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That same year, the Indigo Girls released a six-track Extended play album named " Indigo Girls ", and in 1987 released their first full-length album, Strange Fire, recorded at John Keane Studio in Athens, Georgia, and including " Crazy Game ".
A copy of Timon of Athens features variously in the plot of Pale Fire and, at one point, the quotation above is amusingly mistranslated from the fictional language of Zemblan, a trademark prank of the polyglot Nabokov.
* Athens Fire Department
Harris was one of a group of Athens businessmen who founded the profitable Southern Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1847.

Athens and department
They resided in New York until Wolff was employed as head of the music department at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, Tennessee and Land became voice and music teacher at the same school.
Leventis family moved to Piraeus where Vassilis Leventis graduated from high school and in 1969 he was admitted to the Civil Engineering department of the National Technical University of Athens.
OSY and STASY ( which absorbed the former companies ISAP, ILPAP, ETHEL, Tram, AMEL ) as well as TrainOSE ( for its Proastiakos department ) are coordinated by Athens Urban Transport Organisation ( Organismos Astikon Syngoinonion Athinon-OASA, ), a public company.
He studied law in Athens, and in 1843 entered the Ministry of the Interior, of which department he became permanent secretary in 1859.
MicroEmpix is the microkernel ( much nearer to an exokernel ) version of Empix, an operating system developed at the Computing Systems Laboratory of the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the National Technical University of Athens.
Appointed as an artist in residence at University of Georgia in Athens in 1937, he became the head of the art department several years later.

Athens and founded
The Delian League, founded about 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
In 465 BC, Athens founded the colony of Amphipolis on the Strymon river.
The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens ; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.
The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.
Plato was the Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues who founded the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
The city of Alexandria in Egypt was founded in 330BC, became the successor to Athens as the intellectual cradle of the Western World.
He then founded a school in Lampsacus before returning to Athens in 306 BC.
* 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
Platonism is an ancient school of philosophy, founded by Plato ; at the beginning, this school had a physical existence at a site just outside the walls of Athens called the Academy, as well as the intellectual unity of a shared approach to philosophizing.
Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.
His was the first permanent school in Athens and it is likely that Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum were founded in part as a response to Isocrates.
For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
* 493 BC: Piraeus, the port town of Athens, is founded
* Theophrastus, who has been studying in Athens under Aristotle, becomes the head of the Lyceum, the academy in Athens founded by Aristotle, when Aristotle is forced to leave Athens.
* The Academy founded at Athens by Plato in about 387 BC closes down by order of Justinian I on charges of un-Christian activity.
After the rise of the democracy in Athens, other city-states founded democracies.
Some of Athens ' greatest such schools included the Lyceum ( the so-called Peripatetic school founded by Aristotle of Stageira ) and the Platonic Academy ( founded by Plato of Athens ).

Athens and 1830
* September 3 – Popular uprising in Athens, Greece, including citizens and military captains, to require from King Otto to issue a liberal Constitution to the state, which was governed since independence ( 1830 ) by various domestic and foreign centres of profits.
* A square in downtown Athens, Greece, is named after Canning ( Πλατεία Κάνιγγος, Plateía Kánningos, Canning Square ), in appreciation of his supportive stance toward the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 – 1830 ).
In 1830, she made a tour of Europe, and three years later published the proceeds from the sale of the book she gave to a school for women that she helped to found in Athens, Greece.

Athens and became
While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.
Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.
At Athens he became head of the Peripatetic school and lectured on Peripatetic philosophy.
He was born at Thurii ( in present day Calabria, Italy ) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion () and the tribe Leontides.
At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.
After Rome became an Empire under Augustus, the nominal independence of Athens dissolved and its government converged to the normal type for a Roman municipality, with a Senate ( gerousia ) of decuriones.
Through Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933, where he established a close friendship with László Moholy-Nagy, Sigfried Giedion and Philip Morton Shand.
When Aethra became pregnant, Aegeus decided to return to Athens.
It later became part of the Delian League and fought on the side of Athens in the Peloponnesian war.
Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.
The distance eventually became fixed at 26 miles 385 yards, or 42. 195 km, though for the first years it was variable, being around — the approximate distance from Marathon to Athens.
* Koine Greek: The fusion of various ancient Greek dialects with Attic, the dialect of Athens, resulted in the creation of the first common Greek dialect, which became a lingua franca across Eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
Eventually, Thucydides and Herodotus became close enough for both to be interred in Thucydides ' tomb in Athens.
From the latter, he planned to return to Athens in time for Christmas, but his ears became even worse.
In the 4th century BC Chios was a member of the Second Athenian Empire but revolted against Athens during the Social War ( 357 – 355 BC ) and Chios became independent again until the rise of Macedonia.
Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon.
In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.
On the level of international relations, Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning, was reduced to a state of near-complete subjection, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece.
The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece ; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens found itself completely devastated, and never regained its pre-war prosperity.
This debate was attended by members of the league and a delegation from Athens ( that was not invited ) also asked to speak, and became the scene of a debate between the Athenians and the Corinthians.

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