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In the time before humans. Our planet is a dynamic and turbulent place. Tectonic plates slide along faults and crash into one another creating and moving continents and lifting up mountains. In another mountain building exercise, magma boils up from …

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Echoes of 1972. None of us who are old enough can forget the events of the 1972 Olympics in Munich when the Black September group took nine members of the Israeli Olympic Team hostage after first killing two others. The …

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The first stop on my Olympic host cities tour is Montreal. I’ve been to the city on three separate occasions – once before it hosted the 1976 Summer Games and twice afterward. So, let’s get started. My pre-teen excursion. I …