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BENSON BOBRICK earned his doctorate from Columbia University and is the author of one other nonfiction book for young people, The Battle of Nashville, and several critically acclaimed books for adults. In 2002, he received the Literature Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He and his wife, Hilary, divide their time between New York and Vermont.

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11 Things You Didn't Know about the Olympics (PHOTOS)

(30) Comments | Posted July 6, 2012 | 9:51 AM

The Olympic Games of the ancient Greco-Roman world were held every four years without interruption for a thousand years--from 776 B.C. to A.D. 394--until they were disbanded by the Christian emperors of Rome. Those emperors condemned the Olympic festival as an ungodly rite dedicated to pagan gods. The ancient site...

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