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- 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 ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- Seoul hosted the 1988 Olympic Games as well as the 1988 Paralympic ... *[[Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg|20px]] Tokyo, Japan (1988) ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- At the 2020 Summer Olympics, the athlete Hugues Fabrice Zango won ... ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1988. ISBN 0881333476 ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, North Korea still ... usually pass over South Korea in late summer, especially in August, and ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- announced its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics Games. ... Busan is the so-called summer capital of Korea since it attracts tourists ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- the umbrella of Project Skywater from 1964-1988. The sponsored projects were ... China to force rain ahead of Olympics.] Retrieved August 24, 2007. ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- . 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 ...74 KB (11,022 words) - 16:07, 31 October 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Beijing was awarded the hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. Preparations for ... , with 75 percent of that taking place during the summer. ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...95 KB (13,365 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- #039;s improved performance at the 1988 Summer Olympics), prohibitions of ... methodology and conclusions (Pope and Katz 1988). Many scientists and medical ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- *Walter Byers 1951-1988 *Dick Schultz 1988-1993 *Cedric Dempsey 1993-2002 *Myles Brand 2003- ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- rainfall, with most of it falling in the summer (between December and April ... Democracy was re-established in 1988 when the current Federal Constitution ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- In 1990, Atlanta was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympics ... * Stone, Clarence N. 1989. Regime politics: governing Atlanta, 1946 ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- Average winter and summer high temperatures across Canada vary depending ... sports are ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer). [https://laws ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...69 KB (11,304 words) - 17:15, 10 February 2024
- policies similar to Park's until the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. However, slowly, Park's economic achievements, patriotism, frugality and ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- Railway Station. The station was rebuilt in 1988. The rebuilding work began ... and was completed in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics. ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- in cross-country skiing for the 1936 Summer Olympics, but decided to ... *Vanishing Africa (Harmony 1st American edition, 1988, ISBN 0-517-54914-X) ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- 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 ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- continuously occupied since 1992. On May 9, 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament ... March, with rainfall maximums in spring and summer. Canberra has a ...37 KB (5,453 words) - 19:15, 25 November 2023
- The summer climate is cool in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and higher ... New York hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, the Games ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- particularly in spring and early summer, and the occasional tropical ... were only 350 families residing there in 1988. It was run down and dangerous ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- détente, and Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics and began to rebuild American ... and two sisters. His brother, Billy (1937–1988), would cause some political ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- throughout the country. However, that summer, the 2006 Lebanon War between ... and abroad. Among the most famous are the summer festivals at Baalbek, Beiteddine ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- 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 ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary ... * Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- Few words are as politically or emotionally charged as terrorism. ... * The 1972 Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- and Cascade mountains. In the spring and summer, a high pressure anticyclone ... The Cascade Range forms a larger barrier than the Olympics and has ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- and the Opening Ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics was presided over ... NY: Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 978-0938311027. ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- B. Hayes (University Press of Kansas, 1988, ISBN 0700603387), 10. ... *Miller Anderson—Diving 1948 Summer Olympics Silver Medal; 1952 ...40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- which an inner core has been constructed.Jennings (1988: 3; 10) ... of metal and to allow even cooling.Jennings (1988: 11) Historically ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- Summer tends to be short, hot, humid, and rainy because of the southern ... North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics in neighboring Seoul ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- east function as barriers to Arctic air. Summer produces the other extreme ... include the spring Bear Dance and the summer Sun dance. ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955—was different, ... The summer of 1963 was also eventful. On June 11, George Wallace, ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer (1958), and as Mabel Claremont ... After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- 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 ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- which have plagued Armenia. In December 1988, the second largest city in ... Karabakh. Armenia suffered the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. Gorbachev ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- World Bank. An initial privatization program (1988-1993) and the development of an export processing zone (EPZ) regime in the early 1990s were key ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
