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YearMen's Difficulty1995Ian Vickers1996Arnaud Petit1997Francois Legrand1998Christian Core1999Chris Sharma2000Event discontinuedYearWomen's Difficulty1995Robyn Erbersfield1996Katie…Men's Olympic 20-kilometer Walk Through the Years
20-kilometer Walk Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 20km walking race from 1956 to the present. Year Time Record 1956 Leonid Spirin, USSR 1:31:27.4 1960…Chirico, Giorgio de
(Encyclopedia) Chirico, Giorgio deChirico, Giorgio dejōrˈjō dā kēˈrēkō [key], 1888–1978, Italian painter, b. Vólos, Greece. Chirico developed his enigmatic vision in Munich and Italy and from 1911 to…Cui, César Antonovich
(Encyclopedia) Cui, César AntonovichCui, César Antonovichtsāzärˈ äntôˈnôvĭch küēˈ [key], 1835–1918, Russian composer and critic, a military engineer by profession. As a music critic in St. Petersburg…Hollar, Václav
(Encyclopedia) Hollar, Václav or WenzelHollar, Václav or Wenzelvätsˈläf, vĕnˈtsəl hôlˈər [key], 1607–77, Bohemian etcher. He studied with Merian and after a period in Strasbourg and Cologne, he…lightship
(Encyclopedia) lightship, moored vessel bearing lights and other signal devices to guide ships and warn of hazards to navigation. Lightships are generally stationed at points where a lighthouse…Kidman, Sir Sidney
(Encyclopedia) Kidman, Sir Sidney,1857–1935, Australian stockman, b. near Adelaide. He worked as a stockman and a drover in the outback of New South Wales before he began a business carting supplies…Kemper, Reuben
(Encyclopedia) Kemper, Reuben, d. 1827, American adventurer, b. Virginia. With his brothers Nathan and Samuel he settled c.1800 in Feliciana, just above Baton Rouge, in West Florida, then Spanish…Johnson, Lionel Pigot
(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Lionel Pigot, 1867–1902, British poet and critic, b. Broadstairs, Kent, educated at Oxford. He lived an ascetic, scholarly life in London, converting to Roman Catholicism in…Armstrong, Edwin Howard
(Encyclopedia) Armstrong, Edwin Howard, 1890–1954, American engineer and radio inventor, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (E.E. 1913). He was associated in research with Michael I. Pupin at Columbia…Trending
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