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- 350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece]] Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympí'a or Ολύμπια Olýmpia ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was carved by the famed sculptor Phidias around ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
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- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was carved by the famed sculptor Phidias around ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- best remembered for his excavation of Olympia, the most sacred place of ... exclusive rights to conduct excavations at Olympia, Curtius was sent by the ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- 350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece]] Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympí'a or Ολύμπια Olýmpia ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- In 1877, Dörpfeld became an assistant at the excavations of Olympia ... After his return from Olympia, Dörpfeld intended to take his architectural ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- Games, fed by the archaeological finds at Olympia, gave birth to a plan to ... in a monument near the ruins of ancient Olympia. ==Legacy== ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- Édouard Manet (January 23 1832 – April 30 1883) was a French, modernist painter. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia ...18 KB (2,830 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- gods and the Panhellenic festival held at Olympia. A related title was Panhellenios ... Greeks converged to pay honor to Zeus was Olympia. Here there was an altar ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- The original Olympic Games began in c. 776 B.C.E. in Olympia, Greece ... both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- original location. This material became Olympia, a film widely noted for ... Riefenstahl's achievements in the making of Olympia have proved ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- [[File:Olympia Palaestra panoramic.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia]] Physical education has existed since the earliest ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- recoiled at the BUF's violence at a rally at Olympia. By the mid-1930s, however, the Mirror was struggling—it and the Mail were the main ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum of Maussollos ... Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Maussollos ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- 1995 Buckley played a concert at the Paris Olympia, a venue made famous by ... such as Mystery White Boy and Live a l'Olympia. An impassioned ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 04:32, 31 July 2022
- At Olympia, Hera's seated cult figure was older than the warrior ... Samos, there were also temples to Hera in Olympia, Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- ancient Greek olympics. It was discovered at Olympia by German archaeologist Ernst Curtius in 1875. On March 7, 1987 it became Korean National Treasure ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- water," from a TV commercial for Olympia beer; and revival, which spoke to the four members' renewed commitment to their band. By 1968 ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- Catherine Morgan, Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia ... *Morgan, Catherine. Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- athletic victories in the games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea, and the Isthmus of Corinth. === Tragedy === The Greeks invented drama and produced ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- thumb|250px|The 1875-1881 German excavation of Olympia, Greece.]] Artifacts are often called finds when handled during archaeological excavation ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 17:39, 16 August 2023
- Coppa Mussolini for the Best foreign film to Olympia, a German documentary film about the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics produced in association with ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- 2021 the award ceremony has been held in the Olympia Hall. In recent years, especially after the infamous 2020 César awards ceremony in Paris ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- including Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma and Olympia. The state highways incorporate ... arts and sciences college located in Olympia with a fall 2007 enrollment ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- " although after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley. Rothermere was a friend ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- Journey Across the Plains, from Dundee, Ill., to Olympia, W.T. May 7, to November 3, 1862. Seattle: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, 1955. ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- baptismal name Noah, probably in 1848 near Olympia, Washington. His children ... clamming grounds, Sealth met Maynard in Olympia. Persuading the settlers ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- Catherine Morgan, Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia ... * Morgan, Catherine. Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- live on Dutch radio. Her 1962 appearance at the Olympia in Paris was also broadcast. ==Television== Complete list of television appearances (excluding ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- * Underwater Land (with Pat Dailey) (Olympia Records) (2002) (released posthumously) * The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words, His Songs, His ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- strongly linked to the bull. In a hymn from Olympia at a festival for Hera, Dionysus is invited to come forth "with bull-foot raging." Quite ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- Church at Bridgeport the first woman minister, Olympia Brown, was called to serve the Church. His newspaper, the Herald of Freedom, opposed those ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- In 1920 the first World Scout Jamboree took place in Olympia, London. Also, Baden-Powell was acclaimed “Chief Scout of the World.” Baden ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home. Olympia, WA: Agarikon Press. ISBN 0961079800 * Volk, T. 2001. [http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/aug2001 ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- of the Mycenaean style were found; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- notably fragments of the temple at Olympia (a gift from the Greek Senate in 1829), ancient reliefs from Assos (presented by Sultan Mahmoud II ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- [[File:Olympia Palaestra panoramic.jpg|thumb|300px|Training ground for ancient Olympic athletes.]] Athletics was the original event at the first ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- From 776 B.C.E., the Olympic games were held in Olympia every four years for the next 12 centuries. As Greece progressed as a country, so did the ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- Huge Panhellenic festivals were held at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea, and Isthmia ... of Aphrodite; Delphi and Delos had Apollo; Olympia had Zeus, and so on down ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- * Dĕdič, Josef. Single Figure Skating. Prague: Olympia, 1975. 2638092 *Evaluation of Errors in Figures, 6th ed. USFSA, 1964. 13707298 ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- temple of Apollo at Didyma and the stadium at Olympia. File:Gabriel ... jpg|Arch at the stadium of Olympia (fourth century B.C.E.) ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
- received a hero's welcome in the streets of Olympia, Washington after their successful summit climb. The publicity of their success brought others ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- ==== Olympia, WA ==== During the same time antifa protestors joined a protest in Olympia ...100 KB (13,503 words) - 18:35, 7 July 2020
- the publisher of Ginsberg's Howl, and Olympia Press publisher Maurice ... He went to Paris to meet Ginsberg and talk with Olympia Press. In ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- * Theaters include the Gaiety, the Abbey, the Olympia Theatre, the Gate Theatre, and the Mahony Hall, which is the largest. The headquarters of ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Aryan superiority over all other races. Olympia, the movie about the games ... *Olympia (1938) Out of the four films, Hitler was the star of the first ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- quot;The Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia." in Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives. 2005 University of Texas Press ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- | Senators = Olympia Snowe (R)Susan Collins (R) | Representative= Chellie Pingree (D)Michael Michaud (D) | PostalAbbreviation = ME ...36 KB (5,276 words) - 05:31, 5 November 2022
- A magnificent villa in Olympia was erected for Nero's stay (and can be visited at the archaeological site). Even though Nero proved to be ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- [http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/olympia/silv/oak-studies/oak-roots.shtml Oak Root Research]. Olympia Forestry Sciences Laboratory. Retrieved August ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- 1913), Paciano (1851-1930), Narcisa (1852-1939), Olympia (1855-1887), Lucia (1857-1919), Maria (1859-1945), José Protasio (1861-1896), Concepcion ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- * Dahlke, Matthias. Der Anschlag auf Olympia '72. Die politischen Reaktionen auf den internationalen in Deutschland. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- in Belgium, Ireland (Royal Hospital), France (Olympia in Paris), England (Wembley Arena in London), Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy (Arena in Verona ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- science and philosophy, jokingly named "The Olympia Academy." Their readings included Poincaré, Mach and Hume, who influenced Einstein's ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- forpoetry2001|title=The view from Olympia|first=Robert|last=Potts|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 April 2001|access-date=7 April 2001 Reflections ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- Other important leaders included Lucy Stone, Olympia Brown, and Helen Pitts. American first-wave feminism involved women from a wide range of backgrounds ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- which are still in existence are Bobino, l'Olympia, la Cigale and le Splendid. The Élysées-Montmartre, much reduced from its original size ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- com/seattlenews/article/raccoons-rampaging-olympia-1212402.php Raccoons rampaging Olympia: Animals have killed 10 cats, bitten one person," ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- guest performers: Mandy Patinkin, Kevin Kline, Olympia Dukakis, Lily Rabe, Linda Emond, Josh Hamilton, Stephen Spinella, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles, Olympia Archaeological Museum.]] ===Architecture=== Remains of ancient Greek architecture still survive ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
