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2001-02 NBA Sixth-Man Awards

Voted on by a 125-member panel of local and national pro basketball writers and broadcasters.   Pos Votes Corliss Williamson, Detroit F 56 Bobby Jackson, Sacramento G 30…

Brewer's: No Man is a Hero to his own Valet

Montaigne (1533-1592) said: “Peu d'hommes ont esté admirés par leurs domestiques.” Mad. Cornuel (who died 1694) wrote to the same effect: “Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet de…

1998 Olympic Four-Man Bobsledding Results

    Time 1 Germany II 2:39.41 2 Switzerland I 2:40.01 3 Great Britain I 2:40.06 3 France I 2:40.06 GER II— Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann, Marco Jakobs…

The 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans Results

June 16-17, at Le Mans, France Officially the Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance and first held in 1923. Contested over the 8.456-mile Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France. Listed are qualifying…

genius

(Encyclopedia) genius, in Roman religion, guardian spirit of a man, a family, or a state. In some instances, a place, a city, or an institution had its genius. As the guardian spirit of an individual…

Mason, James

(Encyclopedia) Mason, James, 1909–84, British stage and film actor. Mason, trained at Cambridge as an architect, became a leading man in British films in the 1940s and thereafter an international…

Markham, Edwin

(Encyclopedia) Markham, Edwin, 1852–1940, American poet, b. Oregon City, Oreg. He grew up in California and later taught school there. In 1899 he achieved widespread popularity for the poem “The Man…

Dawkins, Sir William Boyd

(Encyclopedia) Dawkins, Sir William Boyd, 1837–1929, English geologist and archaeologist. He was a member (1861–69) of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, curator (1870–90) of the Manchester…