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A new restaurant offering authentic Greek food is gearing up to open in early January in Warner Robins. Olympia Gyros is a spin off of the popular Greek Village Restaurant “It’s going to be a ...
Gliz (a shortened form of Ghiaccio, "Ice" in Italian) is a humanized male ice cube who wears blue and represents "enthusiasm and joy." 2008 Summer Olympics. Beijing. The Fuwa (福娃): Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini. Koi, giant panda, Olympic Flame, Tibetan antelope, swallow. Han Meilin.
23 kcal (96 kJ) Media: Ice cream cone. An ice cream cone or poke (Ireland/Scotland) is a brittle, cone -shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, made so ice cream can be carried and eaten without a bowl or spoon, for example, the Hong Kong–style bubble cone. Many styles of cones are made, including pretzel cones ...
The name comes from the Greek γύρος ( gyros, 'circle' or 'turn'). It is a calque of the Turkish döner, from dönmek, also meaning "turn". [7] In Athens and other parts of southern Greece, the skewered meat dish elsewhere called souvlaki is known as kalamaki, while souvlaki is a term used generally for gyros, and similar dishes. [8]
The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games.It was invented by the Nazis and was first performed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries and to highlight the Aryan connections of Germany to Greece.
Olympia. Olympia is a 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris . The subject of Olympia was modeled by ...
Olympia, Greece. / 37.63833°N 21.63000°E / 37.63833; 21.63000. The archaeological site showing the stadium, the temple of Hera, the temple of Zeus. The line of trees, upper right, border a road to the north of the Alfeios. Geologically the site is terraced into the gentle north slope of the Alfeios valley visible in the background.
Size. 236 by 98 ft (72 by 30 m) Design and construction. Architect (s) Libon. Other designers. Paeonius, Alcamenes. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek ...