Flower name; Greek Meaning: "rainbow" Description: Iris has so much going for it. It's a fashionable flower name. It's a mythological name, from the Greek goddess of the rainbow. And it's a classic name, always ranking in the girls' Top 1000 but now at its highest point ever. ...
In 1863, at just 17 years old, he was elected unanimously by the Greek National Assembly as King of the Hellenes, replacing King Otto who had been deposed to the previous year. Taking the name George I of the Hellenes, he was enthroned in Denmark on June 6, 1863, and arrived in Gre...
Greek Name Μηλιαδες Επιμηλιδες Ἁμαμηλιαδες Οροδεμνιαδες ΝυμφαιΟρεσκωοι Transliteration Mêliades Epimêlides Hamamêliades Orodemniades Nymphai Oreskôoi Latin Spelling Meliades Epimelides Hamameliades Orodemniades ...
The famous silver tetradrachms (‘shekels’) of this series have achieved notoriety as the most likely coinage with which Judas was paid his ‘thirty pieces of silver’ for the betrayal of Christ. This type of coin would also have been the type of coin that the “money changers” at th...