Athens
About Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres.
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In Greece, in 2006, a court in Athens officially unbanned their worship. They're only about 2,000 worshippers. The story in The Guardian quoted a Christian priest in Greece who said, they are a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past.
from No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 at 00:39:06 · read transcript
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In Thebes, in the Spartan... In 8X, wasn't it? Wow, really? It's not a modern innovation. No. Although actually the war between Sparta and Athens did go on until 1996. What? No. Come on now. It was one of those ones, you know, where they don't sign the peace agreement. So in 1986, they signed a symbolic agreement that Sparta and Athens were no longer at war, even though that they'd both been part of modern-day Greece for about a thousand years.
255: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen
So they would all be in this army together. and they would all be fighting. This is in... Thieves in the Spartan. Wow, really. This is not a modern innovation. No. Although actually the war between Sparta and Athens did go on until 1996. What? No. Come on now. It was one of those ones, you know, where they don't sign the peace agreement. Yeah. So in 1986, they signed a symbolic agreement that Sparta and Athens were no longer at war, even though that they'd both been part of modern-day Greece for about a thousand years.
No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen
That was in 1844 that that happened. It's another generation, isn't it? Yeah. Thousands of hours wasted. Get this, in the 1900 Olympics, there was a 200 meter obstacle swimming course. You were able to swim with the current because it was in moving water, but you had to make it past three obstacles. You had to climb over two of them. One was a pole and one was a row of boats.
61: No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand, 2015-05-15 · listen
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Coordinates: 37.9842, 23.7281