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Louis XIV 
 Louis consulted widely with his nobles and ministers, and he met weekly with members of his high council.
Louis XIV 
 He created an informal cabinet, which was eventually led by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, chief minister of finance.
Louis XIV 
 Nevertheless, the system of absolute monarchy emphasized the role of the king, and no monarch was more successful in creating the image of monarchy than Louis XIV.
Louis XIV 
 Over 30,000 men worked on constructing the Palace of Versailles, a project that drained the royal treasury for decades.
Louis XIV 
 Expenses included not only building but also diverting rivers, piping in fresh water, and planting thousands of orange trees to mask the smell of sewage that could not be properly drained away.
Louis XIV 
 Although Louis dreamed of a Spanish inheritance for his heirs, his military policy was not to expand French territory.
Louis XIV 
 He fought his early wars for defensive purposes—to secure France’s northern border and to dislodge the Spanish from strategic towns.
Louis XIV 
 Louis fought the War of the Devolution (1667-1668) to assert his claims to a portion of Spain’s possessions after his wife’s father, Philip IV, died.
Louis XIV 
 The French aggression in the Spanish Netherlands caused relations between France and Holland to deteriorate.
Louis XIV 
 The Dutch had already fought the Spanish for generations to protect against an invasion of their country.
Louis XIV 
 They had no intention of allowing the French to pose the same threat by occupying the territories on their border.
Louis XIV 
 The result was war in the Netherlands from 1672 to 1678, during which Louis again demonstrated the effectiveness of French might.
Louis XIV 
 To protect themselves, the Dutch opened their dikes, flooded the countryside, and turned Amsterdam into a virtual island.
Louis XIV 
 War resumed, however, when Spain and Austria allied themselves with Holland, and Louis signed a treaty with England in 1670 to keep the English navy neutral.
Louis XIV 
 Neither side could win a decisive victory, and both suffered from financial exhaustion, which ultimately led to a treaty to end the war.
Louis XIV 
 Because of this, 50 thousand Protestant workers left France and went to America, England, and Germany.
Louis XIV 
 While Louis ruled, France became the most powerful country in all of Europe, and many other countries copied the French people's way of dressing and thinking.
Louis XIV 
 Mazarin had taught him to work rigorously, and Louis maintained a punishing schedule throughout his life, shrugging off a series of minor illnesses and not listening to the advice of his physicians.
Louis XIV 
 Eventually a broken arm put an end to his vigorous horseback riding, and gout ended his long walks around Versailles.
Louis XIV 
 In 1683 his first wife died, and Louis secretly married his longtime mistress, Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon.
Louis XIV 
 In 1711 he went through the tragedy of the death of his oldest son and the following year that of his oldest grandson.
Louis XIV 
 Therefore, the kings successor was his little five year old great grandson Louis Duke of Anjou, who became King Louis XV of France after the death of his great-grandfather in 1715.
Louis XIV 
 In a world that regarded territory, power, and wealth as paramount, Louis XIV was recognized as a great king.
Louis XIV 
 He transformed France into the dominant nation in Europe, expanded its boundaries, and left his heirs secure in their possessions.
Louis XIV 
 Louis reached the height of his power in the 1670s, and he protected what he had achieved for the next four decades in the face of a Europe united against him.
Louis XIV 
 During Louis’s reign, France also consolidated the administration of its colonial possessions and commerce, becoming a world power.
Louis XIV 
 On the domestic front, Louis strengthened the central government’s control over the diverse regions of France, incorporating his territorial gains into a united state.
Louis XIV 
 On the other hand, he provoked controversy when he restored Catholic religious unity by revoking the Edict of Nantes and repressing Protestantism.
Louis XIV 
 Unfortunately many of Louis’s policies, both domestic and foreign, caused great hardship to ordinary people, many of whom suffered starvation, fled their homeland, or lived in terror of persecution.
Louis XIV 
 Ultimately, Louis XIV wished to bring glory to France and to his dynasty, and he died believing that he had.
Louis XIV 
 Louis of France, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711) Dauphin of France married Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and had issue.
Louis XIV 
 Marie Anne of France (16 November 1664 – 26 December 1664) died in infancy or the Black Nun of Moret
Louis XIV 
 Marie Thérèse of France (2 January 1667 – 1 March 1672) known as "Madame Royale" but died in infancy.
Louis XIV 
 Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine (31 March 1670 - 14 May 173) married Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon and had children.
Louis XIV 
 Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) married Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé and had children.
Louis XIV 
 Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Tours 18 November 1674 – 15 September 1681) died young.
Louis XIV 
 Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois (4 May 1677 – 1 February 1749) married Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France and had children.
Louis XIV 
 Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737) married Marie Victoire de Noailles and had children.
Olympic Games 
 As well, the Olympics became bigger with the addition of the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes.
Olympic Games 
 As the decision-making body, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is responsible for choosing the host city for each Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 The celebration of the Games includes many rituals and symbols, such as Olympic flag and torch, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
Olympic Games 
 The first, second, and third-place finishers in each event receive, respectively, gold, silver, and bronze medals.
Olympic Games 
 During the Olympic Games all struggles among the participating city-states were postponed until the games were finished.
Olympic Games 
 The origin of these Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend According to legend, it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years.
Olympic Games 
 The most widely accepted date for the beginning of the Ancient Olympics is 776BC; based on inscriptions of the winners of a footrace held every four years starting then.
Olympic Games 
 The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon (consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race and wrestling), boxing, wrestling, and equestrian events.
Olympic Games 
 There is no agreement on when the Games officially ended, but many historians think it is 393AD, when the emperor Theodosius I declared that all Pagan religious practices should end.
Olympic Games 
 Another date might be 426AD, when the next emperor Theodosius II ordered the destruction of all Greek temples.
Olympic Games 
 An attempt to copy the ancient Olympic Games was the L'Olympiade de la République annually from 1796 to 1798 in Revolutionary France.
Olympic Games 
 Greek interest in bringing back the Olympic Games began with the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Olympic Games 
 It was first proposed by poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem "Dialogue of the Dead", published in 1833.
Olympic Games 
 Evangelis Zappas, a wealthy Greek-Romanian philanthropist, first wrote to King Otto of Greece, in 1856, offering to fund a permanent revival of the Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 Zappas funded the restoration of the ancient Panathenaic stadium so that it could host all future Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 3, Cambridge University Press In 1865 Hulley, Dr. Brookes and E.G. Ravenstein founded the National Olympian Association in Liverpool, a forerunner of the British Olympic Association.
Olympic Games 
 Dr. Brookes copied the sports which were in the Olympics held in Athens in 1859 in future Wenlock Olympian Games (Brookes created this first as a class in 1850 and then as an event in 1856.).
Olympic Games 
 In 1866, a national Olympic Games in Great Britain was organized by Dr. Brookes at London's Crystal Palace.
Olympic Games 
 Thirty thousand spectators attended that Games in 1870, although no official attendance records are available for the 1875 Games.
Olympic Games 
 In 1890, after attending the Olympian Games of the Wenlock Olympian Society, Baron Pierre de Coubertin created the International Olympic Committee.
Olympic Games 
 Coubertin built on the ideas and work of Brookes and Zappas with the aim of creating an Olympic Games that would occur every four years in a different country.
Olympic Games 
 He presented these ideas during the first meeting of the newly created International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Olympic Games 
 On the last day of the meeting, it was decided that the first Olympic Games, to be controlled by the IOC, would take place two years later in Athens.
Olympic Games 
 Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas had left the Greek government money to fund future Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 L'affaire Zappa – Paris 1894, by G. Streit George Averoff paid for the refurbishment of the stadium in preparation for the Games.
Olympic Games 
 This feeling was shared by many of the athletes, who even demanded that Athens be the host of the Olympic Games on a permanent basis.
Olympic Games 
 Following the success of the 1896 Games, the Olympics entered a period of stagnation that threatened their survival.
Olympic Games 
 The Olympic Games held at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904 were side-shows.
Olympic Games 
 The Games at Paris did not have a stadium, however this was the first time women took part in the games.
Olympic Games 
 The Games rebounded when the Intercalated Games (so-called because they were the second Games held within an Olympiad, a period of time lasting four years) were held in Athens.
Olympic Games 
 These Games are not officially recognized by the IOC and no Intercalated Games have been held since.
Olympic Games 
 Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.
Olympic Games 
 The juried art competitions were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs.
Olympic Games 
 Figure skating (in 1908 and 1920) and ice hockey (in 1920) were Olympic events at the Summer Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 At the 1921 Olympic Congress, in Lausanne, it was decided to hold a winter version of the Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 The IOC ruled that the Winter Olympic Games be celebrated every four years on the same year as the summer games.
Olympic Games 
 After this, beginning with the 1994 Games, the Winter Olympics were held on the third year of each Olympiad.
Olympic Games 
 The Youth Olympic Games were created by IOC president Jacques Rogge in 2001 and approved during the 119th meeting of the IOC.
Olympic Games 
 The Olympic Movement includes a large number of national and international sporting organizations and federations.
Olympic Games 
 As the group in charge of the Olympic Movement, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is responsible for selecting the host city.
Olympic Games 
 International Federations (IFs) are the governing bodies that supervise a sport at an international level.
Olympic Games 
 For example, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is the IF for football (soccer), and the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) is the international governing body for volleyball.
Olympic Games 
 Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOGs) are the temporary groups responsible for the organization of a specific Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 Each group is dissolved (taken apart) after each Games, once the final report is delivered to the IOC.
Olympic Games 
 In 1998, it was uncovered that several IOC members had taken bribes from members of the Salt Lake City bid committee for the hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 A BBC documentary entitled Panorama: Buying the Games, aired in August 2004, investigated the taking of bribes in the bidding process for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 The documentary claimed it was possible to bribe IOC members into voting for a particular candidate city.
Olympic Games 
 After being narrowly defeated in their bid for the 2012 Summer Games, Parisian Mayor Bertrand Delanoë accused the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the London Bid Committee of breaking the bid rules.
Olympic Games 
 A prominent IOC member, Marc Hodler, strongly connected with the rival bid of Sion, Switzerland, alleged bribery of IOC officials by members of the Turin Organizing Committee.
Olympic Games 
 The allegations also served to sour many IOC members against Sion's bid and potentially helped Turin to capture the host city nomination.
Olympic Games 
 The Olympic logo also known as the Olympic rings, consists of five intertwined rings and represents the unity of the five inhabited continents (America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe).
Olympic Games 
 The colored version of the rings—blue, yellow, black, green, and red—over a white field forms the Olympic flag.
Olympic Games 
 The flag was adopted in 1914 but flown for the first time at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
Olympic Games 
 The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius'', a Latin expression meaning "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
Olympic Games 
 Before each Games, the Olympic flame is lit in Olympia in a ceremony that reflects ancient Greek rituals.
Olympic Games 
 The flame has been an Olympic symbol since 1928 and the torch relay was introduced at the 1936 Summer Games.
Olympic Games 
 The mascot is either an animal or human figure representing the cultural heritage of the host country.
Olympic Games 
 As mandated by the Olympic Charter, various elements frame the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 The ceremony typically starts with the hoisting of the host country's flag and a performance of its national anthem.
Olympic Games 
 The host nation then presents artistic displays of music, singing, dance, and theater representative of its culture.
Olympic Games 
 Following this the Olympic torch is brought into the stadium and passed on until it reaches the final torch carrier who lights the cauldron.
Olympic Games 
 In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony (as this tradition was started in Antwerp), the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Olympic flag to the president of the IOC.
Olympic Games 
 After these compulsory elements, the next host nation briefly introduces itself with artistic displays of dance and theater representative of its culture.
Olympic Games 
 The winner, second and third-place competitors or teams stand on top of a three-tiered rostrum to be awarded their respective medals.
Olympic Games 
 After the medals are given out by an IOC member, the national flags of the three medalists are raised while the national anthem of the gold medalist's country plays.
Olympic Games 
 For example, wrestling is a Summer Olympic sport, comprising two disciplines: Greco-Roman and Freestyle.
Olympic Games 
 The Summer Olympics program includes 26 sports, while the Winter Olympics program features 15 sports.
Olympic Games 
 Olympic sports are governed by international sports federations (IFs) recognized by the IOC as the global supervisors of those sports.
Olympic Games 
 Sports can be added or removed from the list on the basis of a two-thirds majority vote of the members of the IOC.
Olympic Games 
 The 114th IOC meeting, in 2002, limited the Summer Games program to a maximum of 28 sports, 301 events, and 10,500 athletes.
Olympic Games 
 This resulted in the removal of baseball and softball from the list of sports for the 2012 London Games.
Olympic Games 
 Since there was no agreement in the promotion of two other sports, the 2012 program will feature just 26 sports.
Olympic Games 
 The 2016 and 2020 Games will return to the maximum of 28 sports given the addition of rugby and golf.
Olympic Games 
 The exclusion of professionals caused several controversies throughout the history of the modern Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 The 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball before the Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 As class structure evolved through the 20th century, the definition of the amateur athlete as an aristocratic gentleman became outdated.
Olympic Games 
 The advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at a disadvantage.
Olympic Games 
 After the 1988 Games, the IOC decided to make all professional athletes eligible for the Olympics, subject to the approval of the IFs.
Olympic Games 
 As of 2004, the only sport in which no professionals compete is boxing, although even this requires a definition of amateurism based on fight rules rather than on payment, as some boxers receive cash prizes from their National Olympic Committees.
Olympic Games 
 In men's football (soccer), only three professional players over the age of 23 are eligible to participate per team in the Olympic tournament.
Olympic Games 
 There have been many countries deliberately missing the Olympics in order to make political statements.
Olympic Games 
 65 nations refused to compete at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Olympic Games 
 The Soviet Union and 14 of its Eastern Bloc partners (except Romania) countered by missing the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984.
Olympic Games 
 Soviet officials defended their decision to withdraw from the Games by saying that "chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria are being whipped up in the United States".
Olympic Games 
 The Olympic Games have been used as a platform to promote political ideologies almost from its inception.
Olympic Games 
 Nazi Germany wished to portray the Nationalist Socialist Party as benevolent and peace-loving when they hosted the 1936 Games.
Olympic Games 
 This goal was not met due in part to the achievements of athletes such as Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at this Olympics.
Olympic Games 
 At the 1968 Summer Olympics, in Mexico City, two American track and field athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who finished first and third in the 200meter sprint race, performed the Black Power salute on the podium.
Olympic Games 
 The runner up Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of Smith and Carlos.
Olympic Games 
 IOC President Avery Brundage then told the United States, to either send the two athletes home or withdraw the track and field team.
Olympic Games 
 In the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes began using drugs to improve their athletic abilities.
Olympic Games 
 For example, the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games, Thomas J. Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his coach.
Olympic Games 
 During the cycling road race, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle and later died.
Olympic Games 
 The IOC-established drug testing regimen (now known as the Olympic Standard) has set the worldwide benchmark that other sporting federations around the world attempt to emulate.
Olympic Games 
 The first Olympic athlete to test positive for the use of performance-enhancing drugs was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete at the 1968 Summer Olympics, who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use.
Olympic Games 
 The 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II.
Olympic Games 
 In 1972, when the Summer Games were held in Munich, West Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the terrorist group Black September.
Olympic Games 
 The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed rescue attempt.
Olympic Games 
 During the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta, a bomb was detonated at the Centennial Olympic Park, which killed 2 and injured 111 others.
Olympic Games 
 If more than one city from the same country gives a proposal to its NOC, the national group chooses which city will run for host.
Olympic Games 
 The first step once the deadline passes (To tell the IOC that you want to hold the Games), is to ask the cities to complete a questionnaire which covers many key points in the organization of the Olympic Games.
Olympic Games 
 The evaluation of the filled questionnaires by a group provides the IOC with an idea of each cities project and their potential to host the Games.
Olympic Games 
 On the basis of this evaluation, the IOC chooses the applicants that will proceed to the candidature stage.
Olympic Games 
 Once the candidate cities are chosen, they must give to the IOC a bigger presentation of their project as part of a candidature file.
Olympic Games 
 Among Summer Olympics host nations, the United Kingdom has been the host of three Games, and hosted its third Olympics in 2012 in London.
Olympic Games 
 Germany, Australia, France, and Greece are the other nations to have hosted the Summer Olympics twice.
Olympic Games 
 Among host cities, only Los Angeles, Paris, Athens and London have played host to the Olympic Games more than once, with each holding that honor twice.
Olympic Games 
 With the 2012 Games that took place in London, the British capital holds the distinction of hosting the modern Olympics Games three times, more than any other city.
Olympic Games 
 Paris will be the second city to host the modern Olympics Games three times in 2024, while Los Angeles will be the third city in 2028.
Olympic Games 
 In the Winter Olympics, France has hosted three Games, while Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Japan, and Italy have hosted twice.
Olympic Games 
 The most recent Games were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea's first Winter Olympics and second overall.
Olympic Games 
 The next Winter Games will be in Beijing, China in 2022, which will be the first time this nation has hosted.
Iron Age 
 Iron production took place in Anatolia at least as early as 12,000 BC, with some  evidence pointing to even earlier dates.
Iron Age 
 In the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, the use of iron reaches far back, to perhaps 30,000 BC.
Iron Age 
 One of the earliest smelted iron artifacts known was a dagger with an iron blade found in a Hattic tomb in Anatolia, dating from 2500 BC.
Iron Age 
 The widespread use of iron weapons which replaced bronze weapons rapidly disseminated throughout the Near East (North Africa, southwest Asia) by the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.
Iron Age 
 It is a period of prehistory because, though iron and steel continue to be important even today, the "Iron Age" is defined as ending when people began to write their history.
Iron Age 
 Bronze weapons and armor were no match for those made of iron, so many peoples who did not have iron were conquered by those who did.
Entertainment 
 Entertainment is something that gives pleasure, or distracts a person from daily life, like a sport or game that excites people and keeps their attention.
Entertainment 
 Entertainments is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.
Open Site 
 Open Site claims to have encyclopedias in many languages e.g. Romanian, but there are very few articles.
Open Site 
 The writing and pictures on the children's' encyclopedia are simpler and easier to understand than other encyclopedias, like this one.
Coca-Cola 
 The Coca-Cola Company is proud to have a long history of sponsoring major events, organizations and projects around the world.