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- Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
2: The '''Ancient Olympic Games''' were an athletic and religious celebrati...
6: The historical origins of the Ancient Olympic Games are lost in the fog of time, but several le...
8: ...eity [[Zeus]] had instated the festival after his defeat of the [[titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Cronus]]...
10: ...top the war during these games, which were called Olympic, after [[Mount Olympus]], the mountain on which t...
12: ...ed. Pelops married the princess but not before murdering Myrtilus, whose curse later resulted in the f... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...fore the '''Olympic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the o...
3: ... of the Olympiad''', better known as the [[Summer Olympics]], have been held every fourth year since [[1896...
5: ...II Olympiad]]. The next games, the [[2006 Winter Olympics]], will be held in [[Turin]], [[Italy]].
7: ...ly these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with [[1994]] the Winter Games are...
9: == Ancient Olympics ==
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- Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...fore the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and ...
7: ... at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at...
9: ... [[Germany|German]] occupiers would eventually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An...
11: ...Horthy|Miklorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]...
13: ...pt]], it came as a shock to them that they were under suspicion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Poli... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ... [[Princess]] Grace of [[Monaco]]''', was an [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[United States|American]...
5: ...llowed in that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was a city counc...
7: ...becoming an actress, Kelly became a [[fashion]] model and appeared in her first [[film]], ''[[Fourteen...
9: ...ilms with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rear Window]]'', and ''[[To Catch a Thi...
11: ...n [[1955 in film|1955]], she was awarded the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[The Country Gi... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...hile 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
3: ...for winning four gold medals at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]]. At that time, she was already a...
5: ...etics in 1935, she took part in the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] a year later. Although international competiti...
7: ...by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ...she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics. - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
1: ...Comaneci.jpg|framed|Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympics]]
3: ... of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is considered by some to be one of the greatest athletes in ...
5: ... and Stefania-Alexandrina; she was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
7: ...ing three gold medals and one silver. At the Pre-Olympics competition in Montr顬 in 1975 Nadia won the A...
9: ... Not only did she become the first gymnast at the Olympics to receive the perfect score of ten (which she r... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ...thletic ability, Fraser won eight [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] and eight [[Commonwealth Games]] medals. In [[...
4: ...n [[Emperor Hirohito]]’s palace, taking the Olympic flag (later proved false). The ban was lifted fou...
7: ...8]] [[1998]], was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of Australia]] (AO).
10: *[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne Olympic Games]]
19: *[[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome Olympic Games]] - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...ll four Grand Slam titles and the [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] Gold Medal in the same year. She was ranked the...
6: ...e of three he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began pr...
8: ...nament at the age of 13 in October [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional m...
10: ...ctice courts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but l...
12: ... [[1986]] at [[Hilton Head]], [[South Carolina]], defeating [[Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed... - Dorothy Hamill (1348 bytes)
1: ...icago, Illinois]], here parents moved to [[Riverside]], [[Connecticut]] shortly after she was born, wh...
3: ... be a professional. When she was older she won an Olympic gold medal and the world championship in [[1976]]...
5: ...]." The bobbed hairstyle that she wore during her Olympic performance started a brief fad. Mostly everyone ...
7: ...7-84; she bought the financially-strapped Ice Capades in [[1993]], but sold it to [[Pat Robertson]] so...
9: A doll was made of her in 1977. - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
3: ...y for the national team at age 15, Mia later attended the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...
9: ...am played for the gold medal in the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in front of 80,000 spectators in [[Athens, Geo...
11: ...passed the Atlanta Olympic final as the most-attended women's sports event, with over 90,000 filling t...
13: ...d of a bone marrow disease shortly after the 1996 Olympics.
15: ...IFA]] as the ''Female Player of The Year'' alongside [[Ronaldo]], who won ''Male Player of The Year'' ... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ng the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for di...
6: ...the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six...
10: After the [[1936 Olympics]] in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], she gave up her...
12: ...e basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]].
14: ...kemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater i... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: ...e gold, one silver and one bronze [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals. She was named after [[Jackie Kennedy]]....
6: ... won the Olympic [[triple jump]] in [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984]]. [[Sports Illustrated]] voted her the gre...
8: ...e she arrived, her mother was in a coma and brain dead. Since her father could not bring himself to ha...
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19: {{Footer Olympic Champions Long Jump Women}} - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...]]. She holds the record for most [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals an...
5: ...r choreographer moved out of town. At age 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World C...
7: ...ry]] to become the most successful gymnast of the Olympics. Latynina beat Keleti in the all-around event, a...
9: ...rgin of 9 points. Latynina also successfully defended her floor title, while winning silver medals in ...
11: ...n the other apparatus events brought her total of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silve... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: ...n worn red outfits in her performances. After her Olympic successes, she became the first athlete from East...
5: * [http://www.katarina-witt.de/ Official Web Site]
6: ...iwomen/2001/december/playbook/ Sports Illustrated Dec 2001 Interview] - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...ikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ...born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Port Arthur, Texa...
5: ... disapproved of her style and declared Shiley the Olympic champion. After the Games, Shiley and Didrikson s...
7: ...>[[Image:BabeStamp.png]]<P>''Babe Zaharias as <BR>depicted on a 1981<BR> US [[postage stamp|stamp]].''...
9: ...reer in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] and the 1948 [[U.S. Women's Open... - Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...king Alexandria as a [[prime meridian]], they divided the ''oikoumene'' or habitable earth into three ...
13: Geographers and historians find it useful to define larger land masses connected with a [[land br...
18: ...ss_section_Earth2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
19: ...the Americas. These land masses are usually considered [[supercontinent]]s rather than continents, th...
21: ...inent. In the same manner, historians may subdivide Africa-Eurasia into Eurasia-[[North Africa]] and ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
13: leader_titles = [[Queen of Australia|Queen]]<br>[[Gover...
14: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Eli...
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25: population_density_rank = —| - Americas (7154 bytes)
1: ...nglish language|English]], where it is often considered a single continent) or to the [[United States]...
6: ...rt of North America. The Americas are often also described collectively as the '''[[Western Hemispher...
8: ...ematically. For example, the five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represent the five parts of the world, wit...
13: ...norteamericano'' ("North American") or ''estadounidense'' (literally "United Statesian") when referrin...
15: ...residents do not refer to themselves as "estadounidenses". - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ... level of local autonomy under the [[federation|federal]] system.
12: ...deral level]];<br> [[English language|English]] [[de facto]] |
14: government_type = [[Democratic]] [[Federal republic]] |
15: ...r>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
16: leader_names = [[Joe Biden]]<br>[[Kamala Harris]] | - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ... is located in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of Chi...
3: ...464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
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37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]''' - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ld|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich history duri...
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11: ...Σ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]] - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ...Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], bordered by the [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Luxembo...
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5: |+<big>'''Royaume de Belgique'''<br>'''Koninkrijk Belgi맧'<br>'''K?re...
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10: ...enter width=130px | ([[Coat of Arms of Belgium|In Detail]])
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