Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

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Alex Decoteau gave everything to free the people of Belgium in the First World War. ...

Dame’s bells pealed throughout Paris for the first time since 2019 — a symbol of rebirth as it prepares to reopen next month.

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November 2024 - The official “Look of the Games”, including the sports pictograms, for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

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Bam Adebayo’s sneakers were trimmed in gold. Fitting, given what the night was about. Adebayo, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra and ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...