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Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games
Smithsonian Magazine· 24 hours agoIn 776 B.C.E., spectators gathered in Olympia, Greece, to watch a simple footrace. Thus began the...
Of Demigods and Minotaurs: Greeking Out in Athens and Crete
New York Times· 1 day agoNarrated by Kenny Curtis and the all-knowing, snake-loving “Oracle of Wi-Fi,” the show retells...
Trophy assets: Euro Championship and Copa America wins lift stock markets
The Globe and Mail· 4 days agoOf the last six Euro Championship winners, Greece, Spain and Italy’s bourses have all outperformed...
Eight photos that make us question what we see
BBC News· 4 days ago"The effect that scares me most is not that we'll be fooled by fake photos but that we'll ignore the real ones" – how photographers are dealing with...
‘It was magical:’ Remembering Greece’s miracle triumph at Euro 2004 | CNN
CNN.com· 4 days agoIt’s been 20 years since Greece shocked the world by winning Euro 2004. The players, then, who...
WNBA Star Diana Taurasi Has to Pack This One Thing for the 2024 Paris Olympics
Cosmopolitan via Yahoo Canada Sports· 5 days agoCosmo speaks to 20-year pro basketball vet Diana Taurasi about her eczema journey and how she's...
Anyone for obstacle course swimming? How some of the more unusual Olympic Games sports came to be -...
EconoTimes· 5 days agoThe Latin motto of the Olympic Games, which Baron Pierre de Coubertin – known as the father of the Olympics – resurrected at Athens in 1896, is “citius, altius, fortius – ...
Key dates in Cyprus’s post-independence history
Digital Journal· 6 days agoOn July 15, 1974, the military junta then in power in Athens engineered a coup in Cyprus seeking to end its independence and unite the island with Greece
Hope and resignation as Cypriots mark 50 years of division
Digital Journal· 6 days agoCyprus marks a half-century of division this month, with the unresolved conflict between Greek and...