After the death of Shah Abbas in 1629, Persia began to see a long slow period of decline. In the late 1700s A.D. a new group of Turks known as the Qajar Dynasty took control of the Persian throne. By 1925 the Persian Empire would be divided into a number of smaller nations.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn''t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won''t cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. Mac Donald
The first modern Olympiad was held in Athens in 1896. 484 contestants from 13 nations participated.
