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1999 Decathlon World, Olympic and American Records
Decathlon Points Date Set Location Ten Events: World 8994 Tomas Dvorak, Czech. July 3-4, 1999 Prague Olympic 8847 Daley Thompson, Great Britain…Matthew Hale CARPENTER, Congress, WI (1824-1881)
Senate Years of Service: 1869-1875; 1879-1881 Party: Republican; Republican CARPENTER Matthew Hale , a Senator from Wisconsin; born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter in Moretown, Washington…Women's Olympic Swimming
50-meter Freestyle100-meter Freestyle200-meter Freestyle400-meter Freestyle800-meter Freestyle100-meter Backstroke200-meter Backstroke100-meter Breaststroke200-meter Breaststroke100-meter…amusement park
(Encyclopedia) amusement park, a commercially operated park offering various forms of entertainment, such as arcade games, carousels, roller coasters, and performers, as well as food, drink, and…city government
(Encyclopedia) city government, political administration of urban areas. The English tradition of incorporating urban units (cities, boroughs, villages, towns) and allowing them freedom in most local…Kennan, George Frost
(Encyclopedia) Kennan, George Frost, 1904–2005, U.S. diplomat and historian, b. Milwaukee, Wis., grad. Princeton, 1925. A brilliant strategist and among the most influential and intellectual…Morris, William
(Encyclopedia) Morris, William, 1834–96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer. He has long been considered one of the great Victorians and has been called the…monsters and imaginary beasts
(Encyclopedia) monsters and imaginary beasts. The mythologies and legends of ancient and modern cultures teem with an enormous variety of monsters and imaginary beasts. A great number of these are…bossism
(Encyclopedia) bossism, in U.S. history, system of political control centering about a single powerful figure (the boss) and a complex organization of lesser figures (the machine) bound together by…psychiatry
(Encyclopedia) psychiatrypsychiatrysəkīˈətrē, sī– [key], branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression,…