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78 unusual facts about ATHENS


Ako me pogledneš vo oči

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

Albert Connell

He played college football at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas for two years, and was a member of the 1994 Junior College National Championship team.

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

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

Alexandras Avenue

Alexandra's Avenue (Greek: Λεωφόρος Αλεξάνδρας, Leoforos Alexandras) is a main east-west thoroughfare running from Patission Street/28 October Street and Kifissias Avenue in the northern part of the city of Athens, Greece.

Alexandros Alexandrakis

Alexandros Alexandrakis (Athens, 1913 – Athens, 1968) was a Greek painter, who became widely known from his particularly dynamic depictions of the Greco-Italian War of 1940.

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."

Ancient Mediterranean piracy

This relocation gave a relatively effective cushion of safety to major cities such as Athens, Tiryns, Mycenae and others.

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.

Arabs in Greece

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

Asinaro

The river was known as the Assinaros in antiquity; in 413 BC it was the site of the final crushing defeat of the retreating Athenian expeditionary force which had been besieging Syracuse.

Atena

Athena, a principal goddess of Greek mythology, patron of the city of Athens

Athen

Athen (meaning Athens in several languages, including German, Norwegian and Danish)

Athene Glacier

It was surveyed by FIDS in November 1960, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Athene, daughter of Zeus and goddess of the city of Athens in Greek mythology.

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, Indiana

The name was changed to Athens on May 28, 1896, for Athens, Greece.

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.

Blackheath Proprietary School

The school buildings were situated near Blackheath Park and in Lee Park and were described as "a handsome building after the model of the Propylaeum 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.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

CVIOG is a unit of the Office of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia.

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.

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.

Constantinos Speras

From 1930 onwards he worked as a ticket booking clerk in the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways and also was in charge in break strikes with the collaboration of police forces.

Edward Gathorne-Hardy

He also worked at various colleges and for the British Council After 1935, he lived in Athens, Cairo and Lebanon, returning to England in the late 1960s in poor health.

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 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.

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.

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 legislative election, 2004

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.

Harutiun Dellalian

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

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.

Istoria mias zois

A lady (Zoi Laskari) left from the area when they were kicked out of their house and moved to Athens in order to survive.

Jacek Jędruch

He was at work on the second edition when in March 1995, while traveling in Greece with his wife Ewa, a chemical engineer, he suffered a fatal accident at the Acropolis in Athens.

Johann August Kaupert

Here he conducted topographical investigations of Athens and surrounding areas.

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.

Juan Ramón Verón

Known as one of Estudiantes' all time great players, he moved on to play for Panathinaikos F.C. of Athens, Greece in 1972.

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.

Margene Adkins

Margene Adkins played college football at Henderson County Junior College in Athens, Texas, before dropping out of school.

Mia Foni

It features 19 tracks in both Greek and English, including "Why Angels Cry", the song that Annet performed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens representing Cyprus.

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 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Savatiano

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

Solon, Iowa

Ironically, the local high school's mascot is the Spartans; Sparta was famously an enemy of Solon's home, Athens.

Spase To Hrono

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

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 Attack of the Giant Moussaka

The city of Athens is at war with a terrifying gigantic moussaka accidentally produced when an ordinary serving is hit by a ray from an alien space ship.

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 Downhill

The movie made 161,331 tickets first class cinemas in Athens and Piraeus.

The Dream with Roy and HG

The Dream with Roy and HG was a sports/comedy talk show, broadcast every night during the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics, presented by Australian comedy duo Roy and HG.

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 Instruments

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.

The Perfect Kiss

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

Waveland State Historic Site

The main doorway of the mansion is considered to be an exact replica of the doorway of the north entrance to the Erechtheion at the Acropolis in Athens.

Whayne Wilson

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


1995 World Marathon Cup

The 1995 World Marathon Cup was the 6th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Athens, Greece.

Acarnania

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

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.

Ampelokipoi

Ampelokipoi, Athens, a section in the north of the municipality of Athens

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, 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.

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

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.

Double-barreled cannon

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

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.

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.

François Gény

Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).

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.

Isaeus

He was a son of Diagoras, and was born at Chalcis in Euboea; some sources say he was born in Athens, probably only because he came there at an early age and spent the greater part of his life there.

Ismael Blanco

On 26 September 2007 in a match against Veria, after putting AEK Athens in front, Blanco revealed a Zorro mask from his sock and drew a big Z in the air celebrating the winning goal.

Jeff Komlo

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

Johan Schmidt

He won the Maria Callas Competition in Athens, and was prized at the Queen Elisabeth (1987, 4th prize plus Audience prize), Tchaikovsky (1990, 3rd prize - ex-aequo with Kevin Kenner and Anton Mordasov) and Van Cliburn (1993, 4th prize) competitions.

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).

Manuel Jiménez

Manuel Jiménez Jiménez (born 1964), Spanish footballer selected for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and coach of AEK Athens F.C.

Metapontum

At the time of the Athenian expedition to Sicily, 415 BCE, the Metapontines at first, like the other states of Magna Graecia, endeavoured to maintain a strict neutrality; but in the following year were induced to enter into an alliance with Athens, and furnish a small auxiliary force to the armament under Demosthenes and Eurymedon.

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.

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.

Pefko

Nea Peramos, a suburb of Athens, Greece, formerly known as Megalo Pefko

Peristeri

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

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.

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.

Pretty Smart

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

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.

Sarah Ulmer

Ulmer reduced the record by more than six seconds at Athens and two other competitors, Katie Mactier from Australia and Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel from the Netherlands, also finished in less than the record time.

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.

The Battle of Electricity

The Battle of Electricity is the second album by Athens-based Elephant 6 band The Gerbils

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.

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.

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.