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Krüger, Arnd “Wenn die Olympiade vorbei, schlagen wir die Juden zu Brei!”
Gretel Bergmann. 2009
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Students for Free Tibet say that this responsibility to speak up is "the torch" that each athlete will carry into the stadiums of this 2008 Olympiade in Beijing.
ISN'T THE BEIJING OLYMPICS OUR PARTY, TOO? SHOULDN'T WE SPEAK OUT?--A View from India 2008
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So important an event is it considered by the Bassoutos that they date events from one of these observances, as the Romans dated events from a certain consulship, or the Greeks from an Olympiade.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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One evening, as she was leaving the theatre where Metastasio's Olympiade had been performed, I heard her say, --
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 25: Russia and Poland Giacomo Casanova 1761
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One evening, as she was leaving the theatre where Metastasio's Olympiade had been performed, I heard her say, --
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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In Los Angeles, two giant works from 1986 stand outside the Downtown YMCA: "Handstand," a depiction of a muscular young man doing just that, and "Olympiade," which shows three female racers in stride, ponytails flapping.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Artists who have received funding for events that will form part of the so-called "Cultural Olympiade" to be held during the games have been warned not to critize the Olympics, the government or VANOC (the Vancouver Organizing Committee).
Crooks and Liars 2009
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Libri noni hiiloriam a nova Olympiade inl• Poiybium. tium cepiil*e, patet ex IX.i. eamque effe Olympiadem cxLiii. ordo temporum rerumque docet.
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Cum igitur multx gentes Legatos ad ipfos mitterent, & Abarin ab Hy - perboreis Legatum tertia Olympiade eo ve - niife dicunt.
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Metastasio’s Olympiade had been performed, I heard her say, — “The music of that opera has given the greatest pleasure to everyone, so of course I am delighted with it; but it wearies me, nevertheless.
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