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olympiad

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A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.

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After 1965 After Tokyo Olympiad Wada retired from screenwriting, and it marked a significant change in Ichikawa's films from that point onward. Source: Internet

An international math olympiad competition first held in Singapore in 2015 and over 13 countries participated from SASMO's 15 country partners. Source: Internet

For the 1994 Moscow Olympiad, he had a significant organizational role, in helping to put together the event on short notice, after Thessaloniki canceled its offer to host, a few weeks before the scheduled dates. Source: Internet

After a long day at the Olympiad, the players return to the hotel to talk about, what else, chess. Source: Internet

Bloom quoted in Bird. pg. 97 The first notice of Thorpe in the The New York Times was headlined "Indian Thorpe in Olympiad; Redskin from Carlisle Will Strive for Place on American Team." Source: Internet

By a complex formula (made so by the 0 reference point not falling on the border of an Olympiad), these codes correspond to 59 BC for the birth, 17 AD for the death. Source: Internet

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