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1912 Men's Olympic Swimming Medalists

Event   Time   100m Free Duke Kahanamoku, USA 1:03.4     Cecil Healey, AUS 1:04.6     Kenneth Huszagh, USA 1:05.6   400m Free George Hodgson, CAN 5…

Medical Advances Timeline

Find key developments in the field of medicine, from the birth of Hippocrates to today. 460 BCE Birth of Hippocrates, Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father…

plague

(Encyclopedia) plague, any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the same infection. These acute febrile…

Strasbourg

(Encyclopedia) StrasbourgStrasbourgsträzb&oomacr;rˈ [key], Ger. Strassburg, city (1990 pop. 255,931), capital of Bas-Rhin dept., NE France, on the Ill River near its junction with the Rhine. It…

Swiss literature

(Encyclopedia) Swiss literature. The literature of Switzerland is written in German, French, Italian, and Romansh, with German predominating. The extensive literature in Romansh dialect (see Rhaeto-…

British (Wimbledon) Champions: Doubles—Men

Doubles—Men1884–86William Renshaw–Ernest Renshaw1887Herbert Wilberforce–P.B. Lyon1888–89William Renshaw–Ernest Renshaw1890Joshua Pim–F.O. Stoker1891Wilfred Baddeley–Herbert Baddeley1892E.W.…