Callinicus of Heliopolis
600?-700?
Syrian Architect and Inventor
Callinicus (also spelled Kallinikos) was born in the Syrian city of Heliopolis sometime in the seventh century. Little is known regardi...
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Greek Fire
Because wood was a primary building material for structures and boats in the ancient world, incendiary devices were often used in warfare. Perhaps the most famous of all these devices was G...
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Wildfires burned homes Thursday and forced the evacuations of villages, a convent and a children's camp in southern Greece, as a heat wave swept across southeastern Europe.Greece's Fire Service rep...
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Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of ant...
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Athens (dpa) - Almost all the forest fires in Greece have now been
extinguished, spokesman for the Greek fire service Nikos Diamantis
said Monday.
"In all are...
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso toured fire-damaged southern Greece by helicopter Saturday and promised aid for areas where 64 people died and an estimated 469,000 acres of mostly...
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Promises of aid poured in from around Greece and overseas Friday as firefighters doused most of the huge wildfires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week, killing 64 people.The European Unio...
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Athens (dpa) - The wildfires that have killed 64 people and caused
billions of euros worth of damage in Greece were said to be under
control Thursday but the danger level re...
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Athens (dpa) - Rescue efforts were underway early Thursday to
rescue hundreds of residents from villages in the Peloponnese in
central Greece, as an estimated 99 fires burne...
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Athens (dpa) - Wildfires continued to rage on Greece's Peloponnese
peninsula Monday, with the official death toll put at 63 since the
fires broke out Friday.
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Athens (dpa) - International help began arriving Sunday as Greece
tried to cope with wildfires raging out of control on the Peloponnese
peninsula, with the death toll by lat...
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Athens (dpa) - Greek firefighters, getting assistance from other
countries, Sunday continued to battle fires raging out of control in
several areas of the country, with a ba...
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Callinicus of Heliopolis
Greek Fire
Homes burned in Greek fires
