An excellent debut for the Greek rugby team as they will be making their debut appearance at the 2021 Rugby League World Cup in England after defeating Serbia 82-6 in Belgrade.

"We hope it's the step forward needed and everyone back home will be proud of us." said head coach Steve Georgallis. Greece's win comes against a backdrop of turmoil in their home country.

The 16th and final qualifier for the Rugby League World Cup 2021 will be decided in Florida on November 16, when the Cook Islands Kukis play against the USA Hawks.

Surprisingly enough, the Greek team is not currently allowed to play matches in their home country as the Greek administration and the Hellenic Modern Pentathlon Federation do not recognize the Greek Rugby League Association. Consequently, it is challenging to acquire facilities, while the police have been called to matches on various occasions.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances in Greek rugby, this historic Greek qualification has not been celebrated appropriately.


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Photo: Greek Rugby League Association

The Greek police has announced the schedule of the traffic regulations and street shutdowns that will take place in the Marathon area and central Athens on the occasion of the annual Authentic Marathon race and other smaller races on Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10.

On Saturday, November 9, between 17.00-19.00, a 10km race will take place from Vassilissis Sofias Ave near Syntagma Square to the Panathenaic Stadium; some of the streets it will pass through include Panepistimiou, Messoghion, Fidippidou and Irodou Attikou. On Sunday, November 10, between 09.00-17.45, the 37th Authentic Marathon route will follow Marathonos Avenue to the Panathenaic Stadium via Messoghion Ave, Michalakopoulou Ave, Vassilissis Sofias Ave, and Irodou Attikou, among others.

08.00-10.00: 5km road race, through the streets of Panepistimiou, Akadimias, the NIMITS hospital area.

 

10.05-10.20: Special Olympics Hellas Fun Run 1200m. Starts from Vassilissis Sofias Avenue outside Greek Parliament Finishes inside the Panathenaic Stadium.

 

10.20-10.40: Kids' Fun Run 1200m. Starts from Vas. Sofias Avenue outside Greek Parliament. Finishes inside the Panathenaic Stadium.

 

10.35-11.00: Team Road Race ERGO 3km. Starts from Vas. Amalias Ave. in front of Ippokratio Hospital. Finishes inside the Panathenaic Stadium.

In addition, short children's races will be held by local municipalities along the Marathon towns. In general, traffic restrictions will be introduced early on Saturday morning and stay in place, by location, until late afternoon on Sunday.

In Athens, in particular, vehicles will not be allowed to park on several streets until as late as 20:30. Please also note that bicycle riders and pedestrians are not allowed on the streets runners will use, and they will also not allowed to cross these streets during the race.

For further information and a detailed schedule of traffic restrictions, please visit: Hellenic Police (Greek Only)

Following the success of the presentations about the lost statue of Athena Parthenos that took place on the National holiday of 28 October, the Acropolis Museum invites its visitors to a new round of presentations that will take place every Saturday from 9 November to 14 December 2019.

The Museum invites its visitors on a walk of knowledge about the statue of Athena Parthenos, its construction materials and techniques, its myths and allegories, its radiance and adventures.

Dates: Every Saturday from 9/11 to 14/12
Greek: at 1 p.m.
English: at 11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes
Participation: Limited to 30 visitors per session. For registration, please refer
to the Information Desk at the Museum entrance on the same day, half an hour
before the presentation start time. First-in first-served.
Price: Only the general admission fee to the Museum is required (5 euro).

The fossilized remains of two new unknown snake species have been discovered near the city of Serres in northern Greece.

 

The Greek researcher who discovered the fossils that are dated back 5,5 to 6,0 million years, has named them Periergophis micros and Paraxenophis spanios.

 

“These two new snakes have new names because they belong to a totally new species and are completely different from any other species. The strange thing is that such vertebral anatomy has not been observed anywhere else and there is nothing, either in modern or in extinct serpent species, that even comes close to the morphology of these new species,” palaeontologist Dr Giorgos Georgalis told AMNA.

Dr Georgalis has published a scientific paper about his discovery, in collaboration with other scientists from German, Czech, and Swiss universities. According to Georgalis the serpents are so unique that it is hard to classify them under any known family, so they have understood that they belong to a new species.

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Athens Digital Arts Festival is organizing for the first time a new Art, Science & Technology Exhibition, under the title Extending Reality | CoExistence: Art, Science & Technology, at the Eugenides Foundation, the New Digital Planetarium, in Athens.

The aim of this new exhibition is to highlight the dynamics of modern media in everyday life through a fun and interactive program. It will be full of experiences for everyone who wants to learn and acquaintance with the contemporary ways in which the coexistence of Art, Technology and Science.

The program of Extending Reality | CoExistence: Art, Science & Technology will change the way we perceive reality and its boundaries, presenting the intersection of the physical with the digital world, creating a hybrid space between physical and virtual reality. The program will include interactive installations, AR and VR projects, games, workshops, 360 performances, and screenings.

The Exhibition will host works by Greek and foreign artists. Among the artworks that will be presented, it will be the new interactive installation Black Hole by Yiannis Kranidiotis (GR), a light and sound sculpture inspired by the geometry of black holes. Moreover, Human Machine by Saint Machine (RO) will be presented for the first time in Greece at the Eugenides Foundation, looking at new patterns of technology-facilitated collaborative behaviors. Specifically for this event and venue, a VR project was created, Fabien Prioville's, dancer of Pina Bausch, (FR) Rendez- vous, co-produced by Tanzhaus NRW, redefining contemporary dance and traditional theater. Another artwork comes from Taiwan and Dr. Ya Lun Tao (TW)*, Time Panorama, a VR artwork based on the idea that the world is made up of illusions and is the panoramic projection of desires.

We invite you all to discover together the new realities that are unfolding before us.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Join us to celebrate with us a day of fun, while doing some holiday bargain shopping, sharing smiles and cat-stories with the family of Nine Lives Greece! Let’s say goodbye to 2019 by helping cats in need.

Discover small treasures amongst new and nearly-new goodies, and taste a delicious selection of home-baked cakes as well as scrumptious savories by the excellent La Chocolatiere caterers. Also, grab the chance to get your hands on the new 2020 Nine Lives calendars! A perfect Christmas gift for any cat lover. You will also find limited edition catnip Christmas toys as well as other seasonal goodies!

The final countdown to the Athens Classic Marathon "Athens Marathon, The Authentic" officially kicked last week with a press conference organized by the Hellenic Track & Field Federation (SEGAS).

According to SEGAS, this year's event has reached the record number of 60,000 participants in all races while last year, about 55,000 athletes from 105 countries and regions flooded the Attica area.

This year, the organizers, expect to welcome 20,000 marathon runners from all over the world at the original course of the 42.195 km from Marathon to Athens. Together with the 10km and 5km running events, a total of more than 60,000 athletes will run through the Attica region and Athens next Sunday, making the Athens Marathon one of the largest running events in the world.

Every marathon runner that crosses the finish line in the Panathenaic Stadium on November 10 will receive a medal depicting the Battle of Marathon. The classic marathon course begins near the tumulus of Marathon; it ends at the Panathenaic Stadium (Kallimarmaro)-the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896-right in the heart of Athens!

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Photo Credit: Athens Authentic Marathon

A series of events of Chinese comics are being held in Athens until November 5th. The events are hosted by The State Council Information Office of China, The National Radio and Television Administration of China, and the Embassy of China in Greece. Organized by the Information Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, The Information Office of the People’s Government of Guangzhou, and The China Artists Association.

There are more than 100 Chinese modern classic animation works at the exhibition, including the masterpieces of Feng Zikai, Zhang Leping and other cartoon masters. The masterpieces of contemporary Chinese cartoon masters Cai Zhizhong, Zheng Xinyao, Jincheng and others, as well as the representative works of Laoshu (Liu Shuyong), Xiaolin (Lin Dihuan) and Gao Youling in the new media era. Animation Movies include Havoc in Heaven, Where is Mama, Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King and other classic works with Chinese ink characteristics, and also those won the International prizes, such as One Small Step and Life Smartphone.

The participants also have the chance to watch the movie Ne Zha which had a big success in China. It was created on the basis of traditional mythology and has been re-interpreted in modern times creating a second smash hit at the box office in Chinese film history, and entering the Oscar Best Animation feature Primary.

The design exhibition of "Beyond the Tower: The Transfer and Transmission of China's Image" held at the same venue gathered more than 200 designers' works of cross era, cross theme, cross-discipline and even cross-cultural background, trying to activate Chinese traditional culture, create new concepts, new categories and new expressions at home and abroad, and explain the macro, open, diverse and confident temperament of contemporary Chinese culture. The exhibition also brings with the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games mascot Bing Dwne Dwne to meet the audience in Athens Greece, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games.

Greece’s National Meteorological Service issued a weather warning yesterday at noon about heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, and a sharp temperature drop. Hail and strong winds may locally accompany the extreme weather phenomena.

Meteorologists forecast a sharp temperature drop by 9 degrees Celsius in northern Greece. The bad weather front is coming from the West and will start affecting the Ionian islands as of Wednesday afternoon and reach the rest of the country in the following hours and days.

Hail-falls are forecast mainly in the Ionian Sea, West Sterea, Peloponnese, South Aegean, and Crete from Thursday noon until the early morning hours of Friday.

Partial weather improvement is forecast for Sunday, November 3, 2019.

Article Source: Keep Talking Greece