Search results for "Olympic symbols" - New World Encyclopedia
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- formed by interconnecting rings. These Olympic symbols were introduced as part ... ==Olympic symbols== The Olympic movement uses many symbols, most of ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- Olympia not only housed the Temple of Zeus, but also hosted the Olympic ... lightning, rain, and winds. Zeus's symbols were the thunderbolt (his ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- [[Image:Olympic flag.svg|thumb|250px|The Olympic flag's five ... one continent up until World War II. The Olympic flag, devised in 1913, has ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- of this state. The deep forests of the Olympic Peninsula, such as the Hoh ... air masses of North America, and the Olympic and Cascade mountains. In ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- that they were able to find common symbols that were used to communicate ... jpg|thumb|400 px|2007 Chinese Taipei Olympic Day Run in Taipei City: ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- has applied for wushu to be part of the Olympic games, and it was announced ... *Eberhard, Wolfram. A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- totem poles and ceremonial masks depict symbols from the legends of a particular ... well as the mountains of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, creates the wide ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- * Menninger, Karl. Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers. New York: Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 0486270963 ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- Images, concepts, and symbols are the basic units of thought. Images ... turned this visual image into "words and symbols." ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- to erect statues to Damia and Auxesia (symbols of fertility) carved from ... Panathenaea, the wild olive spray of the Olympic victor, the olive crown ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- Prusiner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner Shawn Johnson was born in Iowa. ==Looking to the future== ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- *The five sacred Sikh symbols prescribed by Guru Gobind Singh are ... *The Olympic Games have five interlocked rings as their symbol, representing ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- *The bronze coins of Menander featuring a manifold variation of Olympic ... * The coins of Menander II feature several Buddhist symbols, which ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- Eric Liddell's refusal to race at the Olympic Games on Sunday—the Sabbath. ... Games, although notably not the Olympic Games. [[Image:Bridge over ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- Walker won a gold medal and broke the Olympic record time in her event ... === National symbols === Jamaica's national symbols are; ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Unusual among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi. In cult practice, Delian Apollo ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- in the sports world, even having their own Olympic teams. In the jargon of ... The official symbols of Puerto Rico are the bird, Reinita mora (Spindalis ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- rock art, depicted in chipped or painted symbols and figures on canyon walls ... Winter Olympics in 1995, and many of the Olympic venues along the Wasatch ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- depots and distributed to the masses and symbols of the communist regime ... for general strikes. Public communist symbols such as red stars and Soviet ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- the screw tree. They also use geometrical symbols, which resemble those of ... in the Commonwealth Games and Summer Olympic Games, where it has been ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
