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modern olympics movement  

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  • Although a number of nineteenth-century Europeans endeavored to revive the ancient Olympics, none succeeded. W. P. Brookes inaugurated a series of annual “Olympian Games” in Shropshire in 1849. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Modern Olympics Movement]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T069N862-H

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