Giannis Ritsos

 

Giannis Ritsos was a great and prolific Greek poet of international importance, which belongs to the so-called generation of '30.

"Epitaphios,  Romiosyne, and Moonlight Sonata" is three of the most known works.

In 1975 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

During the occupation Ritsos lived prostrate nonetheless participated in the activity of the Cultural Section of EAM and refused to accept money from fundraisers, when in danger the life of the hardship in 1942.

In 1945 writes the "Romiosini" still a popular poem of, who in 1966 set to music by Mikis Theodorakis.

During the Civil War he was exiled because of the left action.

In 1956 he traveled to the Soviet Union as a State representative intellectuals and journalists and the same year was awarded the State Prize for Poetry for "Moonlight Sonata".

When I read the great French poet and writer Louis Aragon (1897 - 1982) felt the "physical shock a genius" and stated that the creation is "the greatest of the poets of our life that are found in the life"

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MIKIS THEODORAKIS‏

Great composer, politician and writer, the most important and most controversial personalities of modern Greece.

Mikis Theodorakis was born in Chios on 29 July 1925, from father Crete and Asia Minor mother.

Before the Second World War had discovered the love for the music and wrote the first compositions.

During the Civil War (1946-1949) will be exiled first in Ikaria and then in Makronissos.

1958 reads the epitaph of Ritsos and on-night composer the first eight poems.

In 1960 they recorded for the first time the voice of Grigoris Mpithikotsis.

Theodorakis continues composer and the poetry of the leading representatives of the generation of 30
(Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos).

Stand out the works "Axion Esti" and "Mauthausen"!

1964 will write music for Michalis Kakoyannis' film "Zorbas"!

With the dictatorship of 21 April 1967, will begin a new cycle of persecution and exile for the composer, which will end in 1970 with the amnesty granted to him.

In the exintachroni career, Mikis Theodorakis, has written more than 1000 songs, many symphonic works, music for dozens of plays and tragedies, operas and film scores.

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George Seferis

George Seferis was a Greek diplomat, poet and writer, and the first Greek winner of the Nobel Prize in 1963.

He is one of the most important Greek poets with rich works and one of only Greek Nobel laureate literature together with Odysseas Elytis.

In 1963, George Seferis, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

As argued, the choice Seferis, there was an opportunity to attribute a wonderful tribute in modern Greece, a linguistic area that waited too long for a prize-giving at this level.

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Mohamed Ali

Mohamed Ali, the top boxers of all time he left today from life at the age of 74 years.

A legend in every sense of the word, that the Olympic Games of Rome in 1960 won the gold medal.

In 1964 he got his first world title in total and became heavyweight champion in three consecutive occasions!

Major sporting and news media highlighted the athlete of the century!

"I want to be remembered as a man who does not ever sell their own"

he said himself that beyond the great performance of the ring and had huge social action and influence with his word.

In 2005 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honorary distinction of American States for their citizens!

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MANOS HADJIDAKIS ( 1925 - 1994 )‏

Unique, ingenious and restless, the greater musical genius of Greece, Manos Hadjidakis, born on 23 October 1925 in Xanthi.

In the difficult years of occupation and liberation, Manos Hadjidakis worked as a stevedore at the port of Piraeus, ice seller in the Fix factory, employee at a photo, assistant Nurse in military hospital.

Enter both theory lessons and music. Notably, of the four years of gets piano lesson, while teaching violin and bellows.

Manos Hadjidakis meets artists and intellectuals who will help shape his thinking.

In 1960 wins the prize Oscar for the song "The children of Piraeus" by Jules Dassin film "Never on Sunday" song which will be among the best ten of the 20th century.

During all these years, Manos Hadjidakis, dozens of signed musical Tablets longer considered classics.

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PLUMP AND RUNT‏

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel been the funniest gem in the history of cinema.

"Plump and Runt" they had a professional ambition.

They wanted to make people laugh!

The methods and the technique had many elements of the clown, funny they did their children to chuckles from the innocence of two wonderful comedians, kings of laughter.

Two asteroids 2865 and 2866 was named Laurel and Hardy in memory of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN ( 1889 - 1977 )‏

Sir Charlie Chaplin-known with the diminutive Charlie and Greece mainly with the nickname "Sarlο", he was English actor, director and screenwriter, who flourished in the first decades of Hollywood.

Is It time to first, recognizable figures of cinematic art mainly through the Sarlo character who incarnated in the first film.

He not only starred, but was also the screenwriter, director and composer of music for film. Flagship, global personality.

It is among the leading artists of the seventh art of all time.

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