Showing posts with label Athens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athens. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Acropolis (Athens Castle) design doodle for Google

Postcard from Google doodle for the Acropolis. Acropolis, including the many important place in history brought to the Google homepage, the Athens Acropolis and the city's highest point stands the Castle of the acropolis, the interior castle, the castle in terms of ...

Acropolis (Athens Castle) design doodle for Google

Postcard from Google doodle for the Acropolis. Acropolis, including the many important place in history brought to the Google homepage, the Athens Acropolis and the city's highest point stands the Castle of the acropolis, the interior castle, the castle in terms of ...

Work for the first time an interesting doodle on Google, came just before Christmas. Until now publishes many doodle doodle the world's largest search engine, all the important places in the world in history and the Acropolis one of them carried the home page. Acropolis doodle doodle from the Google home page, with only one of the 17. St. from the Google home page. Basil's Cathedra, Buche de Noel, the Acropolis, Pierogi, the Great Wall of China, Mt. Fuji, Indian dance styles, chili pepper, Oud, Sydney Harbour, Nepal, the gondolas in Venice, Chilean vineyards African Kanga, Up on the housetop, Henna lamp designs include a combination of doodle.

What is Acropolis?

Castle represents the Acropolis in Athens. Acropol word as meaning the highest point of the city in the interior of the castle, the castle and acropolis means. Acropolis in the ancient Greek city states and established a high place in the temples and palaces. Greece is considered to be the birthplace of civilization. Warfare and women, the elderly and children were made to accommodate safely. Peacetime, those bearing the deadly and contagious disease (typhoid, cholera, leprosy, etc.). Also used to isolate. Roman, Lycian and Carian civilizations are common in many instances.

Passes for the Acropolis of another definition is as follows;

Inaccessible or too high, but is a term used in ancient times very easily defensible hill. Initially, the police gave the same meaning as the words and the acropolis. Acropolis, a fortress overlooking the city, is a valuable piece of land arable soil, a shelter and kings at the beginning of the first times when there is hellen communities, place of residence of kings.

The term world's most famous architectural works of the ancient Acropolis in Athens, means that one of the rising hill.

The Acropolis of Athens, rising in the middle, like a flat top plate, the name given to a steep cliff. This means that word up in the language of ancient Greek city. Very old times, the Acropolis, the ancient Greeks lived and the surrounding villages are dominated here is a real fortress, but also a religious center. At one point was destroyed by the Persians and then under the leadership of Pericles, BC 450 years was right again. That famous sculptor Pheidias, and other powerful artists of the ages have worked in this business.

The western slope of the Acropolis, the first structure to meet the monumental doors Proplyleia'dır visitors. Of the building, very large size of the fine marble arches made. Beyond this, at least, the small temple of Athena has Nike'rim. Then, the majestic Parthenon, the Temple of dull gold-colored marble columns and an excellent income.

Erekhteion'dur koyabilmiş last monument to centuries. The name of the legendary kings of ancient Greece was the first of Erekhteios'tan. The location where the columns are statues of women. These are some smiling, some lowering, all six Karyatid Kızı'nın proud sculpture.

Parthenoıı Temple, the Acropolis, the peak of a victory anıtıydı planted, celebrating the achievements of the Athenian war. Once this temple, a giant statue of Athena, were located at the city's protective goddess.

Here's Google doodle postcards Acropolis;

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Athens explosion

A violent explosion took place in Athens, Greece.

Administrative Court in Athens, Greece in front of a violent explosion occurred.

Greek press and media organs, Ambelokipus district court left in front of the Administration Riankur street motorcycles 08.15 hours in the bomb 'exploded in announced.

Unidentified persons before the explosion and the private ALTER Elefterotipia newspaper a notice of the bomb found by searching on the television, the police evacuated the building of the court's security measures around the news of the attack did not cause loss of life were recorded.

Precaution against the possibility of another presence in the region of the bomb investigation launched by police at the scene said.

Tax Office bomb threat

In the morning in an explosion in front of the Administrative Court, the court building on a large scale with the surrounding buildings, property damage was reported to occur.

Greek television by cutting off their regular news broadcasts, Luiz Riankur Street in front of the courthouse as a result of severe blast damage that a large, street parking is unavailable, and many of the 4 car in the car was damaged, said that the fire put out by firefighters.

On the other hand, is made Kallithea'daki Athens Tax Office reported that a notice of the bomb.

Greek press institutions, an unidentified person called the newspaper Elefterotipiya have a bomb on a notice of the police, announced that security measures around freeing the Office of Tax Thiseos Street.
Referred to the region with a large number of police bomb disposal teams, building and street dogs, bomb the Tax Office said the search efforts continue.

Meanwhile, doubts about the bomb attack "Cells of Fire" was recorded mostly focused on the organization.

News of this organization, Pangrati district undertaken by four bomb attack on November 25 statement, "the captured members of the yargılanacağı before January 17, the terrorist organizations inside and outside the country where justice called for arrangements to attack buildings," said.