This material became Olympia, a successful film which has since been widely noted for its technical and aesthetic achievements.

Riefenstahl ’ s work on Olympia has been cited as a major influence in modern sports photography.

Nearby Olympia ( only 22 miles away ) has a similar ash altar, and both settlements held ancient athletic games.

The album has, however, been released as a Bryan Ferry solo album entitled Olympia.

Since 1984, Olympia has also been home to the South Puget Sound Community College.

His great skill seems to have consisted in delivering grand show speeches ; and Plato has him arrogantly declaring that he would travel to Olympia, and there deliver before the assembled Greeks an oration on any subject that might be proposed to him ; and Philostratus in fact speaks of several such orations delivered at Olympia, and which created great sensation.

The common interpretation of this has been that Achilles was romantically enamored of Penthesilea ( a view that appears to be supported by Pausanias, who noted that the throne of Zeus at Olympia bore Panaenus ' painted image of the dying Penthesilea being supported by Achilles ).

Since 1872 the École française d ' Athènes (" French School of Athens ") has been excavating the island, the complex of buildings of which compares with those of Delphi and Olympia.

In 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted that " Our knowledge of Praxiteles has received a great addition, and has been placed on a satisfactory basis, by the discovery at Olympia in 1877 of his statue of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, a statue which has become famous throughout the world.

Schwarzenegger, a ten-year veteran of bodybuilding, has won Mr. Olympia for five consecutive years, and intends to retire after a final competition.

The band's lead singer, Courtney Love has the line: ' I went to school with Calvin ,' a reference to Johnson's influence within the burgeoning Olympia indie music scene.

This classification has been adopted by the majority of municipalities in Washington, including Renton, Bellevue, Olympia, Longview, Pullman, and University Place, Washington.

A 2003 concert appearance at the Olympia in Paris has been issued in both DVD and compact disc formats.

" Sympathy has a catalog of more than 750 releases, and is based out of Olympia, Washington.

" The label has been so influential in anti-corporate independent music and underground DIY punk culture, particularly in the Olympia music scene, that it was the subject of a documentary directed by Heather Rose Dominic entitled The Shield Around the K, with a tagline of " Do It Yourself ".

Since the 1870s, the excavation and preservation of Ancient Olympia has been the responsibility of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens.

The Evergreen State College has had a large influence on the culture and economy of Olympia as well as its surrounding areas.

Note that until recently, the " P " in " PAThE " referred to Patras, but the Patra – Athens section has now become part of the A8 ( Olympia Odos ) motorway, belonging to a different project.

United States Senator Olympia Snowe has stated:

The results are Arturo (" Arty "), a boy with flippers for hands and feet ; Electra (" Elly ") and Iphigenia (" Iphy "), Siamese Twins ; Olympia (" Oly "), a hunchbacked albino dwarf ; and Fortunato (" Chick "), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers.

Yet to her great disappointment her chance to become queen passed by, and in 1657 Olympia married Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Count of Dreux, and Prince of Savoy.

Broadcasting from a room ( later to become a proper studio ) at the Olympia Cinema on 16 September Street in Mexico City, it initially had only 5 kW of transmitter power, although this was increased to 50 kW by 1934.

Before Eurostar services transferred in November 2007 to St Pancras International Eurostar trains passed through Kensington Olympia going from Waterloo International station to North Pole depot and the station was a backup terminus for the services should Waterloo International have become unusable and immigration facilities were maintained there.

Following the completion of the two required years of postgraduate sea duty — which he served with the Pacific Squadron in protected cruiser Philadelphia — Upham was commissioned an ensign on 1 July 1895 and joined Olympia ( Cruiser No. 6 ) on 18 July before she sailed for the Far East to become the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron.

The phenomenon has since become known as " Larry fever " and reached its apex at the 1966 Mr. Olympia competition, where Larry defended his title and once again took home the crown ( literally, since the prize was $ 1, 000 and an actual crown ).

By 1933 Merrie England, now under the ownership of Ramsgate Olympia, had become extremely popular, and Ramsgate Olympia began to lobby the Southern Railway to reopen the line through the tunnel with a new junction station between Dumpton Park and Broadstairs.

After he shut down the Olympia Club to pursue non-wrestling ventures, but he rejoined the larger Madison Club in the 1960s to become one of that promotion's top heels.

In 1900, Muldoon opened what would become the work of his life, the well-known health institute " The Olympia ," at Purchase, New York.

While certainly not the first amateur girl and boy band to come along, Cool Rays embodied what would become some of the motivating ideas ( and ideals ) of the Olympia music scene: that one need not be a formally trained or professional ( or stereotyped ) musician to make music ; local people should make their own music ( rather than passively relying on the " corporate ogre " music business to provide it ); and girls should play a more active role in the making of rock music.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

During 1979 – 80, the Wings left the Olympia for Joe Louis Arena.

Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.

Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

Under this system, for example, the battleship Indiana was USS Indiana ( Battleship No. 1 ), the cruiser Olympia was USS Olympia ( Cruiser No. 6 ), and so on.

Beginning in 1907, some ships also were referred to alternatively by single-letter or three-letter codes — for example, USS Indiana ( Battleship No. 1 ) could be referred to as USS Indiana ( B-1 ) and USS Olympia ( Cruiser No 6 ) could also be referred to as USS Olympia ( C-6 ), while USS Pennsylvania ( Armored Cruiser No. 4 ) could be referred to as USS Pennsylvania ( ACR-4 ).

* 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit

Olympia was very successful in Germany after it premiered for Hitler ’ s 49th birthday in 1938, and its international debut led Riefenstahl to embark on an American publicity tour in an attempt to secure commercial release.

After years of legal wrangling these were returned to her, but the French government had reportedly damaged some of the film stock whilst trying to develop and edit it and a few key scenes were missing ( although Riefenstahl was surprised to find the original negatives for Olympia in the same shipment ).

In the early 1990s, Ferrigno returned to bodybuilding, competing for the 1992 and 1993 Mr. Olympia titles.

Frigidaire refrigerators were also being made at Rüsselsheim, as were Olympia engines for the NSU Kettenkrad.

Prices in 1948 were 9950 DM for the Kapitan and 6, 785 DM for the Olympia ( the Deutschmark having replaced the Reichsmark on 20 June 1948 ).

In February 1951, in preparation for the first postwar automobile show in Germany, the Olympia was dressed up further with a trunk compartment that enclosed the spare tire and wheels instead of wheels and tires.

Coubertin's assertion that the Games were the impetus for peace was also an exaggeration ; the peace which he spoke of only existed to allow athletes to travel safely to Olympia, and neither prevented the outbreak of wars nor ended ongoing ones.

In August 2012, The Pogues embarked on a 30th anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at the Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees, UK to 11 & 12 September 2012 at L ' Olympia, Paris, two shows to be filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

The work of Herodotus is reported to have been recited at festivals, where prizes were awarded, as for example, during the games at Olympia.

Moreover the Hellanodikai, who manage the games at Olympia, decided that they were so: for when Alexander wished to contend in the games and had descended for this purpose into the arena, the Hellenes who were to run against him tried to exclude him, saying that the contest was not for Barbarians to contend in but for Hellenes: since however Alexander proved that he was of Argos, he was judged to be a Hellene, and when he entered the contest of the foot-race his lot came out with that of the first.