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Decathlon's former logo. Founded by Michel Leclercq in 1976, Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France. [9] Its holding company was formerly known as Oxylane. [10]The company expanded abroad to Germany in 1986, [11] Spain in 1992, [11] [12] Italy in 1993, [11] Belgium in 1997, [13] Portugal, the United Kingdom in 1999, Brazil in 2001, mainland China in 2003, India and Romania in 2009 ...
Michael Leclercq is a French entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of Decathlon, one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers.Established in 1976, Decathlon has revolutionized the sporting goods industry with its unique business model, emphasizing accessibility, innovation, and affordability.
The company partnered with the Paris Olympics last year, its most high-profile collaboration and the first time Decathlon backed a team of athletes across 21 different sports.
In 1940, he founded the Word of Life Fellowship Bible Conference. [3] In 1941, he founded the Word of Life Camp Ministry and in 1946 he purchased an island on Schroon Lake, New York and opened a Word of Life Camp in 1947. [4] Then he opened camps, conference centers, bible institutes, and church youth ministries in other countries. [5]
1814 – First recorded baptism of a mainland Chinese Protestant convert, Cai Gao; [218] American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed; [202] [219] Netherlands Bible Society founded [210] Samuel Marsden officiated at the first service on Christmas Day to begin the Church Missionary Society work in New Zealand. [220] [221]
Scofield's correspondence Bible study course was the basis for his Reference Bible, an annotated, and widely circulated, study Bible first published in 1909 by Oxford University Press. [25] Scofield's notes teach futurism and dispensationalism , a theology advanced in the early nineteenth century by the Anglo-Irish clergyman John Nelson Darby ...
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word " pentathlon ", from Greek δέκα ( déka , meaning "ten") and ἄθλος ( áthlos , or ἄθλον, áthlon , meaning "contest" or "prize").
J. Robert Atkinson (November 29, 1887 – February 1, 1964) was the founder of the Universal Braille Press in 1919 in Los Angeles, later known as the Braille Institute of America, and published the first Braille edition of the King James Version of the Bible, among other books. Atkinson became an innovator and advocate for the blind, working to ...