I have a project, and i have to have 10 interesting facts. 4 more!! I have tried searches with amazing things, insane things, cool facts, things like that, anyone help me? thank you!! please, i really cant find any neat things, they cant be boring, facts such as the word dinosaur came from 2 greek words...are cool..but im finding facts about population, culture, and those arent comical, or interesting!
2006-12-07 11:37:36 · 9 answers · asked by ღ❤Crystal❤ღ 4 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Greece
ha..malaka...nyway...thanks ppl..that helped...and i learned something up to about 16 hours, and then i'll forget..ha later...
-Nolan
2006-12-07 11:54:13 · update #1
Well, the Spartans washed their hair before battle because they wanted to look good when they died.
Also, they also had a lot of homosexual soldiers (in fact it was encouraged!) because they thought that soldiers would fight harder to protect a lover.
The last letter of the Greek alphabet it omega, not zeta.
Also, during the Trojan war, everyone says that the Trojans were fighting the Greeks, but the Trojans were actually Greeks, too!Also, the Greek city-states (well, some of them at least) had the first actual democracies, where everyone voted for everything (well, all the men voted, at least)
2006-12-07 11:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Elfstone 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Kos is the birthplace of Hippocritus(medicine) and you can still see the Plane tree from which he taught his students.
Kos is located in the Aegean Sea.
Kalymnos just accross the way from Kos is the home of the Sponge Fishermen. But they also manufacture synthetic sponges.
Because of the EU Greece no longer uses drachmas but Euros.
English is being widely accepted in Greece, because of the EU and because of Tourism.
Greece is a wonderful place to retire. Over 80,000 US citizens live in Greece.
Greeks have a lower incidence of heart trouble and cancer than their Northern European counterparts because of a Mediterrenean Diet. Lots of olive oil and fresh salads with herbs.
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2006-12-07 21:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greece is the 2nd largest mountainous country in Europe after Switzerland.
Greece has half the seismic activity of Europe.
Greece has 2000 islands but only 227 are inhabited.
Greece has the lowest suicide rate in Europe.
2006-12-08 05:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by gina 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A legend says that In ancient Sparta they used to throw children
with disabilities or very old people inside a hole on the mountain (called KEADAS) that ended down to a river (after a good fall) in order to get rid of them, because they believed that they were loss for the rest (to feed, to take care of etc).
Spartans were very rough people that knew how to survive with the least they could use and also taught that to their children.
2006-12-07 18:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by Vette 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could write the etymology of the word: The English name came from modern Greek μουσακάς (mousakás). The Greek name came from the Turkish musakka designating roughly the same recipe. The same name and recipe is found throughout the lands that formerly were part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The Turkish name came from Arabic مسقعة (musaqa‘h), which in Arabic means moussaka but comes from an Arabic root literally meaning "chilled".
2016-05-23 04:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
on the island of cephalonia.every year on august the 15th.snakes come out of the mountains and out of their normal habitat and enter one of the churches there.the story behind it is that there were nuns from a monastery.during some war .not sure which one.but there were soldiers coming.nuns did not want there fate to be raped.so they prayed to the virgin mary and asked her to save them.she turned them into snakes.and now.every year.on her anniversary..they come to the church and drape themselves over icons and at the end of teh day.they leave again.normally these snakes are poisonous.but on this day.nobody in the church has ever been bitten
2006-12-07 11:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by sunshine 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mention something about mythology, maybe something about architecture, democracy and/or how awesome the weather is. there is a product called mastiha that only grows on one island all over the world (chios), and it is being used in all kinds of things like medicine and cosmetics.
lmao at canoncan's comment!!!!!!!!
2006-12-07 11:41:39 · answer #7 · answered by Tina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malaka!
2006-12-07 11:39:11 · answer #8 · answered by Rawkus 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://www.travel-island.com/interesting.places/greece.html
read the above site and you might find some answers. its very interesting.
2006-12-08 04:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋