Costas was born in a place within the deep regions of Mani back around 1880 (at the height of British Capitalism). At the turn of the century, Costas immigrated to the New World where he landed a job as a bouncer in a Boston bar (Costas was about 6 foot 2 weighed about 160 Kg pure muscle and bone with Herculean strength, a torso of a bull, and a ding bat insofar as intelligence was concerned).
In one of those rowdy nights, a brawl took place in this well known bar 
and a particular “gentleman” of Irish descent broke a bottle and went for Costas’ throat. Costas, spontaneously picked up a chair and summarily brought it down on the Irish bloke’s skull, killing the noble gent (when an Irishman and a Greek fight its over a woman, or money. In this case it was for the eyes of a lovely Irish lass named Doreen).
The bar management (the bar manager was also an Irishman but a very good friend of Costas; even today in the area people wonder how the 
two communicated since Costas could barely pronounce a word of English except : “oa,to,tree,for,fa” (i.e. One, two three, four, five)) quickly led Costas out the back door.
Anyway, the penalty in those days for 2nd degree murder for a Greek immigrant was death, so they rushed Costas through the underground train to New York and put him on a ship back to the motherland.
The problem is that they put him on the wrong ship, and Costas found himself after 30 days in Cyprus. In 1910, while Greece was preparing for the Balkan wars Cyprus was still a British colony[1], so upon landing, Costas took note of the British flag, but the fact that the locals spoke Greek, and cited the famous words “Shit, I didn’t know that Britain was a Greek colony?”
Anyway, Costas eventually found his way to Greece, eloped with ½ dozen ladies (he was a well known ladies man), won the lottery (really, he did!) and a turkey to go along, opened a Grocery store and left it to his sons Panagiotis and Petros, went down to Mani and became good friends with Nikos Kazantzakis where he provided coffee and cake while Big Nick wrote the life and times of Alexis Zorbas (at Kalogria).
When the kids asked Costas what he learnt in the US, Costas answered“oa,to,tree,for,fa” .
Costas eventually passed away leaving his wife his two kids, a donkey a house and a well.
The house today, in Stoupa, is home to a successful restaurant business and overseas the tiny Stoupan bay.
[1] Britain left Cyprus with the dichotomy problems common in other commonwealth countries notably India, South Africa, Canada (Quebec). The Americans managed to dodge these problems because of the 1776 events. Also, the Acheson plan was implemented with the same strategy that Hitler used to invake Czechoslovakia ie. To protect a minority under threat. The only difference was that Hitler used German Nazis to instigate the issues in Czechoslovakia while the British used British spies (Samson, Grivas etc..). The end results were the same in both cases.
How do the problems in Quebec relate to Cyprus? Quebec’s problems are a result of British democratic traditions, allowing separatists a legitimate, political voice, instead of having them supressed.
They relate in the manner that Canada being a former British Colony (like Cyprus, India etc.. etc..) has still an unresolved question regarding a minority (the french) that doesn’t necessarily see its future within the confederation (or at least about 10 years ago; if that within a 10 year time frame has been resolved through “democratic means” then indeed it is a political accomplishment;hail the great leader that managed to do that and by all means lend him to the rest of the world). How that is currently managed or handled is another manner (ie. whether you have a parti quebecois or a separatist movement called flq etc.. etc..).