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race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens.

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.

Anna Åkerhielm

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

Arturo Graf

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

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

Athens, Alabama

On March 22, 1975, the Browns Ferry plant became the scene of what was, with the exception of the Three Mile Island accident, the most serious nuclear accident in United States history.

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.

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 Buchwald

He represented Denmark at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, participating in the unofficial football tournament, which Denmark won.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 1924 Monoplane

The Epps 1924 Monoplane was designed and built in 1924 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.

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.

Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

He also had in view the founding of a library at the fort, which would not be only for the immediate residents of Fort Chipewyan, but for traders and clerks of the whole region tributary to Lake Athabaska, so that it would be what he called, in an imaginative and somewhat jocular vein, "the little Athens of the Arctic regions."

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 League Cup

AEK Athens, is the only winner of the League Cup, by beating Panionios (3-3 and 4-2 on penalties), Aris (5-2), Levadiakos (0-0 and 1-0) and Olympiacos (3-2 at the final of the Athens Olympic Stadium, on June 2, 1990).

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.

International Journal of Oncology

The International Journal of Oncology, (Int J Oncol) is an academic journal, published by Spandidos Publications of Athens, that addresses papers on cancer research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pretty Smart

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

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.

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.

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.

Spase To Hrono

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

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 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 Battle of Electricity

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

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 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.

Thomas Pascoe

In 1870, in his naval ship "the man-of-war“, he visited Naples, and then Athens.

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.

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.

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.


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.

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

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

Ampelokipoi

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

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.

Athens Airport

Athens Ben Epps Airport in Athens, Georgia, United States (FAA/IATA: AHN)

Calhoun, Tennessee

Calhoun is centered around the junction of U.S. Route 11, which connects the town to Athens to the north and Charleston and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 163 (Bowater Road), which connects Calhoun to U.S. Route 411 in Delano to the east and Interstate 75 and Meigs County to the west.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Greece in 5th century BC

In 492 BC, the Persian generals Mardonios and Datis launched a naval assault on the Aegean islands, causing them to submit, then attempted to disembark to Marathon in 490 to take Athens.

Irwin B. Laughlin

He was second secretary to the American legation in Peking in 1907, and then served in a similar capacity in Saint Petersburg, Athens, Montenegro, and Paris.

Isavella Dara

During the 2004 Summer Olympics, the model visited the Water Plaza fun park, an Olympic venue, which housed the sculpture "The Olive: The Tree of Athens", on which she and many other celebrities signed their names.

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.

Kapodistrias reform

Municipalities and communities varied in land area from 873.552 km² (Kato Nevrokopi in Drama Prefecture) to 0.800 km² (Nea Chalkidona in Athens Prefecture), with an average of 127.618 km² and a median of 105.669 km².

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.

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.

Nikolaos Levidis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spyridon Lambros

In October 1916 with Greece in the midst of the National Schism and under two governments (Eleftherios Venizelos in Thessaloniki and King Constantine in Athens), the former Liberal and associate of Venizelos accepted the King's commission to form a government in Athens.

Stefanos Stratigos

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

Swansea Harriers Athletics Club

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

The 63 Crayons

Charlie Johnston also helped to produce and engineer the second full length release by Athens Georgia based band Circulatory System called "Signal Morning".

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.

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.