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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").
The Academic Decathlon consists of 10 events: art, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, math, music, science, social science, and speech. [2] The Super Quiz replaces one of the seven objective events; since 2003, it has alternated between replacing science and social science. [3]
Only the top two scores from the Honors, Scholastic and Varsity divisions are counted for the team score. Until 2013, 60,000 was the maximum possible team score. In 2013, Super Quiz became a 10,000 point event that only counts for the team score, making the maximum possible team score 70,000. [27]
DECA Inc., formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit career and technical student organization (CTSO) with more than 297,000 [1] members in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, DC; Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnam. The United States Congress, the United ...
The two most-watched television broadcasts in Canadian history occurred during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For the gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics , played between the United States and Canada, confirmed 16.6 million Canadians watched the whole game, roughly one-half of the country's entire ...
World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...
Backflip Studios held several "Bring Em Back" events to give players a chance to breed a limited dragon they may have missed the first time around. DECA has held “Dragon Week” events to give players similar opportunities. Gems are a vital part of DragonVale. They can be used to speed up most in-game waiting times.
A car bomb attack in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. [citation needed] September 11, 2001: September 11th: 9/11: Four coordinated suicide attacks by plane hijacking upon the United States by Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. March 11, 2004: 2004 Madrid train bombings: 11M