Carlo Janka

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The Origin of the Winter Olympics

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10 Unusual Sports

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10 Great Sports Rivalries

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7 Unsportsmanlike Sportsmen

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How Are Sports Chosen for the Olympics?

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Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

Do Camels Store Water in Their Humps?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.

7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Born	October 15, 1986 (age 38) • Switzerland
Awards And Honors	Winter Olympic Games • World Cup (2010)

Jean-Claude Killy

French skier

Marie-Thérèse Nadig

Swiss skier

Lindsey Vonn

American skier

Vreni Schneider

Swiss skier

Tina Maze

Slovenian skier

Anton Sailer

Austrian skier

Hermann Maier

Austrian skier

Janica Kostelić

Croatian skier

Anja Pärson

Swedish skier

Picabo Street

American skier

Alberto Tomba

Italian skier

Rosi Mittermaier

German skier

Ingemar Stenmark

Swedish skier

Hanni Wenzel

Liechtensteiner skier

Franz Klammer

Austrian skier

Nancy Greene Raine

Canadian skier

Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Austrian skier

Bode Miller

American skier

Aksel Lund Svindal

Norwegian skier

Benjamin Raich

Austrian skier

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Assorted sports balls including a basketball, football, soccer ball, tennis ball, baseball and others.

American Sports Nicknames

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