Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.

Born-again athletes like New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford and former Rams Superbowl XXXIV winning quarterback Kurt Warner, Olympic hurderler Lolo Jones, boxer Katie Taylor and New York Knicks player Jeremy Lin.

Nonetheless, the belief in this status persisted for years, even finding its way onto UNESCO's own web site, into the pages of the New York Times and The Economist, and into international media reports in respect of Toronto's two Olympic bids.

* John Walker ( athlete ) ( born 1952 ), New Zealander winner of the Olympic Games 1500 metre run in 1976, and long-standing champion in the mile run

The league's several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The headquarters of the National Basketball Association in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue ( Manhattan ) | Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States | USA.

* 21-John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee.

Charles Jewtraw from Lake Placid, New York, won the first Olympic gold medal, though several Norwegians in attendance claimed Oskar Olsen had clocked a better time.

The first artificial American track was completed in that year for use in the 1980 XIII Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York.

A poster advertising a performance of the pantomime at the Olympic Theatre in New York 1868, starring George L. Fox ( clown ) | George L. Fox

Top-line studios such as Olympic Studios in London, Fine Recording in New York City, United Western Recorders, and Musart in Los Angeles quickly became among the most sought-after recording facilities in the world, and both these studios became veritable " hit factories " that produced many of the most successful pop recordings of the latter 20th century.

* Olympic Tower, New York, United States, 1972

In the Olympic trials held at Celtic Park in New York, his all-round ability stood out in all these events and so he riveted a claim to a place on the team that went to Sweden.

After his victories at the Olympic Games in Sweden, on September 2, 1912, he returned to Celtic Park, the home of the Irish American Athletic Club, in Queens, New York ( where he had qualified four months earlier for the Olympic Games ), to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Championship.

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Category: Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand

Almost all sovereign African nations and a few other countries from elsewhere boycotted the games in Montreal, in reaction to the International Olympic Committee's refusal to ban New Zealand, whose rugby team had been touring South Africa, a country that had been excluded from many international sporting events due to implementation of apartheid policy.

* 1953 – 1954, Turbine tankers Olympic Cloud ,-Wind ,-Storm ,-Sky ,-Breeze and-Rainbow for Olympic Transportation Co., New York ( Owner: Aristoteles Onassis )

She reprised her role of Mother / Gran in a two-part Christmas / New Year special of Absolutely Fabulous in 2011-12 and for an Olympic special on 23 July 2012.

This was Hoover's second time not attending an olympiad held in the US during his presidency, as the Olympic winter games were held in Lake Placid, New York, earlier the same year.

In this record race he beat the reigning Olympic champion and former world record holder Peter Snell of New Zealand.

* New Zealand Olympic medallists

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

( This Coronet Records should not be confused with either the Australia – base Coronet Records or the late 1950s New York – based budget label Coronet Records.

Records such as " Let Me Be the One " by Safire, " I Remember What You Like " by Jenny Burton, " Running " by Information Society, " Give Me Tonight " by Shannon and " It Works For Me " by Pam Russo enjoyed heavy New York radio airplay.

Factory Records, 4AD Records, and Beggars Banquet Records released much of this music in Europe, while Cleopatra Records among others released the music in the United States, where the subculture grew especially in New York and Los Angeles, California, where many nightclubs featured " gothic / industrial " nights.

New York: Roadrunner Records.

Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V. P.

Sitar Power drew the attention of a number of record labels and was snapped up by Shanachie Records of New Jersey to head their World Beat Ethno Pop division.

* 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

As the founder of Cold Chillin ' Records, Marl assembled a roster filled with some of the most prominent hip hop talent then working in New York: MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Craig G, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace.

New Order were the flagship band for Factory Records.

The Haçienda, Factory Records ' own nightclub ( largely funded by New Order ) opened in May 1982 in Manchester and was even issued a Factory catalogue number: FAC51.

New Order never had a formal contract with their label Factory Records, which is unusual for any major group.

Both New Order and Joy Division were portrayed in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, depicting the rise and fall of Factory Records as seen through the eyes of label founder Tony Wilson.

Both New Order and Joy Division were among the most successful artists on the Factory Records label, run by Granada television personality Tony Wilson, and partnered with Factory in the financing of the Manchester club The Haçienda.

Records of bounty payments to Wappinger Indians in New York in the middle 18th century confirm its range at least that far north ; it's possible that it could have extended as far as extreme eastern Canada.

Johnny Otis, who had signed with the Newark, New Jersey-based Savoy Records, produced many R & B hits in 1951, including: " Double Crossing Blues ", " Mistrustin ' Blues " and " Cupid's Boogie ", all of which hit number one that year.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

New Englanders were a bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '': ``

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

New ideas were dangerous and must be repressed, no matter how.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

Baptists and Congregationalists in New England were on friendly terms.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

In addition to the regular schedule, advertisements were run for maximum impact in special editions of the New York Times, Boston Herald, American Banker, Electronic News and, for local promotion, the Providence Sunday Journal.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

New computer and automation techniques were applied to these spectra with considerable success.

Years later, franks-in-buns were accepted as the `` first to go '' at the New York Polo Grounds.

Other pilot programs were conducted by A & S, Babylon, New York ; ;

As controls, other sections were similarly treated with Af or conjugated antiserum to the New York strain of potato yellow-dwarf virus ( Wolcyrz and Black, 1956 ).

New Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

Thomas's principal influence lay in the communication of an attitude -- that of the now extinct British romantic school of the New Apocalypse -- Henry Treece, J. F. Hendry, and others -- all of whom were quite conventional poets.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

Dependent upon it were posts on the lower Mississippi and the region westward to the frontiers of New Spain.

Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.