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My grandmother met my grandfather in Laconia, where they fell in love and got married. However, my grandmother always felt incomplete, something was missing. What she missed was her home. Her origins were from a Greek city founded at the end of the 6th century BC by the Milesians. In that city, Greeks had lived continuously for 2,600 years. No one had ever expelled them from their ancestral lands or from the cities they themselves had founded, not even the Persians. But things began to change gradually in more recent history. From 1461 onward, the Ottomans and Mehmed II conquered the region. The Greeks started facing severe difficulties because of their status as Christians (dhimmis) in a Muslim empire. The perennial choice was to convert to Islam in order to end the suffering. Murders, slavery, abduction of children, torture, exorbitant taxes, seizure of properties, all of this would stop for a Greek who had lived in that land for 3,000 years if he simply changed his faith for the sake of people who did not belong there. They had come, just as many others had come before them, but none of the previous conquerors had been like the Ottoman Muslims and Islam. No one had ever been more inhumane and barbaric. For about five centuries, the Greeks endured immense suffering. Many converted to Islam. But some did not break. They managed to hold on for 500 years, faithful to their blood, their ancestors, their values, and their religion. So after 500 years, the time of reckoning had come. The Turks could not tolerate it any longer; they wanted to create a pure homeland. They chose to build this new homeland on lands that had never belonged to them. Therefore, every Christian, every Greek, every Armenian, and anyone who did not feel Turkish had to be expelled. Because "Turk" was not an identity with ethnic continuity and ancestors in those lands. A Turk at that moment was whoever had embraced Islam and renounced his past. Being Turkish was a fabricated identity without historical continuity in the region. Thus, in 1922, my grandmother was forced to leave her home, the home of Greek ancestors who had lived there since the 6th century BC. She left because after five centuries, the barbaric conqueror gave her only one choice: convert to Islam or die. The Quran or the yatagan (sword). My grandmother left. She escaped the genocide. She saw thousands of Greeks being slaughtered and dying of starvation, reduced to skeletons. But she managed to reach Greece. They first settled in Serres. There, the local Greeks welcomed them naturally as their own blood, as their brothers. They immediately helped them rebuild their lives. They helped them heal the wound of expulsion. Can you imagine it? Being driven out of your home? Running to save yourself so you wouldn’t be killed. My grandmother, from Serres, which was then a small town in Macedonia in Northern Greece, eventually found herself in the Peloponnese. There she met my Laconian grandfather. My Pontian grandmother met my Spartan grandfather. The city from which she was expelled was Kerasounta of Pontus (today’s Giresun). It is located near Trebizond (Trabzon). A city founded by Greeks in the 6th century BC, like the entire region of Pontus. In Kerasounta were found the most fierce and battle-hardened Greek guerrillas of Pontus, who resisted heroically and died in the battle. From there, my grandmother was forced to abandon her ancestral lands and flee to save her life. Yet she survived, she escaped death, and I, her grandson, born a Laconian, live today to fulfill her wish and her dream. Do you want to know what her desire was? Read the story again. Read my article about the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus. Put yourself in her place, and then tell me: what would your wish be if you were my grandmother? I will fight to fulfill this wish of hers. If I do not succeed, I will pass the torch to the next generation. Pontus – Greek Land Ρωμανία 'πέρασεν, η Ρωμανία 'πάρθεν Η Ρωμανία αν 'πέρασεν, ανθεί και φέρει κι άλλο.

🧵What do textiles teach us about globalism? I talked about this recently at an event hosted by @NCTO. In 1973, the denim in virtually every pair of blue jeans, in America and around the world, was made in Greensboro, N.C.

I am 60 years old and have lived virtually my entire life in the American South. I have never to my knowledge met a single member of the Ku Klux Klan. It is a ghost kept alive by millions of dollars in funding by the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep us divided.

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@brockpierson Sucked

What was your take on the Windows ME Operating System?

@50YearsAgoLive Nepo baby Martin Sheen

Little-known actor Martin Sheen replaces Harvey Keitel as the lead in Francis Ford Coppola’s new epic film, “Apocalypse Now.”

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Congress watching soldiers get arrested for insider trading

End of an era: Sbarro at W 33rd & 7th Ave, near MSG — permanently closed.

@eval_hub Is this an actual tv show? People are watching this wtf

They call her the Sacred Riana. This is witchcraft fr 🤯😳🔥

@historyinmemes I thought he was Mr. Bean

In 2021, José Luis Escrivá was delivering a live speech when he briefly paused to take a sip of water, mistakenly pouring it directly into the cup holder instead of using a glass.

Iryna Zarutska, remember her name.

The purpose of art was once not to shock or transgress, but to elevate the soul.

@vonderleyen FREE CYPRUS

We are on our way to Cyprus with good news. I welcome the agreement from the Member States on the 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine for 2026-27 and on 20th sanctions package. While Russia doubles down on its aggression, we are doubling down on our support to the brave Ukrainian nation enabling Ukraine to defend itself and putting pressure on Russia’s war economy.   Now we will move to swiftly implement on both fronts.

@ImMeme0 Mamdani should go visit the young man to check in on him.

NEW: Disturbing video shows a black teen slamming a girl to the ground and stomping on her head after she refused to give him her phone number in East Harlem, NY. He needs to be identify and put behind bars.

@yesterdaysprint All these youngsters on here thinking @ was a new thing

The Humboldt Union, Kansas, May 14, 1881