DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE

A blogsite offering 30 entertaining oddities each month since January 2020. We are currently approaching 1800 posts in these five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.

March 25, 2020

MAR 25, holidays and celebrations: Greek Independence Day

Today is GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY !

Authors' Note:

evzone: (EHV-zohn, anglicized form), member of an elite unit drawn from the Hellenic Army Infantry Corps

Grand Change: a more elaborate version of the hourly changing of the guard that takes place on Sunday mornings at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens' Syntagma Square, providing a popular photo-op for locals and tourists

Kleft (KLEHFT): Greek fighter in the War of Independence

fustanella: kilt made from 30 meters of white cotton, supposedly with 400 pleats to represent each of the years of Ottoman occupation.

DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE

March 25, 2020

MAR 25, holidays and celebrations: Greek Independence Day

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