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Cynisca Cynisca's win in the Olympics had a great impact on the ancient Greek world as other women, not only Lacedaemonians, later won the chariot racing, including Euryleonis, Belistiche, Zeuxo, Encrateia and Hermione, Timareta, Theodota (both from Elis) and Cassia.
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- Jennifer Lawrence (III) Actress | Soundtrack | Producer. Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012), Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American Hustle (2013).
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Encyclopedia These lines, spoken by Lysistrata and her friend Calonice at the beginning of the play, set the scene for the action that follows. Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. Lysistrata however is an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual responsibility.ome events that are significant for our understanding of the play: 1  424 BC: The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia. 2  Its protagonist, a sausage-seller named Agoracritus, emerges at the end of the play as the improbable saviour of Athens (Lysistrata is its saviour thirteen years later).
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- Olatunji won the first Calypso Monarch competition for Carnival 2011 when he beat the field at the Stars of Tomorrow competition held at City Hall last week. Olatunji performed a song called Drum Spirits and walked away a cool winner
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- The character of Cassandra in Agamemnon fits this pattern. Written near the end of his life, and incorporating his own innovations and those of Sophocles, Agamemnon and the rest of the Oresteia make up Aeschylus's greatest achievement.
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Peloponnesian War The Peloponnesian War was an Ancient Greek military conflict, fought by Athens and its allies, against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Athens and Sparta were the main winners of the earlier Greco-Persian Wars. Athens stood for democracy, and Sparta for oligarchy, though they fought as much for economic reasons of trade and for the dominance of their respective leagues. Sparta eventually won the Peloponnesian War. Athens was never the same again.
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Cesc Gayâs âTrumanâ Takes Big Prize at Spainâs Goyas In maybe the biggest surprise of the night – simpoly because the film is not very swell known – Natalia de Molina beat out Penelope Cruz and Juliette Binoche for her performance in Juan Miguel del Castillo’s “Food” (“Techo y Comida”), a hard-hitting single mother drama.
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List of dystopian films Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete. Gary Ross.
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Wild is the Wind Wild is the Wind. Paramount Pictures and producer Hal Wallis had enjoyed great success with their 1955 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. When the star of that film, Anna Magnani, took home a Best Actress Oscar® the following year, Wallis was eager to sign her to another project.
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Viola Davis Pays Tribute To August Wilson âWho Exhumed And Exulted The Ordinary Peopleâ In Oscars Win Top Stories. Viola Davis Pays Tribute To August Wilson “Who Exhumed And Exulted The Ordinary People” In Oscars Win. Three time’s a charm for Viola Davis who takes home her first Oscar tonight for Denzel Washington’s directorial of August Wilson’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences. Together with Mahershala Ali’s win for best supporting actor in Moonlight, Davis’ win is tying for the Oscar record of most Black performers to win in a single year.
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- Miss Temple City Wins Matriarch Stakes Miss Temple City, the 8-5 favorite under Edgar Prado, gamely held off the late challenge of an onrushing Roca Rojo to win the Grade I $300,000 Matriarch Stakes for older fillies and mares on closing day of the fall Bing Crosby racing season at Del Mar Sunday....
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How did the peloponnesian war start? Eventually, at the battle of Amphipolis, in March of 422 B.C., the two Athenian generals, Cleon and Nicias (leader of the Athenian peace party) fought Brasidas. Brasidas and Cleon were killed. Brasidas's death removed the main obstacle for peace. In the end Athens was at the mercy of Sparta and this resulted in peace.
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Timeline By the end of the game, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark of District 12 are both pronounced victorious by Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, in the first ever dual victory in the 74-year history of the Hunger Games.
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Wilma RudolphRunner American athlete who won three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 x 100 m relay, becoming the first American woman to take home three gold medals in track and field at a single Games.
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- Question is: Should he still be having the kitten formula or can we switch him to cows milk, like whole milk or something? Also what is the best way to get a kitten,... show more We have been fostering a kitten since 2 weeks old, and feeding him KMR, milk replacer.
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The Williams Sisters and Wimbledon's First African-American Star Althea Gibson, history's first African-American Wimbledon champion. She won in 1957 and 1958. For the past decade, there have been only two names synonymous with winning American tennis. And those two names belong to African-American women:
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"""The Hunger Games"" cast" The Hunger Games cast. Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence will play Katniss Everdeen in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, scheduled to be released on theaters on March 23, 2012. The 16-year-old District 12 resident volunteers to compete in the Games after her younger sister, Prim, is selected as a tribute.
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History: A female athletic champion in ancient Olympics The story of how Kyniska masterminded her way to glory through this loophole in the Olympics rules is one of the great game-changes in sports history – and it has a strong lesbian twist to boot. The ancient name for Kyniska’s homeland was Lakonia.
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10 Greatest Ancient Athletes Although men were originally the only ones allowed to compete in the Olympic Games, this soon changed. Several women took part in the ancient Games, and even won competitions. The most famous of these was Cynisca of Sparta, the first woman to win at the Games. By her success, she paved the way for many other women, and helped usher in a new era in the ancient sporting world.
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Sissy Spacek Pictures She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times, and is also known for her role as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands. Spacek is mainly a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies.
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OVERVIEW A flavourful adaptation of Williams' lusty play. Magnani won the Best Actress Academy Award as a woman who finds a new romance in Lancaster's... The Rose Tattoo (1955) Jay Higgins 2009-08-24. Anna Magnani's powerful and amazing Oscar winning performance makes this film. It's not a particularly cheery film, but the story is always...
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- Susan L. Parks. Date: Mon, 2002-04-08. *On this date in 2002, Susan-Lori Parks won a Pulitzer Prize for Topdog/Underdog her play on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater. She was the first African American woman in 85 years to win a Pulitzer Prize in a drama category. The play tells the story of two blood brothers named Lincoln and Booth, one a card shark and Abe Lincoln impersonator, the other, a student of the three-card-Monty con game.
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Encyclopedia 1 Its protagonist, Trygaeus, emerges as the improbable champion of universal peace (Lysistrata's role 10 years later). 2  The Peace of Nicias was formalised this same year, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War (referred to in Lysistrata as The Former War).ome events that are significant for our understanding of the play: 1  424 BC: The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia. 2  Its protagonist, a sausage-seller named Agoracritus, emerges at the end of the play as the improbable saviour of Athens (Lysistrata is its saviour thirteen years later).
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- Dorothy Dandridge became the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar with her role in the musical Carmen Jones with Harry Belafonte. She would also rejoin Belafonte in Island in the Sun and star in the classic Black musical Porgy and Bess.
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Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander The Spartan Pausanias, victor of the battle of Plataea, was chosen to lead the first expedition of the naval alliance against the remaining Persian outposts in Greek territory. His arrogant and violent behavior3, especially toward women, quickly led to dissatisfaction with Spartan leadership among the Greek allies.
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Patty Duke, Child Star and Oscar Winner, Dies at 69 ‘The Miracle Worker’. Ms. Duke starred as Helen Keller and won the Academy Award for best supporting actress. In the view of many critics, Ms. Duke’s passage from Helen Keller to Patty Lane was a voyage from the sublime to the ridiculous.