These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance.

These include the Suva sports stadium, built for the South Pacific Games of 2003.

These include the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships, the European Championships, the Four Continents Championships, and the Grand Prix series ( senior and junior ).

These torches and relay tradition were introduced in 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem, the chairman of the event because during the duration of the Ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, a sacred flame burns inside of the temple of Hera, kept in custody by her priestess.

These were the last Games until after the First World War.

These Olympic games were the first since September 11, 2001, which meant a higher level of security than ever before provided for the Games.

These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games, which alternate between summer and winter games.

These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.

These Games were held in Scandinavia, and the sports conducted were winter sports such as cross-country skiing and speed skating.

These were usually directed for a selected group of athletes, rather than everybody, which was — basically — the case with the Olympic Games.

These allow owners to secrete on command any of a wide selection of synthetic drugs, from the merely relaxing to the mind-altering: ' Snap ' is described in Use of Weapons and The Player of Games as " The Culture's favourite breakfast drug ".

These were the first Olympic Games held in Canada, preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

These were the last Olympic Games for two of the world's " dominating " sport powers, the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games.

These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America, the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country, and the first to be staged in a developing country.

* These games were the first to bear the name " Summer Olympic Games ".

These were followed by two Christmas specials: one 10-minute sketch as part of an anthology presented by Frank Muir, and then the hour-long " Party Games ", in 1984.

* These were the first Games to feature an Olympic Village.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

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These Games also were the first games to have all athlete registration go through the NOCs.

These are considered to be the first Paralympic Games.

These Games were the first to include Winter events, as had originally been proposed for the Games.

These shifts in alliance and allegiance not only increased the difficulties confronting the English embassy as a whole, but also directly involved the two Savoyards, Amadee and Othon.

These destructive forces also have a seriously adverse effect upon the watersheds and their life-supporting waterflows, and upon the other renewable forest resources.

These can also move a short distance but at right angles to the tappets.

These bunks also serve as a fence, so part of the additional cost must be attributed to the fence.

These observations indicate that the lunar maria heat up more rapidly and also cool off more rapidly than do the mountainous regions.

These contour diagrams also suggest a rather rapid falloff in the radio brightness with latitude.

These were the years when people flocked to Manchester not only to play golf, which had come into vogue, but also to witness the Ekwanok Country Club tournaments.

These free-standing statues were usually marble, but also the form rendered in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.

These normally play an important role in controlling the growth of algae and also forage on detritus that accumulates as sediment on the bottom.

These had dual function since they were also used as pure consonants.

These three differ from each other in the way they treat vowels: abjads have letters for consonants and leave most vowels unexpressed ; abugidas are also consonant-based, but indicate vowels with diacritics to or a systematic graphic modification of the consonants.

These antibiotics may also be prescribed to patients with a documented allergy to penicillin.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

These metals were also used to strengthen each other, for more practical purposes.

These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.

These findings are based on laboratory studies, and in clinical settings have also been shown to eliminate bacterial infection.

These experiments also led to a number of patents: for example, he invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

These pits were also used to steam foods by adding heated rocks or embers and then seaweed or corn husks ( or other coverings ) placed on top to steam fish and shellfish as well as vegetables ; potatoes would be added while still in-skin and corn while in-husk, this would later be referred to as a clambake by the colonists.

These techniques also tend to form the backbone of most undergraduate analytical chemistry educational labs.

These activists also point out that heavy subsidization of developed nations ' agriculture and the aggressive use of export subsidies by some developed nations to make their agricultural products more attractive on the international market are major causes of declines in the agricultural sectors of many developing nations.

These highly educated immigrants were also responsible for educational reform and the enlightened, revolutionary spirit that developed in Aarau.

These bacteria also secrete proteins that enable the AC-II to enter host cells, where the exogenous AC activity undermines normal cellular processes.

These are also sometimes called simply AC1, AC2, etc., and, somewhat confusingly, sometimes Roman numerals are used for these isoforms that all belong to the overall AC class III.