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Parasailing

September 14th, 2006

What exactly is parasailing?

Paragliding while being towed by a boat

Surfers

September 14th, 2006

Known for its hippie lifestyle, Puerto Escondido is also home to the Mexican Pipeline, making it an attraction for the spoken sort of athletes.

Jean-Claude Killy

September 14th, 2006

Jean-Claude Killy became a star when he won the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events in his native country in 1968.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

September 14th, 2006

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a member of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and may have been involved in a 1979 hostage crisis. In June 2005, he was elected president of Iran.

In the Hall of the Mountain King

September 14th, 2006

“In the Hall of the Mountain King” is the fourth movement of the first suite of Grieg’s incidental music for play about a bitter boy Peer Gynt.

Pulcher

September 14th, 2006

The words “pulchritude” and “pulchritudinous” are descended from the Latin adjective “pulcher.” Naturally enough, this adjective means “beautiful“.

Akichi Kuboyama

September 14th, 2006

Fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama died from liver and blood damage, six months after exposure to what new weapon Hydrogen bomb.

Hepathetlon

September 14th, 2006

By the 1980s, the heptathlon had replaced the pentathlon as the women’s multi-event sport. Two more events are in the former than the latter.

Hammer not-hammer

September 14th, 2006

In the Olympic hammer throw, you’re not actually throwing a hammer, you are throwing a heavy steel ball attached to a wire rope.

Florence Griffith-Joyner

September 14th, 2006

Olympic legend, who was known for her long fingernails, died at age 38 in her sleep of cavernous angioma

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