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A total of 2,900 athletes from 90 countries will compete in 16 sports. For the first time, ski mountaineering will be included in the Olympic programme, alongside ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short track speed skating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing, alpine skiing, curling, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton, biathlon, cross- country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong Slovene fans there is keen interest in the ski jumping events, which will take place in Predazzo. 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Her first book, Misterij žene (The mystery of a woman), published in Prague in 1900, establishedher as one of the leading figures of the Slovene women’s movement. Several more books followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wrote in Slovene, Czech, Croatian and German. For many years she was the editor of the monthly Domači prijatelj, which featured work by established Slovene writers. In 1904 she moved to Zagreb, married and started a family. From 1917 she published the magazine Ženski svet and edited and contributed to numerous other periodicals. 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The river Unica meanders across it, flowing out of Planina Cave and sinking again near the village of Jakovica.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis means it forms part of the vast karst underground water system that ends at the source of the Ljubljanica near Vrhnika. After heavy rainfall, especially in early spring and late autumn, the Unica floods Planina Polje, creating Planina Lake. The water may remain for only a few days or for several months, depending on the volume of rainfall. The highest water level reached by the lake is about 10 metres above the surface of the polje. Over the centuries, people living in the villages around Planina Polje and the intermittent lake developed ways of living in harmony with nature and its phenomena. When the polje flooded, they used wooden boats similar to those used on the intermittent Lake Cerknica. They rowed across the water to carry out their daily tasks, most often to the village of Planina. 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