Dynamic Directory - October 29, 2020

The Ancient Olympics included equestrian events, beginning circa 680 B.

Lina Radke, a German-born athlete, refused to be intimidated by cultural limitations on females participating in sports.

When the discus was part of an Ancient-Olympic event, a votive discus was sometimes created to herald stellar performances of the athletes.

Huck Finn is sceptical about many things, but he is also a realist.

This image depicts a vase on which an ancient Greek artist has created the story of Hippodameia and Pelops.

This image depicts a plaster cast which copies a marble statue of Oinomaos, the father of Hippodameia.

The ruins of the running track, the stadion, are very close to the center of the town of Olympia.

Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology.

After he leaves the house, around midnight, Huck Finn joins his buddy, Tom Sawyer.

Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first found him guilty of the charges, then condemned him to death.

Huck Finn has a father who beats him.

Huck Finn's father - whom his boy calls "Pap" - has not been in his son's life for awhile.

When she was just a child, Katharina von Bora was sent to live in a convent (at Brehna, north of Leipzig) after her mother died. She later became the wife of Martin Luther.

Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.