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Axios (other)
Axios commonly refers to: * Axios (river), a river that runs through Greece and North Macedonia * Axios (website), ''Axios'' (website), an American news and information website Axios may also refer to: Brands and enterprises * Axios, a brand of suspension products owned by Tenneco * Axios Systems, an IT management software vendor Geography * Axios, Thessaloniki, a Greek municipality named after the river in geographical Macedonia * Orontes River, a river in Syria, also called Axios or Axius in antiquity Religion * Axios (acclamation), ''Axios'' (acclamation), an expression used in the Orthodox church * Axios (organization), an Orthodox and Eastern Catholic LGBT organization See also *Axis (other) *Axius (other) *Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo *Vardar (other) {{dab, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (river)
The Vardar (; , , ) or Axios (, ) is the longest river in North Macedonia and a major river in Greece, where it reaches the Aegean Sea at Thessaloniki. It is long, out of which are in Greece, and drains an area of around . The maximum depth of the river is . Etymology The name ''Vardar'' for the river may have been derived from Thracian language, Thracian, although Dardani, Dardanian, Paeonian language, Paeonian, Ancient Macedonian language, Ancient Macedonian and Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek were also spoken in the lands drained by the river. The modern Vardar is thought to derive from an earlier *''Vardários'', which may ultimately derive from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *''(s)wordo-wori-'' "black water". The name ''Vardários'' (Βαρδάριος) was sometimes used by the Ancient Greeks in the 3rd century BC. The same name was widely used in the Byzantine era. Vardar/Vardarios may be a translation of (or otherwise have a similar meaning as) ''Axios'', which may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (website)
''Axios'' (styled ΛXIOS in the logo) is an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 and launched the following year by former ''Politico'' journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. The site's name is based on the (), meaning "worthy of". ''Axios'' articles are often brief to facilitate quick reading; most are shorter than 300 words and use bullet points. In addition to news articles, ''Axios'' produces daily and weekly industry-specific newsletters (including Allen's ''Axios AM'', a successor to his newsletter '' Politico Playbook'' for ''Politico''), and two daily podcasts. On September 1, 2022, Cox Enterprises completed its acquisition of ''Axios''. History VandeHei said he wanted ''Axios'' to be a "mix between ''The Economist'' and Twitter". The company initially covered a mix of business, politics, technology, health care, and media. VandeHei said ''Axios'' would focus on the "collision between tech and areas such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenneco
Tenneco, Inc. (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an aftermarket ride control and emissions products manufacturer. It is a ''Fortune'' 500 company that was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since November 1999 until it was taken private in November 2022 by Apollo Global Management. Tenneco is headquartered in Northville Charter Township, Michigan. History Tenneco's origin was in the Chicago Corporation, established about 1930.TENNECO BUILDING Diana J. Kleiner, Handbook of Texas Online (retrieved 11 August 2010) Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company (completely separate) had been formed in 1940. Natural gas A shortage of fuel for |
Axios Systems
Axios Systems was a provider of Service Desk, IT Service Management and IT asset management software. Its ''assyst'' enterprise application suite was the first to support ITIL best practices. In March 2021, the company was acquired by IFS AB and its product was rebranded as IFS assyst. The company had several large customers including Lego and Linklaters. The company was headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with North American headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. History Tasos Symeonides and Ailsa Symeonides founded the company in 1988. Symeonidess, who was born in Cyprus and migrated to Glasgow as a child, reportedly got the idea of launching Axios Systems while walking in a park and contemplating how to pay the mortgage on his newly purchased home in the Eskbank area of Edinburgh. Initially, 16 employees worked from the Symeonides residence. John Menzies, which had previously employed Tasos as a computer systems manager, became Axios Systems' first customer. The busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios, Thessaloniki
Axios () is a municipal unit of Delta, a municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th .... Before the 2011 local government reform, Axios was an independent municipality. The seat of the municipality was the town Kymina The 2021 census recorded 5,873 inhabitants in the municipal unit. Axios covers an area of 86.532 km2. See also * List of settlements in the Thessaloniki regional unit References Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit) Delta, Thessaloniki {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orontes River
The Orontes (; from Ancient Greek , ) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (, ; ) is a long river in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Hatay Province, Turkey. As the chief river of the northern Levant, the Orontes has been the site of many major battles including the Battle of Kadesh (13th century BCE), and water distribution remains a controversial issue between the countries in the region. Among the most important cities on the river are Homs, Hama, Jisr al-Shughur, and Antakya (the ancient Antioch, which was also known as "Antioch on the Orontes"). Names In the 9th century BCE, the ancient Assyrian people, Assyrians referred to the river as Arantu, and the nearby Egyptians called it Araunti. The etymology of the name is unknown, yet some sources indicate that it might be derived from ''Arnt'' which means "lioness" in Syriac languages; others called it ''Alimas'', a "water goddess" in Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (acclamation)
"Axios!" (Greek language, Greek ἄξιος, "worthy of", "deserving of", "suitable") is an acclamation adopted by the early Oriental Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox church and Byzantine Eastern Catholic churches and made by the laity, faithful at the ordination of bishops, priests and deacons. The acclamation may also be made when a bishop presents an ecclesiastical award to a clergyman during the Divine Liturgy. Ordination The ecclesiastical custom has its origins in the early Christianity, when the clergy were election, elected by the entire church community, including the laity. This was based upon the precedent set in the Acts of the Apostles (; ). Election and ordination (Greek: ''Christian laying on of hands, cheirotonia'' - χειροτονία, literally, "laying-on of hands") are two separate actions. The election was accomplished by all, the laying-on of hands by the bishops only (). Because of the danger of politicizing the process, and because of electoral corrup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (organization)
Axios is an association for Orthodox Christians and Byzantine Rite Catholics who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender which was founded in Los Angeles in 1980. The organization has chapters in Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; New York City; Colorado; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Chicago; Boston; Florida; San Francisco; Detroit; Las Vegas; and outside the U.S., in Toronto, Canada, and Australia. Mission The Orthodox Church's teaching is that same-sex relations are sinful in the same manner as all heterosexual practice outside of marriage. Axios also professes that members' "sexuality and love are God given and healthy," but denies any morally significant distinction ''ceteris paribus'' between heterosexual and homosexual expressions. See also * Courage International *Homosexuality and Christianity Christianity developed during the 1st century AD as a Jewish Christian sect and, as such, many of its views were rooted in Jewish teaching. As Christianity established itself as a separa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axis (other)
An axis (: axes) may refer to: Mathematics *A specific line (often a directed line) that plays an important role in some contexts. In particular: ** Coordinate axis of a coordinate system *** ''x''-axis, ''y''-axis, ''z''-axis, common names for the coordinate axes of a Cartesian coordinate system ** Axis of rotation ** Axis of symmetry ** Axis of a conic section Politics *Axis powers The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies of World War II, Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Ge ... of World War II, 1936–1945. *Axis of evil (first used in 2002), U.S. President George W. Bush's description of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea *Axis of Resistance (first used in 2002), the Shia alliance of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah *Axis of Upheaval (first used in 2024), foreign policy neologism of the Anti-western collaboration between Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axius (other)
Axius may refer to: Geography * Orontes River, also known as Axios or Axius, river in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey * Vardar, also known as Axios or Axius, a river in Macedonia and Greece People * Members of the Axia gens, a plebeian family of ancient Rome Other uses * ''Axius'' (crustacean), a genus of decapods, also known as mud lobsters * Axius (mythology), the god of the river Axius See also *Axis (other) An axis (: axes) may refer to: Mathematics *A specific line (often a directed line) that plays an important role in some contexts. In particular: ** Coordinate axis of a coordinate system *** ''x''-axis, ''y''-axis, ''z''-axis, common names ... * Axios (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo ( Peltuinum c. AD 7 – 67) was a popular Roman general, brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula and father-in-law of Domitian. The emperor Nero, highly fearful of Corbulo's reputation, ordered him to commit suicide, which the general carried out faithfully, exclaiming "Axios", meaning "I am worthy", and fell on his own sword. Ancestry Corbulo was born somewhere on the Italian peninsula into a senatorial family. His father, who shared the same name, entered the Senate as a formal praetor under Tiberius. His mother Vistilia came from a family which held the praetorship. Military and political career Reign of Caligula Corbulo's early career is unknown but he was suffect consul in AD 39 during the reign of Caligula, his brother-in-law through Caligula's marriage to Corbulo's half-sister Milonia Caesonia. In Germania Inferior After Caligula's assassination, Corbulo's career came to a halt until, in AD 47, the new Emperor Claudius made him commander of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
