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![]() | Tethrippon (Quadriga) Chariot The Ancient Olympics included equestrian events, beginning circa 680 B. |
![]() | Ode to the XXX Olympiad by Armand D'Angour - Audio |
![]() | Lina Radke - Pioneering Olympic Athlete Lina Radke, a German-born athlete, refused to be intimidated by cultural limitations on females participating in sports. |
![]() | Votive Discus from Ancient Times When the discus was part of an Ancient-Olympic event, a votive discus was sometimes created to herald stellar performances of the athletes. |
![]() | Hera the Greek Goddess Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology. |
![]() | Spectator View - Ancient Olympic Stadium Events The ruins of the running track, the stadion, are very close to the center of the town of Olympia. |
![]() | Depiction of Original Olympic Area |
![]() | View of Ancient Olympics' Start Line |
![]() | Pius X Opposed WWI - Buried at St. Peter's Basilica Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI. |
![]() | Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club |
![]() | Japanese-American Fishing Village Destroyed at Terminal Island Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever. |
![]() | Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? |
![]() | German U-Boat under Attack Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569. |
![]() | Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena |
![]() | Fermat's Last Theorem - Professor Andrew Wiles Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it? |
![]() | Towing U-110 to Iceland As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland. |
![]() | Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail - Morse Code On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message? |
![]() | Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice. |
![]() | The Last Day of Abraham Lincoln - by Henry Riggs Rathbone Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind. |
![]() | Japanese and Australian Soldiers at the Kokoda Trail |