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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Chaonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chaonia, Chaon, was the name of an ancient tribe located in modern-day Albania and Greece.
It bordered on the Ionian sea, and was influenced by Corfu in antiquity.
Virgil, in the Aeneid, (3, 295) called the area Chaonia after Chaon a brother of the Helenus and son of Priam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaonia   (375 words)

  
 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Chaon’ian Food.
So called from the oak trees of Chaonia or Dodona.
Some think beech-mast is meant, and tell us that the bells of the oracle were hung on beech-trees, not on oaks.
Our text says Chaonia (in Ep rus), others place it in Thessaly.
www.bartleby.com /81/3368.html   (84 words)

  
 Connection of the Epirots with the Hellenes, Graeci and Macedonians - Macedonia on the web - Alexander the Great Forum
And after Libyrnians are the Illyrian nation, and the Illyrians live along beside the sea as far as Chaonia by Kerkyra, the island of Alkinoös.
And the coastal voyage of Chaonia is a half of a day.
And by Chaonia is an island, Korkyra, and a Hellenic city in it, having three harbours by the city: of these the one is enclosed.
www.macedoniaontheweb.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1729#post1729   (6377 words)

  
 wappapello092405   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dell said that he and partner Kathy stayed in the mid-lake area near Chaonia Landing.
They fished a relatively small area of the lake, concentrating on the edge of the river channel from Chaonia Landing to the mouth of Lost Creek.
Chaonia Landing would like to thank all of the fine sponsors of this event and invite you to attend next year’s 36
www.midwestbasstournaments.com /wappapello092405.htm   (683 words)

  
 Frisco Railroad Library - Wappapello, MO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wappapello, MO - I do not know much about this other than it was on the line from Mingo to Williamsville.
Chaonia Station was just west of here and it is now known as Chaonia Landing.
Rumor is that during very low water you can see the Frisco bridge at Chaonia that crossed the then St.Francis River.
www.frisco.org /vb/printthread.php?t=785   (81 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
(Hint: Chaonia is the third.) In each case by what means, direct or indirect, is the failure of the attempt to recreate Troy revealed to Aeneas and to the reader?
When Aeneas comes to Chaonia, what is Andromache, the widow of Hector and the first person Aeneas meets, doing and what does this activity suggest about the outlook of the leaders of this town?
Be prepared to draw Aeneas' journey from Troy to Carthage on a map, noting all of the landfalls along the way.
ns.headroyce.org /~denelow/English11/aen/aenb3sq.html   (137 words)

  
 wappapellobigo091105   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One hundred and ten boats sat idling with their running lights on as they waited for their boat number to be called.
Patchy fog drifting across the water and air temps in the upper sixties in the morning gave way to clear skies with plenty of sunshine later in the day.
The Big O Bassmasters would also like to thank Chaonia Landing, Ranger Boats, Coors Light, and all of the other fine sponsors of this event.
www.midwestbasstournaments.com /wappapellobigo091105.htm   (681 words)

  
 Mechanization and Rural Employment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The project will be undertaken by Moroccan researchers as part of the network on Agricultural Labour and Technological Change (ALTC) established by ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) and financed by the Ford Foundation.
It will apply the results of decades of research and data gathering of the Direction de développement rural in Chaonia.
Researchers will study the impact of the introduction of about 75,000 small tractors, highlighting effects on employment/unemployment, rural income, women's work and the rural poor.
www.idrc.ca /forum2003/ev-83275-201_870168-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html   (300 words)

  
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Originally 18 areas, these areas were consolidated or reclassified.
A site plan of the leased area is presented on Plate 19 and additional information is provided in Paragraph 8.03 b.(17).
(c) Chaonia Landing Resort and Marina, located in Area R-5 Chaonia Landing Recreation Area, has also been in operation for many years and includes 24 acres of land.
www.mvs.usace.army.mil /pm/wappapelloplan/Documents/SectionIII.txt   (1319 words)

  
 PERSONAL HISTORY by June Moore
She was born at home in Chaonia, Missouri, the first of three children of James Thomas (Tom) and Lucy Vashti (known as Vashti) (nee Inman) Hoffman Robinson.
She had a half sister, Beatrice, who was 13 years her senior who lived in the home while Dorothy was growing up.
She married Robert Virgil Moore approximately two years later at her home in Chaonia, on June 2, 1930.
inman.surnameweb.org /sketches/I66292.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Along with the services of our marina, cabins and campsites, Chaonia Landing offers many more features to accomodate you and your family.
At a whopping 22', the heritage of the Chaonia Indians are rememberd by this proud statue standing vigil over the waters.
The statue is surrounded by a circular deck which can be used to overlook the marina and lake.
www.chaonialanding.com /resort.html   (235 words)

  
 Re: VIRGIL: when did A. arrive in Italy?
3.284, Aeneas tells Dido that it was a year before he met Helenus and Andromache at Chaonia.
After the funeral games, they sail up the coast to Cumae.
So depending on how long it took the Trojans to get from Chaonia to Sicily, it sounds like it took about two years.
www.mail-archive.com /mantovano@virgil.org/msg00561.html   (266 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)
The battle took place shortly after the Battle of Chalcis.
Ambracia and Chaonia asked Sparta to send a fleet and an army to conquer Acarnania from Athens, which would allow Sparta to attack Naupactus, the Athenian naval base on the Gulf of Corinth.
The Spartan general Cnemus, with a fleet and 1000 hoplites, ravaged Acarnania, while Phormio and the Athenian fleet waited in the Gulf of Corinth for the Corinthian fleet in case it tried to attack Naupactus.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Battle_of_Naupactus_(429_BC)   (765 words)

  
 Acharnians by Aristophanes
The others are with Chares or in Chaonia, men like Geretotheodorus and Diomialazon; there are some of the same kidney, too, at Camarina, at Gela, and at Catagela.
Yet he is an active as well as a prudent man. And you, Anthracyllus or Euphorides or Prinides, have you knowledge of Ecbatana or Chaonia?
Such offices are good for the son of Coesyra and Lamachus, who, but yesterday ruined with debt, never pay their shot, and whom all their friends avoid as foot passengers dodge the folks who empty their slops out of window.
www.4literature.net /Aristophanes/Acharnians/9.html   (651 words)

  
 D:\Phoenician_Origin_app5.htm
I traced the town, the miniature of Troy,
{NOTE on "Chaonia" above:  The N.E. district of Epirus bordered by the Thyamis river.
Virgil, by his use of the district name "Chaon" and "Xanthus" for the river, which I have rendered "yellow," presumably locates the city on the latter river and thus identifies this Troy with "Phœnice" there.}
www.jrbooksonline.com /HTML-docs/Phoenician_Origin_app5.htm   (852 words)

  
 Poplar Bluff, Daily American Republic: News Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If they can't keep 30 fish, they're not going to drive 100 miles to fish here.
Dave Bowman, owner of Chaonia Landing, believes the business owners are over-reacting.
"I know 90 percent of those people who are complaining about their businesses slowing down and they come here (to Chaonia), park their cars and go fish.
www.darnews.com /articles/2005/01/27/news/news1.txt   (1522 words)

  
 Groundspeak - Benchmark Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 AT CHAONIA.
AT CHAONIA, WAYNE COUNTY, 310 FEET EAST OF THE ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY STATION, AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF DR. O.W. Control Text
The horizontal coordinates were scaled from a topographic map and have an estimated accuracy of +/- 6 seconds.
www.geocaching.com /mark/details.aspx?PID=GE0051   (142 words)

  
 Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: Edna M. Hamlyn
Edna M. Hamlyn, the daughter of the late Elza and Ruby Davis Caldwell, was born in Chaonia on July 27, 1928, and died at the Missouri Southern Healthcare Facility in Dexter on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003, at the age of 75.
Hamlyn had lived in Cahokia, Ill., for several years before moving to Puxico in 1964.
Interment will follow in the Mount Hope Cemetery in St. Louis with Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Puxico in charge of arrangements.
www.dailystatesman.com /story/1040827.html   (249 words)

  
 Aristophanes : The Acharnians : The Acharnians (continued)
The others are with Chares or in Chaonia, men like Geretotheodorus and Diomialazon; there are some of the same kidney, too, at Camarina and at Gela, the laughing-stock of all and sundry.
Yet he is an active as well as a prudent man. And you, Dracyllus, Euphorides or Prinides, have you knowledge of Ecbatana or Chaonia?
Such offices are good for the son of Caesyra and Lamachus, who, but yesterday ruined with debt, never pay their shot, and whom all their friends avoid as foot passengers dodge the folks who empty their slops out of window.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.8/bookid.1806/sec.4   (4117 words)

  
 Groundspeak - Benchmark Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stability: May hold, but of type commonly subject to surface motion.
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 0.9 MI E FROM CHAONIA.
A STANDARD DISK, STAMPED F 53 1934 AND SET IN THE TOP OF A CONCRETE POST.
www.geocaching.com /mark/details.aspx?PID=GE0049   (203 words)

  
 Midwest Gazetteer | Wayne County, Missouri
Cluster of houses located along MO 172 and Route W south of historic Chaonia and the Chaonia Landing Recreation Area.
Point on the Cape Girardeau Southwestern Line between Wappapello and Chaonia
Anthony Wayne, fought in the Revolutionary War and defeated the Indians in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
gazetteer.midwestplaces.com /mo/wayne   (1171 words)

  
 Hellenic Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During the 2nd Sacred War allied to Macedonia
They lived in the region between Chaonia and Dodoni, in northwest Epirus.
They were a protohellenic tribe that came into Greece appr.
www.hostkingdom.net /gktrib.html   (3300 words)

  
 Vergil's Aeneid (Myth-Folklore Online)
Chaonia, after Chaon of Troy, and built a Pergamus,
what kind of city has Helenus built in Chaonia?
Kline has made his English translation of Vergil's Aeneid freely available over the Internet.
www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/aeneid/pages/19.htm   (783 words)

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