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U.S. Medal-Winning Baseball Teams

Multiple gold medals: Cuba (3). Year   1992 Cuba, Taiwan, Japan 1996 Cuba, Japan, United States 2000 United States, Cuba, South Korea 2004 Cuba, Australia, Japan 2008…

2000–2001 Season Recap: Duke is King

It was about time for Shane Battier. The senior All-American had come close to winning a national title in his Duke career only to fall short each time. This season Battier, along with point guard…

United States Military Academy

(Encyclopedia) United States Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. army; founded and opened in 1802. The original act provided that the…

Lothair, king of Lotharingia

(Encyclopedia) Lothair, sometimes called Lothair II, d. 869, king of Lotharingia (855–69), second son of Emperor of the West Lothair I. He inherited the region bounded by the Rhine, Scheldt, Alps,…

Awami League

(Encyclopedia) Awami League, political organization in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It was founded in 1949 as an opposition party in Pakistan and had a moderately socialist ideology. The Awami [people's…

Fort Worth

(Encyclopedia) Fort Worth, city (2020 pop. 918,915), seat of Tarrant co., N Tex., on the Trinity River 30 mi (48 km) W of Dallas; settled 1843, inc.…

Beth-car

(Encyclopedia) Beth-car, in the Bible, a town, generally west of Jerusalem.