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2. USS Miami (CL-89) - Wikipedia

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   Miami was ordered home on 25 November, and she arrived in Long Beach, California, on 10 December. [4] For the next year and a half, Miami operated off the coast of California, conducting training cruises for naval reservists. She was decommissioned on 30 June 1947 and thereafter assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet.

3. Olympias (trireme) - Wikipedia

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   Olympias achieved a speed of 9 knots (17 km/h) and was able to perform 180 degree turns within one minute, in an arc no wider than two and a half (2.5) ship-lengths. These results, achieved with an inexperienced, mixed crew, suggest that ancient historians like Thucydides were not exaggerating about the capabilities of triremes.

4. Half Moon (shipwreck) - Wikipedia

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   The Half Moon (also known as the Germania and Exen) was a racing sailboat; it sank in 1930 near Miami, Florida, United States. The wreck is outside Bear Cut, which separates Virginia Key from Key Biscayne .

5. Athens Classic Marathon - Wikipedia

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   The Athens Classic Marathon began in 1972 as a joint venture between the Greek tourist board and athletics association. [ 10 ] In 1982, the organisers dedicated the race to Grigoris Lambrakis , an athlete and Member of the Greek Parliament , whose murder in the 1960s has become an inspirational cause for advocates of human rights .

6. Victoria metro station, Athens - Wikipedia

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   Victoria (Greek: Βικτώρια, Viktoria) is on Athens Metro Line 1, between Omonia and Attiki. [2] It is named after the British monarch Queen Victoria. [3] The station is underground, beneath Victoria Square, and was recently renovated. It is the first underground station of the northern group of Line 1 stations. The central station ...

7. Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens - Wikipedia

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   The temple was still only half-finished by that stage. Serious damage was inflicted on the partly built temple by Lucius Cornelius Sulla 's sack of Athens in 86 BC. While looting the city, Sulla seized some of the incomplete columns and transported them to Rome, where they were re-used in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill .