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John Randall WALKER, Congress, GA (1874-1942)
WALKER John Randall , a Representative from Georgia; born near Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., February 23, 1874; graduated from Jasper Normal College, Jasper, Fla., 1895; graduated from the…Jenny Thompson
Jenny ThompsonBorn: Feb. 26, 1973Swimmer Eight-time Olympic gold medalist (all in relays) and winner of 12 Olympic medals overall, more than any other American woman; won 3 gold (4x100 free,…2004 World History
Viktor Yushchenko (1954– ) 2004 Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow pleads guilty to defrauding Enron (Jan. 13). Bush proposes ambitious space program that includes flights to the Moon, Mars…Modern Olympic Symbols and Traditions
Flames, doves, oaths, and more Closing ceremonies in Nagano, Japan. Related Links 2022 Winter Olympics Memorable Olympic Moments Birth of the Modern Olympics Encyclopedia:…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Preface
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Dramatis Personae Preface The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it…Brewer's: Serpent
An attribute of St. Cecilia, St. Euphemia, and many other saints, either because they trampled on Satan, or because they miraculously cleared some country of such reptiles. (See Dagon.)…Classical Mythology: First in War, First in Peace: Athena
First in War, First in Peace: AthenaClassical MythologyThe A Team: Olympians AllFirst in War, First in Peace: AthenaThree's a Crowd: The Olympian Love TriangleFirst of the Red-Hot Lovers:…Timeline: Olympics, Ancient Greece - 1940s
From ancient Greece to the present day Ancient Greece | Late 1800s | 1900s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | Next Before 776 B.C. Ancient Greece Athletic contests are held at Olympia every four years,…The Iliad of Homer: Of the single combat between Alas and Hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about the Achaian ships
Book 6 Book 8 Of the single combat between Alas and Hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about the Achaian ships. So spake glorious Hector and issued…Aesop's Fables: The Debtor and his Sow
by Aesop The Kid and the WolfThe Bald HuntsmanThe Debtor and his Sow A Man of Athens fell into debt and was pressed for the money by his creditor; but he had no means of paying at the time…Trending
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