French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, was born to a wealthy family in Paris on New Year's Day of 1863. He was raised with the notion that the French people had...

Revered as the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece, Olympia in the western Peloponnese hosted the ancient Olympic Games for more than 1,000 years after they started in 776 B.C.Ruined temples of Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, and his wife Hera still stand on...