Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
About Ron Pavellas
reader, writer, a sometimes poetOctober 28 is Oxi! (No!) Day for Greeks
At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, during the World War Two, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Prime Minister Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. Mussolini demanded that Metaxas allow … Continue reading →
Posted in Greece, war
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Tagged Albania, Hitler, Ioannis Metaxas, Iron Curtain, Mussolini, Operation Barbarossa, Winston Churchill
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Wisdom From Oz
[I posted this many years ago in my book review blog. I offer it here and now because of a conversation I have just had with some family members] Johnny Dooit’s* Song (See footnote): The only way to do … Continue reading →
Posted in Books & Literature, Childhood, Family, memories, stories
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Tagged L. Frank Baum, Oz
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