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He wrote the greatest of his books about Greece, "Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese" 1958, at the home of the painter Nikos Ghika on the island of Hydra.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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He wrote the greatest of his books about Greece, "Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese" 1958, at the home of the painter Nikos Ghika on the island of Hydra.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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In 1920, Liane retired from the life of a grand horizontale forever when she wed the Romanian Prince Ghika, whose parents cut him off without a penny when they heard he was to marry a courtesan.
Cocotte of the Week: Liane de Pougy | Edwardian Promenade 2010
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In conclusion, Ghika calls for a change in the way we think of neurodegenerative diseases.
Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection? 2009
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What Ghika has done is make an admirable synthesis by gathering evidence of the past several decades to amplify and extend Rapoport's old conjecture about Alzheimer's disease.
Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection? 2009
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Ghika makes the extension to 16 different kinds of neurodegenerative syndromes -- all related to recently evolved regions of the nervous system.
Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection? 2009
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Of later works - in several cases illustrated by the author himself or by his friends Picasso, Matisse, Ghika, Tsarouchis and others - can be mentioned: Exi ke miá típsis yia ton uranó (Six and One Remorses for the Sky) 1960, O ílios o iliátoras (The Sovereign Sun) and To monoghramma (The Monogram), both 1971, Ta ro tou érota (The Ro of Eros) 1972, Villa Natacha 1973,
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In connection therewith is also a boys 'school at Penteleimon, founded by the Ghika family, and remodelled by King Charles in 1868, to which a hospital of invalids is attached.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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A.ongst those who then and thereafter strove for the liberties of their country were John Bratiano, C.A. Rosetti, two members of the family of Ghika, Demetrius Stourdza, John Cantacuzene, and other laymen, and Golesco and others of the military profession.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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Ghika, a Roumanian, who announced himself to the Press as a claimant to the Albanian throne, and was taken seriously even by some quite respectable journals.
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