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 | | Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet, wrote a meditation on Greece in 1833 where he asked âWhere are your Olympic Games? |
 | | Your great festivals, your great theatres, the marble statues, where are they?â Soutsos shared his dream with the great benefactor Evangelos Zappas, a dream that quickly (in 1835) became a proposal presented to Ioannis Kolettis, then Minister of the Interior, an effort that led to the four Zappeion Olympiads in 1859, 1870, 1875 and 1888-9. |
 | | Almost simultaneously with Soutsos in Scotland Dr. William Penny Brooks founded the Wenlock Olympian society and organized a series of Olympic gatherings that included both athletics and arts. |
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