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medal in the Marathon in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1910, Korea had been ... At the 1988 Summer Olympics in his home country of South Korea, Sohn ...

field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany ... to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler was ...

during the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics. ... * The Seoul flag: Was presented to the IOC at the 1988 Summer Olympics ...

with Petrović win the gold. In the 1988 Summer Olympics Petrović's team ... pick on him in 1986, and instead signed in 1988 with Real Madrid for a hefty ...

Games, but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces (porcelain ... In 1988, the V-style of ski jumping was introduced. Before jumpers ...

period of complete dominance. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp (Belgium ... for 1914 and from 1920 through 1923. The Olympics replaced the WHCC in 1924 ...

long track speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had ... races were never to be held again at the Olympics. However, ISU adopted the ...

FIH). Field Hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ... ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the ...

six games. The Celtics would fall short in 1988 losing to the Pistons in six ... same season. He repeated the feat in 1987-1988 with .527 and .916. Also ...

of it's own defense. The successful Seoul Olympics of 1988, and the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and China shortly afterwards, raised ...

South Korea has hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics, the 2018 Winter Olympics ... #039;s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics, the relationship has seen ...

action and relaunched the boycott in 1988. Hundreds of European universities ... Olympic boycotts occurred during the 1956 Summer Olympics. The British and ...

Town of Banff. Weather conditions during summer months are pleasant, with ... Canada launched several bids to host the Winter Olympics in Banff ...

it was designated a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic ... accessible than the interior of the Olympics; due to the difficult terrain ...

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The Japanese volleyball used in the 1964 Olympics, consisted of a rubber carcass ... the US won their first medals at the Olympics in Los Angeles. The Men ...

the song as a theme for its coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, with ...

That year, Seoul hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics, representing a coming ... temperate, with precipitation heavier in summer, during a short rainy season ...

usually three times annually; with spring, summer, and fall tours, playing ... before an estimated 600,000 people at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. Most ...

built in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1988; photographed in Cooktown ... Australia has participated in every summer Olympic Games and every Commonwealth ...

That same year, tennis withdrew from the Olympics after the 1924 Games ... tennis as a full-medal sport at Seoul in 1988. The Davis Cup, an annual ...

Seoul hosted the 1988 Olympic Games as well as the 1988 Paralympic ... *[[Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg|20px]] Tokyo, Japan (1988) ...

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, the athlete Hugues Fabrice Zango won ... ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1988. ISBN 0881333476 ...

of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, North Korea still ... usually pass over South Korea in late summer, especially in August, and ...

announced its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics Games. ... Busan is the so-called summer capital of Korea since it attracts tourists ...

at the Sapporo Snow Festival. The Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo in 1972. ... wildflowers bloom during the spring and summer, and the cool summertime ...

the umbrella of Project Skywater from 1964-1988. The sponsored projects were ... China to force rain ahead of Olympics.] Retrieved August 24, 2007. ...

was introduced in America in 1874. The Olympics recognized the sport of ... in 1936, to foil in 1956, and to sabre in 1988. The central unit of the scoring ...

. He also won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics as captain of the ... but he was determined to play in the Olympics. He later commented that ...

The final troop withdrawal began on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15 ... forces in Afghanistan in the spring and summer of 1979. They requested Soviet ...

Charlie in 1951 and Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Several other powerful hurricanes ... Team has been well represented at the Olympics over the years with leading ...

Beijing was awarded the hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. Preparations for ... , with 75 percent of that taking place during the summer. ...

most in NBA history. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he won two gold ... Bryant debuted in the Summer Pro League in Long Beach, California ...

#039;s improved performance at the 1988 Summer Olympics), prohibitions of ... methodology and conclusions (Pope and Katz 1988). Many scientists and medical ...

*Walter Byers 1951-1988 *Dick Schultz 1988-1993 *Cedric Dempsey 1993-2002 *Myles Brand 2003- ...

rainfall, with most of it falling in the summer (between December and April ... Democracy was re-established in 1988 when the current Federal Constitution ...

In 1990, Atlanta was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympics ... * Stone, Clarence N. 1989. Regime politics: governing Atlanta, 1946 ...

Average winter and summer high temperatures across Canada vary depending ... sports are ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer). [https://laws ...

won two men's bronze medals at the Olympics and finished at least third ... added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The United ...

policies similar to Park's until the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. However, slowly, Park's economic achievements, patriotism, frugality and ...

Railway Station. The station was rebuilt in 1988. The rebuilding work began ... and was completed in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics. ...

in cross-country skiing for the 1936 Summer Olympics, but decided to ... *Vanishing Africa (Harmony 1st American edition, 1988, ISBN 0-517-54914-X) ...

was also an athlete in the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics (seventh in the ... *At Home (1988) ISBN 978-0679725282 *A View From The Diner's Club ...

the most famous performer of the time, and in 1988 he performed at a concert broadcast worldwide in conjunction with the Seoul Summer Olympic Games ...

The summer climate is cool in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and higher ... New York hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, the Games ...

continuously occupied since 1992. On May 9, 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament ... March, with rainfall maximums in spring and summer. Canberra has a ...

In 1988, Calgary became the first Canadian city to host the Olympic ... seventeen years between 1971 (403,000) and 1988 (657,000) and another 335 ...

to 68°–77°F (20°–25°C) in July (summer). The warmest region is the ... Trstena was a gold medallist at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and also ...

York: Penguin Books, 2003), 441. By the summer of 1933, this process was ... Two major displays of Nazi German art and culture were at the 1936 ...

particularly in spring and early summer, and the occasional tropical ... were only 350 families residing there in 1988. It was run down and dangerous ...

détente, and Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics and began to rebuild American ... and two sisters. His brother, Billy (1937–1988), would cause some political ...

throughout the country. However, that summer, the 2006 Lebanon War between ... and abroad. Among the most famous are the summer festivals at Baalbek, Beiteddine ...

In 1927 at age 16, Reagan took a summer job as a lifeguard in Lowell ... by the U.S. athletes at the Los Angeles Olympics that summer, which he himself ...

performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary ... * Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting ...

Few words are as politically or emotionally charged as terrorism. ... * The 1972 Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ...

and supported the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. But, ... a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988. In 2000, he was awarded the ...

and Cascade mountains. In the spring and summer, a high pressure anticyclone ... The Cascade Range forms a larger barrier than the Olympics and has ...

and the Opening Ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics was presided over ... NY: Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 978-0938311027. ...

B. Hayes (University Press of Kansas, 1988, ISBN 0700603387), 10. ... *Miller Anderson—Diving 1948 Summer Olympics Silver Medal; 1952 ...

from time to time with 90°F in the summer and below 0°F temperatures ... endangered North Atlantic Right Whales summer on feeding grounds in Cape ...

which an inner core has been constructed.Jennings (1988: 3; 10) ... of metal and to allow even cooling.Jennings (1988: 11) Historically ...

Summer tends to be short, hot, humid, and rainy because of the southern ... North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics in neighboring Seoul ...

east function as barriers to Arctic air. Summer produces the other extreme ... include the spring Bear Dance and the summer Sun dance. ...

relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955—was different, ... The summer of 1963 was also eventful. On June 11, George Wallace, ...

as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer (1958), and as Mabel Claremont ... After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ...

and decided not to run for reelection in 1988. She picked Pelosi as her ... did not call for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics that were held in ...

which have plagued Armenia. In December 1988, the second largest city in ... Karabakh. Armenia suffered the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. Gorbachev ...

Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 with the loss of 270 lives ... Humanity Campaign for the 2006 Winter Olympics, Mandela appeared in a televised ...

season is concurrent with the onset of the summer East Asian Monsoon in May ... After the death of Chiang Ching-kuo in January 1988, Lee Teng-hui ...

World Bank. An initial privatization program (1988-1993) and the development of an export processing zone (EPZ) regime in the early 1990s were key ...

only a 5°C difference between winter and summer median temperatures. Although ... However, many sources claimed that in 1988 the party resorted to electoral ...

Eventually, in the summer of 1946, Philip asked the King for his daughter ... Britannia, during which he opened the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and ...

only two distinct seasons - winter and summer—spring and autumn are usually ... Kamchatka Peninsula, and spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout ...

questioned that he was Greek (the ancient Olympics then were open only to pure ... The Persian army was gathered in Asia Minor in the summer and autumn ...

averages 32°F (0°C), and the July (summer) temperature averages about ... Herzegovina can be oppressively hot in summer. In Mostar, near the ...

the highest levels of precipitation. In summer, temperatures in the south ... 4 percent in 1994 for the first time since 1988, and 2.5 percent in 1995. ...

near sea level, has the warmest July (summer) temperatures, averaging ... Independent political parties appeared in 1988. In 1989, Milosevic, with ...

of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language. He ... 0394623630), 5–23. Mountain Language (1988) is about the Turkish suppression ...

between two large mountain ranges, the Olympics and the Cascades. The climate ... the Washington Mutual Tower, completed in 1988, is Seattle's second ...

American Chess Quarterly 1 (1) (Summer 1961): 3. This variation has ... In 1988, Fischer filed for 4,884,255 for a new type of digital chess ...

in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988. ... song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment ...

to the polar region and ensures that in summer the night skies of the city ... (i.e. colder in winter and warmer in summer) because of its more eastern ...

to visit nationalist groups during the summer of 1921 and in his absence ... World War II. In 1936, Berlin hosted the Summer Olympics, which were opened ...

Kádár, Hungarian head of state from 1956 to 1988]] Between November ... At the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, the Soviet handling of the Hungarian ...

However, the last straw may have been the controversial elections ... to flooding problems, especially during the summer. [https://www.nytimes ...

Black Death first reached England in the summer of 1348. The Black Death ... Education follows the national curriculum, which was introduced in ...

added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988.url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/456 ... 44|C|F|0. Rain occasionally falls in the summer, mainly during thunderstorms ...