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unusual facts about Athens, Ontario



1982 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece.

2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

The North American Qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from February 5 to February 6, 2010.

29th century

The CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) lease on the O&Q (Ontario and Quebec) will end on 4 January 2883 after a 999-year lease.

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.

Andreas Felder

In December that year he won the World cup competition in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Arabs in Greece

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

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.

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

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.

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

CKEY

CFLZ-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CKEY-FM from 1991 to 2011

Duncan Frederick Campbell

Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Frederick Campbell, DSO (28 April 1876 Simcoe, Ontario – 4 September 1916) was Unionist MP for North Ayrshire who died in World War I.

Dylan Hudecki

Dylan Hudecki (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, who has been associated with the bands By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Ferrone

Dan Ferrone (born April 3, 1958, in Oakville, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1981 to 1992.

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

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.

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.

Hockley Valley

The Hockley Valley Resort is a ski retreat, golf course, conference centre, and hotel in Mono, Ontario, Canada.

Honeoye

Honeoye, New York, a hamlet in Ontario County, New York, on north end of Honeoye Lake

Horatio Luro

Taylor hired Luro to run his Windfields Farm, a large breeding and racing operation with two farms in Ontario and another in Chesapeake City, Maryland.

Isabel Bassett

She served as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for St. Andrew—St. Patrick for the next four years.

Jeff Komlo

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

Jody Wildman

He served as a municipal councillor for the Township of St. Joseph, Ontario on St. Joseph Island from 2000 to 2003, when he was elected reeve.

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.

Kazutoshi Nagahama

Nagahama's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 33rd in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1995.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Mickey Hennessy

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Iain Angus by 2,256 votes in Fort William.

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.

Montréal Québec Temple

The temple serves more than 12,200 church members from the Montréal; Ottawa, Ontario; Montpelier, Vermont; and upstate New York areas.

Number nine

Number 9 Audio Group, a recording studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ontario Government Buildings

The massive construction site for the Ontario Government Buildings was the filming location for Buster Keaton's last film, "The Reporter," an industrial safety short that was released under the title The Scribe.

Ontario Hockey Association

Only three teams from Ontario ever won the Hardy Cup (that ran from 1968–1990), two from the OHA: Georgetown Raiders in 1982 and Dundas Real McCoys in 1986.

Peristeri

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

Peter Shurman

Shurman subsequently brought a resolution to the floor of the Ontario Legislative Assembly condemning Israeli Apartheid Week on Ontario campuses.

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.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Samuel Lyness Howe

He was born in St. Vincent township, Grey County, Ontario, the son of Andrew Howe and Margaret Lyness, and was educated at the Ontario College of Pharmacy.

Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator

The album was released in 1991 and recorded live in London and Kitchener (misspelled in the liner notes at "Kitchner") Ontario, Canada, in October 1990.

Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League

The Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League was a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey that lasted from the late 1960s until 1977 in Southern Ontario, Canada.

TD Canada Trust Scugog Cup

The event is an annual event held in November and takes place at the Port Perry Community Curling Club in Port Perry, Ontario.

The Battle of Electricity

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

Tom Froese

Froese was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father Jake Froese would later serve as the town's mayor and as a federal Member of Parliament.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

TST Overland Express

TST Overland Express is a less than truckload carrier (LTL) located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Tumbi

20 Inch by Master P (featuring Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks and rap artist Kobra Khan) included tumbi played by Toronto, Ontario, Canadian native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta).


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