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    known as Athens 1896 (Greek: Αθήνα 1896), were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic Committee...
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  • The First Olympics: Athens 1896 is a 1984 American television miniseries produced by Columbia Pictures Television for broadcast by the NBC network. This...
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    At the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympiad, twelve athletics events were contested. A total of 25 medals (12 silver for winners, 13 bronze...
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    miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896, and also appeared in two episodes of the series Crime Story. Caruso featured in the music video for the song "Voyage...
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  • wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896. He had starring roles in several other TV movies...
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    Panathenaic Stadium (category Venues of the 1896 Summer Olympics)
    refurbished, it hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the first modern Olympics in 1896 and was the venue for 4 of the 9 contested sports. It was...
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    The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital of Greece, from...
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    The Zappas Olympics (Greek: Ζάππειες Ολυμπιάδες), simply called Olympics (Greek: Ολύμπια, Olympia) at the time, were a series of athletic events held...
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    Louis Jourdan (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Gigi. He played the role of French educator, historian and Baron, Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), in The First Olympics: Athens 1896, a May 1984 NBC...
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    David Ogden Stiers (category Deaths from bladder cancer in the United States)
    Sloane in the NBC miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896 for which he received another Emmy nomination. Beginning in 1985, Stiers made his first of eight...
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    Bill Travers (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    and Poachers", an episode of To the Manor Born (1980). In The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) he and McKenna played the parents of Edwin Flack. One of...
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    the first modern Olympic marathon gold medalist in 1896, Spyros Louis. The stadium served as the main stadium during the 2004 Summer Olympics and the...
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    and director. He is the son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. On screen, he is best known for appearing in the third series of the ITV drama series Robin...
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  • and also marked the first time Athens hosted the Games since their first modern incarnation in 1896 as well as the return of the Olympic games to its birthplace...
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    Honor Blackman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    1983) as Juno / Empress Eugénie The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984, TV Mini-Series) as Ursula Schumann Minder on the Orient Express (1985, TV Series)...
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    in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the "Second International Olympic Games in Athens" by...
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    Gayle Hunnicutt (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    Holmes ("A Scandal In Bohemia", 1984) as Irene Adler The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (TV miniseries, 1984) as Mary Sloane A Woman of Substance (TV miniseries...
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    Spyridon Louis (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics)
    Λούης), was a Greek water carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Following his victory, he was celebrated...
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  • (shared with lyricists Wayne Kaatz and Tom Ruegger), 1991 The First Olympics: Athens 1896: Part 1, Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series...
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  • the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, an unofficial football event was held on 12 April between two representative teams of Greece and Denmark at the Podilatodromio...
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  • Rolf Saxon (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    he was nominated for the Fringe First Award. Critics praised Saxon's performance as Victor Franz in The Price play, earning him the Best Actor in A Leading...
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    (August 20, 2024). "First Look at Batman VR Game Arkham Shadow Gameplay, Voice Cast Revealed gamescom 2024". IGN. Archived from the original on August...
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    Pierre de Coubertin (category Presidents of the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games)
    Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the second, the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Coubertin had originally opposed the choice of Greece...
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  • Robert Addie (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    playing the role of Sir Guy of Gisburne in the 1980s British television drama series Robin of Sherwood. Addie was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the son...
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    1928 games. Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896. Early competitions included some events now regarded...
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    Shannon Tweed (category Playboy Playmates of the Year)
    the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants in the episode "20,000 Patties Under the Sea", which also featured Gene Simmons as a guest. The first major...
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    Alex Hyde-White (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Universal Pictures at age 18, his first television job was one line – "leave my mother alone" – spoken to star Jack Klugman on the television series Quincy M...
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    Summer and Winter Olympics. By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900...
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  • Kevork Malikyan (category Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom)
    foreign language’ class. In the series Malikyan played Maximilian (Max) Papandrious, a Greek shipping worker from Athens. The show was very successful and...
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  • Benedict Taylor (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
    18 April 1960) is a British actor. Taylor was born in Hampstead, London, the eldest of six children of father, Richard, a documentary film maker, and...
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