Swimming pools did not become popular until the middle of the19th century. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards had been built in London, England. When themodern Olympic Gameswere launched in Athens, Greece, on April 5, 1896, swimming races were among the original events. Soon after...
Modern international arbitration was formally instituted in 1785, when Britain and the United States signed a treaty that provided a provision for arbitration of commercial disputes. The Jay Treaty served as a model for future trade agreements as the United States entered the global market. Today, ...
The year 2022 was a year of great importance in the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and our country. The Party successfully convened its 20th National Congress, during which it drew up an inspiring blueprint for building China into a modern socialist country in all respects. ...
Women were first allowed to participate in 1900 at the second modern Olympic Games. Winter Games Begun The winter Olympic Games were first held in 1924, beginning a tradition of holding them a few months earlier and in a different city than the summer Olympic Games. Beginning in 1994, the ...
The Los Angeles Rams were unhappy with their stadium situation in Anaheim. So, in the spring of 1995 they loaded up their truck and moved to Missouri: collecting millions and millions of Missouri dollars and trinkets along the way. The novelty of the rich and arrogant cartel better known as...
“In the modern age, fans don’t just want to support their favorite brands; they want to establish emotional connections with them. Their fandom is not consumptive, but rather performative, active, and social. Subcultures of intense fandom are centered on a set of activities — pilgrimages, ...
There is nothing inherently wrong with Moneyball. The best metrics can provide different angles from which to appreciate the games we enjoy. But what is lost when these stats and this way of thinkingbecomethe game—when we mistake Jeopardata forJeopardy!? InExistentialism and the Modern Predicamen...
At Delphi, there was a tradition that Apollo left to live among the Hyperboreans during the month when Dionysus manifested among the people at this festival, at which there was much singing of popular songs by all classes in Greek society – a tradition surviving in the modern European ...
You also get to finish the race in an Olympic stadium. This is the home of the modern day marathon. It was here in Athens, Greece that the modern day marathon race was created and introduced to the world at the first modern day Olympic Games in 1896. The Boston Marathon would not ...
The brutalisation of the forms of the Roman Games meant that the ideals of the ancient world were forgotten for more than 1500 years. The modern Olympic Games were resurrected in the 19th century. Inspired by the ancient Greek cult of health of body and spirit, they gave rise to a ...