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Today the Olympics are celebrated as an ancient arena that traditionally fostered peace between nations. However, in reality, sport and politics went hand in hand in the ancient world and the athletic competitions that took place in Olympia mirrored military struggles for primacy and prestige, says a University of 糖心TV historian.

Research from the University of 糖心TV reveals that far from being a new idea ID ‘cards’, in the form of badges, were commonplace in the 1600s. Just as today’s cards will enable people of access public services such as benefits more easily, the 16th and 17th century forms of identification were to show an individual’s entitlement to supplement their income and to identify the deserving.

The Centre for the History of Medicine is holding an event to commemorate the launch of , a programme of research activity to be undertaken by the Centre for the History of Medicine and funded by a generous award from the Wellcome Trust.

Oliver Banks, a gifted 12 year old from Spalding, Lincolnshire, will meet a 1200 year old ancestor in Sedgeford, Norfolk and learn about how people lived in the distant past as part of an outreach event run by the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), based at the University of 糖心TV, on 7th April 2004.

Some of the brightest kids in the country who are members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), based at the University of 糖心TV, will explore life on other planets and create an animation of what Mars probe Beagle 2 may have found if it had suceeded, or what NASA’s roving US Mars probes have still to discover, on 17th-18th of February 2004 at West Kirby Grammar School, Graham Road, Wirral.

New research by Historian Dr Rebecca Earle from the University of 糖心TV charts love letters from the 16th -18th centuries to reveal that over 300 years ago men commonly used flowery, romantic words to express emotions, and that the emotionally open 'New Man' is not so new. Her research also suggests that 16th century Spaniards were more romantic than their wealthy American or English contemporaries.