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View groupThe Olympic opening ceremony has long marked the official commencement of the Olympic Games. The celebration, with traditions including the declaration of the Olympic Oath and the running of the torch, signifies a gathering of nations to celebrate the best in sports. The Olympic opening ceremony has also provided an opportunity for host cities to showcase their cultures, often featuring native performers and superstars. From Celine Dion to R. Kelly to Björk, Biography.com looks at the many gifted performers who have graced the stage of the opening ceremony, igniting the excitement and spirit that is the Olympic Games.
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View groupBorn four years apart, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small town in Ohio. They shared an intellectual curiosity and an aptitude for science, at a time when the possibility of human flight was beginning to look like a reality. Together, the Wright brothers developed the first successful airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina—and together they became national heroes. Considered the fathers of modern aviation, they developed innovative technology and inspired imaginations around the world.
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The premiere of Peyton Place in 1964 marked the birth of the primetime serial. "The continuing story of Peyton Place" was an instant hit, airing three nights a week at the height of its popularity. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
Ryan O'Neal
Mia Farrow
The first season of Peyton Place centered on the love triangle between Rodney (Ryan O'Neal), Allison (Mia Farrow), and Betty (Barbara Parkins). Mia Farrow left the show in 1966, which led to an instant decline in ratings. (Photo by ABC Television/Getty Images)
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Mia Farrow
Initially a mini-series centering on a family of oil barons, the Ewings, Dallas became a regular series that ran from 1978 to 1991. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
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Larry Hagman
The Ewing brothers engaged in many epic fights, with good-guy Bobby (Patrick Duffy) always trying to do the right thing against the greedy J.R. (Larry Hagman). (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
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Larry Hagman
Linda Gray played Sue Ellen, J.R. Ewing's alcoholic wife who divorced him twice and became one of his biggest enemies. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
At the end of the seventh season of Dallas, Patrick Duffy left the series and his character was killed off in a car accident. He returned at the end of the eighth season, when Victoria Principal's character, Pam, awakes to find Bobby in the shower. The entire eighth season of Dallas was Pam's dream. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Patrick Duffy
With the success of CBS' Dallas, ABC launched Dynasty, another serial that focused on a family of oil tycoons--this time in Denver--the Carringtons. (Photo by Getty Images)
John Forsythe
Joan Collins
Diahann Carroll played Dominique Deveraux on both Dynasty and its spin-off, The Colbys. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
Diahann Carroll
Dynasty suffered from low ratings in its first season. Actress Joan Collins joined the cast in the second season as the evil Alexis Colby, which bolstered ratings. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
Joan Collins
Heather Locklear played Sammy Jo on Dynasty, the niece of Linda Evan's character, Krystle Carrington. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
Heather Locklear
Catherine Oxenberg played Amanda Carrington, whose wedding was interrupted by the "Moldovian Massacre," after which the entire cast of Dynasty laid lifeless in the church, resulting in one of the greatest cliffhangers in TV history. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
The same year that her ex-husband Ronald Reagan moved into the White House, Jane Wyman moved to TV and became the matriarch of Falcon Crest. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Jane Wyman
Like other primetime soaps, Falcon Crest focused on a wealthy family, though instead of oil, they produced wine. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Lorenzo Lamas was the ladies' man of Falcon Crest. (Photo by Ann Clifford/DMI/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Morgan Fairchild was a familiar face on many drama series during the 1980s, including Flamingo Road, Hotel, and Falcon Crest. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
Morgan Fairchild
Long before solving crimes on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mariska Hargitay spent a year on Falcon Crest. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
In 1979, CBS debuted Knots Landing, a Dallas spin-off focusing on married couples in suburban Los Angeles. (Photo by CBS/Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)
Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, and Donna Mills were the women of the Knots Landing cul-de-sac. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Joan Van Ark played Val Ewing, the sister-in-law of Dallas' Bobby and J.R. Ewing. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Donna Mills played Abby, the neighborhood bad girl of Knots Landing. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Long before 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin got his start as a mentally ill televangelist on Knots Landing. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Alec Baldwin
James Brolin and Connie Sellecca starred on Hotel, a serial that focused on the daily events in a San Francisco hotel. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Not all primetime soaps were ratings winners. NBC's Flamingo Road only lasted two seasons. (Photo by Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank)
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Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon played Field Carlyle, the husband of Morgan Fairchild's character, on Flamingo Road. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
Mark Harmon
David Lynch's Twin Peaks ran for two seasons in the early 1990s and attempted to answer the question "Who killed Laura Palmer?" Lara Flynn Boyle first garnered attention for playing Laura Palmer's best friend on the series. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Michael Ontkean and David Lynch regular, Kyle MacLachlan, tried to solve Laura Palmer's murder. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
With The Love Boat from the 1970s and Dynasty from the 1980s, producer Aaron Spelling's television successes spanned decades. His daughter, Tori Spelling, along with Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth, helped him score another success in the 1990s with Beverly Hills, 90210. (Photo by Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Tori Spelling
Shannen Doherty
A spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place started out by focusing on struggling young people in Los Angeles. Within two seasons, it evolved into an over-the-top serial. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images)
Heather Locklear joined the cast of Melrose Place in 1993 and was credited as a "special guest star" for the rest of the series. (Photo By Getty Images)
Heather Locklear
Desperate Housewives focused on the inhabitants of Wisteria Lane, a fictional suburban town where one of the residents has just committed suicide. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)
The Ewing family went back to primetime on TNT's reboot of Dallas. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/WireImage)
Larry Hagman
Patrick Duffy
Dallas (2012) takes the family feud to the next generation by focusing on children of Bobby and J.R. Ewing. (Photo by Ted Pio-roda/TNT via WireImage)
Original Dallas stars Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray, along with Larry Hagman, are back to fighting on Southfork Ranch in 2012. (Photo by Ted Pio-roda/TNT via WireImage)
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