Lenin

Once upon a time, Athens had a river running through it, the Kifissos, flowing from Mt. Parnitha through the city down to the Saronic Gulf. A city really needs a river or body of water to be considered World...

Apparently agitated, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras on Aug. 29 condemned speculators he said were getting rich by betting against Greece, saying they just wanted to capitalize on failure, although he intimated they had unwilling accomplices in "willing idiots"...

The beginning of the end of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece in 1821, which gave birth to the modern Greek state, and the fall of Smyrna in Asia Minor a century later in 1922 were the bookends for revolutions...