Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 5, 2014)
Hungarian Proverb Good coffee should be black as the devil, hot as hell, and sweet as a kiss. Committee Work Individuals can create music, literature, and paintings, but it takes a whole nation to […]
Hungarian Proverb Good coffee should be black as the devil, hot as hell, and sweet as a kiss. Committee Work Individuals can create music, literature, and paintings, but it takes a whole nation to […]
On Fri., June 20, some 600 commissioners to the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), meeting in Detroit, Mich., adopted with near unanimity a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide and adopting the 2015 […]
BUENOS AIRES (Asbarez.com)—During an official visit to Argentina, Armenia’s President Serzh Sarkisian met with the Armenian community of Buenos Aires. In a speech, Sarkisian remarked that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s recent proposal for a […]
This week, let’s go for some schadenfreude shall we? It’s getting close to five years since this kind of “fun” was so broadly available that I could write a piece, and this time, all the […]
“You’re Armenian? Well, I know you fought Azerbaijan and won,” a Scandinavian girl told me when we were first introduced a few years ago. I did not comprehend the value of those words back then. […]
WASHINGTON—The Armenian National Committee of America’s (ANCA) Hovig Apo Saghdejian Capital Gateway Program and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Young Professionals (YP) D.C. chapter joined forces recently to offer a hands-on training seminar for […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly Knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 is etched into the American psyche. Less known are the simultaneous attacks on the Philippines, Hong Kong, the […]
HAMILTON, N.Y.—George Avakian, a legendary jazz producer, recording industry innovator, and music historian, received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Colgate University at Colgate’s 2014 commencement on May 18. “George Avakian has provided the soundtrack for generations of jazz […]
ANDOVER, Mass.—The year was 1954. Roger Banister broke the four-minute mile barrier. Philly-born pool player Willie Mosconi sunk 526 pool balls without missing. Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Lana Turner were sizzling Hollywood stars. Doris […]
Dr. Sonia Poochikian-Sarkissian presented the following talk during the unveiling ceremony (Kinetzon) of the book Sisters of Mercy and Survival: Armenian Nurses, 1900-1930 by Dr. Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, at the Saint Mary Armenian Apostolic Church in Toronto, […]
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