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1994 Gramophone Awards

Instrumental (Record of the Year)Debussy, Préludes, Krystian Zimerman (Deutsche Grammophon)Baroque VocalMonteverdi, Quarto Libro dei Madrigali, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Opus…

Fields Medal Winners

The Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize of math, has been awarded quadrennially since 1936 by the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematics…

Brewer's: Santa Claus

or Santa Klaus. A corrupt contraction of Sankt Nikolaus (Sankni kolaus - i.e. St. Nicolas), the patron saint of children. The vigil of his feast is still held in some places, but for the…

Brewer's: Sleeper

(The). Epimenides, the Greek poet, is said to have fallen asleep in a cave when a boy, and not to have waked for fifty-seven years, when he found himself possessed of all wisdom. Rip Van…

1992 Olympic Equestrian Medalists

Event   Score Three-Day Event Matthew Ryan, AUS 70.0   Herbert Blöcker, GER 81.3   Blyth Tait, NZL 87.6 Three-Day Event (Team) Australia 288.6   New…

1964 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Class   Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Yoshikatsu Yoshida, JPN   Chang-Sun Chang, KOR   Said Aliaakbar Haydari, IRN Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Yojiro Uetake, JPN   Hüseyn Akbas…

1972 Olympic Judo Results

Class   (-138 3/4 lb) Takao Kawaguchi, JPN   Bakhaava Buidaa, MGL (disqualified after positive drug test)   Yong Ik Kim, PRK   Jean-Jacques Monuier, FRA (-154 1/4 lb)…

1968 Men's Olympic Swimming Medalists

Event   Time   100m Free Mike Wenden, AUS 52.2 WR   Ken Walsh, USA 52.8     Mark Spitz, USA 53.0   200m Free Mike Wenden, AUS 1:55.2 OR  …

1960 Olympics Shooting Medalists

Event     Free Rifle (3 positions) Hubert Hammerer, AUT 1129   Hans Spillmann, SUI 1127   Vasiliy Borissov, URS 1127 Small-Bore Rifle (Prone) Peter Kohnke, GER…