During the parade of nations Greece is always called first, as the founding nation of the ancient precursor of modern Olympics, and its national governing body is the Hellenic Olympic Committee.

Fahsa is finished with an airy green sauce, a frothy leek-cilantro mixture-an ancient precursor to the "culinary foams" whipped up by the likes of Ferran Adria.

The Xylospongium, also known as sponge on a stick, is the ancient precursor of the modern toilet brush.

Ensemble Organum St. Mary the Virgin Church It seems eminently fitting that the current craze for the mystical Minimalism emanating from Eastern Europe should extend to its ancient precursor, early liturgical chant.

Owners re-invested their profits by purchasing smaller neighbouring farms, since smaller farms had a lower productivity and could not compete, in an ancient precursor of agribusiness.

Several of Ceres' ancient Italic precursors are connected to human fertility and motherhood; the Pelignan goddess Angitia Cerealis has been identified with the Roman goddess Angerona (associated with childbirth).

Mark had theorized it to be an ancient precursor to Greek, but he could neither confirm that nor translate the language fragments.

A few of the recipes are identified as vegetarian, though - an ancient precursor, perhaps, to the modern vegetarian who still eats fish or chicken - some of them contain meat.

Several ancient written precursors to Hamlet can be identified.

The ancient precursor to mammals, Dimetrodon, had extremely long spines on their backbone that were joined together with a web of skin to form a sail-like structure.