... thirteen countries all of their athletes were male. Some of the events in the 1896 Olympics were much more rigorous then anything we would imagine today. There were no rules or safety regulations like we have today, so in the swimming for instance a boat would take the athletes off the coast line the desired distance and drop them off, where they had to swim back. Hungarian swimmer ... Alfréd Hajos, who won the 100m and 1200m, confessed after the Games, that "the will to live completely overcame his desire to win." Hermann Weingartner ... and London was asked to fill in. It turned out...

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... heavy sticks, threatening to burn the women out of the Acropolis. As the men are lying down the logs, a Chorus of Old Women came with pitchers of water and dump it on the Chorus of Old Men after hurling nasty insults were exchanged. The magistrate arrived, criticizing the women. He then instructed the men to force open the gates. Lysistrata calls a halt to the forcing open of the gates, using common sense instead ... going to go to Hell and bring Euripides back. At the shores of the Infernal Lake, Charon, the ferryman of Hades, awaits Dionysos and his slave Xanthias. Dionysos is very ru...

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