The NUS History Alumni Association is hosting (for the first time) a Mad Hatters Party at the new NUS Alumni House next Friday.
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Historical Amnesia: The Disappearance of the Olympic Salute
by Tan Chye Guan
While the disappearance of the Olympic Salute after the infamous Berlin Games of 1936 is understandable, its absence in official and academic sources dealing with the inter-war Olympic movement is rather puzzling. No authoritative work has ever established that there ever was such a ritual in modern times.
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC)… »