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Women's Olympic Alpine Skiing
Multiple gold medals: Deborah Compagnoni, Janica Kostelic, Vreni Schneider, Katja Seizinger, and Maria Riesch (3); Marielle Goitschel, Trude Jochum-Beiser, Petra Kronberger, Andrea Mead…1998 Women's Olympic Alpine Skiing Medalists
Downhill Time 1 Katja Seizinger, GER 1:28.89 2 Pernilla Wiberg, SWE 1:29.18 3 Florence Masnada, FRA 1:29.37 Top 10 USA: 6th, Picabo Street (1:29.54). Slalom…1957 Academy Awards
The 1957 Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1958 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Best Motion PictureThe Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia)Peyton…Women in the 115th Congress
This table provides the name and state of the women serving in the 115th Congress, which began in 2015. There are 89 women in the House of Representatives and 22 women in the Senate. State…1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup Champions
Men Overall Hermann Maier, AUT Downhill Andreas Schifferer, AUT Slalom Thomas Sykora, AUT Giant Slalom Hermann Maier, AUT Super G Hermann Maier, AUT Nation's Cup…Martin Burnham, 2002 News
missionary from Kansas, was killed in June during a fire fight in the Philippines between members of Muslim rebel group Abu Sayyaf and government troops. Filipino nurse Deborah Yap also died…David Irving, 2000 News
historian and author, was called an anti-Semite racist and a Hitler apologist in April by British High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case in which Irving sued…Guggenheim
(Encyclopedia) GuggenheimGuggenheimg&oobreve;gˈənhīm [key], family of American industrialists and philanthropists. Meyer Guggenheim, 1828–1905, b. Aargau canton, Switzerland, emigrated (1847) to…King, William Lyon Mackenzie
(Encyclopedia) King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, Canadian political leader, b. Kitchener, Ont.; grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie. An expert on labor questions, he served in Wilfrid Laurier's…Key West
(Encyclopedia) Key West, city (1990 pop. 24,832), seat of Monroe co., S Fla., on an island at the southwestern extremity of the Florida Keys; inc. 1828. About 150 mi (240 km) from Miami (but only 90…