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Seventh-century BC Spartan poet Alcman inferred that the food ordinary people in Sparta consumed was a pea soup, not the meat-based black soup. On this basis, the historian, Hans Van Wees, suggested that black soup could not be a dish that the average Spartans regularly consumed since it would entail the slaughtering of an animal. [ 54 ]
Lucky Pierrot is a Japanese chain of hamburger fast food restaurants founded in 1987. The company operates 17 stores in Hakodate , Hokkaido and serves 1.8 million customers per year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each of its 17 stores has a different theme.
A concert party, also called a Pierrot troupe, is the collective name for a group of entertainers, or Pierrots, popular in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. The variety show given by a Pierrot troupe was called a Pierrot show. [1] [2] Pierrot troupe at Scarborough, c. 1905
Frantzdy Pierrot (born 29 March 1995) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League club AEK Athens and the Haiti national team. Club career [ edit ]
Pierrot troupe or Pierrot show, British variety shows popular from the 1920s to the 1940s George Arnold (poet) (1834–1865), American journalist and poet who went by this name Pierrot (Tamás Z. Marosi) (born 1969), Hungarian pop singer, game designer and musician
The long Peloponnesian War drained Sparta of so many of its citizens that by the time of the conspiracy of Cinadon, the beginning of the 4th century BC, only forty Peers, or citizens, could be counted in a crowd of 4,000 at the agora (Xenophon, Hellenica, III, 3, 5). The total population of helots at that time, including women, is estimated as ...
A typical blue-plate special board, from the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire. A blue-plate special is a discount-priced meal that changes daily. The practice was common from the 1920s in American and Canadian restaurants through the 1950s, especially in diners and greasy spoons.
Eurotas River. According to myth, the first king of the region later to be called Laconia, but then called Lelegia was the eponymous King Lelex.He was followed, according to tradition, by a series of kings allegorizing several traits of later-to-be Sparta and Laconia, such as the Kings Myles, Eurotas, Lacedaemon and Amyclas of Sparta.