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Top-Ten Places to Visit in Alberta

Perhaps one of the most overlooked places in Canada is Alberta. While most international visitors who come to visit Eastern Canada and the West coasts of B.C. Alberta has remained a quiet province. Alberta...

10 comments    travel vacation canada
Kalarippayattu83

Top 10 Deadly Martial Arts of the World

With Mixed Martial Arts fights and demonstrations slowly becoming a worldwide phenomenon, many have traveled the world to seek out the best martial arts and master the techniques. Military and police...

25 comments    health martial arts techniques
Winning is just part of the fun in competitive gymnastics83

Competitive Gymnastics

Its hard to believe that just a year ago, I had my evenings and weekends to spend at home and the rest of my family. Now that my daughter is on a team, competitive gymnastics takes between 12 and 36 hours...

10 comments    sports exercise olympics
Calgary Stampede83

Top Places to Visit In Calgary, Alberta

Most people will tell you that the best time to visit Calgary, Alberta is during Stampede Week. From July 6th through to the 15th the entire city goes cowboy. Everyone dusts off their favourite Stetsons and...

3 comments    travel garden canada
The 2010 Winter Olympics will feature a unique design of an inukshuk, a traditional stone sculpture used by Canada's Inuit people, as its official logo. The winning logo, called Ilanaaq (el la nawk), was designed by local graphic designers Elena Rive74

Top 10 Vancouver/Whistler Venues 2010

A sneak peak at the top 10 plus Vancouver/Whistler Venues for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Eyes and ears worldwide will focus on Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia when more than 5,000 athletes...

7 comments    games events olympics
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A Complete History of Greek Ancient Olympic Games and the Athletes

The ancient Olympic Games, known to us from ancient literature and art and from modern archaeology, were the oldest and most prestigious athletic competition of antiquity. The greatest writer of victory odes...

2 comments    education travel how
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Football's greatest players.Michel Platini

One of the great football playmakers the game has seen.His superb passing , skillful free kicks and decisive scoring instinct made the French international the star and heartbeat of every football team he...

0 comments    goals france olympic games
The Wright Flyer78

US History in The 20th Century: 1901 - 1920

This photo is of the Wright Flyer, 1903. The early 20th Century in America is uniquely interesting to me, because of the abundance of its new inventions and the role of my ancestors in advancing the nation to this point in history...

7 comments    education ohio michigan
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Olympic Games

More than 1,500 years after the ancient Greek Olympic Games came to an end, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin had a dream to bring the Games back to life. At a conference on international sport, held in...

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Olympic Champion, Doctor, Irish Tenor: Ronan Tynan

(public domain)After an accident in which my left foot was severed 50% from my leg at the ankle, the example of Ronan Tynan was one that reinforced my belief that despite what doctors said, I would not be...

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