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Technology
China Unveils World’s Fastest Internet Transmitting 150 Movies Per Second
China has recently rolled out the ‘world’s fastest internet network’ that it claims can transmit data at a rate of 1.2 terabits per second.
The project has been jointly developed by the Tsinghua University, China Mobile, Huawei and CERNET.com Corporation, according...
Hollywood
Super Mario Bros Movie Smashes Box Office Records
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has broken the record for the most successful global opening of all time for an animated film despite receiving an underwhelming response from critics.
The new movie stars Chris Pratt as the eponymous Mario, Jack...
Art
Greek Movie Ouzeri Tsitsanis in Shanghai International Film Festival
As part of the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival, held on June 11-19, 2016, the Greek movie Ouzeri Tsitsanis by Manousos Manousakis was selected for the Spectrum section, which keeps track of global cinema screenings. On the evening of...
Greek News
Iranian Movie Star Hamed Behdad Rejects Proposal by Greek Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos
The Iranian movie star Hamed Behdad rejected a proposal to act in a project that will be helmed by world-renowned Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos.
He visited Angelopoulos in Istanbul on Tuesday and was tested on Italian and French languages with Monica...
Crime
Griselda Blanco: Pablo Escobar’s Narco ‘Godmother’ Premieres on Netflix
Griselda Blanco, the notorious narco boss responsible for 250 killings, who also murdered several of her husbands and served as 'godmother' to young Pablo Escobar, is the subject of a new Netflix series debuted on January 25.
Colombian actress Sofia...
Ancient Greece
The Ancient Greeks of India’s Tamil Nadu Region
There was a time when ancient Greeks from the Indo-Greek empire in North India started migrating to Tamil Nadu. This is their saga:
In the extreme South of the Indian Sub-continent is a state known as Tamil Nadu, land of...
Greece
The Top Google Searches of 2023
On Monday, the California tech giant, Google, shared its "Year in Search," a summary of the topics most searched for globally in 2023.
These include both fun pop culture topics, such as the famous Barbenheimer, and tragic moments, including goodbyes...
History
Hannibal: The African General That Almost Conquered Rome
The intersection of Hannibal, African history, and Classics makes for a compelling story. Much of what we know of Hannibal is found in the Greco-Roman Classics. Yet, he can be considered a hero of African history.
Hannibal of Carthage is...
Greek News
Gen Z vs Millennials, Five Things That Set Them Apart
Time is flying, and the oldest Gen Zs, who are now between 22 and 23 years of age. Feeling old yet?
The problem is, nearly everyone groups them with Millennials in one huge category called "young people."
In reality, Millennials and...
Africa
The Greek Tribe of Africa
The name Vlahakis is widespread in Zambia, thanks to a brave Greek man from the island of Crete called Nikolaos Vlahakis who arrived in southern Africa at the end of the 19th century.
His descendants, who are members of the...
Culture
The Kalash: A Tribe of Alexander the Great’s Descendants in Pakistan
The people of the Kalash tribe, who live in the Chitral district of Pakistan, believe they are descendants of Alexander the Great's troops who settled in the area about 23 centuries ago. Numbering only about 4,000, their unique culture is...
Environment
Top 10 Threats to the Survival of Civilization
In today's world, civilization is much more complex than in the past. It now involves a global network of advanced technology and complex social organization that goes beyond what Webster, a famous dictionary writer, could have imagined.
Civilization today is...
Science
NASA Posts the Eerie Sound of a Black Hole
The sound of a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, which is located approximately 240 million light-years from Earth, was posted by NASA as part of what it described as a remixed sonification.
According to NASA,...
Environment
7.9 Billion and Counting: How Much Population Can the Earth Support?
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In June 2022, the world population is 7.9 billion individuals. Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we do nothing to manage future population growth and total resource use? These complex questions are ecological,...
entertainment
The “Greek Goddess of Bollywood”: Elli Avram
Greek actress Elisabet Avramidou Granlund left her home in Sweden at the tender age of 21 to move to India to become an actress in Bollywood. This is quite unusual, one might say, as the immigration route for most...