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Banquo. Lord Banquo / ˈbæŋkwoʊ /, the Thane of Lochaber, is a semi-historical character in William Shakespeare 's 1606 play Macbeth. In the play, he is at first an ally of Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he ...
The opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States.As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal and ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, with an artistic spectacle to ...
[6] [12] She criticized Atlanta's transport problems to end the "guilt factor" about losing the Centennial games. [25] By coincidence, the country that Athens followed as an Olympics host was the United States. Athens put in their bid for 2004 six months after Salt Lake City was awarded the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Feb 1, 2024; Athens, OH, United States; Mount Zion Baptist Church in Athens was founded over 100 years ago by former slaves. The Mount Zion Black Cultural Center is restoring the building.
The Tabernacle. The Tabernacle [2] [3] is a mid-size concert hall located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Opening in 1911 as a church, the building was converted into a music venue in 1996. It is owned and managed by concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment and has a capacity of 2,600 people.
Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. It is short: more than a thousand lines shorter than Othello and King Lear, and only slightly more than half as long as Hamlet. This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance. This would ...
List of ancient Greek lawgivers. Aegimius (mythological) Cercidas (fl. 3rd century BCE, Megalopolis) Charondas (fl. 6th century BCE, Catania in Sicily) Cleisthenes (c. 570 – c. 508 BCE, Athens) Demonax (fl. 6th century BCE, Cyrenaica) Diagoras of Melos (fl. 5th century BCE)
Third Hellenic Republic 1974–present. Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of ...