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70 unusual facts about Athens


Agios Eleftherios

Agios Eleftherios Church, Athens (Mikri Mitrópoli), a Byzantine church in 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race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens.

Akadimias Street

Akadimias Street (Greek: Οδός Ακαδημίας) (named after Plato's school of philosophy) is a major street in Athens that runs parallel to Panepistimiou Street from Vassilissis Sofias Avenue to Kanningos Square in the area of Exarcheia.

Ako me pogledneš vo oči

The recording of the songs was made in a music studios in Athens, Greece called "Fase One Recording Studios".

Alive in Athens

It was recorded on the nights of January 23 and January 24, 1999 in front of sold out crowds of approximately 2000 people (on both nights) at the Rodon Club in Athens, Greece.

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."

Anna Åkerhielm

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

Arabs in Greece

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

Arturo Graf

Arturo Graf (1848 - 1913), Italian poet, of German ancestry, was born at Athens.

ATHENS

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

Athens, GA: Inside/Out

The film features interviews and concert footage of local bands who were a part of the scene at the time of the documentation as well as local legends R.E.M., Pylon, and The B-52's.

Athens, Minnesota

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

Athens, Vermont

The construction was filmed in September 2007, the episode aired December 9, 2007, on ABC.

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.

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.

Charles Mercer Snelling

Charles Mercer Snelling (November 3, 1862 – September 19, 1939) was the Chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia from 1925 to 1932 and the first Chancellor of the Georgia Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (1932–1933).

Chester Kallman

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

Chester Williams

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

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.

Christian poetry

Some Christian writers such as Tertullian flatly rejected classical standards of rhetoric; "what has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" he asked.

Citrus long-horned beetle

The citrus long-horned beetle was first discovered in the U.S. in April 1999, when a single beetle was found in a nursery greenhouse in Athens, Georgia on certain bonsai trees imported from China.

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 1912 Monoplane

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

Epps 1924 Monoplane

The Epps 1924 Monoplane was designed and built in 1924 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Eric van Douwen

Eric Karel van Douwen (April 25, 1946 in Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands – July 28, 1987 in Athens, Ohio, USA) was a Dutch mathematician specializing in set-theoretic topology.

Extreme Aggression

While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Ferdinand Gregorovius

He also wrote biographies of Pope Alexander VI and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as works on Byzantine history and medieval Athens, and translated Italian authors into German, among them Giovanni Melis.

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.

Greek nationality law

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

Harutiun Dellalian

Harutiun Dellalian (1937, Athens - 1990) was a contemporary Armenian composer.

Henry A. Van Alstyne

In 1898, he resigned this position to accept one with the Union Bridge Company, at Athens, Pennsylvania.

Henry Barrington

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

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.

Ivar Lunde

From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before spending three years as a counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations embassy, legation counsellor and chargé d'affaires in Athens and Tel Aviv.

Jeff Komlo

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

Johann August Kaupert

Here he conducted topographical investigations of Athens and surrounding areas.

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.

Live Damage

Bonus material on the disc includes bootleg recordings from Essen, Athens and Paris, an interview with the band, their biography and individual members' profiles, Band biography, discography, photo gallery, art gallery, desktop images, web links and two music videos.

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.

Michalis Katsaros

He was born in 1919 in Kiparissia (Greek: Κυπαρισσία) and died in 1998 in Athens.

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.

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.

Oute gata oute zimia

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

Pagsanjan, Laguna

During this long period, the town prospered as the commercial, cultural and learning center of the province, and was called the "Athens of Laguna".

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.

Postal codes in Greece

Postal codes beginning with the digits between 100 and 180 are used for the city of Athens; the beginning sequences 180 to 199 are used for other parts of the prefecture of Attica, with the exception of Corfu and Rhodes.

Pretty Smart

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

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).

Russ Decker

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

Severn Lamb

Severn Lamb also built the 52 electrically powered platforms that providing the moving stage that encircled the perimeter of the arena for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Sisupalgarh

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

Stournara 288

It was bitter and nostalgic eyes on its alienation on Athens' neighbourhoods.

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 Wrong Side of the Sky

While in Athens, Greece he has a chance encounter with an old wartime friend and rival pilot, Ken Kitson, when the latter lands in a luxurious private Piaggio P.166.

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.

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.

Whayne Wilson

Wilson was a member of the Costa Rica national football team at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

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.


Acarnania

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

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

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

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.

Artaxerxes I of Persia

After Cimon's failure to attain much in this expedition, the Peace of Callias was agreed between Athens, Argos and Persia in 449 BC.

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.

Canaanville, Ohio

According to the Centennial Atlas of Athens County (1905), the community originally called Canaanville was slightly to the west, west of where Ohio State Route 690 now intersects with US Route 50.

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne

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

Dafni Indoor Hall

Dafni Indoor Hall (also known as Michalis Mouroutsos Indoor Hall) is an indoor basketball sporting arena that is located in the district of Dafni, Attica, which is about 3 km from the downtown center of the city of Athens, Greece.

Debbie Phillips

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

Double-barreled cannon

Finally his contraption was used as a signal gun in Athens to warn against advancing Yankees.

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.

Emilio D'Aquino

He was also selected for the Italian team in triathlon, and guaranteed his qualifying berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammate Daniel Fontana, a former competitor from Argentina at the previous games in Athens.

Evangelos Averoff

In her best-selling book, A Man, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci accused Averoff of threatening to kill Greek MP Alexandros Panagoulis a few days before Panagulis' death in a car accident in Athens.

Frank Kusch

Kusch has earned a Ph.D from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a Master's Degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Georgia's 10th congressional district

Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.

Hecale

One of today's Athens northern suburbs, Ekáli, an affluent and very exclusive residential community on the western foot of Mount Penteli, is called by that name.

Herodicus

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

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.

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.

Mike Arnaoutis

Mike Arnaoutis (Mighty Mike) (born September 6, 1979 in Zefyri, Athens, Greece) is a professional boxer in the welterweight (147 lb) division.

Milan Matulović

Other first place finishes during this period, either shared or outright, included Netanya 1961, Vršac 1964, Novi Sad 1965, Belgrade 1965, Reggio Emilia 1967/68, Athens Zonal 1969, Belgrade 1969, Sarajevo 1971, Birmingham 1975, Bajmok 1975 (and in 1978), Majdanpek 1976, Vrbas 1976, Belgrade 1977 and Odzaci 1978.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peristeri

Its built-up area is continuous with that of Athens and the neighbouring suburbs Aigaleo, Chaidari, Petroupoli, Ilion and Agioi Anargyroi.

Piraeus Prefecture

The prefecture covered the south-western part of the agglomeration of Athens, several islands in the Saronic Gulf (Salamis, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Dokos, Spetses, Spetsopoula), Methana and Troizina on the Peloponnese peninsula, and the islands of Kythira and Antikythera south of the Peloponnese.

Prikeba Phipps

Prikeba ("Keba") Reed Phipps (born June 30, 1969 in Lakewood, California) is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

Robert Leavitt

At Athens, American Hugo Friend was favored to win the gold medal in high hurdles.

Savatiano

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

Sleepy Hollow Lake, Greene County, New York

The PUD is located within the boundaries of three municipalities – the Town of Coxsackie, NY, the Town of Athens, NY and the Village of Athens, NY.

Sokratis Tsoukalas

Although AEK Athens was relegated to the 3rd Division in order the team's debt to be erased, Tsoukalas was agreed to stay and help AEK for the big comeback to Greek Superleague alongside Kostas Tsoupros, Anastasios Tsoumagas, Dimitris Anakoglou, Miguel Cordero, Dimitris Grontis and Michalis Pavlis

Stefanos Stratigos

He was born in Athens in 1923 and was the son of the actors Vasileios and Amalia Stratigos.

Titans Mobile

In the game, players need to choose their faction from Athens, Crete, Sparta and Troy before they can recruit Greek Myth heroes from each faction and train Infantries, Cavalries, Warships and Sieges to start battles with other players.

Vladislav Ozerov

Ozerov's first success was Oedipus in Athens (1804), a wry comment on Alexander I's rumoured privity to the murder of his father Paul.

Whiteburn

After remixing 2 tracks of extra content for the special release of his album "The Piano Player”, Whiteburn were asked to work with Maksim again to produce the official classical single for the Athens Olympics "Olympic Dream" which was also released on "Harmony" (The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Classical Album) and Maksim's "Variations Part I&II" by EMI Classics.

Ypogeia Revmata

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