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World Food Day is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and the informed year-round action to alleviate hunger. On October 14th 1981, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, proclaimed October 16th 1981 as…

World Communications Year Logo

Bee-keeping in Cyprus has a history going back many centuries and visitors today to monasteries and villages can still come across beehives which are tended by monks and village folk. Dennis Possot, a priest on his way to the Holy Places landed in…

Andreas A. Ioannides, the designer of these stamps is a well-known Cypriot artist who excels on the international scene. From 1978 to 1994 he designed the majority of Cyprus stamps. He is renowned for the depth of his knowledge in the traditions and…

Andreas A. Ioannides, the designer of these stamps is a well-known Cypriot artist who excels on the international scene. From 1978 to 1994 he designed the majority of Cyprus stamps. He is renowned for the depth of his knowledge in the traditions and…

Betty Ford, First Lady of the Unites States, addressing the International Women's Year Conference on 25th October 1975, believed that the best way to celebrate the year was to examine the very real problems women face today and not the progress of…

K. Lanitis and N. Nikolaides officially founded scouting in Cyprus in 1913, with the assistance of the United Kingdom. In 1961 the movement was admitted to the World Bureau (WOSM). The Cyprus Scouts Association is open to all boys and girls…

Winter (Detail from Four Seasons, Mosaic 3rd Century A.D.)

The first modern winery was built in 1893 in Limassol and by 1943 there were four major wineries supplying to the European and world markets. In the 1980s small wineries were established with a capacity of 50,000 to 300,000 bottles a year while the…

Windsurfing at Paphos