The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In…
Ozone acts as a powerful respiratory irritant at the levels frequently found in most of the nation's urban areas during summer months. Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest…
—Hope O'KeeffeSource: The National Endowment for the Arts “The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible…
Wild cards are added to a strict qualification system to encourage greater sports participation worldwide by Catherine McNiff Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards Related Links…
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(Encyclopedia) Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803–65, American naval officer, b. Bergen Point, N.J.; grandson of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. Appointed a midshipman in 1815, he saw his first active…
