Presentation party at the Olympic Games Product:Canvas Pictured are TV engineers removing

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Plate 24 from The natural history of monkeys

307mm (diameter)

design from 'Bouquets et Frondaisons

modern scientific names: Sitta carolinensis

Presentation party at the Olympic Games Product:Canvas Pictured are TV engineers removingPresentation party at the Olympic Games, Athens, Greece, 1906. King George of Greece (1863 1913) plus other dignitaries. Successful competitors were presented with crowns of olive leaves. Athens hosted the first Olympics of the modern era in 1896. In 1906 it hosted the Intercalated Games, the only games held outside of the normal four yearly cycle.