Olympic Host Cities & Me

On any day in the second half of the 19th century if one were to travel south from Paris 60 kilometers or so to the small town of Barbizon and the nearby Forêt de Fontainebleau, there is some likelihood that …

Normally, this is the post where I focus on the geology, geomorphology, or physiography of the city or region of the Olympic host city. However, since we’ve already taken an in depth look at much of Europe and since we’re …

Richard Norris Williams II, who was generally known simply as Norris, was born on January 29, 1891 in Geneva, Switzerland. Although born in Switzerland, Williams was American by birth because both his father and mother were Americans. In fact, his …

In the introduction to the post about the 19oo Olympic Games I teased two stories about the 1924 Games. The first focused on a pair of dates in 1981 and 1982 when one story from the Games of the VIII …

Paris, which will host the XXIII Summer Games in 2024 has twice before hosted the Summer Olympics in 1900 (the second Games) and again in 1924 (the Games of the VIII Olympiad). I think it would be fair to say …