HISTORY OF SWIMMING Competitive swimming in Britain started around 1830‚ mostly using breaststroke. Swimming was part of the first modernOlympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1908‚ the world swimming association‚ Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)‚ was formed. Ancient times 10‚000-year-old rock paintings of people swimming were found in the Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura in southwestern Egypt. These pictures seem to show breaststroke or dog paddle‚ although it is also possible that the
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York State Prison following uprising. 1972 President Nixon visits China and re-elected in near-landslide‚ but Democrats win majority in both houses of Congress. U.S. Supreme Court effectively bans capital punishment as cruel and unusual. British anthropologist Richard Leakey discovers 2.5 million year-old human skull in Kenya. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dies after serving for 48 years. Terrorists kill two Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Bobby Fischer wins world chess title
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Speedo innovation: Swimwear companies have invested millions designing high-performance suits for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster? Following the 2004 Athens Olympics‚ officials at swimwear giant Speedo had good reason to celebrate: Athletes clad in their latest suits at the time‚ called Fastskin FSII‚ won 46 medals in the pool. Yet when the company ’s in-house design team‚ Aqualab‚ gathered soon after the games at company headquarters in Nottingham‚ Britain
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Terrorism is not a Muslim Monopoly Kamlesh Kumar Singh Research Scholar Deptt. of Sociology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 Email-kamleshsingh206@gmail.com M.N. - 09369240262‚ 09026399178 Abstract “All Muslims may not be terrorists‚ but all terrorists are Muslims”. This comment‚ frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty‚ if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. First there is nothing new about terrorism. The term
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enormously humiliating. The effect of the Six Day war was a significant aspect which led to dramatic events in Europe and Middle East. Civil war in Jordan and Palestinian expulsion to Syria‚ hijacks‚ formation of Black September and its massacre in Munich during 1972
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John Arias Professor Meritz Composition 1 12/12/12 Is ‘Doping’ in Sports Really ‘Doping‘? Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport‚ yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing
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One Day in September Watching the movie “One Day in September” helped me remember an unforgettable attack. “One Day in September”‚ shows the attack on September 5‚ 1972.The attack was a bloody disaster. There were deaths of people who will never be forgotten. September 5‚ 1972 changed a lot for the Olympics. On September 5‚ 1972‚ a group of terrorist from Germany went on a crucial mission. The group was called Black September. They kept their identity hidden. Many believed they attacked for political
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Final assignment: 2010/2011 | Persons with disability & Sport | Globalization of World politics | | | 07/06/2011 | | History of the minority group: persons with disability “Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements‚ senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with‚ or prevent‚ normal day-to-day activities.” There are over 600 million people in the world
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stroke. 1896-In 1896 the Olympic Games were held in Greece in the city of Athens. Swimming was included and there were four swimming contests held. They were: 100 m‚ 100 m for sailors‚ the 500 m and the 1200 m competitions. Hungary’s Alfred Hajos won the first gold medal in the history of swimming in the 100 m freestyle and the 1200 m race. Paul Neumann from Austria won the 500 m event. A Greek sailor named Ioannis Malokinis won the 100 m for sailors. 1900-In 1900 the Olympic Games were held in Paris
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war broke Hitler was in Munich at that time‚ which make him sign up and fight throughout the war. He entered politics in Munich in 1919. Hitler views were: Anti-Semitism and racial supremacy Lebensraum and Versailles Anti-democracy Führrprinzip –Nazi party and Germany to be dominated by the one powerful leader‚ the führer. Hermann Göring First world war fighter pilot hero. He became a close ally of Hitler in 1922. He played an important part in the Munich putsch in 1923 and became
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