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Incoming British PM Boris Johnson, lover of Greece, can recite the Iliad in Ancient Greek but won’t return the Parthenon MarblesHe loves Greece and was spotted in Pelion in January 2019, and again last year. Nonetheless, despite his love for Greece and awe of the country’s culture, it is unlikely that he will work towards the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures, and in his usual contradictory style has said that the marbles were “rescued quite rightly” by Lord Elgin.
While the parents of NY-born Boris Johnson were British, his maternal great-grandfather was Circassian-Turkish journalist Ali Kemal, a secular muslim, and Johnson’s mother was also the granddaughter of Russian Jewish palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe and his maternal great-grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew and Orthodox Jewish rabbi. His paternal ancestry was English and French. In reference to his ancestry, Boris has described himself as a “one-man melting pot” thanks to a combination of Muslims, Jews and Christians in his family history.
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Ex-race car driver says road accidents in Greece tantamount to 'genocide'A veteran Greek race car driver and road safety activist has likened the number of traffic deaths in the country over the past 50 years to “genocide” and calls on the new government to start educating motorists on proper driving behavior when they're still children.In an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, retired rally champion Tasos Markouizos said that an estimated 120,000 people have died on Greece's roads in the past 50 years, 350,000 have been disabled by traffic accidents and more than 2 million have been injured. Road accidents “are wiping out the Greek race,” he said.
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Topic: 25/07/19 (Read 1323 times)
