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Olympic Games, American Participation in
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Athens, Greece, in 1896. Chamonix, France, hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924. (Since 1994, the Winter Olympics have been held two years after the Summer Olympics.) U.S. host cities have been St. Louis (1904), Los Angeles...
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Ice Skating
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...competition until 1991. Ice hockey was included in the summer Olympics in 1920 and in the inaugural winter games of 1924, where men...skating championships were first held in 1936 and included in the Olympics in 1960. Ice dancing, a figureskating discipline, became...
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Olympia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Indianapolis, Indiana, 1967. Mandell, Richard, D., Nazi Olympics, 1971. Stewart, Hull, David, Film in the Third Reich...edition, New York, 1979. Horton, W. J., "Capturing the Olympics," in American Cinematographer (Los Angeles), July 1984...
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Sport
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...four years beginning in 776 b.c.e., was the Olympic Games. The Olympics evolved into a vital celebration of pan-Hellenic identity for the...least once in a lifetime. Homages to and expos é s of the Olympics appeared f
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Eder, Linda
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...the Moment" became an anthem of sorts for the 1994 Winter Olympics. Her husband, a songwriting machine with over 200 published...The title song of her release Gold (2002) opened the 2002 Olympics Ceremony. Gold also has Eder lending her versatile skills...
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Swimming
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Although the Greeks did not include swimming in the ancient Olympics, a freestyle competition was part of the first modern games...three gold medals and two silvers in the 1912, 1920, and 1924 Olympics. Kahanamoku used six flutter kicks for each cycle of his arms...
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Kästner, Erich
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...children's magazine); President of West German PEN Writers' Organization, 1952–62; cultural adviser for Munich Olympics, 1972. Awards: Federal Film Prize (Germany), for Das Doppelte Lottchen, 1950. Died: In Munich, Germany, 29 July...
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Eminem
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...rhymes. His notoriety expanded with a second place finish in Rap Sheet magazine's 1997 freestyle competition, the "Rap Olympics." The famed rapper/producer Dr. Dre caught wind of Mathers, rapping as his alter ego, Eminem, and was sufficiently...
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Skiing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...skiing spread swiftly across New England and upstate New York, and in 1932 Lake Placid, New York, hosted the Third Winter Olympics. In 1936, a new resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, introduced chair lifts, swimming pools, private cottages, and other glamorous...
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Massacre
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...king ’ s men attempt annihilation of MacDonald clan (1692). [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book , 567] Munich Olympics ‘ 72 Arab terrorists brutally killed 11 Israeli athletes. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 462] My Lai Massacre murder...
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