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2 days ago · Various uses of the term "Olympic" to describe athletic events in the modern era have been documented since the 17th century. The first such event was the Cotswold Games or "Cotswold Olimpick Games", an annual meeting near Chipping Campden , England, involving various sports.
- Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver)...
- Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games (known in French as "Jeux...
- Ancient Olympic Games
The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta...
- Talk
Olympic Games portal; Olympic Games is within the scope of...
- Pacific Games
The Pacific Games (French: Jeux du Pacifique), is a...
- Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization...
- List of Olympic Games Boycotts
The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport...
- International Federations
This is a list of international sports federations, each of...
- All-time Olympic Games Medal Table
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to...
- Winter Olympic Games
3 days ago · Ancient Greece usually encompasses Greek antiquity, as well as part of the region's late prehistory (Late Bronze Age). It lasted from c. 1200 BC – c. 600 AD and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC. Archaic period, 800–490 BC.
Apr 5, 2024 · Oxford LibGuides: Early modern history (British & W European c. 1500-c. 1800): Primary Sources
- Isabel Holowaty
- 2010
2 days ago · Early life. Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.
Apr 12, 2024 · Frederick Jackson Turner (born November 14, 1861, Portage, Wisconsin, U.S.—died March 14, 1932, San Marino, California) was an American historian best known for the “ frontier thesis.”. The single most influential interpretation of the American past, it proposed that the distinctiveness of the United States was attributable to its long ...
- John Faragher
5 days ago · The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states. In the late Iron Age Austria was occupied by people of the Hallstatt Celtic culture (c. 800 BC), they first organized as a Celtic kingdom referred to by the Romans as Noricum, dating from c. 800 to 400 BC. At the end of the 1st century BC, the lands south of the ...
1 day ago · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union.The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
