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Lieutenant Herbert Horatio Kitchener of the Royal Engineers arrived at Larnaca on September 13th 1878 with instructions from the Foreign Office in London to carry out a thorough triangulated survey of the Island on a scientific basis. This however…

International Year of Invalids

Αt the instigation of UNESCO and the “International Union of Geological Sciences”, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the “International Year of Planet Earth” and the three years 2007-2009 to be a period of international…

International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and 200 Years since birth of Florence Nightingale

Each year, May 12th is established as the International Nurses Day. 2020 has also been designated as the year of the nurse and the midwife. Nurses and…

International Youth Year

The International Parliamentary Union (IPU) whose headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland, was established in 1889. An international organization of parliaments of sovereign states it is the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue, peace and…

Ionian Helmet (Archaic Period 750-475 B.C)

This stamp depicts a jug of Bichrome ware decorated in the "freefield" style with a bull sniffing a lotus flower.It belongs to the Archaic Period (750-650 B.C.) and was discovered at Arnadi.It is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.The Archaic Period…

This stamp depicts a jug of Bichrome ware decorated in the "freefield" style with a bull sniffing a lotus flower.It belongs to the Archaic Period (750-650 B.C.) and was discovered at Arnadi.It is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.The Archaic Period…

On 18th December 1965 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2077(xx) on Cyprus, and having recalled all the Security Council Resolutions of 1964 and 1965, and parts of the Declaration adopted on 10th October 1964 by the Heads of…