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3-Pt Field Goals Per Game

3-Pt Field Goals Per Game ClGmNoAvgCurtis Staples, VirginiaSr.301304.3Cedric Foster, Mississippi Valley St.Sr.22863.9Charles Jones, LIU-BrooklynSr.301163.9Demond Mallet, McNeese St.So.26943.…

1948 Olympic Yachting Medal Winners

Event     Olympic Monotype Paul Elvström, DEN 5543   Ralph Evans Jr., USA 5408   Jacobus de Jong, HOL 5204 International Star USA 5828   Cuba 4949…

Women's Suffrage

Saudi women vote for the first time Source: AP When and where did women earn the right to vote? Learn the year in which women's suffrage was granted, organized by year. New Zealand was the…

Sounds Like a Broken Record

Donovan Bailey (right) leads Michael Johnson by a smidgen as the two come of the turn at their 1997 race to determine “Who is the world's fastest man?” at Toronto's SkyDome.Wide World Photos…

Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye

(Encyclopedia) Kierkegaard, Søren AabyeKierkegaard, Søren Aabyesöˈrən ôbˈü kyĕrˈkəgôr [key], 1813–55, Danish philosopher and religious thinker. Kierkegaard's outwardly uneventful life in Copenhagen…

Augustus II

(Encyclopedia) Augustus II, 1670–1733, king of Poland (1697–1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694–1733). He commanded the imperial army against the Turks (1695–96), but had no…

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Most Famous Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the six international awards administered by the Nobel Foundation, honors outstanding achievement in letters. The estate…

June 2022 Current Events: World News

Top of Page US News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the World…

1946 Cannes Film Festival

Grand PrixThe Red Earth, Lau Lauritzen (Denmark)The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder (United States)Symphonie Pastorale, Jean Delannoy (France)Brief Encounter, David Lean (United Kingdom)Neecha…

Brewer's: Nero of the North

Christian II. of Denmark (1480, 1534-1558, 1559). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Nero's FriendNero A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…