nude as dothing could slow them in the race. In the horse racing competition riders rode naked and
bareback (no saddle) around the track. As you can imagine, it was very difficult to control the horses
this way. The winner would receive a simple olive branch, not a gold medal.
People descended on Olympia by the thousands to see the games. The stadium was built to seal
between 45,000 and 50,000 people. Since the Olympic games were designed to honor Zeus, a male
god, women were not allowed to see the games. The penalty for women who viewed the games was
death.
The Modem Olympics
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman, revived the games in 1896. He felt that the games would
promote physical fitness and good relations between people of different countries. Beginning in 1894
delegates from 12 countries met to lay out plans for the modern games to be held in Athens, Greece.
The next Olympics were held in Paris and then in St. Louis, but interest waned. The Olympics gained
popularity again with a very well-organized Olympi as in 1908 in London. They began giving out medals
not only to the winner but also to the first and second runner up (gold, silver, and bronze medals). In
1912 in Stockholm electrical timing equipment was used for the first time. In the 1928 Games in
Amsterdam the tradition of burning the Olympic flame throughout the games began.
The Olympic Games have grown significantly since the days of the single foot race. Now the events are
divided into winter and summer games alternately every two years. Athletes from all over the world
continue to gather for the Olympic Games to enjoy friendly international competition just as Baron
Pierre de Coubertin dreamed.
1. What god were the Olympic games were designed to honor?
What was the only competition in the first Olympics?
Respuestas
Respuesta:
En biología, el término Fungi (plural latino de fungus, lit. «hongos»)56 se utiliza para designar a un taxón o grupo de organismos eucariotas entre los que se encuentran los mohos, las levaduras y los organismos productores de setas. Están clasificados en un reino distinto al de las plantas, animales y protistas. Se distinguen de las plantas en que son heterótrofos; y de los animales en que poseen paredes celulares, como las plantas, compuestas por quitina, en vez de celulosa. Es el reino de la naturaleza más cercano filogenéticamente a los animales (Animalia).7
Se ha descubierto que organismos que parecían hongos en realidad no lo eran, y que organismos que no lo parecían en realidad sí lo eran, si llamamos "hongo" a todos los organismos derivados del que ancestralmente adquirió la capacidad de formar una pared celular de quitina. Debido a ello, si bien este taxón está bien delimitado desde el punto de vista evolutivo, aún se están estudiando las relaciones filogenéticas de los grupos menos conocidos, y su lista de subtaxones ha cambiado mucho con el tiempo en lo que respecta a grupos muy derivados o muy basales.
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