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Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters(Shirley Schrift)actressBorn: 8/18/1920Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri This one-time roommate of Marilyn Monroe went on to carve out her own considerable niche in Hollywood. Winters…

Winter X Games

CrossOverSkiboardingIce ClimbingSkiingSnowboardingSuper-modified Shovel RacingSnow Mountain Bike RacingSnomobilingUltracrossMoto X

Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters was a comedian whose unique brand of rapid-fire sound effects and improvised character sketches made him a television star in the 1960s and '70s. An Ohio boy who joined the Marines…

Winter Storm

  1888 Jan. 12, Midwest: the “The Schoolhouse Blizzard.” More than 200 people died while trying to get home after a sudden drop in temperature and a major storm that hit during school and work…

Winter Sports

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Winter Sports

Alpine SkiingFreestyle SkiingCross CountryNordic CombinedWorld Cup ChampionsSki JumpingWorld Cup Champions2002 U.S. Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined ChampionshipsSnowboardingFigure SkatingSpeed…

Winter, Sir Gregory Paul

(Encyclopedia) Winter, Sir Gregory Paul, 1951–, British biochemist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1976. He has spent most of his career as a researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England…

Squaw Valley

(Encyclopedia) Squaw Valley, valley, NE Calif., in the Sierra Nevada Mts., NW of Lake Tahoe. A well-known ski and winter recreational resort, it was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Ski lifts…

Placid, Lake

(Encyclopedia) Placid, Lake, 4 mi (6 km) long and c.1.5 mi (2.4 km) wide, NE N.Y., in the Adirondack Mts., near Mt. Marcy. The lake, with Lake Placid village at the southern end, is a noted winter-…

Poyang

(Encyclopedia) Poyang or P'o-yangP'o-yangboth: pô-yäng [key], shallow lake, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), N Jiangxi prov., SE China; one of China's largest lakes. It serves as a natural overflow…