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The internet is so accessible to everyone. There are many wonderful sites that help us with the information they provide. We look up for a specific term and find many sites. However, the most important question is, how to know if they are legitimate sites, providing correct information. Recently on Facebook there was the link of a site, that claims to know the ancient languages that are still in use today: They had eliminated many obvious languages, including Greek, Assyrian, Armenian among others. Hence, I started to do a search of sites that are not reliable and to avoid. They are misleading in many ways. I am glad to find in Wikipedia the following link - check out The List of Fake News Websites : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites I will include on this blog page other sites, which by many get verified as exist by having catchy headlines, however the content is never verified for accuracy. It Took Facebook More Than A Year — And A Whistleblower — To Re...

This morning Joyce had shared the following message by Arman Akopian Quote: "Jewish fighters who hummed an Armenian love-song between their battles It is difficult to find out today how an Armenian folk-song, “Hingalla”, about a shepherd in love (lyrics below), became known to fighters of Palmach, an underground Jewish military brigade active in Palestine in 1941-1948. According to Haim Hefer (19-2012), a poet and a former member of Palmach, so popular was the melody of “Hingalla” among his comrades-in-arms that around 1945 he added Hebrew lyrics to it. And so “Finjan” (“A coffee cup”) was born, a song about soldiers who drink coffee around the camp-fire and tell each other tall stories. The song was first published in 1946 in a Palmach song-book, with the melody presented as “Russian,” but starting from 1949 all subsequent publications referred to it as “Armenian folk.” “Finjan” became very popular in Israel thanks to Yaffa Yarkoni, an Israeli singer born in 1925 into a famil...

Here is the new Lebanese Diaspora Houses video. Check it out to give you an idea of the new Diaspora houses being created in Batroun, Lebanon