The Olympic Games – A Brief (And Bizarre) History

It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of modern-day Olympics. With so much drama, so much romance, so much pizzazz, it is hard to imagine this world-wide spectacle being anything less than perfect. But you don’t have to dig too deeply to discover a humble and oft-times peculiar origin. Truly, it has taken several decades of Hollywood magic to produce the polished sports event we take for…
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Beijing 2008: China’s Attempt to Disguise Its Olympic Failure

China campaigned for the 2008 Olympic Games with a promise to improve its sad record of human rights abuse and suppression of free speech. It promised world reporters “unfettered access” in the country and made a commitment to clean up the quality of the air in Beijing for the Olympic Games. The fact is that Beijing has failed on every important promise it made to become the host…
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The Most Popular Gifts Featured With Olympic Colors in This Season

For the last few weeks, we’ve been highlighting great Olympic souvenires where proceeds go to support the athletes of the China Olympics Team. * More ideas about how to give away a gift, pls see my site: www.123giftfactory.com While most of us can’t jet off to Beijing for opening ceremonies today, you can get your own Olympics souvenir with various great gifts featured with Olympic Games…
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HIM: Tickets On Sale 9am Friday 27th November News, UK Music News, Edinburgh

Tickets to HIM performing at HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, will be available here at 9am Friday 27th November. Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko Lindström (Linde), and bassist Mikko Paananen(Mige). Today the band consists of the previously named as well as a drummer Mika Karppinen(Gas) and a keyboardist Janne Puurtinen(Burton). The name HIM was originally an abbreviation for “His Infernal Majestyâ€, but was changed to the initials…
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Chibuku Shake Shake: Tiga | SebastiAn Clubbing Tickets, The Warehouse Project, Manchester

FULL LINE-UP Tiga SebastiAn Busy P DJ Medhi Brodinski Grum Breakbot DSL Prostitutes & Policemen Andro Special Live Guests: The Whip Tiga The modern master of Electro-pop, and head-honcho of Turbo Recordings, Tiga remains very much at the head of the dance-music table. Whether it's his remixes of Scissor Sisters, Nelly or Felix da Housecat, or winning countless awards for his 2007 classic "Sexor", or collaborating with Soulwax and Zombie…
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Metropolis 7th Birthday Concert Tickets, The Warehouse Project, Manchester

In just 6 years Metropolis has grown from being a monthly, quality Manchester dnb night into one of the biggest dance music nights on the planet, having put on massive raves in Ibiza, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and many more; as such it's a real home-grown institution to be proud of. No surprise that all the biggest players in the scene are down to help celebrate for a night…
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Eric Prydz & Guests Concert Tickets, The Warehouse Project, Manchester

If you hadn't already realised, not one section of dance-enthusiasts is left out at the Warehouse Project (ok, ok, we haven't done a Gabba night, but we feel it's for the best…) – the whole point is that everyone in this fine city gets the chance to hear the music they love, smashed out by their favourite DJs, in our legendary venue as loud as they could possibly want it! This…
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