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76 unusual facts about ATHENS


Aiolou Street

Aiolou Street (Greek: Οδός Αιóλου) (also Eolou Street) is a street in downtown Athens, the Greek capital.

Airspeed Viceroy

The Airspeed Viceroy started the race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens.

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

In July 1944, Alexander was in Athens as a lieutenant at the artillery command of the 68th Army Corps.

Allen Lambert

William Thorsell, CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, wrote in a tribute to Allen Lambert: "For those who build, it is not a question of whether a legacy remains, but what its quality is. In Athens, in the Yucatan, in Paris, architecture still speaks eloquently centuries after so much else of value is gone. In 1967, a banker insisted that Toronto be remembered with respect."

Andrew Dexter, Jr.

During the War of 1812 Dexter relocated to Athens, New York, where he lived with his father and brother, who assisted him in using New York's lenient bankruptcy laws to partially satisfy his creditors and rebuild his finances.

Anna Åkerhielm

Contemporary accounts describe how they spent their time in scientific investigations during their stay and at the ruins of Acropolis in Athens.

ATHENS

The ATHENS Programme, an exchange network of European higher education institutions in engineering,

Athens, Illinois

Tyler Holland, State WYSE Champion 2009, One time state record holder of deadlift, Summa Cum Laude at St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Athens, Minnesota

Athens is an unincorporated community in Athens Township, Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.

Athens, Ohio

According to a 1794 map by Thomas Kitchin, no settlement existed in the Athens area during the time immediately prior to the founding of the city.

Athinas Street

Athinas Street (Greek: Οδός Αθηνάς) is a street in downtown Athens in Greece.

Audio Home Recording Act

The impasse was broken at a meeting in Athens in 1989, when representatives from the recording industry and the consumer electronics industry reached a compromise intended to enable the sale of DAT recorders in the United States.

Buffalo History Museum

Designed by Buffalo architect George Cary (1859–1945), its south portico is meant to evoke the Parthenon, in Athens.

C'mon, Accept Your Joy!

C'mon, Accept Your Joy! is the debut album of Athens, Georgia-based power pop band Chris McKay & the Critical Darlings.

Center for Computational Chemistry

The Center for Computational Chemistry (CCC) is a research center in the department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Chairman George

He concludes that since he is "the only Greek in the world who can sing in Chinese," it is his duty to perform at the closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, as the torch is passed from Athens to Beijing organizer of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Chester Kallman

In 1963 he moved his winter home from New York to Athens, Greece and died there at the age of 54.

Chian wine

Chian wine was exported in great quantities to Athens starting around the 5th century BC, as attested by the large number of Chian amphorae discovered in modern-day excavations there.

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991–1999

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991–1999 is a 14 song compilation by Athens, Georgia's Widespread Panic.

Christian Alexander

Christian Alexander (born Christian Ivanov Ivanov, April 14, 1990 in Athens) is an American actor, best known for his role as Kiefer Bauer on the American daytime drama General Hospital.

College of Emporia

Because Emporia had these two colleges before 1900 it was sometimes called the "Athens of Kansas."

Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Cricket had been scheduled as an event at the first modern Olympics, the 1896 Summer Olympics, being listed in the original programme for the Athens Games.

David Baulcombe

After his PhD, Baulcombe then spent the following three years as a post-doctoral fellow in North America, first at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) from January 1977 to November 1978, and then at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, USA) until December 1980.

Devanagari

It is based on a standard established by the Congress of Orientalists at Athens in 1912.

Epps 1909 Monoplane

The Epps 1909 Monoplane was designed and built in 1909 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Epps 1910 Monoplane

The Epps 1910 Monoplane was designed and built in 1910 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Epps 1911 Monoplane

The Epps 1911 Monoplane was designed and built in 1911 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Epps 1912 Monoplane

The Epps 1912 Monoplane was designed and built in 1912 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

European Center for Leadership Development

It seeks to contribute, on a global basis, to the creation of a leadership culture rooted in the moral, intellectual and spiritual heritage of Athens, Rome and Jerusalem.

Glenway Wescott

Apartment in Athens (1945), the story of a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, was a popular success.

Greek legislative election, 2004

The Athens daily Kathemerini commented: "Now, two weeks before the elections, all opinion polls show PASOK 3 to 4.5 percentage points behind ND. This raises the question of whether PASOK can snatch victory away from ND. The fact is that much is unclear. For example, although PASOK has little support, its leader has a good image in public opinion polls."

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The electoral campaign concluded on in the traditional manner, with huge televised mass rallies in the centre of Athens by each of the major parties.

Greek nationality law

A Greek citizen may voluntarily renounce citizenship by submitting an application to the Ministry of Interior in Athens.

Gulf of Corinth

The shipping routes between Athens and to the ports of the rest of the world including the Mediterranean ports pass along this gulf.

Hellenic Post

In 1834 an agreement with French banker Feraldi ensure mail service to and from the islands, and in 1836 placed the first wagons for transporting mail between Athens and Piraeus.

Henry Barrington

At first he qualified as a lawyer and joined the diplomatic service, becoming attaché in Athens.

Herodicus

According to Plato, Herodicus recommended that his patients walk from Athens to Megara, a distance of a little more than 20 miles.

Hideway

"Hideway" (also written as "Hideaway") is a song recorded by the Athens, Georgia indie rock band The Olivia Tremor Control.

Hilda Lockhart Lorimer

She returned to Athens in 1922 and became a university lecturer at Oxford from 1929 – 1937.

Hotel Grande Bretagne

It is located in central Athens immediately adjacent to Syntagma Square, on the corner of Vasileos Georgiou A' and Panepistimiou Streets, and is now part of "The Luxury Collection" hotel chain, managed by the American company Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

Jeff Komlo

While on the run, Komlo ended up working for a hair implant clinic in Athens called NHI.

John Milledge

On July 25, 1801, Milledge bought with his own money some land on the Oconee River for the school, and named the surrounding area Athens, in honor of the city of Plato's Academy.

Konrad Stäheli

Participating in shooting at the 1906 Summer Olympics at Athens, Stäheli took five more medals – a gold medal, two silver medals and a bronze medal in the individual rifle events, and another gold medal in the team rifle competition.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Mesogeion Avenue

Mesogeion Avenue passes through the municipalities (west to east) Athens, Papagou-Cholargos, Filothei-Psychiko, Chalandri, Agia Paraskevi, Glyka Nera and Gerakas.

My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be

My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be is the first full-length album from the Athens, Georgia based rock band Harvey Milk.

New Athens, Illinois

Based upon common usage, the 'A' is always sounded with a long vowel, rather than a short vowel, by its residents, unlike the most commonly used English pronunciation of the city in Greece.

Nikolaos Levidis

Levidis competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens in the free rifle event.

Nikos Gounaris

Hit songs included "Ena vradi pou 'vrehe," "Glikia mou matia agapimena," and "Omorfi Athina".

No No Never

Written and composed by Australian-born band member Jane Comerford, the unusual choice of country as the genre resulted in BBC commentator Terry Wogan asking jokingly and with a rough approximation of the appropriate accent "are we in Athens, Georgia?" at the end of the performance (the Contest was held in Athens, Greece).

Oi Thalassies oi Hadres

In the film this influx shocks the traditional neighbourhood of Plaka in Athens, infuriates and alarms the people who occupy with the laïkó music style.

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Mary (Zoe Laskari) is a rich young lady that challenges problems in a traditional folk neighbourhood in Plaka, Athens, when she moves to play modern music in a store opposite a traditional taverna, where Fotis (Faidon Georgitsis), a bouzouki player, works along with Kostas (Kostas Voutsas), Sofia (Mary Chronopoulou) and others.

Oskar Nørland

He was selected for the unofficial Danish national team at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, which Denmark went on to win.

Oute gata oute zimia

Popi is becoming suspicious of Lalakis' frequent business trips that take him away from Athens.

Penshaw

Penshaw is well-known locally for Penshaw Monument, a prominent landmark built in 1844 atop Penshaw Hill, which is a half-scale replica of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.

Raphael Pumpelly

After graduating, Pumpelly moved to Tioga Point, now Athens, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he was soon appointed a Justice of the Peace, and became land agent for the Hon. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland.

Regular polyhedron

When these solids were all discovered and by whom is not known, but Theaetetus, (an Athenian), was the first to give a mathematical description of all five (Van der Waerden, 1954), (Euclid, book XIII).

Richard Henry Mather

He spent the winter of 1887/8 in Athens in connection with the work of his professorships.

Russ Decker

Born in Athens, Wisconsin, Decker graduated from Athens High School, afterward attending Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin as an apprentice bricklayer.

Shannon Bobbitt

The guard decided Junior College was her best option out of high school, so she chose Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas, because they had just won a national title.

Sisupalgarh

The significance of the population is clear when one bears in mind that the population of classical Athens was 10,000.

Spase To Hrono

The song premiered exclusively on Rhythmos FM 94.9 in Athens on the evening of November 20, 2009.

Stratton Mountain School

Other medal-owning alumni include Lindsey Jacobellis ('03), with a silver medal in snowboard cross in Torino, Italy, and Kristen Luckenbill ('97), with a gold medal in soccer at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece.

Swainswick

Bladud or Blaiddyd was a mythical king of the Britons, for whose existence there is little historical evidence, but legend holds that he returned to Britain from Athens with leprosy and was imprisoned as a result, but escaped and went into hiding.

The Coffee Club

In August 2010, John Lazarou visited Athens for meetings with potential partners regarding the company’s plans for expansion into Greece and further afield across Europe.

The Earth Will Swallow You

The Earth Will Swallow You is a film by brothers Geoffrey and Christopher Hanson detailing the summer 2000 tour of Athens, Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic, though a substantial portion of the film is behind-the-scenes footage of studio sessions, travelling, and interviews.

The Green Hand

Chapman appeared in the film version, whose cast consisted of students and faculty from the University of Georgia and the surrounding city of Athens, Georgia.

The Perfect Kiss

However, it returned to the live set at a performance in Athens on 3 June 2006.

Thieves in Black

The Thieves in Black is a media-coined name given to a supposed anarchist group responsible for numerous bank robberies in Athens, Greece.

Voice of Greece

Athens Radio programmes were transmitted from a small transmitter in the centre of Athens to the front and the Balkans.

Voukourestiou Street

Voukourestiou Street (Greek: Οδός Βουκουρεστίου, Odos Voukourestiou) named after the Treaty of Bucharest, which in 1913 ended the second Balkan War, is a rather narrow street in the Kolonaki district of Athens known for its high-end boutiques.

Water supply and sanitation in Greece

The largest utility is the Athens Water and Sewerage Company (EYDAP SA) serving 4 million inhabitants, followed by the Thessaloniki Water and Sewerage Company (EYATH SA) serving about one million inhabitants.

Wenlock Olympian Games

In 1859 Wenlock Olympian Class sent £10 to Athens as a prize for the best runner in the Long Foot Race at the Olympic Games which was held in November that year - open only to Greek-speaking athletes.

William Kampiles

Afterwards, he resigned from his job, flew to Greece, and sold the manual to the Russian Embassy in Athens in return for $3,000.

Wychbury Hill

On the flank of the hill is a folly in the shape of a Greek Doric temple, in fact a miniature replica of the end of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.


Acarnania

The Acarnanians later sided with Boeotia in their fight against Sparta, and with Athens against Philip II of Macedon at Chaeronea.

Anastasios Papaligouras

Born in Athens, Papaligouras studied law at the University of Athens and took a Masters in Comparative European Law at Brunel University, London.

Arabs in Greece

The majority tend to live in Athens, however they can be found in all the parts of the country.

Brent Dancer

His father, Barry Dancer, coached the Australian side at the 2004 Athens Olympics where Australia won a gold medal, the only men's field hockey Olympic gold medal the team has ever won.

Burgon Group

The group’s name is derived from Thomas Burgon (1767–1838), who supervised the 1813 excavations in Athens, during which the Panathenaic prize amphora London B 160, now on display in the British Museum, was discovered.

Carl Frederik Sørensen

His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.

Chester Williams

He was also one of the few South Africans invited to carry the Olympic torch in 2004 on its way to Athens.

Chrysostomos II

Chrysostomos II Kioussis (1920–2010), Archbishop of Athens and All Greece of the Greek Old Calendarists in 1986–2010

Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne

Instead it was held onboard ship, the SS Patris II, which sailed from Marseille to Athens.

Costas Evangelatos

He has presented sections of his works in solo exhibitions in Athens, Rochester, New York, Thessaloniki, Arezzo, Avignon, Chantilly, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Nicosia.

Costas Simitis

Simitis escaped abroad after planting bombs in the streets of Athens (in later years he acknowledged his activities on Greek MEGA TV channel) in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), led by Andreas Papandreou.

Debbie Phillips

A graduate of Ohio University, Phillips sat on Athens City Council where she chaired the Planning and Development Committee.

Doron Mendels

For example, in a chapter on The Persians of Aeschylus, Mendels examines a number of alternative narratives of remembrance that were embedded in the population of Athens after the Battle of Salamis.

Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato

In Saint Petersburg on 18 April 1893 he married Countess Sophia Hilarionovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (Novo Temnikovo, 9 August 1870 - Athens, 16 April 1953), by whom he had no issue.

Federated States of Micronesia at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Weightlifter Manuel Minginfel, who competed in the Olympics since the national debut, repeated his best performance from Athens, after finishing in tenth place.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

The building is patterned after a building at Yale University (Abraham Baldwin, the University's first president was a Yale alumnus) and is the oldest surviving building at the University and in Athens, Georgia.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

Guglielma Pallavicini

In 1327, Guglielma married the Genoese Zaccaria, who had been captured while repelling, alongside Andrea Cornaro, an invasion of Alfonso Fadrique of Athens.

Hypereides

After being put to death, his body (according to others) was taken to Cleonae and shown to the Macedonian general Antipater before being returned to Athens for burial.

Iso Fidia

The choice of Athens for the press launch was connected to the car's new name, Fidia, which was the name (commonly spelled "Phidias" by anglophone classicists) of the artist who some 24 centuries earlier had supervised creation of the friezes which originally decorated the Parthenon (and which in 1816 turned up in the British Museum, following their controversial removal in 1802 by Lord Elgin).

Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum

The project this year will be the collaboration of the teams from Istanbul, Berlin and Athens.

Jack McBride Ryder

After graduation he served as a teacher and principal of the Anglo-American Schools, Athens Greece.

John Fernandes

Upon that band's demise, Fernandes went on to form the Athens-based group Circulatory System with other members of Olivia Tremor Control, most notably Will Cullen Hart.

Lajos Virág

Virag made his official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 96 kg class, against Cuba's Ernesto Peña and United States' Garrett Lowney.

Leonid the Magnificent

On March 28, 2007, he appeared on Greece national TV as a special guest star on Greece’s Got Talent in Athens, Greece.

Metrodorus of Athens

It chanced that Aemilius Paulus, visiting Athens on his return from his victory over Perseus of Macedon in 168 BC, asked for a tutor for his children and a painter to glorify his triumph.

Moon in Taurus

Moon in Taurus, first feature film by Swiss filmmaker Steff Gruber, is a film made entirely in English and filmed in the U.S. (Athens, Georgia), without a story in the usual sense and with a non-pro cast of four playing themselves.

My Sweet Canary

In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika.

Neoclassical architecture

Although several European cities - notably St Petersburg, Athens, Berlin and Munich - were transformed into veritable museums of Greek revival architecture, the Greek revival in France was never popular with either the State or the public.

Olympiacos F.C. in European football

Olympiacos opened the second round of the group stage with a draw 0–0 to Real Madrid at the Karaiskakis Stadium and kept alive the record of being undefeated by Real Madrid in Athens in four matches, while the Reds moved a step closer to qualifying for the last 16 after coming from behind to defeat Lazio 2–1 in Stadio Olimpico.

Owls to Athens

Sostratos and Menedemos arrive in Athens in time for the Dionysia.

Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople

With Patriarch Jeremias' influence seven schools opened in the late 16th century, in Athens, Livadia, Chios, Smyrna, Kydonies, Patmos and Yanina.

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

With his brother, Charles Yorke, he was one of the chief contributors to Athenian Letters; or the Epistolary Correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War (4 vols., London, 1741), a work that for many years had a considerable vogue and went through several editions.

Philon

Philon, Athenian architect of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great Hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis (work commissioned by Demetrius Phalereus about 318 BC) and, under the administration of Lycurgus, an arsenal at Athens.

Pretty Smart

It was mostly filmed in Athens with most interiors and some exteriors at the Hotel Grande Bretagne.

Savatiano

It is mostly planted throughout central Greece, particularly in Attica near Athens.

Sophia N. Antonopoulou

The Critique of K. Marx’s Capital (Papazissis, Athens, 1989) (in Greek), where she exposed the critique of Luxemburg to Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, going further to show that the ‘solution’ that Luxemburg gave to the problem of the expanded reproduction of capital was in its turn problematic.

Statius

In the final book, the Argive widows go to Athens to ask Theseus to force Creon to allow their husbands' burial while Argia, Polyneices' wife, burns him illicitly.

Swansea Harriers Athletics Club

Hayley Tullett - World Championships - 1500m bronze medalist (2003) and Olympics (2000 and Athens 2004)

The Last Drive

They performed live in Athens on May 11, 12 and 13th -all three dates being sold out- in Thessaloniki on the 19th and in Larissa on June 2.

Ypogeia Revmata

At that time, Grigoris, Kostas, Giannis and Panagiotis had rented a place at Psyri, Athens in order to make comfortably their performances.

Zdeněk Ščasný

Ščasný took over in the middle of Panathinaikos' UEFA Champions League campaign, and with two impressive draws against Arsenal, another draw in Norway against Rosenborg and a resounding win over PSV Eindhoven in Athens, Ščasný guided the Greek side to finish 3rd in a difficult group, thus moving them to the UEFA Cup.