters Zahos Donganos The protagonist of this series is Zahos Doganos (Yannis Bezos), a rich ladies' man whose interests revolve around women and partying hard. Although he has a fiancée, Eleni, this doesn't seem to affect his life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costas Voutsas
Kostas or Costas ( el, Κώστας) is a Greek given name and surname. As a given name it is the hypocorism for Konstantinos (Constantine). Given name * Costas Andreou, Greek musician * Kostas Antetokounmpo (born 1997), a Greek basketball player * Costas Azariadis (born 1943), Greek economist * Kostas Biris (1899–1980), Greek architect * Costas Georgiou (1951–1976), Greek Cypriot mercenary * Kostas Lazarides (born 1949), aka Kostas (songwriter), Greek-American country music songwriter * Costas Mandylor (born 1965), Greek Australian actor * Kostas Papanikolaou (born 1990), Greek basketball player * Costas Rigas (born 1944), Greek basketball player * Costas Simitis (born 1936), former Prime Minister of Greece * Kostas Hatzichristos (1921–2001), Greek actor * Kostas Karamanlis (born 1956), former Prime Minister of Greece * Kostas Koufogiorgos (born 1972), Greek-German cartoonist Surname * Bob Costas (born 1952), American sportscaster and talk show host * John P. Costas (eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambros Konstantaras
Lambros Konstantaras (13 March 1913 – 28 June 1985) was a Greek film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1940 and 1981. He was born and died in Athens. Biography He was born in 1913, in Kolonaki, Athens. He studied acting in Paris and graduated in 1933, making his theatre debut in France in 1937. The following year, he returned to Greece and worked in theatre. After working in several theatre groups he formed his own with Jenny Karezi, Maro Kontou and Nikos Rizos, often working together with such actresses as Ellie Lambeti, Aliki Vougiouklaki and others. However, Konstantaras was far better known as a film actor, playing leading roles in more than 80 movies. In cinema, he debuted in 1939 with the film ''The Parting Song'', the first Greek sound film. In his youth, many of his roles were of a serious nature but later on in life he played almost exclusively comic roles usually as an executive or the father of the bride, etc. He cooperated with Alekos Sakellarios in many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzeni Karezi
Tzeni Karezi ( el, Τζένη Καρέζη, 12 January 1932 – 26 July 1992); also known as Jenny Karezi, was a Greek film and stage actress. Biography Early life Evgenia Karpouzi was born in Athens, Greece, to a mathematician father and high school teacher mother. She studied under the direction of the Sisters of St Joseph at a private French school in Thessaloniki, and later by the same Order in Athens. She learned French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother. Her father died in a car accident in 1971. In 1951 she was accepted at the Greek National Theater (''Εθνικό Θέατρο''), where she studied in the Drama School. The playwright Angelos Terzakis and the director Dimitris Rontiris were among her teachers. Upon graduation, in 1954, she was immediately thrust into starring roles in the theatre, playing alongside actors such as Alexis Minotis and Katina Paxinou. Career Her stage debut was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
