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Annular hurricane 
 This structure allows the hurricane to maintain its strength for longer durations, and in worse conditions than typical hurricanes.
1320s 
 In North America, after arriving in different areas in Mexico, the Aztec settle in a swampy area near Lake Texcoco, and found the city of Tenochtitlan.
20s 
 Note: Sometimes the '20s is used as shorthand for the 1920s, the 1820s, or other such decades in various centuries
1340s 
 The Battle of Sluys is fought between the ships of the navy of the Kingdom of England and those of the Kingdom of France.
1200 
 Had the Gregorian calendar existed that year or before, the year 1200 would have been a century leap year and a leap year starting on Saturday.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece from August 13, 2004, until August 29, 2004.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 The total number of bronze medals is greater than the total of gold or silver because in boxing and judo, two bronze medals were awarded in each weight class.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Countries are ranked firstly by the number of gold medals they have, then by the number of silver, and then by the number of bronze.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Where countries have the same number of each type of medal, they are listed alphabetically and given the same ranking.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Greek sprinters Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou withdraw from the games after allegedly staging a motorcycle accident in order to avoid a drug test.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 World record holder and strong favourite Paula Radcliffe crashes out of the women's marathon, leaving Mizuki Noguchi to win the gold.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 While leading in the men's marathon with less than 10 kilometres to go, Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima is attacked by Irish priest Cornelius Horan and dragged into the crowd.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Liu Xiang wins gold in the 110 m hurdles, equalling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Hicham El Guerrouj wins gold in the 1500 m and 5000 m. He is the first person to do this at the Olympics since Paavo Nurmi in 1924.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 The US women's 4 × 200 m swimming team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sandeno win gold.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 The United States lost for the first time in Olympic men's basketball since NBA players were let to play in the Games.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Dominican athlete Félix Sánchez won the first ever gold medal for the Dominican Republic in the 400 m hurdles event.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in the K-4 500 m and silver in the K-2 500 m. She became the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, the first woman to win gold 24 years apart and the first person in Olympic history to win two or more medals in five different Games.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 United States' gymnast Carly Patterson becomes only the second American woman to win the all-around gold medal.
2004 Summer Olympics 
 Chilean Tennis players Nicolás Massu and Fernando Gonzalez won the gold medal in the Doubles Competition.
1964 Summer Olympics 
 The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in Tokyo, Japan from October 10 1964, through October 24 1964.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held at Athens in Greece.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 As Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Athens was an appropriate choice to stage the inaugural modern Games.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The 1896 Olympics were regarded as a great success even though there were many obstacles and setbacks.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The Panathinaiko Stadium, the only Olympic stadium used in the 19th Century, overflowed with the largest crowd ever to watch a sporting event.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 After the Games, Rhys Coubertin and the IOC were petitioned by several prominent figures including Greece's King George and some of the American competitors in Athens, to hold all the following Games in Athens.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, except for the Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics, some 108 years later.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The stories about the events and people of these Games were in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens, 1896 – starring David Ogden Stiers as William Milligan Sloane and Louis Jourdan as Pierre de Coubertin.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 In the 18th century, several small-scale sports festivals in Europe were named after the Ancient Olympic Games.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Coubertin took Dr William Penny Brooke's idea to have a multi-national and multi-sport event—the ancient games were in a sense international, because various Greek city-states and colonies were represented, but only free male athletes of Greek origin were allowed to participate.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 In 1890, Coubertin wrote an article in La Revue Athletique, which talked about the importance of Much Wenlock—a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 It was here that, in October 1850, the local physician William Penny Brookes started the Wenlock Olympian Games, a festival of sports and recreations that included athletics and team sports, such as cricket, football and quoits.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Coubertin also took inspiration from the earlier Greek games organized under the name of Olympics by businessman and philanthropist Evangelos Zappas in 1859, 1870 and 1875.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The 1896 Athens Games was funded by the legacies of Evangelos Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas and by George Averoff who had been specifically requested by the Greek government, through crown prince Constantine, to sponsor the second refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The Greek government did fix the stadium even though the cost of refurbishing the stadium in marble had already been funded in full by Evangelos Zappas forty years earlier.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 On June 18, 1894, Coubertin put together a group at the Sorbonne, in Paris, to present his plans to representatives of sports societies from 11 countries.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 After his proposal's acceptance by the congress, a date for the first modern Olympic Games needed to be chosen.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Coubertin suggested that the Games be held at the same time as the 1900 Universal Exposition of Paris.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Since Greece was the original home of the Olympics, all the congress approved the decision of Athens.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Vikelas was then elected the first president of the newly established International Olympic Committee (IOC).
1896 Summer Olympics 
 On April 6 (March 25 according to the Julian calendar then in use in Greece), the games of the First Olympiad were officially opened; it was Easter Monday for both the Western and Eastern Christian Churches and the anniversary of Greece's independence.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The Panathinaiko Stadium was filled with an estimated 80,000 spectators, including King George I of Greece, his wife Olga, and their sons.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 After a speech by the president of the organizing committee, Crown Prince Constantine, his father officially opened the Games:
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Afterwards, nine bands and 150 choir singers performed an Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras, with words by poet Kostis Palamas.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Thereafter, a variety of musical offerings provided the backgrounds to the Opening Ceremonies until 1960, since which time the Samaras/Palamas composition has become the official Olympic Anthem (decision taken by the IOC Session in 1958).
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Other elements of current Olympic opening ceremonies were started later: the Olympic flame was first lit in 1928, the first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and the first officials' oath was taken at the 1972 Olympic Games.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The first official announcements regarding the sporting events to be held featured sports such as football and cricket, but these plans were never finalized, and these sports did not make the final list for the Games.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Rowing and yachting were scheduled, but had to be canceled due to poor weather on the planned day of competition.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Although Greece had been favored to win the discus or the shotput, the best Greek athletes finished just behind the American Robert Garrett in both events.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Despite this, Thomas Burke, of the United States, won the 100 meter race in 12.0 seconds and the 400 meter race in 54.2 seconds.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 In the track events, the best cyclist was Frenchman Paul Masson, who won the one lap time trial, the sprint event, and the 10,000 meters.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Flameng won the event, after a fall, and after stopping to wait for his Greek opponent Georgios Kolettis to fix a mechanical problem.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The Austrian fencer Adolf Schmal won the 12-hour race, which was completed by only two cyclists, while the road race event was won by Aristidis Konstantinidis.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The fencing events were held in the Zappeion, which, built with money Evangelos Zappas had given to revive the ancient Olympic Games, was not used before.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Unlike other sports (in which only amateurs were allowed to take part at the Olympics), professionals were allowed to compete in fencing, though in a separate event.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The foil event was won by a Frenchman, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, who beat his countryman, Henri Callot, in the final.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Leonidas Pyrgos, who won the latter event, became the first Greek Olympic champion in the modern era.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Three Germans added individual titles: Hermann Weingärtner won the horizontal bar, Alfred Flatow won the parallel bars; and Carl Schuhmann, who also competed successfully in wrestling, won the vault.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Louis Zutter, a Swiss gymnast, won the pommel horse, while Greeks Ioannis Mitropoulos and Nikolaos Andriakopoulos were victorious in the rings and rope climbing events, respectively.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Held at a range at Kallithea, the shooting competition was five events—two using a rifle and three with the pistol.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The first event, the military rifle, was won by Pantelis Karasevdas, the only competitor to hit the target with all of his shots.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The second event, for military pistols, was dominated by two American brothers: John and Sumner Paine became the first siblings to finish first and second in the same event.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 In order to avoid embarrassing their hosts, the brothers decided that only one of them would compete in the next pistol event, the free pistol.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The Paine brothers did not compete in the 25 meter pistol event, as the event judges determined that their weapons were not of the required caliber.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 However, the event was not completed due to darkness and was finalized the next morning, when Georgios Orphanidis was crowned the champion.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 There were three open events (men's 100 metre freestyle, men's 500 metre freestyle, and men's 1200 metre freestyle), in addition to a special event open only to Greek sailors, all of which were held on the same day (April 11).
1896 Summer Olympics 
 For Alfréd Hajós of Hungary, being on the same day meant he could only compete in two of the events.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Hajós later became one of only two Olympians to win a medal in both the athletic and artistic competitions, when he won a silver medal for architecture in 1924.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The 500 meter freestyle was won by Austrian swimmer Paul Neumann, who defeated his opponents by more than a minute and a half.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Although tennis was already a major sport by the end of the 19th century, none of the top players turned up for the tournament in Athens.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The competition was at the courts of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club, and the infield of the velodrome used for the cycling events.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 John Pius Boland, who won the event, was entered in the competition by a fellow-student of his at Oxford.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 In the first round, Boland defeated Friedrich Traun, a promising tennis player from Hamburg, who had been eliminated in the 100 meter sprint competition.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Boland and Traun decided to team up for the doubles event, in which they reached the final and defeated their Greek and Egyptian opponents after losing the first set.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Competitions were held outdoors, in the infield of the main stadium, and there were no weight limits.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Both of them lifted the same weight; but the jury, with Prince George as the chairman, ruled that Jensen had done so in a better style.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The lifters were eventually allowed to make further attempts, but neither lifter improved, and Jensen was declared the champion.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Jensen had been slightly injured during his last two-handed attempt, and was no match for Elliot, who won the competition easily.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 A curious incident occurred during the weightlifting event: a servant was ordered to remove the weights, which appeared to be a difficult task for him.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Prince George came to his assistance; he picked up the weight and threw it a considerable distance with ease, to the delight of the crowd.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 No weight classes existed for the wrestling competition, held in the Panathinaiko Stadium, which meant that there would only be one winner among competitors of all sizes.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The rules used were similar to modern Greco-Roman wrestling, although there was no time limit, and not all leg holds were forbidden (in contrast to current rules).
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Apart from the two Greek contestants, all the competitors had previously been active in other sports.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The latter won and advanced into the final, where he met Georgios Tsitas, who had previously defeated Stephanos Christopoulos.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Darkness forced the final match to be suspended after 40 minutes; it was continued the following day, when Schuhmann needed only a quarter of an hour to finish the bout.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 On the morning of Sunday April 12, King George organized a banquet for officials and athletes (even though some competitions had not yet been held).
1896 Summer Olympics 
 During his speech, he made clear that, as far as he was concerned, the Olympics should be held in Athens permanently.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The official closing ceremony was held the following Wednesday, after being postponed from Tuesday due to rain.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Again the royal family attended the ceremony, which was opened by the national anthem of Greece and an ode composed in ancient Greek by George S. Robertson, a British athlete and scholar.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Some winners also received additional prizes, such as Spyridon Louis, who received a cup from Michel Bréal, a friend of Coubertin, who had conceived the marathon event.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Louis then led the medalists on a lap of honor around the stadium, while the Olympic Hymn was played again.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 The King then formally announced that the first Olympiad was at an end, and left the Stadium, while the band played the Greek national hymn and the crowd cheered.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Like the Greek king, many others supported the idea of holding the next Games in Athens; most of the American competitors signed a letter to the Crown Prince expressing this wish.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 Coubertin, however, was heavily opposed to this idea, as he envisioned international rotation as one of the cornerstones of the modern Olympics.
1896 Summer Olympics 
 According to his wish, the next Games were held in Paris, although they would be somewhat over-shadowed by the concurrently held Universal Exposition.
1330s 
 The poet Petrarch coins the pejorative term Dark Ages to describe the preceding 900 years in Europe, beginning with the fall of the western Roman Empire in 410 through to the renewal embodied in the Renaissance.
1370s 
 Mamai was a powerful military commander of the Golden Horde, who resided in the western part of this nomadic state, which is now the Southern Ukrainian Steppes and the Crimean Peninsula.
1390s 
 Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
1080s 
 1080 King Alfonso VI of Castile establishes Roman liturgy in Catholic church in place of Mozarabic Rite.
Captain Underpants 
 The Talking Toilets- Toilets that can oley shout "YUM, YUM, EAT 'EM UP!"and eat people, created when George and Harold wrote it in a comic book, and fed it to a machine that makes living 3D copys of 2D drawings created by Melvin Sneedley.
Captain Underpants 
 Professor Poopypants- A mad scientist from New Swissland that forced everyone to change their name to what the Name Change-o-Chart 2000 says.
Captain Underpants 
 Thare are 12 Books, The First one is known as The Adventers Of Captain Underpants, The next one being calld Captain Underpants And The Atacck Of The Tlking Tloits.
1328 
 May 1 – Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent country after the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1050s 
 Hedeby is sacked by King Harald Hardraade of Norway during the course of a conflict with King Eric Estridsson of Denmark.
1050s 
 Pope Leo IX and Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, decree each other's excommunication, finalising the Great Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
Makalani 
 These palm trees grow very high and it takes many years for a Makalani sapling to grow into a full-grown tree.
Makalani 
 The seeds look like small coconuts, and the local people, the Owambos and Himbas, peel the outer ginger looking skin and carve the inner hard core to certain objects of art.
Makalani 
 It can be eaten and can also be used to brew Ombike/Owalende: the Oshiwambo brew that looks and taste similar to Whiskey.
Makalani 
 There are now also some hotels, restaurants, and guesthouses which have adopted the name Makalani (in Namibia).
Trowbridge 
 It is on the River Biss in the west of the county, 8 miles (13 km) south east of Bath, Somerset, separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west.
Trowbridge 
 The Kennet and Avon Canal has been a very important part of the town's growth because it allowed coal to be moved from the Somerset Coalfield.
Trowbridge 
 Because of this, in the late 18th century and early 19th century, it had the nickname of "The Manchester of the West".
Trowbridge 
 The parish goes over the areas of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common.
Trowbridge 
 Parishes that are next to Trowbridge include Staverton, Hilperton, West Ashton, North Bradley, Southwick and Wingfield.
Bow (music) 
 It is used to pull across the strings of a string instrument such as a violin, viola, cello or double bass.
Bow (music) 
 The bow has to be slightly curved so that it straightens out a bit as the hairs are tightened (this is like the bow of ‘bow and arrow’ where letting go of the tension of the bent bow makes the arrow fly off).
Bow (music) 
 When the bow is new, or when it has just been re-haired, it will not make any sound until the hairs have been well rubbed with rosin (also called “colophony”).
Bow (music) 
 Every violinist needs to keep a piece of rosin (called a “cake of rosin”) in his or her violin case.
Bow (music) 
 People who learn to play the violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass spend a very long time learning the technique of bowing.
Bow (music) 
 When string players talk about “putting in the bowing” they mean: writing in the music for each note whether it is played with an upbow or downbow.
Bow (music) 
 A downbow is when the player starts at the heel (the end that he is holding) and finishes at the tip.
Bow (music) 
 Downbows and upbows may be used for alternate notes, but often two or more notes are taken in one bow-stroke.
Bow (music) 
 This is shown in the music by a slur (a short curved line like a phrase mark over or under the notes to be slurred).
Bow (music) 
 The bow generally should touch the part of the string mid-way between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge (see the article violin).
Bow (music) 
 When the players have been plucking (pizzicato) and they need to start bowing again, the word arco is put in the music.
Bow (music) 
 col legno (literally: with the wood) means that the players have to turn the bow over and hit the string with the wood.
Bow (music) 
 Players with expensive bows often do not like doing this and bring a cheaper bow to play those bits.
Bow (music) 
 Ricochet bowing is making the bow bounce of its own accord very quickly in the upper half of the bow (near the tip).
Bow (music) 
 Three or four strings can be played at once, but only at very high dynamic levels and with a very loose bow - sometimes the effect of a chord is produced by double stopping quickly on two strings and then on the other two.
Bow (music) 
 The Chinese yazheng and yaqin, and Korean ajaeng zithers are generally played by "bowing" with a rosined stick, which rubs against the strings without any horsehair.
Bow (music) 
 The hurdy-gurdy, an instrument known in medieval Europe, has strings which are bowed by a "rosin wheel," which is turned by a handle.
Bowing 
 A bow is when a person bends their body forward from the waist in order to greet someone or show respect for them.
Bowing 
 A bow is sometimes not much more than a quick nod of the head, but it can be a very deep bow from the waist.
Bowing 
 The exact way to bow and the situations in which people bow vary enormously between different cultures.
Bowing 
 In European cultures bowing to someone is now only done in very formal situations, e.g. when meeting the Queen or someone very high and important.
Bowing 
 This is why we still talk about  "bowing and scraping" meaning that someone is trying very hard and hypocritically to be unnecessarily polite.
Bowing 
 This kind of deep bow, which is never used nowadays, is sometimes called a “reverence” (a word meaning: “deep respect”).
Bowing 
 When people applaud (clap their hands) after a performance such as a concert on in the theatre the performer will take a bow.
Bowing 
 In judo and some other martial arts the two contestants (people who are going to fight) will bow to one another to show that they respect one another and will obey the rules of the game.
Bowing 
 They bow to greet one another, to say goodbye, to say they are sorry, to say ‘thank you’, or to show that they are not as important as the person they are bowing to.
Bowing 
 There are different degrees of bowing, and it is very important in Japanese culture to know the right way to bow on different occasions.
Bowing 
 Typically a bow should last a count of eight: three to go down, one for a pause and four for returning to an upright position.
Bowing 
 If someone bows a little longer than the other person, that other person may bow again, and the other person then also bows again, and this can go on several times.
Bowing 
 Japanese mothers carry their babies on their backs, so that children learn to bow even before they can speak.
Bow 
 It is used to tie simple things such as apron strings, shoelaces, or ribbons on wrapped-up presents or for decoration in girls' hair.
Billie Jean King 
 Billie Jean King (born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is an American retired tennis player.
Billie Jean King 
 It was called "The Battle of the Sexes" and was with Bobby Riggs, who had been a champion in the 1930s and 1940s.