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3 unusual facts about Philippi


Alderson Broaddus Battlers women's soccer

Alderson Broaddus University Women's Soccer (ABWSOC) is the women's soccer program at Alderson Broaddus University (A-B) in Philippi, West Virginia and competes within the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), an NCAA Division II league.

Amandla Development

Currently, Amandla is engaging stakeholders in the Philippi, Cape Town area.

Philippi

The present municipality Filippoi is located near the ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Greece.


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

9th Indiana Infantry Regiment

Heavy rains complicated Garnett's retreat, resulting in a wagon train becoming mired in the mud at Corrick's Ford, located east of Philippi near St. George (now St. George, West Virginia).

Calverstown

An early reference to lands described as "Terra Philippi Vituli" (Latin for "Philip of Calfs land") provides an unaudited confirmation in the form of a petition from the Royal Hospitallers of Kilmainham listing their possessions to Pope Innocent III in 1212.

Decree of Philippi

A Royal Decree of Alexander the Great, as an arbitration on a land dispute between the city of Philippi and local Thracians (presumably of the Edonian tribes), was discovered in a Byzantine basilica at Filippoi (1936) and published in 1984.

French School at Athens

Since its foundation, the EFA has been involved in many important archaeological projects in Greece, including the excavations at Philippi, Dikili Tash (both in Greek Macedonia),the Samothrace temple complex and Thasos (in the North Aegean), Delphi (Central Greece), Argos (Peloponnese), Delos (Cyclades), Malia and Itanos (Crete), as well as Amathus in Cyprus.

German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue

PĂ©rez Rosales succeeded Philippi as government agent in Europe in 1850 and arrived back to Chile in 1852 with many German families to settle the shores of Llanquihue Lake.

Haminoeoidea

Bullacta exarata Philippi, 1848 – Distribution: China, Yellow Sea, Indo-Pacific

History of suicide

The Caesarean assassins Brutus and Cassius, for example, killed themselves after their defeat at the battle of Philippi.

Krinides

The mountains dominate most of the municipality including the Lekani mountains while the farmlands as well as the Philippi-Drama plain is to the northwest.

Marcus Antistius Labeo

Marcus Antistius Labeo was the son of Quintus Antistius Labeo, a jurist who caused himself to be slain after the defeat of his party at Philippi.

Marcus Tullius Tiro

Tiro (spelled Tyro) appears in the television programme Rome, played by Clive Riche in the episodes "Son of Hades", "These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero", "Heroes of the Republic", and "Philippi".

Mark Philippi

In 1998, Philippi was severely injured at the 1998 World's Strongest Man during the car flip event where he ruptured his patella tendon and also partially tore his biceps tendon when the car rolled back on him.

Ryan Claridge

Claridge was an investor in Philippi Sports Institute in Las Vegas, the institute is owned and operated by former World's Strongest Man finalist Mark Philippi.

Seven Deacons

After preaching for years in Asia Minor, where Hippolytus of Rome claimed he was bishop of Soli (Pompeiopolis; though he may have been referring to Soli, Cyprus), Parmenas was said to have settled down in Macedonia, where he died at Philippi in 98 during Trajan's persecutions.

T. gouldii

Thyasira gouldii, Philippi, 1845, a bivalve species in the genus Thyasira and the family Thyasiridae


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