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unusual facts about Leontari, Arcadia



Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degi Arcadi was so called because its principal intention was to reform the diction of Italian poetry, which the founders believed had become corrupt through over-indulgence in the ornamentation of the baroque style, under the inspiration of pastoral literature, the conventions of which imagined the life of shepherds, originally supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan.

Arcadia 2001

For instance, the Arcadia 2001 game Space Raiders is a clone of Defender, and Breakaway is a clone of Breakout.

Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd. is the largest business interest of retailing magnate Sir Philip Green, and is owned by his Monaco resident wife Tina to enable the company to avoid paying U.K. tax.

Arcadia of My Youth

Maya's nickname as "The Rose" and the "Voice of Free Arcadia" mirrors the romantic image of the secret radio broadcasters of the French Resistance.

Arcadia, Florida

Carlstrom Field, one of several satellite fields in the Fort Myers Area, also trained pilots for the Royal Air Force until its closing in 1945.

Arcadia, Louisiana

Danny Roy Moore (born 1925), former state senator from Bienville and Claiborne parishes

Marcus Fizer, professional basketball player, former collegiate All-American at Iowa State University (1999–2000) and McDonald's All-American from Arcadia High School (1996–1997)

Arcadia, Tennessee

This portion of the road was also part of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road which allowed those following the Great Wagon Road to continue past present-day Bristol, through the Reedy Creek Settlement, through Moccasin Gap, and over to Cumberland Gap to settle in Kentucky.

Arkadi Monastery

According to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, the monastery was built on the site of an ancient city, Arcadia.

Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

After receiving a B.A. in history and government from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) in 1956, she then earned a S.T.B in student work from Boston University School of Theology in 1960 and a Ph.D. in systematic theology and history of doctrine from Boston University in 1965.

Continuator

Controversial literature was amenable to such continuations, as evidenced most especially by the Martin Marprelate affair; Philip Sidney's Arcadia was continued by Anna Weamys.

Dean Chamberlain

He has also created portraits for musicians such as David Bowie, Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Arcadia, Roy Orbison, and directed music videos using the same long exposure techniques: "This One" for Paul and Linda McCartney, "Missing" for Arcadia and "All She Wants Is" for Duran Duran.

Diocese of Amyclae

in the Peloponnese in Greece, in the ecclesiastical province of Hellas, a suffragan of Corinth, and in the Middle Ages a Latin see known to the French rulers of Achaia as "Micles", or "Nicles", afterwards united with the sees of Veligosti and Leontari (Megalopolis).

Eddie Belmonte

On February 17, 1972, he rode five winners in a single day at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

Epistolae Ho-Elianae

A "Mrs. A. W." who occurs as recipient has been fitted to another letter by Howell to provide a tentative deductive identification of the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia (1651) as Anna Weamys, who is not otherwise traced as a writer.

Erik Wøllo

Erik Wøllo has also collaborated and released album works together with some of the most respected artists in the ambient music world: with Steve Roach ("Stream of Thought", CD-2009 & "The Road Eternal", CD-2011), Ian Boddy ("Frontiers", CD-2012), Bernhard Wöstheinrich ("Arcadia Borealis", CD-2009), and several others.

Et in Arcadia ego

In conjunction with John Andrew, the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay created a marble carving entitled "Et in Arcadia ego" in 1976.

Frederick B. Dent

From 1958 until 1972 and 1977 until 1988, Dent was the president of Mayfair Mills in Arcadia, South Carolina.

George Christopher

Born George Christophes in Arcadia, Greece, the son of James Christophes and Mary Koines Christophes, Christopher and his family emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in San Francisco's South of Market Street neighborhood, then known as "Greektown", when Christopher was two years old.

George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

Happy Arcadia

Arcadia was a legendary site of rural perfection, first described by the Ancient Greeks, that was a popular setting for writers of the 19th century and artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau.

Henry Milton Taylor

Sir Henry was married in 1962 to the former Elua Mae Sisco of Arcadia, Florida.

Karatoula

Karatoulas, a village in the municipality Megalopoli, Arcadia

Kastanochori

Kastanochori, Arcadia, a village in the municipality Megalopoli, Arcadia

La guirlande

The story occurs in Arcadia, an idealized area of Greece that was a popular setting in the "pastoral" literature of the time.

Learn How to Read and Write, Son

The main plot unfolds in a mountainous village somewhere in Arcadia (the movie was filmed in Stemnitsa, Dimitsana and the surrounding areas) shortly after Metapolitefsi.

Lynmouth

Lynton is name-checked in "In Loving Memory" on their third album Daydream Anonymous and Lynmouth is name checked in "Saccharine Arcadia" on Phoenix: The Very Best of InMe.

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

In 1797 enemies of Bocage belonging to the New Arcadia delated him to Manique, who on the pretext afforded by some anti-religious verses, the Epistola a Marilia, and by his loose life, arrested him when he was about to flee the country and lodged him in the Limoeiro, where he spent his thirty-second birthday.

Matthew Riley

After winning £5million interest free funding for his company through the Bank of Scotland Corporate Entrepreneur Challenge, Matthew was also awarded a high profile mentorship with Arcadia and BHS boss Sir Philip Green.

Minuscule 74

The manuscript was written in 1291 or 1292 by scribe Theodore in village Hagiou Petrou in Arcadia.

Morea Eyalet

Upon its conquest, the peninsula was made a sanjak of the Rumelia Eyalet, with its capital first at Corinth (Turk. Kordos or Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Mezistre or Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Peloponnese

During the first period of Ottoman rule (1460–1687), the capital was first in Corinth (Turk. Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Peneus

Daphne, in an Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.

PINK de Thierry

In 1992's Direction Arcadia, under a road sign pointing to アルカヂア (Arcadia) MWC was stranded with their luggage at a crowded intersection in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Prince of Arcadia

Prince of Arcadia is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Carl Brisson, Margot Grahame, Ida Lupino and Peter Gawthorne.

Raymond York

On January 13, 2000, the 66-year-old became the first jockey to ride in seven different decades when he rode a 4-year-old gelding named Culebra to a tenth-place finish in a seven-furlong claiming race at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

Samuel H. Davis

Davis died in a military aircraft accident while serving in Florida on 28 December 1921 while a passenger in a Curtiss JN-6 HG at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida.

Slavic neopaganism

In the 19th century, many Slavic nations experienced a Romantic fascination with an idealised Slavic Arcadia believed to have existed before the advent of Christianity, combining such notions as the noble savage and Johann Gottfried Herder's national spirit.

Soulari, Arcadia

It is situated 3 km north of Falaisia, 3 km southwest of Voutsaras, 3 km southeast of Leontari and 11 km southeast of Megalopoli.

South Moor

There is an infant school and junior school known as "Greenland school" in the middle of the village and at one time there were two cinemas ( well used), the Arcadia and the Tivoli.

Strub

Strub Stakes, an American horse race in Arcadia, California, named after him

Ta Nea tis Megalopoleos

It celebrated its 5th anniversary in 1956, 10th anniversary in 1961, 25th anniversary in 1976, 50th anniversary in 2001 and recently 55th anniversary in 2006, the 55th anniversary featured a celebration on July 29, 2006 at "Archontiko Isari" at Isari in southwestern Arcadia.

Tony Viramontes

It featured an introduction from Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran/Arcadia, and over 250 illustrations by Viramontes.

Trilofo

Trilofo, Arcadia, a village in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia

Union Buildings

In 1856 Andries Francois du Toit (1813–1883), in exchange for a Basuto pony, acquired part of the farm, which he named 'Arcadia' and on which the Union Buildings were later constructed.


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