紀元前７７６年、最初のオリンピック競技大会は、ギリシャ人の主神ゼウスをたたえるため、オリンポス山のふもとで開催された。の英語

In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.

In 776 B.C. the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks chief god, Zeus.

On May 10, the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for this summer's London Games was held at the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece.

a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake

The Olympic flame arrived in Canada from Greece by air and was carried by canoe by native Canadians to the British Columbia parliament buildings in Victoria.

The Portico of Qaysariyyeh is located to the north of the square, the Royal Mosque to the south, the Mosque of Sheikh Lotfollah to the east and the Ali Qapu Palace to the west.

In 2006, he sang an aria from Puccini’s opera “Turandot” at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans said on Aug. 31 that there were many dead bodies floating in the water, and possibly hundreds, maybe thousands of people have died.

On Oct. 30, the torch relay for the Vancouver Winter Olympics started out from Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

More than 300,000 fans gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States, to see one of the world's biggest racing events.

In 2000, the Clinton Administration designated the neighboring areas as a national monument because those areas also have beautiful sequoia forests.

Within its red brick walls and towers, there are beautiful churches and palaces such as the Cathedral of the Dormition and the Great Kremlin Palace.

United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000 )

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's biggest annual summer festival, was held from Feb. 5 to 9.

part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year

But about ten years ago, skiers who visited Niseko in Hokkaido went back to Australia and told people that the snow is good, the food is delicious, and there are nice hot-spring baths there.

The Asian Winter Games were held in Almaty and Astana, the two main cities of Kazakhstan, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6.

The decision was made during a meeting of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from June 16 to 27.

a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania

About 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, painted the “Mona Lisa.”

The Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, may be suffering from the effects of global warming.

The statues include a statue of Sherlock Holmes near the Baker Street subway station, a statue of Queen Victoria by the Thames, and even a statue of a goat in Spitalfields.

a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

His birthplace of Marion, Indiana, will host a festival in June, and in September events will be held in his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana.

On Feb. 12 in Springfield, Illinois, a celebration was held to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president.

He played an exhibition tennis match against the American ski racer Lindsey Vonn on a tennis court set on the Aletsch Glacier.

In 1917, the U.S. government named the mountain Mount McKinley after William McKinley, the 25th president of the U.S.

a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia