BIRTH OF HAMASDEGH

Hamasdegh was a leading Armenian-American writer and became a highly regarded name in the Armenian literature of the Diaspora.He was born Hampartsoum Gelenian in the village of Perchenj, in the region of Kharpert, on November 26, 1895.

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BIRTH OF MIKAEL NALBANDIAN

Nalbandian was born on November 14, 1829, in Nor Nakhichevan, the town close to Rostov-on-Don founded in the late eighteenth century by Armenian emigrants from Crimea, in the family of a craftsman. He studied in his hometown at the school of Gabriel Patkanian, and for a while he was classmate of his son, the future poet Rafael Patkanian (Kamar Katipa).

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VARAZTAD SAMUELIAN

Everyone has seen, in person or in picture, Yervant Kochar’s iconic statue of David of Sassoun in front of the train station of Yerevan. Fewer people are aware that a second, equestrian statue of the hero of the Armenian epic poem Saroyan stands in front of the courthouse in Fresno, California.

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