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Did You Know? (29) By Jirair Tutunjian, 23 December 2022 According to Patriarch Maghakia Ormanian (1841-1918), the “Man…

Jirair Tutunjian, 10 December 2022 Roman author and military commander Gaius Plinius Secundus aka Pliny the Elder, in…

By Jirair Tutunjian, 25 November 2022 Celebrated Canadian and American actor John Vernon had Armenian-Polish roots. His baptismal…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 10 November 2022 Following the Genocide of Armenians, fifty Armenian orphan boys were taken…

By Jirair Tutunjian, 25 October 2022 The two fathers of the Armenian historical novel are Mateos Mamourian and …

By Jirair Tutunjian, 10 October 2022 The first encounter between Armenians and the French took place in 591…

By Jirair Tutunjian, 25 September 2022 All twelve founders of the Ottoman Bank (1856) were non-Turks. Eight were…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 10 September 2022 The first mention of Shakespeare in an Armenian text goes back…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 25 August 2022 According to Herodotus, the Celts originated from Armenia. The city of…

By Jirair Tutunjian, 10 August 2022 Raymond Vahan Damadian, the inventor of MRI, passed away on August 5,…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 25July 2022 The defeat at Sarikamish became the pretext to blame Armenian soldiers of…

By Jirair Tutunjian, 10 July 2022 In 1537, when Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim named Mimar (Builder) Sinan…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 25 May 2022 Although Greeks argue its accuracy, some Armenian scholars say St. Cyril…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 10 May 2022 Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) was a French Egyptologist who was the director-general…

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 24 April 2022 There are more than fifty place names (city, village, mountain, valley,…