* Birmingham, David ( 2006 ) Empire in Africa: Angola and its Neighbors, Athens / Ohio: Ohio University Press

Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies.

Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976.

Maya Lin, a Chinese American, was born in Athens, Ohio.

Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

* Steinberg, Ronald M., Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine Art and Renaissance Historiography ( Athens, Ohio, 1977 )

President Johnson's first ever public reference to the ' Great Society ' took place during a speech to students on May 7, 1964, at Ohio University in Athens.

* Lodi Township, Athens County, Ohio

Athens is a city in and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States.

A historic college town, Athens is home to Ohio University ( 22, 000 + students ) and is the principal city of the Athens, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Previously part of Washington County, Ohio, Athens County was formed in 1805, named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Greece.

The establishment of Ohio University in Athens would mark the first federal endowment of an educational institution in the United States.

Ohio became a state in 1803 and on February 18, 1804, the state legislature passes an act establishing the " Ohio University " in the town of Athens.

Athens received city status in 1912 following the 1910 census showing the population had passed 5, 000 residents, the requirement for city status in Ohio.

Originally, large tracts of land ( Athens and Alexander Townships ) were set aside through a contract between the Congress ( under the Articles of Confederation ) and the Ohio Company of Associates, a group of American Revolutionary War veterans.

Today it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Ohio, with an enrollment of over 19, 000 on the Athens campus and over 28, 000 for all campuses.

In 1843, the Hocking Canal opened, enabling shipping from the Ohio River up the Hocking River, which passes through Athens, to Nelsonville, Ohio, and points beyond.

The following ESFs took place in Paris ( 2003 ), London ( 2004 ), Athens ( 2006 ), and Malmö ( 2008 ).

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

In January 2006, researchers from the University of Athens analyzed teeth recovered from a mass grave underneath the city, and confirmed the presence of bacteria responsible for typhoid.

In January 2006 it moved its headquarters from Prague, Czech Republic to Athens, Greece and now focuses on organizing regional federations of unions in the Third World, campaigning against imperialism, racism, poverty, environmental degradation and exploitation of workers under capitalism and in defense of full employment, social security, health protection, and trade union rights.

* J. Blok and A. Lardinois ( eds ), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Leiden, Brill, 2006

* The Ohio Brew Week has been held every year in Athens since 2006.

* Laurin, Joseph R., Women of Ancient Athens, Trafford Publishing ( 2006 ).

This trilogy was complemented by his last opera Lysistrata, first performed in Athens ( 14 April 2002 ): a call for peace ... With his operas, and with his song cycles from 1974 to 2006, Theodorakis ushered in the period of his Lyrical Life.

International events such as the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, both held in Athens, greatly helped to boost tourism in the country, while large-scale nationally-funded cultural infrastructure such as the New Acropolis Museum also contributed to the flow of tourists in the country.

Her last owner, from 2006, was the Liberian-based Domine Maritime Corporation, under the management of Alon Maritime Corporation of Athens, Greece.

*" Fernando Botero " ( 2006 ), Athens.

In Greece eight diesel DMU-2 Desiro trains ( OSE class 660 ) were temporarily in service with the Hellenic Railways Organisation ( OSE ) during 2004 – 2006, and again in 2007 on the Athens – Chalkida line and on the Athens suburban railway lines ( Proastiakos ).

Singer / songwriter Ben Patton wrote and recorded a song named " Timon of Athens " in 2006 which is included on his album Because the Heart.

The project was further developed in 2006 and 2007 by this team trough two development phases with the planning organizations of Athens.

Athens ( 2006 Population 3, 086 ) is a township in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

In August 2006, longtime drummer Hilarie Sidney officially announced her departure from the band during the band's closing set at the Athens Popfest music festival in Athens, Georgia.

It has been used on many sports telecasts, particularly those on NBC, which has the score during its closing credits for the Salt Lake 2002, Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as with the final closing credits montage for their 12-year run with the NBA in 2002.

In early 2006, it was revealed that the cellular phone of Costas Karamanlis, as well as those of several other members of the government and officials of the armed forces, had been tapped for several months during and after the 2004 Athens Olympics.

In the prefectural elections of 2006, the Greens supported 2 combinations, the " Eco-Athens " in the municipality of Athens, that took 1. 4 % of the votes and " Ecology Solidarity " that won 4. 6 % and acquired 2 seats on the Departmental Council in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, as well as 53 other municipal and County sets in rest of the country.

In 2005 she signed a contract with an artist management based in Vienna for an international career and announced her intention to once again participate in the National Song Festival ( Festivali i Këngës ), the Albanian selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest, which in 2006 was to be held in Athens, Greece.

Both of them are gold medal winners in the Olympic Games Athens 2004, and members of the Argentine Team which played the FIBA World Championship in Japan 2006 where they came in fourth.

In 2006, she won the Dora 2006 festival with the song " Moja štikla " and represented Croatia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, on May 20, 2006, finishing 13th with 56 points.

And then perhaps one day we get to Athens.

This is a public bathing beach, easily accessible by tramway from the center of Athens.

For a delightful drive out of Athens I should recommend Sounion, at the end of the Attic Peninsula.

In Athens, in Shakespeare's England, and at Versailles, the hierarchies of worldly power were stable and manifest.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years before quitting Athens in 348 / 47 BC.

By 335 BC he had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum.

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.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

Upon Alexander's death, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens once again flared.

Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Ancient Agora of Athens | Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens ( inv.

He writes that the Cretan-seer Epimenides, purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state.

* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.

It was found in Piraeus, the harbour of Athens.

The statue throws some light on an artistic centre which, with an independently developed harder, simpler, and heavier style, restricts Ionian influence in Athens.

Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy.

The Delian League under the leadership of Athens, in 431 BC.

Later arose the city-states of Athens and Sparta among many others that constituted the Athenian Empire and Hellenic Civilization.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

* 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.

* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.