Half cocked Demy for Greece in 2-17 with "This is love", a banal bit of Eurodance non-entity. It's here | ||
After a year's absence and with everything else that is going on, I was hoping 2016 would be an invigorating year. So I am saddened that Argo & "Utopian Land" have given diluted plebeian ethnic drivel. All the "Opa's", bouzouki's and doumbek's under the sun won't save it here | ||
Freaky Fortune feat. RiskyKidd is the catchily named Eurodance act attempting to bring a bit of sunshine to ESC with "Rise up". At least it's loud, even if it isn't catchy. It can be found here | ||
Koza Mostra (geddit) feat. Agathon Iakovidis will be romping through a barmy olive-fuelled bit of nonsense called "Alcohol is Free". So in tribute dust those stills down and start home brewing here | ||
Heavy on the e's, Eleftheria Eleftheriou would certainly never be seen taking illegal narcotics, not least because she doesn't wear enough to hide any. She'll be hip jiggling to "Aphrodisiac", a woeful generic effort that screams "we do not want to host the show". Read about her here |
The Tourist Guide says "With well over a hundred inhabited islands and a territory that stretches from the south Aegean to the Balkan countries, Greece offers enough to fill months of travel. The historic sites span four millennia, encompassing both the legendary and the obscure, where a visit can still seem like a personal discovery. Beaches are parcelled out along a convoluted coastline equal to France's in length, and islands range from backwaters where the boat calls twice a week to resorts as cosmopolitan as any in the Mediterranean." Athens "Athens, despite its history as the "Cradle of Western Civilization", is something of an acquired taste. At first glance it is exceedingly ugly, sprawled over the arid hills of Attica, its traffic in Gordian knots, its air the foulest in Western Europe. Such first impressions do not last long. What Athens lacks in charm and beauty, it compensates for with character, attitude, humor, and a zest for life. The mild climate enables the city's exuberant art scene and nightlife to exist outdoors; the Greeks invented theater and built their magnificent outdoor amphitheaters in Athens." |
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motorist has been injured when his car plunged into a hole that opened
up on a main road being re-built for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. |
2000-1500
The Minoan civilization reaches its height. 1500BC Explosion of Thira
(Santorini) releases energy equal to 200,000 H-bombs. 1200BC End of Mycenaean
civilization. 490BC Phidippides of Athens set out on his run. 484-420BC
Herodotus first historian. 438BC Parthenon built atop the Acropolis. 431-404BC
Peloponnesian war between Athens & Sparta. 290BC 110-foot Colossus
of Rhodes built to the sun god Helios. 224BC Earthquake breaks the Colossus
of Rhodes at his knees. 393AD The Olympic Games held from 776 BC until
about 393 AD. 1460 The Ottomans conquer southern Greece. 1463 The Venetians
regain southern Greece. 1715 The Ottomans recapture southern Greece. 1821
The Ottomans defeat the Greeks. 1827 Athens falls to Ottomans during Greek
War of Independence. 1924 Greeks vote for abolition of the monarchy. 1935
Monarchy restored. 1940 Mussolini's forces attack, but are repelled. 1941
Greece falls to Germany. More than 100,000 die in famine. Fierce resistance
follows. 1944 British & Greeks force Nazi withdrawal. 1949 Royalist
parties win elections, restore monarchy. 1973 Greece declares a republic,
monarchy is abolished. 1981 Greece joins EU. 2002 Euro replaces drachma. |
Council officials in Greece have seized a batch of penis-shaped lollipops
which were on sale at a popular beauty spot. |
Famous Greeks
Telly Savalas, Elia Kazan, Maria Callas, Nana Mouskouri, Vangelis |
Life expectancy |
76.17 men 81.48 women | ||
Airports | 79 | ||
Radios | 477 per 1,000 people | ||
Internet Users | 705.8 per 10,000 people | ||
Railway Network | 1,537 miles | ||
Death Penalty abolished in 1993 |
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