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2008 Olympic Yachting Medal Winners
These are the medal winners of the men's and women's yachting events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. MEN Event RS:X Windsurfer Tom Ashley, NZL Julien Bontemps,…High Jump
High JumpYear Height 1928 Ethel Catherwood, CAN 5- 21/2 1932 Jean Shiley, USA 5- 51/4 WR1936 Ibolya Csäk, HUN 5- 3 1948 Alice Coachman, USA 5- 6 OR1952 Esther Brand, RSA5- 53/4 1956…Pairs—Olympic Figure Skating
Multiple gold medals: MEN–Pierre Brunet, Artur Dmitriev, Sergei Grinkov, Oleg Protopopov and Aleksandr Zaitsev (2). WOMEN–Irina Rodnina (3); Ludmila Belousova, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Andree…Dance Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame was opened in 1986 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.1987Fred AstaireGeorge BalanchineAgnes de MilleIsadora DuncanKatherine DunhamMartha Graham Doris…Top 100 Works in World Literature
Source: Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2002. The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54…Houston, Texas
Source: iStock Mayor: Sylvester Turner (since 2016) 2010 census population (rank): 2,099,451 (4); Male: 1,053,517 (50.1%); Female: 1,045,934 (49.9%); White: 1,060,491 (50.5%); Black: 498,466 (…1955 Academy Awards
The 1955 Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1956 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif and the NBC Century Theatre, New York, N.Y.Best Motion PictureLove Is a Many Splendored…2000 Women's Synchronized Swimming Medalists
50-meter Freestyle Time 1 Inge de Bruijn, NED 24.32 2 Theresa Alshammar, SWE 24.51 3 Dara Torres, USA 24.63 Note: de Bruijn's time of 24.13 in a preliminary…Movies and Film: Hong Kong: Cantonese, Kung-Fu, and a New Wave
Hong Kong: Cantonese, Kung-Fu, and a New WaveMovies and FilmAsian Film HistoryTwo Chinas, Two CinemasHong Kong: Cantonese, Kung-Fu, and a New WaveBenching the Benshi: Japan's Illustrious CenturyThe…Brewer's: Iron Mask
The man in the iron mask (called Lestang) was Count Ercolo Antonio Matthioli, a senator of Mantua, and private agent of Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua. He suffered imprisonment of…Trending
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