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Show Started Vacation Idea The Olympic games are given credit ' for having been the origin of the va cation period now so universal throughout through-out the world. Excursions to these games In Greece started the outing habit, It Is said. The period was set by the lunar calendar, coming usually following the first full moon after June 21, every four years It was usually usu-ally necessary for the Greeks to travel aom little distance to witness the tames. From this habit the summer Taeatlon custom is said to have started ad spread steadily over the world. |