who knew?

did you know that the pap smear was named after the greek, George Papanicolaou in 1943? Also Nike owes it's name to Godess of Victory Nike? Depending upon the time of various myths, she was described as the daughter of Pallas (Titan) and Sticks (Water), and the sister of Cratos (Strength), Bia (Force), and of Zelus (Rivalry). Nike and her siblings were close companions of Zeus the dominant deity of the Greek pantheon.

Opa!

A few pictures from today's adventure through Athens. the weather was raining on and off through out the day so i didn't get to look around as much as I wanted :( Tomorrow we are heading down the coast see Poseidon's Temple.

welcome to the white city

here are a few photos from my week in Belgrade, Serbia. We had a couple days of good meetings and tonight we're off for Athens for a few days.

Good Vibrations

Who knew that Mark Wahlberg worked for the government? one of the guys here is a dead ringer for for the actor. I guess he gets mistaken all the time for him and once got tossed out of a club for causing such a disturbance since people thought it was marky mark. On a real celebrity siting news the president of Slovakia is staying at our hotel. A few of us went to the pool last night. maybe we can find him and ask him to join us for some more fun in the water tonight?