Questions tagged [greece]
for questions about claims based in Greece, or limited in Greece.
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Do Greeks evade taxes by not finishing their houses?
I've heard this claim several times:
Q: Why are there so many unfinished houses in Greece?
A: as long as the house is not finished, they don't have to pay building tax for it. So the leave it ...
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Are there more Greeks driving Porsche Cayennes than paying high-rate tax?
The following claim has been attributed to economist Professor Herakles Polemarchakis.
A couple of years ago, there were more Cayennes circulating in Greece
than individuals who declared and ...
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Did Turkey and Greece attempt to gain control of NATO nuclear weapons to use on each other during the Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964?
The following quote from an article on arstechnica.com, talking about PAL codes required for arming US nuclear missles, states that Turkey and Greece were attempting to gain control of nuclear weapons ...
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Is the Greek government rounding up “undesirables” into internment camps?
This petition claims that, having begun by building internment camps for migrants, the Greek government has gone on to "round up":
Drug users
Sex workers
Transgender people
... and is imprisoning ...
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Did classical Greeks claim that children are solely products of the father's sperm?
I just read on a site about Greek mythology:
It may seem odd for Metis to have been pregnant with Athena but, never mentioned as her mother. This is because the classic Greeks believed that ...
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Do civil servants in Greece receive 3 days of holiday for donating blood?
Greek civil servants get three days leave for donating blood.
A civil servant would be allowed to donate blood twice a year. This means, he could claim an extra 6-day leave. I cannot tell, if ...
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Is the video of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis showing a middle finger fake?
On February 12 this year the organizers of the Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, uploaded a video to YouTube showing a speech of Yanis Varoufakis, who is now the Greek minister of finance. ...
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Could greek euro notes become forcibly converted to drachmas?
The british MP John Redwood recently claimed in the Daily Mail that
It’s unlikely, but what you could have is a situation whereby Greece
had to leave the eurozone and their euros were ...
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Did the Greeks provide Turks with ammunition during the Greek War of Independence to save the Parthenon?
The following anecdote can be found in the History Revealed magazine from January 2015.
In 1822, during the Greek War of Independence, Turkish troops found themselves under siege at the Acropolis – ...
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Did 79% of Greeks not have health insurance in 2013?
The following claim on recession in Greece is pretty shocking on its face, but also a little muddy:
Citing OECD data of 2013, the BoG [Bank of Greece] underlines that 79% of the population in ...
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Did Yanis Varoufakis tweet to Lagarde about repaying dues?
There's a screenshot of a Twitter status circulating suggesting that at 1:19 AM - 1 Jul 2015 Yanis Varoufakis tweeted:
@Lagarde sorry for the delay. I am really trying to pay the due but I cannot ...
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Did Thales conduct experiments in electricity?
Many school texts and other popular sources claim Thales of Miletus conducted experiments in electricity, showing amber to attract feathers, for example, supposedly.
However, I can find no verifiable ...
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Is Melbourne the third-largest `Greek city' in the world?
Melbourne, Victoria has a large number of people with Greek heritage. It often has claims that its Greek population rivals cities in Greece. For example:
EMelbourne
By 2004 Melbourne's Greek ...
