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	Austria. Who is Austria? What is Austria? Where is Austria? Definition of Austria. Meaning of Austria.
		Austria is bordered by Liechtenstein and Switzerland in the west, Italy and Slovenia in the south, Hungary and Slovakia in the east, and Germany and the Czech Republic in the north.
		After being conquered by the Romans, Huns, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Bavarians and Franks, Austria came under the rule of the Babenbergs from the 10th to the 13th century, which were succeeded by the Habsburgs.
		Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 (the "Anschluss").
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Austria (879 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1904 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St.
		Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.
		Considered the lesser of two evils by De Coubertin, St. Louis did repeat the mistakes made at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics (818 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2000_Summer_Olympics (1690 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
		The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
		The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/olympics.html (1093 words)

	1936 Summer Olympics. Who is 1936 Summer Olympics? What is 1936 Summer Olympics? Where is 1936 Summer Olympics? ...
		Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
		For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
		In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria by 4 to 2 in over-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/1936_Summer_Olympics (468 words)

	Olympic Games Summer and Winter locations and history of the games
		The Olympic Games took their name from the Greek city of Olympia and though there were important athletic competitions held in other Greek cities in ancient times, the Olympic Games were regarded as the most prestigious.
		Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks, but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch, Sidon and Alexandria.
		The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris, but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens, though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/olympic.htm (1007 words)

	OLYMPICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held.
		The first Olympic athlete to test positive for doping use was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete at the 1968 Summer Olympics, who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use.
		At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the first three were given wreaths as well as their medals.
	www.news-olympics.com (5265 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.html (911 words)

	OLYMPICS: 100 Years Of Change
		Perhaps the most blatant of Olympic hypocrisies upheld over the past 100 years was the nonnegotiable rule that each athlete had to swear that he was an amateur before he could compete.
		The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
		During the fiercest decades of the cold war, Olympic amateurism was almost as volatile an issue in the East-West conflict as political ideology.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960527/olympics.history.html (6130 words)

	Olympics Timeline
		The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
		Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey are not invited, having been on the wrong side of the Great War.
		The American Olympic Committee sends a hockey team, as does the American Hockey Association; the IOC bars either from being considered for a medal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/olympicstimeline.html (1349 words)

	1904 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the III Olympiad were held in 1904 in St.
		The Olympic competitions, spread out over four and a half months, were lost in the chaos of a World's Fair.
		Of the 94 events generally considered to have been part of the Olympic program, only 42 included athletes who were not from the United States.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/1904_summer_olympics (515 words)

	Timeline Olympics
		At the Olympics the game of golf was played for the last time due to lack of general appeal.
		Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.
		Olympic Committee expelled 6 members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but gave a vote of confidence to IOC pres.
	www.timelines.ws /subjects/Olympics.HTML (3992 words)

	The Summer Olympic Games History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first Modern Olympics were born two years later in Athens where 245 athletes from 14 nations competed in the ancient Panathenaic stadium.
		A highlight from the Olympics was that Spiridon Louis ran the first marathon race, which was the same course that the hero Pheidippides after the battle of Marathon in 490BC.
		The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, which were held in conjuntion with the centennial celebration of the Louisana Purchase.
	www.fccps.k12.va.us /gm/Webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html (3230 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
		The events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1145 words)

	History of the Modern Summer and Winter Olympics from Fanbay.net
		The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1932 were both held in the United States, in Los Angeles, CA and Lake Placid, NY, respectively.
		The Olympic facilities were as impressive as the cutting edge facilities that brought the Summer Olympics to a new level in Munich (1972).
		The Winter Olympics of 2002 were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001.
	www.fanbay.net /olympics/modern_history.htm (2739 words)

	Timeline 1902-1904
		1904 Mar 2, Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer of everything from telephones to the interior of the Boeing 707, was born.
		1904 Jun 4, Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist, was born.
		1904 Jul 12, Pablo Neruda (d.1973), Chilean poet and political activist (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), was born as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1902_1904.HTML (14501 words)

	1988 Winter Olympics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The XV Olympic Winter Games were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
		For the first time in history the Winter Olympics were extended to 16 days, the speed skating events were held indoors on a covered rink, the alpine events took place on artificial snow, and warm Chinook winds not only threatened to cancel events, but sent a ski jumper flying into a camera tower.
		Ever mindful of the financial disaster of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Calgary was financially successful, erasing the spectre of a second Canadian games at a loss.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/1988_Winter_Olympics (581 words)

	1900 Summer Olympics Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Games of the II Olympiad were held in 1900 in Paris, France.
		For his victory in long jump, he was allegedly punched in the face by his rival Meyer Prinstein, who had refused to take the final run due to his religious beliefs, as that run was scheduled for a Sunday.
		Charlotte Cooper (tennis) was the first woman to become Olympic champion.
	jaded.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1900_summer_olympics.html (174 words)

	LOGOs & MASCOTs
		Executives of the Japanese Olympic committee and national sports federations on 13th August 1997 by 29-17 in a secret ballot chose Osaka to become the country's candidate to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
		The U.S. Olympic Committee on 27th August 2002 selected New York and San Francisco as the U.S. finalists to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, while Houston and Washington, D.C., were eliminated as contenders.
		The Austrian Olympic committee on 2nd December 1997 chose Klagenfurt, capital of the Carinthia region (joint bid with Italy and Slovenia), to become the country's candidate to host the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.
	www.aldaver.com (2459 words)

	TSN.ca - Olympics - Canada's Sports Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Men's Olympic rosters will be announced by Dec. 22, the International Ice Hockey Federation announced Thursday at an Olympic meeting.
		The main concerns five months before the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics are security, Italy's strict anti-doping laws and low domestic interest.
		With 150 days to go until the opening ceremony, organizers of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin have sold almost half their ticket quota but are still struggling to generate interest among Italians.
	www.tsn.ca /olympics (230 words)

	1906 Olympics
		After disappointing receptions in Paris and St. Louis, the Olympic movement returned to Athens for the Intercalated Games of 1906.
		The mutual desire of Greece and Baron de Coubertin to recapture the spirit of the 1896 Games led to an understanding that the Greeks would host an interim games every four years between Olympics.
		Verner Järvinen, the first Finn to compete in the Olympics, won the Greek-style discus throw and placed second in the freestyle discus.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114388.html (285 words)

	Sites of the Summer and Winter Olympics - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		In reviving the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin fought all attempts to permanently locate the Games in any one place.
		When the Winter Olympics joined the Summer Olympics, organizers attempted to have both the Summer and Winter Games in the same calendar year and in the same region, if not the same nation.
		Starting in 1994, the Summer Games and Winter Games alternated every two years, rather than both being in the same year.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,25000018,00.html (121 words)

	Olympics
		This is an excellent source for anyone wanting to do a unit on the Olympics.
		The colors of the interlinked Olympic rings were chosen by the International Olympic Committe to represent the union of the 5 continents, Australia, Africa, America, Asia and Europe and further signify the meeting of the worlds athletes at the Olympic Games.
		The plain white background of the Olympic flag is symbolic of peace throughout the games.
	w3.byuh.edu /library/curriculum/Olympics/Olympics.htm (801 words)

	1904 Olympics
		Originally scheduled for Chicago, the Games were moved to St. Louis and held in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase.
		The program included more sports than in Paris, but with only 13 nations sending athletes, the first Olympics to be staged in the United States had a decidedly All-American flavor—over 500 of the 687 competitors were Americans.
		Little wonder the home team won 80 percent of the medals.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0114372.html (303 words)

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