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6 unusual facts about Pella


Apostolos Tsoptsis

Apostolos Tsoptsis was born on 29 August 1972 at Esovalta, a village near Krya Vrysi, Pella and plays as a defender.

I am the Great Horse

The pair meet in Pella, Macedonia, and Alexander manages to be the only rider on Bucephalus after a battle in which Bucephalas lost his left eye by an enemy pike.

Pella

J. Makaronas, Pella: Capital of Ancient Macedonia, pp59–65, in Scientific American, Special Issue, "Ancient Cities", c 1994.

Pella, Iowa

In his 1989 book, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, travel author Bill Bryson stops in Pella, recounting his childhood visits to the town, and remarking different aspects of the town with his usual wry humor.

Syndrome of Fire

Syndrome of Fire is a Rock band from Pella, Iowa consisting of Cassie Goetzke on vocals, Sonny Cutler on keys, Ryan McMahan on guitar and vocals, and Johnny Pots on drums.

Tell Ashtara

EA 256 is a story concerning Mutbaal, the son of Labaya, and the Habiru, and concerns the whereabouts of Ayyab, who may be in Pihilu, modern day Pella, Jordan, and is a letter of intrigue, titled: "Oaths and denials", and lists 7 cities located in the Golan area.


Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões

Simões' B.A. was conferred at Central College, in the town of Pella, Iowa, United States, after withdrawing his undergraduate work at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil.

Argead dynasty

According to Thucydides, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Argeads were originally Temenids from Argos, who descended from the highlands to Lower Macedonia, expelled the Pierians from Pieria and acquired in Paionia a narrow strip along the river Axios extending to Pella and the sea.

History of Jordan

During the Greco-Roman period of influence, a number of semi-independent city-states also developed in Jordan, grouped as a Decapolis including: Gerasa (Jerash), Philadelphia (Amman), Raphana (Abila), Dion (Capitolias), Gadara (Umm Qays), and Pella (Irbid).

James Westfall Thompson

Born to a Dutch reform minister's family in Pella, Iowa, Thompson received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1892 and a PhD in history from the newly founded University of Chicago in 1895.

Lagkadia

Lagkadia, Pella, a village in the Pella regional unit, part of the municipal unit Exaplatanos

Mavrovouni

Mavrovouni, Pella, a village in the Pella regional unit, part of the municipality Skydra

Olynthus

About 393 we find it concluding an important treaty with Amyntas III of Macedon (the father of Philip II), and by 382 it had absorbed most of the Greek cities west of the Strymon, and had even got possession of Pella, the chief city in Macedon.

United to End Racism

Since then, it has attended international NGO conferences such as the 2001 Durban World Conference against Racism and more recently the World Social Forum in Caracas, the World Peace Forum 2006 in Vancouver (where the organisation labelled itself "Healing from War, Working for Peace") and the White Privilege Conference 2006 in Pella, Iowa.

Vern Den Herder

Den Herder chose Central College at Pella, Iowa, because of its reputation for education in sciences and its affiliation with the Reformed Church in America.


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