Speak if it's Greek
Truth or lie, fact or fiction? In our show "Speak if it's Greek" we wish to give you, the listener, in an entertaining way the chance to test your own knowledge.
Is the story you will hear true, and the item really of Greek origin? Or are we just pulling your leg? Listen an decide for yourself. The correct answer will be given away every week in the preview, and below the video.
So go ahead and Speak if it's Greek!
Philosophy
It was more shrouded Before the age of ancient Greece, the world did not see philosophy as we see it today. superstition and magic than it would be ever after. For example, if the Nile would rise and flood, making the soil dark and fertile, the Egyptians would believe it happened because their pharaoh commanded the river to do so.
Water Skiing
How many of you have already tried out the sport water skiing? A lot of people got excited about it since its beginnings in 1922 and its popularity kept increasing rapidly. But who had the strange idea to put two boards under their feet and let somebody pull you around in the water?
The Chewing Gum
In this episode of “Speak if it’s Greek” we want to take a deeper look on the history of something that everybody uses. People take one after an especially garlic spiced dish for preventing an unpleasant odor. Students champ it in their lessons – to the great delight of their teachers. Children compete in doing the biggest bubble. You can find it under bus seats, park benches, bar chairs and tables of fast food-restaurants and it’s available in all shops.
Well, it’s quit obvious what we are talking about, isn’t it? The everywhere popular chewing gum!
The Mapamundi
Did you ever stop and think how useful the maps are? Nowadays the life without maps is unthinkable, we need maps when we travel around, from our own city, for knowing where are the others countries , because the world is so massive that maps help us to understand it.
Today in our Speak if it's Greek section we would like to ask you: who was the first people to try to draw a mapamundi, was it a Greek person?
Message in a bottle
„Dear mermaids and seamen, how can I become one of you? I love to swim, play in the water and watch colourful fish. So just let me know! This was my first message in a bottle, that 5 year old me stuffed in an empty fanta bottle and threw into the Donau river, but who came up with this way of communication?
Central Heating
In winter there is nothing better than getting back from frozen outdoors to the warm and cosy
interior of your house. The reason why we are not freezing to death in our houses during the winter is the central heating
system installed almost in every building in Europe.
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