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My Uncle Yórgos in 1940
As it does every October 28th, contemporary Greece—a nation that, given the current state of affairs, might well be described as living through its final hour—commemorates its second national holiday. This date serves as an echo of March 25th, 1821, when the Greeks rose up against the yoke of the Ottoman Empire to win their independence.
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Dehellenization
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret—known as Le Corbusier—once visited Greece to discover “Air, Sound, and Light,” as he described in the famous address he delivered at the Athens Polytechnic during the Fourth Congress of Modern Architecture in the summer of 1933.