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1. almost 6 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   More to Dimitrios than that . . Dimitrios Loundras (6 September 18851 – 15 February 19712) was a Greek gymnast and naval officer who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was the last surviving participant of these Games.

   Loundras competed in the team parallel bars event. In that competition, Loundras was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving him a bronze medal. At 10 years 218 days he remains the youngest medalist and competitor in Olympic history,3 if one discounts an unknown competitor, believed to be a seven-year-old French boy, who competed as coxswain for the Dutch coxed pair rowing team in the 1900 Olympics.

   Loundras later became an officer in the Royal Hellenic Navy, graduating from the Hellenic Navy Academy as an ensign in 1905. He served in various commands as well as a naval attache, and fought in World War I, before retiring with the rank of rear admiral in 1935. On the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in 1940, he was recalled to active service and appointed head of the Aegean Naval Command. He finally retired in 1945 as a vice admiral.3 From 1924 on he was a member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee.3 After World War II he played a leading role in the establishment of the Hellenic Shooting Federation, and became its first president.3 In 1936 he also served briefly as prefect of Lesbos Prefecture.

2. about 6 years ago on Adam@Home

   Not quite sure after you dump? Reach out and grab our pump.

3. over 6 years ago on Two Party Opera

   Mr President,How could you have prevented the party system. What would it look like if you had?

4. almost 8 years ago on Broom Hilda

   See Me View Each Monkey Slowly Jumping Under Native People. …………. Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto

5. over 8 years ago on C'est la Vie

   Thanks for coming back

6. over 8 years ago on Little Dog Lost

   Very sad. I also have three rescues.

7. over 8 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   Subtle..

8. over 9 years ago on Robert Ariail

   The common people. Muslim, Catholic, Christian and none of the above are the tools used by the powerful to get more money, land, power or whatever they are after at the moment. Educated and powerful people use the illiterate masses as weapons of war. Those are the people who do the actual fighting and dying for those who can buy their way out of it, We never seem to learn that lesson. That’s why they strive to keep the masses either uninformed or propagandized into believing “The Other” is a demon and must be destroyed.

   What the masses need to learn is we all bleed red for their greed.

9. over 9 years ago on Darrin Bell

   Hand to hand, club to club, spear to spear, arrow to arrow, musket to musket, M1 to M1, tank to tank, air to ground, B51 to ground at 35,000 feet. Drone to ground at 6,000 miles. The M.I.C. has always made money by moving the troops further from each other. War is a bitch and dead is dead whether clubbed to death or taken out by a drone. Innocents are casualties of war if they are in harm’s way either by design or by happenstance. The idea is to kill the enemy before they can get close enough to kill you. AND to kill enough of them or their leaders to make them want to stop fighting. Diplomacy only works if it’s two sided. You can’t shake hands with someone who has a gun pointed at your head.

10. over 9 years ago on Steve Breen

    Ineffective teachers affect kids of all stripes. Not just minorities. End tenure. Pay a decent salary and keep the schools open all year .. weather permitting.