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Athos and three
It was in this book, he said, that d ' Artagnan relates his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, where in the antechamber he met three young men with the names Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
After entering Paris and speaking with Monsieur de Treville, he suffers misadventure and is challenged to a duel by each of three musketeers ( Athos, Aramis and Porthos ).
From de Tréville's window, d ' Artagnan sees Rochefort passing in the street below and rushes out of the building to confront him, but in doing so he separately causes offense to three of the Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, who each demand satisfaction ; D ' Artagnan must duel each of them in turn that afternoon.
But just as he and Athos begin to fight, a number of Cardinal Richelieu's guards appear ; they try to arrest the three musketeers and d ' Artagnan for illegal dueling.
D ' Artagnan is initially portrayed by Dumas as a hotheaded youth, and tries to engage the Comte de Rochefort and the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in single combat.
Reed starred as Athos the musketeer in three films based on Alexandre Dumas's novels.
Chalkidiki consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea, resembling a hand with three " fingers " ( though in Greek these peninsulas are often referred to as " legs ") – Pallene ( now Kassandra ), Sithonia, and Agion Oros ( the ancient Acte ), which contains Mount Athos and its monasteries.
There are several summer resorts on the beaches of all three fingers where other minor towns and villages are located, such as at Yerakini ( Gerakina Beach ), Neos Marmaras ( Porto Carras ), Ouranoupolis, Nikiti, Psakoudia, Kallithea ( Pallene / Pallini, Athos ), Sani Resort and more.
Thanks to donations by the Sultana Mara Branković, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Rossikon monastery of Mount Athos, the Rila Monastery was rebuilt in the end of the 15th century by three brothers from the region of Kyustendil.
He quickly befriends three musketeers ( Porthos, Athos and Aramis ) and falls in love with Juliette, a maid-in-waiting for Queen Anne of Austria.
Symphony No. 7 in G minor (" Athonite ") lasts for one hour, and is in three movements: I " Pilgrimage ", II " Ek Batheon " ( the Greek, Έκ βαθέον, meaning " from the depths ", or in Latin, " de Profundis ") and III FINALE " The Garden of the Panaghia ", referring to the Greek Orthodox monastic idea that the peninsula Mount Athos ( Άγιον Όρος, Agion Oros ) forms a garden for the all-holy one, the Theotokos, or Mother-of-God.
Rochefort confides to the Cardinal that there are three musketeers that have refused to relinquish their duties: Athos ( Kiefer Sutherland ), Porthos ( Oliver Platt ), and Aramis ( Charlie Sheen ).
At the execution, d ' Artagnan is saved by Porthos and Aramis, and the three make a getaway in the Cardinal's personal coach, driven by Athos.
This was the westernmost of the three peninsulas of Chalkidike, the middle one being the Sithone / Torone peninsula and the easternmost Mount Athos.
In 1890 three more Cypriot monks, again from Mount Athos, joined him at Stavrovouni: Fathers Varnavas-who would become the next Abbot-and his two brothers Kallinikos and Gregorios.
Some of the most important religious places for which the family has created pieces for are the monasteries of Athos Mountain in Greece, the monastery of Stavrovouni and the three Churches of Holy Mary at the village of Kivisili.

Athos and planet
In all the books except Ethan of Athos and Falling Free, the protagonists are connected to the planet Barrayar, home of the Vorkosigan clan.
* Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
* Athos ( Stargate ), a fictional planet in the TV series Stargate Atlantis
The name " Athos " for the main character's planet may be a reference to Mount Athos in Greece.
It tells the story of Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Centre on the planet of Athos, and his quest to Kline Station to find out what happened to a shipment of vital ovarian tissue cultures.
There is a small but growing call on Athos to obtain a jump ship so the planet can trade with Kline Station, However, this is almost unanimously quashed due to Athos's preferred isolation.
Athos ' few natural resources and extreme isolation are probably the main reason why the founding fathers settled on the planet in the first place, a decision most citizens are apparently thankful for.
This means that Athos being dependent on female ovarian cultures is not an unavoidable situation now but could have been 200 years ago when the planet was settled.
If Athos did find out about that innovation it would completely emancipate the planet from its last remaining dependency on the rest of humanity.
After finding and arriving in the city of Atlantis, Beckett examines a severed Wraith arm that Major Sheppard brought back from the planet Athos.
When she was later killed, he used his abilities to amass enough money to have House Bharaputra on Jackson's Whole splice her DNA into the shipments of ovaries destined for the planet Athos.
In the show, she is the daughter of Tagan, and was a leader of a village on the planet Athos.
Teyla Emmagan is the leader of the Athosians, a human race of farmers, hunters, and traders from the planet Athos in the Pegasus Galaxy.
In the third season episode, Atlantis is reclaimed by a group of Ancients and the Athosians are asked to leave Lantea, settling on a planet they name New Athos, which is unknown to the Wraith.
The Athosians are a group of hunters, farmers, and traders from the planet Athos.

Athos and extensive
Due to the extensive work carried out by the Gelati Academy, people of the time called it " a new Hellas " and " a second Athos ".

Athos and is
The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.
* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.
Nevertheless Galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a 16th-century mural in the refectory of the Great Lavra of Mt Athos.
Mount Athos is a centre of the practice of Hesychasm.
In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.
The Julian calendar is still used by the Berber people of North Africa, and on Mount Athos.
The saint's right hand, with which he baptised Jesus, is claimed to be in: the Serbian Orthodox Cetinje monastery in Montenegro ; Topkapi Palace in Istanbul ; and also in the Romanian skete of the Forerunner on Mount Athos.
The municipality is unusual for one its geographical size, in that it has only one municipal district, the third-largest in Greece ( after the Sílis district in Paranesti and the Mikró Déreio district in Orfeas ) if Mount Athos is not counted.
The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).
The closed ecology of a space station is satirized in Ethan of Athos, with the emphasis on preventing microbial contamination, the air supply dependent on algae and newts, the processing of dead or contraband animals ( and one dead human ) into vat meat supplies, and the storage of garbage in the vacuum outside the station.
* The Monastery of Great Lavra at Mount Athos is founded by Athanasius the Athonite.
One of the great centres of Orthodox monasticism is Mount Athos in Greece, which, like the Vatican State, is self-governing.
There is also one autonomous area, Mount Athos.
The monastic communities of Mount Athos are stavropegial and are directly under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarch who is the only bishop with jurisdiction thereover.
Athos, the " Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain ” (“ Αυτόνομη Μοναστικὴ Πολιτεία Ἁγίου Ὄρους ”), is a self-governed part of the Greek state, subject to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its political aspect and to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinopole as regards its religious aspect.
Nowadays, the monastic state of Mount Athos, having a history of over a millennium, is a center of Christian spirituality and asceticism in Eastern Orthodox tradition.
The Metéora (, " suspended rocks ", " suspended in the air " or " in the heavens above "-etymologically similar to " Meteorite ") is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos.
He is also frequently referred to as Mr. Glücksburg ; this reference to his family dates back to at least 1935 when Archimandrite Christoforos Ktenas referred to the late King Constantine I of Greece as " Ντίνος Γλυξβούργος " ( Tino Glücksburg ), in his book on Mount Athos.
One of the most important is his head, which is preserved to this day at the monastery of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos in Greece.
However, the All-night vigil is usually abridged so as to not last literally " all-night " and may be as short as two hours ; on the other hand, on Athos and in the very traditional monastic institutions, that service followed by the hours and Liturgy may last as long as 18 hours.
D ' Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title ; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the motto " all for one, one for all " (" un pour tous, tous pour un "), a motto which is first put forth by d ' Artagnan.

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