World History
Archaeology Magazine has a timely themed collection of essays up at Ancient Olympics Guide. It provides good coverage of the ancient Olympics by leading academics. It also includes articles about the games at Nemea and ancient Rome as well as a guide to the modern Olympic games in Beijing.
A few articles include:
Winning at Olympia
Myths about the Olympic Games
Reviving Nemea's Games
Perspectives from Beijing
- The 1936 Liechtenstein Flag Olympic Incident
The 1936 Olympic Games are well known for many historical reasons including Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, German nationalism, and palatable tensions which would lead to World War Two. However, a microstate in Europe was also deeply impacted. The consequences...
- John Titor, Proven Hoax
Put a fork in him, the John Titor story has now been proven to be a hoax. Almost two years ago, I posted John Titor, Fake Time Traveller. That post now has 26 comments on it and I had to reject dozens of others who continued to irrationally claim that...
- The Real Story Of The Ancient Olympic Games
The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? From...
- Noredink
Yesterday I took part in a webinar with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. One of the panelists was Jeff Scheur who taught for eight years before creating NoRedInk which lets students play games to improve their grammar and writing....
- The Ancient Olympics
This is a very interesting and fairly short overview of the ancient Olympics from the National Geographic magazine covers everything from why the athletes wore nothing at all, the opening ceremony, the origin of the Olympics and the female Olympics. ...
World History
Ancient Olympics Games
Archaeology Magazine has a timely themed collection of essays up at Ancient Olympics Guide. It provides good coverage of the ancient Olympics by leading academics. It also includes articles about the games at Nemea and ancient Rome as well as a guide to the modern Olympic games in Beijing.
A few articles include:
Winning at Olympia
Myths about the Olympic Games
Reviving Nemea's Games
Perspectives from Beijing
- The 1936 Liechtenstein Flag Olympic Incident
The 1936 Olympic Games are well known for many historical reasons including Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, German nationalism, and palatable tensions which would lead to World War Two. However, a microstate in Europe was also deeply impacted. The consequences...
- John Titor, Proven Hoax
Put a fork in him, the John Titor story has now been proven to be a hoax. Almost two years ago, I posted John Titor, Fake Time Traveller. That post now has 26 comments on it and I had to reject dozens of others who continued to irrationally claim that...
- The Real Story Of The Ancient Olympic Games
The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? From...
- Noredink
Yesterday I took part in a webinar with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. One of the panelists was Jeff Scheur who taught for eight years before creating NoRedInk which lets students play games to improve their grammar and writing....
- The Ancient Olympics
This is a very interesting and fairly short overview of the ancient Olympics from the National Geographic magazine covers everything from why the athletes wore nothing at all, the opening ceremony, the origin of the Olympics and the female Olympics. ...