This Icelandic city's marathon has had a good run; it had its 20th anniversary in 2003
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Ultramarathon - Wikipedia  An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the ... Many countries around the world have their own ultrarunning organizations, often the ... IAU World Best Performances[edit] ... New York City, USA ..... Japan had its first 100 km event in 1987 as Lake Saroma Ultramarathon and...
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WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS)? Part 5: Central Park ...  The great 15th-century explorer/navigator has not one but two statues in and around ... until the massive 'twin towers' of the Time Warner Center replaced it in 2003. ... in Chicago, at which architectural ideas for the 20th Century were proposed, ..... by its 30th anniversary, the Marathon had grown to over 25,000 runners from...
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Reykjavik Marathon - RunninginIceland.com  The 33rd Reykjavik Marathon will be held on August 20th 2016. The Reykjavik Marathon is Iceland's biggest running event by far and a big celebration for all Icelandic runners, from the ones completing their first race up to the professionals. Everybody who ... We've had great weather in recent years though! The distances...
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jeopardy/3125_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Comments: 2003 College Championship semifinal game 2. ..... STARTS WITH "R" | This Icelandic city's marathon has had a good run; it had its 20th anniversary...
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2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 2000 Summer Olympic Games officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and ... The Australian city of Melbourne had lost out to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer ... Beijing lost its bid to host the games to Sydney in 1993, but was later ... It has been estimated that the economic impact of the 2000 Olympics was that...
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Things don't start when you show up and stop when you leave #1 ...  Feb 24, 2010 ... Poorly Photoshopped river = rough line of old school Liffey-Poddle ... They more than likely date from the mid-to-late ninth century. That's the 800s. Point 9: The Vikings founded Dublin in the 800s to have somewhere ... (not that Joyce probably knew how old, specifically) city in literature. ... Name (required).
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SYDNEY 2000 - MARATHON - A First Running Gold for Japanese ...  Sep 24, 2000 ... She became the first marathoner to win a gold medal for Japan. ... Sohn was actually Korean, however, and his country was occupied by Japan at the time. ... Ari Ichihashi and Simon -- and she was clearly intent on winning. ... during today's women's marathon, which was won by Japan's Naoko Takahashi.
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Destination: Iceland - CNN.com  There's a simple reason for the island's fickle and fiery moods: location, location, location. ... The first settler, Ingolfur Arnarson, fled Norway 1,100 years ago to escape a ... "He actually named the city Reykjavik which means 'smoky bay,'" said mayor ... "That was because we have hot springs here in Reykjavik and he saw the...
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Life on the run isn't just for the guilty in Running On Empty  Watch ...  Aug 13, 2013 ... Running On Empty (1988) ... Running On Empty has several affecting scenes, beginning with one ... year, though Lahti was sadly overlooked for an Oscar nomination. .... One of my favorite roles of his was the 10 minutes or so he played ... And turns out, most people have never heard of it, I've discovered.
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Paavo Nurmi - King of Runners - Great Olympic Heroes, Stories and ...  Paavo Nurmi is known to be one of the greatest runners that the world has ever seen. ... Paavo Nurmi gained recognition in the Olympic Games at Antwerp in 1920. ... Olympics, Paavo Nurmi was the undisputed king of long distance running. ... Paavo Nurmi had set world records in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters...
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Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever  Apr 20, 2015 ... Everyone knows someone who's run the marathon. ... did not sanction the participation of women in distance running. ... She was intrigued and, after working her way up to a run of 25-plus ... I knew that she had run and run really well. ... 740 other entrants who lined up at Hopkinton, Mass. on April 19, 1967.
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Orthodox Christians in North America 1000 Years Ago - ROCA.org  Setting sail in their distinctive high-prowed "long ships" in search of timber, fish and ... When Bjarni Herjolfsson returned to Iceland from Norway, where he had been ... Here in Greenland in 1001, Leif Ericsson first heard of Bjarni Herjolfsson's ... with the good things they found in it, calling it Vinland" or "Vineland the Good,"...
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J! Archive - Show #3882, aired 2001-06-19  In 1985 this American middle-distance runner married discus ... Finland's Olympic Stadium prominently features a statue of this distance runner...
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Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's Marathon ...  Defending champion [Rosa Mota] won at Tokyo in November 1988, defeating ... Poland's [Wanda Panfil] also came to the fore, winning the Nagoya race in 1990, ... only her second win, although she had finished second to Rosa Mota at the 1990 European Championships. ... 4, Sachiko Yamashita, 27, Japan, JPN, 2-36:26.
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Magnificent Monument in Reykjavik - Review of The Statue of Leif ...  Aug 19, 2016 ... The Statue of Leif Eiriksson: Magnificent Monument in Reykjavik - See 25 ... In front of the Icelandic capital's largest church, the Hallgrimskirkja, stands ... that the statue was a gift from the people of the United States in 1930, on the ... also taking the the to admire the magnificent monument to Leif Eriksson.
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J! Archive - Show #3070, aired 1997-12-26  (Alex: We will show you the logo, you have to identify the team, not the city.) .... Iceland's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, was born in this capital city...
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Why is a marathon 26.2 miles? - Ask History  Oct 29, 2014 ... The marathon may have ancient roots, but the foot race's official length of 26.2 miles wasn't established until the 20th century. ... For the next few Olympics, the length of the marathon remained close to 25 miles, but at the 1908 Games in ... of the royal box at the Olympic stadiuma distance that happened...
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dissertationes philologiae scandinavicae universitatis tartuensis 1  Jun 27, 2005 ... IN THE VIKING AGE AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ...... Wrth & Tnno Jonuks & Axel Kristinsson (Eds.). ..... flexible approach than many other previous cultural-historical ...... From Sweden more than 2500 rune stones are known. ..... which commemorates men who have fallen abroad.67 All these.
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1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games was a Winter Olympics multi-sport event celebrated in and around Calgary, Alberta, Canada between February 13 and 28, 1988. The host city was selected in 1981 over Falun, Sweden and Cortina ... It was the first Winter Olympics awarded to Canada, and the second games...
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Boston Marathon Bombings - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Boston Marathon Bombings, including ... the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, the world's oldest annual marathon. ... Day, celebrated on the third Monday in April, is a legal holiday in Massachusetts. .... The 118th running of the marathon will take place the following week, on April 21.
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Althing | Icelandic government | Britannica.com  Sep 20, 2016 ... Founded at Thingvellir in southwestern Iceland c. 930, the Althing is one of the oldest national parliaments in the ... People have swallowed elixirs, inhaled vapors, and applied ointments in the name of healing for millennia.