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    The modern Olympic Games (OG; or Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques, JO) are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and...
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    Modern Games (foaled 17 April 2019) is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Ireland and trained in Great Britain, he was one of the best...
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    to participate. The games were always held at Olympia rather than moving between different locations like the modern Olympic Games. Victors at the Olympics...
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  • hosted the Games. Like the early games, the modern games had their challenges: for example, a decision on the sixth modern National Games in Ludhiana...
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    1732, and these were translated from Latin to English in 1811. All modern tafl games are based on the 1811 translation, which had many errors. New rules...
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    Athens 1896 (Greek: Αθήνα 1896), were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...
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    games dates to the ancient human past. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are...
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    Modern pentathlon is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games. Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin...
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  • Modern Warfare in 2019, Modern Warfare II in 2022, and Modern Warfare III in 2023. Infinity Ward have also developed two games outside of the Modern Warfare...
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  • movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on the player's input. Modern games often implement existing techniques such as pathfinding and decision...
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    cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated...
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  • securing the 2004 Games was based largely on the bid's appeal to human values, the history of the Games from the ancient to modern periods and the emphasis...
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    1896. It was the first Olympic Games held in the modern era. About 100,000 people attended for the opening of the games. The athletes came from 14 nations...
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    nations competed. 1972 marked the beginning of the modern archery competition at the Olympic Games. The events began to use standardized forms and many...
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    wide as they are thick, though games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles. Modern games may use unconventional non-tileable...
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    Board game (redirect from Board games)
    strategy games – e.g. chess, checkers, Go, reversi, tafl games, or modern games such as Abalone, Dameo, Stratego, Hive, or GIPF Alignment games – e.g. renju...
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  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a 2023 first-person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is the twentieth installment...
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    evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and modern games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. In the late 18th century...
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    players for the ball. These games are known to us through the Romans, though the names are Greek. The various modern games played with a ball or balls...
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    the clan that they represented.[citation needed] Some modern sources suggest more these games would originate from the deer hunts that the inhabitants...
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  • on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a relay system from Greece...
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    modes. Most modern console games and arcade games are designed so that they can be played by a single player; although many of these games have modes that...
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    state that the creator of the modern pentathlon was Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. One alternative view is provided...
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    nations that won medals the 1924 Games.   *   Host nation (France) Pierre de Coubertin—founder of the IOC & father of the modern Olympics movement—personally...
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    Pinball (redirect from Pinball games)
    in its modern form. By the 1930s, manufacturers were producing coin-operated versions of bagatelles, now known as "marble games" or "pin games". The table...
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    how to handle the case where the player received a "game over". More modern games with a heavier emphasis on storytelling are designed to allow the player...
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    including more modern versions of D&D, the attribute works with a skill to affect the overall outcome. There is no standard amongst role-playing games as to which...
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  • "Patriot Games" is the twenty-second episode of the sixth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 142nd episode overall. It originally...
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  • quality and complexity of the games. Modern games go much further than the original "Adventure" style, improving upon Infocom games, which relied extensively...
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  • tradition by calling upon all nations to observe the Truce during the modern Games. The Truce was revived by United Nations Resolution 48/11 of 25 October...
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