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Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1948 Olympics, books

Some neat info on the state of the world last time London hosted the Olympics (1948) and a very interesting female athlete to boot.

Judging books by their covers - a six year old guesses what classic books are about by looking at the covers

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Labels: books, history, olympics

Monday, July 30, 2012

olympics, olympics, olympics, pandas

How to ship Olympic horses

A Nigerian rower finished in dead last to a roaring Olympic crowd, having only learned rowing 3 months earlier.

An Olympic swimmer had never been in an Olympic sized pool

Why pandas are terrible investments
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