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The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Athens, Texas. Pages in category "People from Athens, Texas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Alexander I of Macedon, runner and Olympic winner; Astylos of Croton; Pheidippides Phidippides, acclaimed runner and 'inspirator' of the Olympic Marathon race, who had run back and forth between Athens and Sparta in order to relay news of the Battle of Marathon, resulting in his death from ultimate exhaustion, when in his last breath he yelled out "We (the Greeks) won".
Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, [6] Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,857. [ 7 ] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World."
People from Athens, Greece. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. People from Athens by occupation (18 C) A ...
According to the History Center in Austin, Texas, the phrase first appeared in The Austin Daily Statesman (now The Austin American-Statesman) on May 5, 1890. [2]It was long believed to have originated in O. Henry's story "Tictocq: The Great French Detective, In Austin", published in his collection of short stories The Rolling Stone published October 27, 1894.
Greece recorded the first win over England in the national team’s history, as Vangelis Pavlidis’ last-minute strike secured a famous 2-1 victory. Pavlidis gave Greece the lead early in the ...
Greece: Yiorgos Theotokas: 27 April 1906 in Istanbul, Turkey 30 October 1966 in Athens, Greece 1945: Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) Sweden: Angelos Sikelianos: 28 March 1884 in Lefkada, Greece 19 June 1951 in Athens, Greece 1946: Anders Österling (1884–1981) Sweden: 1947: Nikos Athanasiou Veēs (1882–1958) Greece: 1948: Elin Wägner (1882 ...
Dan Vadis – actor famous for his lead roles in many Italian films made in the 1960s; Titos Vandis – Greek stage and film star. Later starred on Broadway and in Hollywood. Character actor in over 100 U.S. TV shows and dozens of U.S. films. Jimmy Workman – actor