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Women's Olympic Swimming: 800-meter Freestyle

800-meter Freestyle Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the women's 800m Freestyle swimming competition from 1968 to the present. Year WinnerTime Record1968 Debbie Meyer, USA…

2004 WNBA League Leaders

POINTS PER GAME GmPtsPPGLauren Jackson, Seattle3163420.5Tina Thompson, Houston2652020.0Lisa Leslie, Los Angeles3459817.6Diana Taurasi, Phoenix3457817.0Tamika Catchings, Indiana3456816.…

right whale

(Encyclopedia) right whale, name for whales of the family Balaenidae. They were so named by whalers, who for centuries considered them “the right whales” to hunt, because they float when killed and…

Marshall Plan

(Encyclopedia) Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War…

Cook, James

(Encyclopedia) Cook, James, 1728–79, English explorer and navigator. The son of a Yorkshire agricultural laborer, he had little formal education. After an apprenticeship to a firm of shipowners at…

Doniphan, Alexander William

(Encyclopedia) Doniphan, Alexander WilliamDoniphan, Alexander Williamdŏnˈĭfən [key], 1808–87, American lawyer and soldier, b. Mason co., Ky. He began (1830) to practice law in Lexington, Mo., and…