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1956 Olympics Shooting Medalists

Event     Free Rifle (3 positions) Vasiliy Borissov, URS 1138   Allan Erdman, URS 1137   Vilho Ylönen, FIN 1128 Small-Bore Rifle (Prone) Gerald R. Ouelette, CAN…

Summer 1912 Olympics Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No   Sport G-S-B 6 Louis Richardet, SWI Shooting 4-2-0 5 Wilhelm Carlberg…

Brewer's: Gamelyn

(3 syl., g hard). The youngest of the three sons of Sir Johan de Boundys. On his death-bed the old knight left “five plowes of land” to each of his two elder sons, and the rest of his…

1948 Olympic Canoeing Results

MEN Event   Time 1000 m Kayak Singles K1 Gert Fredriksson, SWE 4:33.2   Johan Kobberup, DEN 4:39.9   Henri Eberhardt 4:41.4 10,000 m Kayak Singles K1 Gert…

2002 Union Cycliste Internationale Championship

2002 Major UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) Road results through Sept. 15. Note that in some instances, the date shown below is the final day of that particular race. Men Race Winner Jan…

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

June 2022 will mark the platinum jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II, marking 70 years since she became Queen. Very few monarchs get to celebrate a platinum jubilee, so what is the significance of…

Notable Winter Olympics Biographies, A-Z

  A-D | E-I | J-L | M-Z Anita DeFrantz Tenley Albright, American figure skater Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater Bonnie Blair, American speed skater Herb Brooks, American hockey coach…

Brewer's: Fools

(French, fol, Latin, follis.) (1) The most celebrated court fools: (a) Dagonet, jester of King Arthur; Rayère, of Henry I.; Scogan, of Edward IV.; Thomas Killigrew, called “King Charles's…