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1936 Olympic Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. No   Sport G-S-B 4 Ivar Ballangrud, NOR Sp. Skate 3-1-0 3 Oddbjörn Hagen, NOR…

Green River

(Encyclopedia) Green River. 1 River, 370 mi (595 km) long, rising in central Ky. and flowing generally NW, through Mammoth Cave National Park, to the Ohio River near Evansville, Ind. Locks and dams…

Greensburg

(Encyclopedia) Greensburg. 1 City (2020 pop. 14,976), seat of Westmoreland co., SW Pa.; settled c.1770, inc. as a city 1928. Located in a coal area,…

Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe

(Encyclopedia) Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham HyacintheAnquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacintheäbrä-ämˈyäsăNtˈ [key]Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe, [key]Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe äNkətēlˈ […

Halmahera

(Encyclopedia) Halmahera Halmahera hälmähâˈrä [key] or Jailolo Halmahera…

Hill, Geoffrey

(Encyclopedia) Hill, Geoffrey (Sir Geoffrey William Hill), 1932–2016, English poet, b. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, grad. Oxford. Widely hailed as one of the finest poets of his generation, he wrote…

hip

(Encyclopedia) hip, in human anatomy, the joint separating the thigh bone from the pelvis, and the surrounding flesh. The adult hipbone consolidates three bones separate in youth: the ilium, ischium…

Lodge, David

(Encyclopedia) Lodge, David (David John Lodge), 1935–, English novelist and critic, b. London, grad. University College, London (B.A. 1955, M.A. 1959) and the Univ. of Birmingham (Ph.D., 1967). Lodge…