The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm had the first Olympics poster to officially advertise ... the image depicts a Greek athlete sent to announce the Olympiad, and to request the end of hostilities ...

The Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, for whose design Jan Wils won the gold medal/Image: Dutch Institute of Military History at Wikimedia Commons Jean Jacoby was a Luxembourgish painter; Alex Diggelmann, a ...

A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple ... Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ...

For nearly 1,000 years, the Greek games featured ... of these "other" summer games is to promote broad aspects of Gallic culture, but also to revive the little-known Olympic tradition of including ...

the driving force behind the modern revival of the games. Actress Mary Mina, playing high priestess, hands an olive branch to the first torch bearer, Greek olympic gold medalist Stefanos Douskos.

Take a close look at the content of Vergil’s Book V and you will witness the “Lusus Troiae,” a knockoff of the Greek Olympics. First, remember that the Olympic Games purportedly began in 776 ...

"Our best wishes for a successful staging of the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris," said the president of the Greek Olympic Committee, Spyros Kapralos, to the president of the French organizing ...

Stockholm 1912: the first Olympics poster The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm had the first ... the image depicts a Greek athlete sent to announce the Olympiad, and to request the end of ...