* 1932 – Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian modern pentathlon ( d. 2010 )

Although not part of the modern pentathlon, it was one of the events of the ancient pentathlon, which can be dated at least back to 708 BC.

Other variants include chair fencing, one-hit épée ( one of the five events which constitute modern pentathlon ) and the various types of non-Olympic competitive fencing.

For the 1928 Summer Olympics in neighboring Amsterdam, it hosted all of the non-jumping equestrian and the running part of the modern pentathlon event.

Category: Olympic modern pentathlon venues

Coubertin created the modern pentathlon for the 1912 Olympics, and subsequently stepped down from his IOC presidency after the 1924 Olympics in Paris, which proved much more successful than the first attempt in that city in 1900.

There are other swimming and water related sporting disciplines including diving, synchronised swimming and water polo, as well as sports which include a swimming element, such as triathlon and modern pentathlon.

Patton participated in the first-ever modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

While cross country competitions are no longer held at the Olympics, having featured in the athletics programme from 1912 – 1924, it has been present as one of the events within the modern pentathlon competition since the 1912 Summer Olympics.

These were two events to parallel the multi-event games in athletics of the modern pentathlon and the decathlon.

The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run.

The modern pentathlon was invented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

The addition of modern to the name distinguished it from the original pentathlon of the ancient Olympic Games, which consisted of the stadion foot race, wrestling, long jump, javelin, and discus.

The modern pentathlon has been on the Olympic program continuously since 1912.

* List of Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football ( collegiate and professional ), and also played professional baseball and basketball.

Greenwich Park will host equestrian events and modern pentathlon, the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich will host shooting events, and The O2 arena will host gymnastics and basketball finals.

For the 1984 Summer Olympics, the community served as host to the riding, running, shooting, and fencing portions of the modern pentathlon events.

Category: Olympic modern pentathlon venues

Four time Olympic athlete 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics ), and first woman to qualify in three different Olympic sports events ( freestyle swimming, triathlon and modern pentathlon.

For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the university hosted the running portion of the modern pentathlon event.

Category: Olympic modern pentathlon venues

There were four exceptions to this, with the game shooting, modern pentathlon and mountain ascents retained by the Olympic committee, and the horse riding competitions being organised by Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, who was the inspector of the Swedish cavalry.

He invented modern plywood and started work on the " torpedo ".

He invented and described many of the principles of modern botany.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

The American poet Adelaide Crapsey invented the modern form, known as American Cinquain inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka, akin in spirit to that of the Imagists

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.

Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

The modern steam turbine ( invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 ) currently generates about 80 % of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

The modern steam turbine invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

A typical example is the modern 11-string archguitar, invented and played by Peter Blanchette.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

The forerunner to the modern gas mask was invented in 1847 by Lewis Haslett, a device that contained elements that allowed breathing through a nose and mouthpiece, inhalation of air through a bulb-shaped filter, and a vent to exhale air back into the atmosphere.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

In the 1970s, Canadian Keith Johnstone invented Theatresports that has become a staple of modern improvisational comedy.

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".

* 2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the modern hot air balloon ( b. 1919 )

However recent evidence suggests modern human language was invented or evolved in Africa prior to the dispersal of humans from Africa around 50, 000 years ago.

Silbermann's pianos were virtually direct copies of Cristofori's, with one important addition: Silbermann invented the forerunner of the modern damper pedal, which lifts all the dampers from the strings simultaneously.

File: Tesla3. jpg | Nikola Tesla ( 1856-1943 ): developer of modern alternating current ( AC ) flow, improved on the dynamo, patents and theoretical work formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio, transformer and electric bulb and invented the Tesla coil.

The pitot tube was invented by the French engineer Henri Pitot in the early 18th century and was modified to its modern form in the mid-19th century by French scientist Henry Darcy.

Although the Chinese invented gunpowder, and firearms had been in continual use in Chinese warfare since as far back as the Song Dynasty, the advent of modern weaponry resulting from the European Industrial Revolution had rendered China's traditionally trained and equipped army and navy obsolete.

As writer Michael Bracewell notes in his book Roxy: the band that invented an era, Roxy Music was created expressly by Ferry, Mackay and Eno as a means of combining their mutual interests in music, modern art and fashion.