Fellow Hellenes, Philhellenes, and history Scholars,
The three underwriters of this letter took the initiative to establish a committee that will build a "Hemerologion" (ship captain's log book) HTML document, with the title "HELLAS AND THE SEA". This page will outline the major events involved in the development of Hellas (Greece) as a prominent maritime nation from the ancient to modern times providing information about Hellenic activities related to the sea.
Evangelos is a maritime shipping person, Thanos is a computer professional, active in the internet community for Hellenic matters, and Michalis is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto Canada. All have been volunteer their time to organize and chart this voyage.
Evangelos' Greek Maritime company (Rigos Chartering Inc.) is located in New York City. It arranges the transportation of oil, on behalf of major oil companies, from its production site to industrial nations on a world wide basis. He is also a volunteer member of an ARPA (Advance Research Project Agency, http://www.arpa.mil) project called Maritech/NSnet, to electronically unite the Maritime community on a Global basis.
The ARPA is credited for the creation of the internet, the GPS (Global Positioning System) and several other technological innovations. ARPA's network NSnet, is divided into seven sections. Maritime is one of the sections in which Rigos is in charge. For more information you can send a message to info@nsnet.com or visit the web pages of NSnet (http://www.nsnet.com) HREF="http://velox.stanford.edu/hellas">http://velox.stanford.edu/hellas).
The plan is to divide the home page into historical and traditional periods, and establish sub-committees to do research for each period. We need history majors to contribute with their knowledge of the historical periods, we need archeologists to give us their expertise on the ancient times, we need sportsmen to build the sports section of the page and we need HTML developers to build the web pages, and we need plain enthusiasts who want to volunteer their spare time to do research on any subject as required. Finally, we need history mariners to tell us the sea story of HELLAS AND THE SEA.
This CALL is for mariners. The task we have embarked upon is monumental. Tens of people are joining together from all over the world without even knowing each other for this cause. If you want to join us in this effort, read the attached Poseidon Hemerologion, and follow the directions how to become a crew member.
_________________________________________________________________________ Capt. Evangelos Rigos (New York) rigos@dts.net Thanos Voudouris (Washington D.C.) tvoudour@csc.com Michalis Kolios (Toronto Canada) mkolios@oci.utoronto.ca