- Anders Hejlsberg
Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award. - Plutarch
Mestrius Plutarchus, better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece], a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the "Parallel Lives" and the "Moralia". - Scott Sharp
Scott Sharp (born February 14, 1968 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League. He is the son of SCCA multiple champion Bob Sharp. Early in his career he was 1991 Trans-Am champion, also taking 7 poles the next season. Sharp then competed in one NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Nextel Cup) event, coming in 1992 at Watkins Glen. Starting 22nd in the thirty-nine car field, Sharp completed all 51 laps in route to a solid 19th place effort. - Aesop
Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek "' - Aisōpos"'), known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition a slave (δούλος) who was a contemporary of Croesus and Peisistratus in the mid-sixth century B.C. in ancient Greece. The various collections that go under the rubric "Aesop's Fables" are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, … - Brennus
Brennus (or Brennos) (d. 279 BC) was one of the leaders of the the army of Gauls who invaded Macedonia and northern Greece, defeated the assembled Greeks at Thermopylae, and is popularly reputed to have sacked and looted Delphi, although the ancient sources do not support this. Brennus is said to have belonged to an otherwise unknown tribe called the Prausi. These Gauls had settled in Pannonia because of population increases in Gaul, … - Byzas
According to a Greek legend, Byzas was a Greek colonist (reported by some to be a leader or even a king) from the Doric colony of Megara in Ancient Greece, son of King Nisou, who consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. The oracle instructed Byzas to settle opposite from the "Land of the Blind". Leading a group of Megarian colonists, Byzas found a superb location opposite Chalcedon, at the tip of the Istanbul peninsula, … - Polycrates
Polycrates, son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC. He took power during a festival of Hera with his brothers Pantagnotus and Syloson, but soon had Pantagnotus killed and exiled Syloson to take full control for himself. He then allied with Amasis II, pharaoh of Egypt, as well as the tyrant of Naxos Lygdamis. With a navy of 100 penteconters and an army of 1,000 archers, … - Polygnotus
Polygnotus was a Greek painter in the middle of the 5th century BC, son of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship. He painted for them in the time of Cimon a picture of the taking of Ilium on the walls of the "Stoa Poecile", and another of the marriage of the daughters of Leucippus in the Anaceum. - Cadmus
Cadmus, or Kadmos, in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia (Currently Lebanon)and brother of Europa. His father is either Agenor, or Phoenix, son of Agenor. Cadmus founded the city of Thebes, and its acropolis was originally named "Cadmeia" in his honor. Cadmus was credited by the Hellenes with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet, "phoinikeia grammata" (Herodotus, "Histories" V. 58). - Cypselus
Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth, Greece, in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings; Corinth, the richest archaic "polis," led the way. Like the 15th century condottieri of central Italy, the tyrants usually seized power at the head of some popular support. - Lysippos
Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Lysippos, Skopas and Praxiteles are considered the three great sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic era. Taken together, the large workshop of Lysippos, the demand for replicas of his work in his lifetime and later among Hellenistic and Roman connoisseurs, the number of disciples directly in his circle and the survival of his works only in copies, … - Cleomenes I
Cleomenes was one of the Kings of Sparta in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Cleomenes is notable for an unusual interest in foreign conquests (unusual for a Spartan king), for his controversial accession to the throne, and his even more controversial deposition, exile and mysterious death (allegedly suicide by self-mutilation). He was also the half-brother and father-in-law of his successor Leonidas I, the King of Sparta who died at Thermopylae and husband of Queen Gorgo. - Carl Diem
Dr. Carl Diem was the originator of the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay. The Olympic torch is not a tradition dating to ancient Greece. The relay was invented by Carl Diem, a German who had been planning the 1916 Olympic Games at Berlin when they were canceled because of World War I. Twenty years later, Diem returned, as the General Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the 1936 Summer Olympics under Hitler. - Olen
Olen was a legendary early poet from Lycia who went to Delos, where his hymns celebrating the first handmaidens of Apollo in the island of the god's birth and other "ancient hymns" were still part of the cult at Delos in the time of Herodotus: :"Arge and Opis came at the same time as the gods of Delos and are honoured by the Delians in a different way. For the Delian women make collections in these maidens' names, and invoke them in the hymn which Olen, a Lycian, … - Pleistoanax
Pleistoanax (reigned 459 BC - 409 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta. He was most anxious for Peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. He was exiled in 446 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking a bribe, probably from Pericles (noted as "10 talents necessary expenses" in Athens' funds), to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica after leading the Peloponnesian forces there following the revolts of Euboea and Megara from the Athenian Empire. - Adrian Fernández
José Adrián Fernández Mier is a Mexican race car driver and co-owner of the Fernandez Racing team. After becoming the first driver to win 4 races in his rookie Indy Lights season, he moved up to Champ Car for 1993. He took his first victory in the championship in 1996 at Toronto, in a race that claimed Jeff Krosnoff's life. Despite the one win, he was not a regular front-runner until he joined Patrick Racing in 1998. - Blake Schwendiman
Blake Schwendiman (born May 23, 1970) is an American author of several PHP software development books. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Schwendiman grew up in Rexburg, Idaho and graduated from Madison High School in 1988. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 1994. His background in computer software development includes developing software for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows in the languages C++, Delphi and PHP. - Karl Otfried Müller
Karl Otfried Müller, was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology but whose life was cut tragically short. He was born at Brieg in Silesia, and educated partly in Breslau and partly in Berlin. There his enthusiasm for the study of Greek literature, art and history was fostered by the influence of Böckh. In 1817, after the publication of his first work, "Aegineticorum liber", … - Lucius Aelius
Lucius Aelius Verus Caesar (January 13, 101 - January 1 138) became the adopted son and intended successor, of Roman Emperor Hadrian (January 24, 76 - July 10, 138), but never attained the throne. Aelius was born with the name Lucius Ceionius Commodus Verus. He was of the gens Ceionius. - Quintus Fabius Pictor
Quintus Fabius Pictor (c. 254 BC-?) was one of the earliest Roman historians and considered the first of the annalists. A member of the Fabii gens, he was the grandson of Gaius Fabius Pictor, a painter ("pictor" in Latin). He was a senator who fought against the Gauls in 225 BC, and against Carthage in the Second Punic War. He was appointed to travel to the oracle at Delphi for advice after the Roman defeat at the Battle of Cannae. - Perseus Of Macedon
Perseus of Macedon was the last king of Macedon. In 179 BC Philip V of Macedon died. In the previous year Philip had his pro-Roman son Demetrius executed. Perseus had been jealous of Demetrius' success as ambassador to Rome and had convinced their father to have him poisoned as a potential usurper. The Romans favoured Demetrius, and Perseus' role in killing Demetrius did not endear him to Rome when he took the throne. - Aristoclea
Aristoclea (also Aristocleia), (flourished 6th century B.C.) was a Greek priestess at Delphi in Ancient Greece. She was cited by many ancient writers as a tutor of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (ca.580 B.C - 500 B.C.). Porphyry of Tyre (233 - 306) wrote: ::" 41. Such things taught he, though advising above all things to speak the truth, for this alone deifies men. For as he had learned from the Magi, who call God Oremasdes, … - Maria Spiropulu
Maria Spiropulu was born in 1970 in Kastoria, a small mountain town of Greece, and is an experimental physicist; she is currently based at CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory outside Geneva, and is working on experiments for the Large Hadron Collider. These experiments are designed to test some of the most imaginative and far reaching ideas ever proposed in physics and are hoped to be completed by April 2007. - Cylon Of Athens
Cylon (also spelled Kylon) was an Athenian associated with the first reliably dated event in Athenian history, the Cylonian affair. Cylon, one of the Athenian nobles and a previous victor of the Olympic Games, attempted a coup in 632 BC with support from Megara, where his father-in-law Theagenes was tyrant. The oracle at Delphi had advised him to seize Athens during a festival of Zeus, which Cylon understood to mean the Olympics. - Henrik Strindberg
Henrik Strindberg (1954-) is a Swedish composer of contemporary music. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1980 to 1987 where he studied for Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström amongst others. In 1985 he also participated in a summer course with Iannis Xenakis in Delphi. Apart from composing, he has been a member of the progressive rock band Ragnarök since the seventies. - Léon Heuzey
Léon Heuzey Noted French archaeologist and historian. In 1855 Heuzey came to Greece as a member of the École française d'Athènes, and for the next two years travelled extensively in Macedonia and Akarnania. The record he kept of his journey, "Le Mont Olympe et l'Acarnanie", was published in Paris in 1860. On this expedition he realised the importance of the site of present day Vergina. - Sosthenes Of Macedon
Sosthenes ((Greek "Σωσθένης" d. 277 BC) was a Macedonian king and general from the Antipatrid dynasty. He reigned as king 279 BC - 277 BC. During the reign of Lysimachus he was his governor in Asia Minor. In 279 BC he killed his cousin Antipater II of Macedon, who was king of Macedon. Sosthenes was extremely popular because he defeated the Celts in one very bloody battle near Delphi. He was killed just two years after his coronation. - Ammonius Of Athen
Ammonius of Athen was a Platonist philosopher, 1st century AD, teacher of Plutarch of Chaeronea. It has been reported that he traveled to Delphi to ask Apollo on divine hierarchies. - Delphi Lawrence
Delphi Lawrence (born March 23, 1926 in Hertfordshire, England) is an actress. Of Hungarian ancestry, Lawrence trained as a concert pianist before becoming an actress. She made her first film in 1952 and over the next decade established a following in British films. She graduated to lead roles, but almost exclusively in "B" films. In 1966 she moved to the United States where she began to appear in films and television, and settled there. - William Afflis
William Richard Afflis was an American professional wrestler best known as Dick the Bruiser. Liked to eat Limburger Cheese before many contests. Born in Delphi, Indiana, Afflis grew up in Indianapolis and graduated from Shortridge High School. Afflis played varsity football at Purdue University and played for the Green Bay Packers in the early 1950s, as a lineman, before he became a pro wrestler. - Richard Delphi
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Author of the best-selling Borland Delphi book; Wide knowledge of XML-related technologies; Developer of a business-oriented XML-based ERP system; Author of an NNTP web front end - Stewart Mercer
25 years of international (UK,USA,Australia,Scandinavia) experience in the IT and Telecoms business - everything from punching cards for Mainframes, Programming DEC/VAXes, founding and running my own ISP, working for two VERY large telcos in their IP/Internet divisions and I am now Head of Systems Engineering (OSS/BSS/etc) for PacketExchange, which provides International MPLS network services (WAN Peering and Internet Bypass), using . . . - Matteo Baccan
Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in client/server, relational database design using Oracle, Sybase, and MS-SQL Server and programming in general PHP, C, C++, C#, Java. Always interested in migration projects, as well as close interaction with the DB manufacturers. Speaker at Webbit (Java 5 + AOP Programming), Borland Forum (Inprise Application Server) and Java Flavour Day (JDBC . . . - Robert S. Miller
Robert S. Miller Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Delphi Corp. Robert S. Miller joined Symantec's board of directors in September 1994. He became chairman and chief executive officer of Delphi Corporation on July 1, 2005. Miller also serves as chair of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policy-making group. Prior to joining Delphi, Miller was the non-executive chairman of Federal-Mogul. He also serves as a director of United Airlines. - Rick Delphi
Hello, I grew up in Peru IL til I was 18 when I moved to Chicago (humbolt park, and lagrange park)where I lived for 10 years before returning to LaSalle county,IL. I have many hobbies such as playing guitar, riding my harley, off-road 4x4 mudding, jeeps, dodge trucks(big ones, anything loud and fast, cooking, boating, fishing and camping. Im a Professional sound engineer,painter and musician. I drink, smoke and gamble and generaly have a bad attitude, some times. - Miss Delphi
Shy but brave - introverted and extrovert - loving the differenes - hopefully open-minded. - Miss Delphi
Shy but brave - hopefully open-minded - hopelessly in love with you - introverted -> a living differnce;) And I think I..ve become addicted to videos since myspace;D. - Miss Delphi
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