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Olympia. Olympia is a 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris . The figure of Olympia was modeled by ...
The Reichmann family is a Jewish-Canadian family best known for their property empire built through the Olympia and York company. At the family's peak, their combined wealth was estimated at $13 billion making them the fourth-richest family in the world. [1] The family's fortunes eventually waned, particularly with the ill-fated Canary Wharf ...
Olympia Events, formerly known as Olympia London and sometimes referred to as the Olympia Exhibition Centre, [1] is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. A range of international trade and consumer exhibitions, conferences and sporting events ...
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off ...
The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. Through a series of consolidations, it was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company in 1999; the Tumwater brewery was closed in 2003.
In 2003 Outside Magazine named Olympia one of the best college towns in the nation for its vibrant downtown and access to outdoor activities. Olympia is a regional center for social justice and environmental activism. Olympia was the hometown of activist Rachel Corrie. Olympia has been the site of direct-action opposition to the Iraq War.
e. In Greek mythology, Pelops ( / ˈpiːlɒps, ˈpɛlɒps /; Greek: Πέλοψ, translit. Pélops) was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region ( Πελοπόννησος, lit. "Pelops' Island"). He was the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus . He was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games ...
Olympia. The Olympia ( French pronunciation: [ɔlɛ̃pja]; commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) [2] is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, 300 metres (980 ft) north of Vendôme square.