The children also made a model of East Dorset's Charles Bennett who took part in the 1900 Paris Olympic Games.

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At the 1900 Paris Expo they crossed paths with Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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Golf previously featured at the Paris Games of 1900 and in St Louis in 1904, while Olympic medals could be won by rugby players who contested the 15-a-side format from 1900-24.

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Golf was played at the Paris Games in 1900 - when Walter Rutherford and David Robertson won silver and gold respectively for Great Britain - and four years later in St Louis, but has never returned to the Olympic agenda.

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Wrestling has been a part of all but one of the modern Olympic Games since their inception in 1896, missing only the 1900 Games in Paris.

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In fact, German engineer Rudolph Diesel used peanut oil to demonstrate his invention at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.

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Wilde died in 1900, in a run-down Paris hotel, at the age of forty-six.

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