Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-04-25

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Athens Stock Exchange opening: Small decline

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[03] 6th century BC underground aqueduct unearthed in Megara

[01] Athens Stock Exchange opening: Small decline

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 0.68 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was up 0.05 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was up 0.19 percent.

Individual sector indices were moving mostly downward, with the only gains in Commerce, up 1.36 percent and Personal and Household Goods, up 0.94 percent.

The biggest losses were in Construction, down 1.62 percent; and Telecoms, down 0.71 percent.

Of the stocks traded, 18 were up, 22 were down, and 10 were unchanged.

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

New Democracy's and PASOK's State Deputies lists and the central Bank of Greece's (BoG) annual report for 2011, mostly dominated the headlines on Wednesday in Athens' newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "BoG calls for development and reforms".

AVGHI: "Reheated blackmail".

DIMOKRATIA: "Karamanlis' (Costas, former ND prime minister) Voice".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "MP candidate a National Information Service (EYP) employee".

ESTIA: "Greece holds the world record of electoral laws".

ETHNOS: "PASOK's selection to put Pyrros Dimas (Greek Olympics weightlifting gold medalist) to head party's State Deputies list a message for struggling Greece".

IMERISSIA: "BoG governor George Provopoulos' message to parties and society: Consensus a matter of survival".

KATHIMERINI: "200,000 bogus pensions".

LOGOS: "2 percent hike in average Greek families' basket".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Provopoulos' dramatic warning for the euro".

NIKI: "Who and why lifted up .....PASOK's Pyrros".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Communist Party leader Aleka Papariga: Vote must not be scattered in illusions'.

TA NEA: "The Olympic champion and the judge".

VRADYNI: "Lack of governance threatens pensions and social security funds".

[03] 6th century BC underground aqueduct unearthed in Megara

The aqueduct, discovered in the Orkos area, comprises a network of shafts, cisterns and conduits that took advantage of the ground's natural downward slant ending up in the city's central water reservoir built in the 5th century BC, known as Theagenes' Spring or Fountain.amna

The Fountain House, built by Eupalinos in the first half of the 5th century BC (circa 500 BC), probably stands in the same place where a century earlier (6th century BC) the tyrant Theagenes had constructed a smaller fountain house, and thus is known as Theagenes' Fountain (Spring). amna

The front side of the building was occupied by a portico with five Doric columns, and at the back of this was a narrow cistern for the drawing up of water. Two more large cisterns, separated by a parapet, were used for the collection of water. The roof was supported by 35 octagonal columns made of poros stone, while the walls were built of large limestone blocks in the isodomic system.

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