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Olympic Host Cities & Me

Notes on the XXVI Olympiad – Atlanta 1996 (Atlanta and Me addendum)

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There are, perhaps, three indelible images and one infamous but nevertheless unforgettable event associated with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Let’s take a look. The images. The opening and closing ceremonies have come a long way since they made their first …

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Atlanta and Me

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Todd’s Olympic Games host cities tour visits Atlanta. My first visit to Atlanta happened a year or so after my first journey to Montreal. Although I can cite the three specific times I traveled to Montreal, all I can say …

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Wooden ships on the water – the Europeans arrive (Montreal and Me supplement three)

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As I noted in the first post about Montreal, Jacques Cartier was the first European to have contact with the Haudenosaunee in 1534. He reached what is now Montreal on his second voyage in 1535 in what would have been …

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First Nations – humans populate the land (Montreal and Me supplement two)

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A linguistic hint shortens the trip. A typical Todd post would likely try to trace the origins of the native tribes living in and around present day Montreal at least as far back as 5,000 years Before Present (BP) to …

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Before Montreal, before the French, before Haudenosaunee (Montreal and me supplement one)

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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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