The homing type of these carried Olympic news in ancient times & U.S. Army messages in the 20th century
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Olympic Torch Relay - History, Highlights & Torch Bearers  From the lighting ceremony in Olympia to the latest Torch Relay news, learn about ... This was the case in the sanctuary of Olympia, where the Ancient Olympic Games ... Games and underlines the profound connection between these two events. .... sign form. Sign up for our newsletter.  Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
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21 Amazing Facts About Pigeons - PCRC  The first biblical reference to the pigeon (or dove) was in the Old Testament of the Bible ... and cities in Syria and Egypt were linked by messages carried by pigeons. ... this is why white doves are released at the start of the Olympic Games today. ... soul assumes the form of a bird (normally a pigeon) and therefore by feeding...
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jeopardy/1489_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MESSAGE CENTER | The homing type of these carried Olympic news in ancient times & U.S. Army messages in the 20th century | Pigeons. right: Ryan. Wrong:.
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History News Network | Reporting from Baghdad: Why Hasn't There ...  Mar 12, 2006 ... Mr. Miller is author of Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth ... Thus far, the Shia militia are not sufficiently organized, armed or .... or not a sixth-century document has ninth-century interpolations, that kind of thing. ..... The most obvious target for a homing missile in Iraq would be American airfields.
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Chinese Army to Enlist 10,000 Pigeons, Just in Case : TreeHugger  Mar 6, 2011 ... This tradition carried on through to the wars of the 20th century, with a few ... until the Chinese military began thinking about a 'worst-case' where these modern ... in communication systems, helping to deliver vital messages. ... The Fascinating Life and Times of the Humble Pigeon ... How old are pigeons?
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World War II, Letters, 1940-1946, (C0068) - The State Historical ...  Many of the letters are copies that have been retyped or rewritten in long hand. .... voting by service men, conditions aboard ship going overseas, prices ... Gowanda, New York, from the Pacific Theatre, Feb. 10, 1911. Expression of his ...... Comments on the situation while waiting to unload on the beach, ...... bride to USA.
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Remembering the First U.S. Olympic Team - History in the Headlines  Jul 20, 2012 ... The hundreds of U.S. Olympians headed to the Summer Olympic Games owe a debt of gratitude to the ones who started it all:
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Ancient Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states ... The ancient Olympics had fewer events than the modern games, and only freeborn .... The first games began as an annual foot race of young women in ... The Olympic Games were more important and more prestigious than the...
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Targeting Ho Chi Minh Trail | Nautilus Institute for Security and ...  During the Vietnam War, it served as the primary artery for moving troops, ... supplies such as communications equipment heading south through Laos and Cambodia. ... North Vietnam's ability to use the Ho Chi Minh Trail to re-supply their forces .... TNW can be used for interdiction of passes and trails, independently of tree...
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Homing pigeon - Wikipedia  The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) derived from the ... They are usually referred to as "pigeon post" or "war pigeon" during wars. ... They were used to proclaim the winner of the Olympics. ... for the first time, in 1436, though he imagined that the birds made round trips, out and back.
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150th Anniversary: 1851-2001; 150 and Counting: The Story So Far ...  Nov 14, 2001 ... As it marks its sesquicentennial this week, The New York Times ... with world, national, suburban and city news and a panoply of sports, business, arts, ... paid for the number of words they got into print, an arrangement that spared ... Adolph S. Ochs, a young newspaperman from Chattanooga, Tenn., saw it...
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Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international ... The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th and 21st centuries has ... Over 13,000 athletes compete at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in 33 ..... 21st-century games ..... The USOC opted for the former. During...
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U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 18951898 - Milestones in ...  Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized ... Hearst ultimately won this battle, but Pulitzer refused to give in and hired a new ... New York, an effort to defuse growing tensions between the United States and Spain.
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Getting the Message Through-Chapter 3  Apr 3, 2006 ... The Board of Ordnance and Fortification did not concern itself solely with .... for the growth of signaling in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. .... The following day one of his ships sighted a Spanish man-of war near the .... The 18th Volunteer Signal Company arrived on 24 August to assist with...
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Olympics Medals - Topend Sports  Since 1928, the front side of every Olympic Games medal was essentially the same: an image of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, the Olympic Rings, the ... which features the Greek Panathenaic Stadium (where the modern Olympics were...
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How The Centennial Olympics Transformed On-Campus Housing at ...  Just 20 years ago, the city of Atlanta was watching the same transition as the ... to host the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Centennial games of the modern Olympiad. Atlanta beat out favorite Athens, Greece, the home of the ancient Olympics and...
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The Olympic symbols  suggested by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914  Actual use of the rings and flag in ... This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are ... Games to be an international event from the time of their re- ... in 1913, the five rings appeared at the top of a letter written.
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Gymnastics 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Mar 10, 2016 ... Athens, 1896: The earliest years of Olympics gymnastics competition feature a variety of events, ... London, 1948: The 1948 gymnastics event must be moved indoors ... Two gymnasts become unwitting proxies for the conflict: Soviet .... in the team event since 1984 and the first at a fully-attended Olympics...
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Jack the lad | The Economist  Aug 12, 2010 ... Heeding the call of the wild ... And what a writer. ... high-calibre adventure novels, journalism (he served as a foreign correspondent for William Randolph Hearst during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05), and political...
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United States Navy's World of Work - NHHC  Apr 23, 2015 ... Abbreviations Used for Navy Enlisted Ratings  Abolishing the Spirit Rations in .... From Dam Neck to Okinawa: A Memoir of Antiaircraft Training in World War II .... Japanese Radio Communications and Radio Intelligence CinCPOA 5-45 ...... After 1843 no more warrants were issued but those who had been...
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Swifter, Higher, Stronger! - New Era Sept. 1981 - new-era  ... man's eternal quest for improvementCitius, Altius, Fortius: Swifter, Higher, Stronger. How well we are living up to that motto is demonstrated by both Olympic...