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Athens Lower Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Athens in Greene County, New York. The district contains 267 contributing buildings, including the Jan Van Loon House built in 1706. It includes residential, commercial, and ecclesiastical structures built primarily during the 19th century in a variety of popular ...
Athens Riverfront Park, September 2007. Athens is located along the eastern edge of Greene County, in the eastern part of the town of Athens, at (42.267151, −73.812487 The village is situated on the west bank of the Hudson River, and the village limits extend to the center of the river, which in this location is the eastern of two channels.
Google Maps Street View Trekker backpack being implemented on the sidewalk of the Hudson River Greenway in New York City. In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots ...
Outside the walls of Athens, the site of the Platonic Academy was a sacred grove of olive trees, still recalled in the phrase "the groves of Academe". In central Italy, the town of Nemi recalls the Latin nemus Aricinum , or "grove of Ariccia ", a small town a quarter of the way around the lake.
Athens – The village of Athens is on the eastern edge of the town. Athens Station – A location south of West Athens. Hollister Lake – A lake in the northwestern part of the town. Lime Street – A hamlet in the northwestern part of the town. Middle Ground Flats – An island in the Athens River. Sleepy Hollow Lake – A lake at the ...
Historical marker on NY 394 east of Westfield commemorating the Old Portage Road. Hand drawn illustration of the French Portage Road, c. 1912. Old Portage Road, also known as Old French Road and as French Portage Trail, was a Native American trail and later a road in present-day Chautauqua County, New York, that connected Lake Erie and Chautauqua Lake, and thereby the Great Lakes and the ...
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic ethnicities: Celtae, Belgae and Aquitani. Expansion of the Celtic culture in the 3rd century BC. The Druids were not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole.
Alençon (UK: / æ ˈ l ɒ̃ s ɒ̃ /, [3] US: / ˌ æ l ɒ̃ ˈ s oʊ n /, [4] French: [alɑ̃sɔ̃] ⓘ; Norman: Alençoun) is a commune in Normandy, France, and the capital of the Orne department. [5] It is situated 173 kilometres (107 mi) west of Paris. Alençon belongs to the intercommunality of Alençon (with 52,000 people).