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Who is the youngest person to have participated in the Olympics?

Loundras competed in the parallel bars for Greece in the team competition at the first modern Olympics. He was born Sept. 12, 1885. As there were only three teams competing in the event, Loundras' team, the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos, was guaranteed a medal. At the time of his death on Feb. 15, 1970, Loundras was the last surviving participant from the 1896 Athens Games.

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Was football or rugby invented first?

It is a popular belief among rugby enthusiasts that rugby was first invented around 1823 by a man named William Webb Ellis, according The Rugby School. The story suggests that Ellis was playing soccer but decided to pick up the ball with his hands and run. While this story does not have much evidence, even the rugby world title cup is called the "William Webb Ellis" trophy. William Ellis was allegedly a student at Rugby school, and the first official rules of rugby were written in 1845. Since then, the game has evolved and grown to even include international leagues.The first collegiate Americ..

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What are some Taekwondo forms?

Kibon Hyung is a 10-movement beginners form; it is often the first one new students learn. The Jase Hyung form uses 15 movements to introduce the student to various Taekwondo stances such as horse stance and back stance. The slightly more complex Chon-Ji form is also called the Heaven and Earth form. Advanced students of Taekwondo learn forms such as the Gae-Baek and Choong-Moo forms, which are named after specific warriors in Korean history.

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What is a rowing team called?

Rowing can be classified according to the number of oars used. In sweep rowing, the participants only use one oar called a sweep oar. Sculling, meanwhile, is a type of rowing where a crew uses two oars. Sweep rowing hosts competitions for pairs, fours or eights, while sculling has rowing events for singles, doubles or quads. The distance set for secondary schools is often at 1,500 meters while master crews race at 1,000 meters. The standard length for Olympic races is at 2,000 meters.

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What is the SVD Dragunov?

The Dragunov entered service with the Soviet Army in 1963 as the winner of a contest to design a long-range squad support weapon for ground troops. The rifle fires standard 7.62x54mmR ammunition as well as a special 7N14 round used for precision shooting. Several variants have been made including the SVU-A, SVDK, SWD-M, Al-Kadeshi and the Medved and Tigr hunting rifles.

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How do you set up a backgammon game?

Each player in a backgammon game has his own pair of dice and a dice cup at the set-up of the game. In addition, the game includes a "doubling" cube, which is marked with the numbers two, four, eight, 16, 32 and 64. The doubling cube is used to keep track of the game's current stake. The object of the game is to get all of the checkers into your home board, and then bear them off.

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Is John Madden dead?

At just 32 years old, Madden was named Oakland's head coach—the third-youngest coach in NFL history at the time. Madden coached the Raiders from 1969 to 1978, amassing a 103-32-7 record, seven division titles and a Super Bowl XI victory. Madden signed with CBS in 1980, before landing at Fox in 1994 and later joining Al Michaels for ABC's "Monday Night Football." Over the course of his broadcasting career, Madden garnered 13 Emmy awards for his work.

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What are some tools to navigate distances by boat?

To use dividers, place one point on the boat's starting point and the other at its final destination on the nautical chart. Keeping the dividers open to maintain the distance between the two points, move them over to the latitude scale on the nautical chart. Each minute on the chart is equal to one nautical mile on the water. To measure distances greater than the span of the dividers, draw a line to use as a guide and then walk the fully opened dividers to the final destination.

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Who is Wendy Graham?

Wendy Graham was born to Stedman's former wife Glenda and is his only child as of 2014. She tends to keep out of the public eye, and very little is known about her other than that she attended Wellesley College and has worked for InWobble. She may have gone into rehab in 2008 at Seabrook House in New Jersey after arriving drunk at an event called "Get Ready to Be Awakened" and cursing out Oprah in front of family members and friends.

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How do you check the schedule for curling on Sportsnet?

These sections of the Sportsnet website should determine when curling will be broadcast. However, if curling is not broadcast live, there is an additional section of the Sportsnet website where subscribers to the network can watch past events online. This section includes video clips from the Grand Slam of Curling. A second source to find the schedule for curling is on the Grand Slam of Curling website, which includes the TV schedule for the different curling events coming up throughout the season.

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