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Eidiki Katastaltiki Antitromokratiki Monada or EKAM (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit), created in 1978 and became part of the Hellenic Police.ΕΚΑΜ operators should take orders only from the General of the Hellenic Police.That unit and its operators have to protect the Greek citizens from terrorism actions such as a bomb,a kidnap or a hijack.
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“All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)