The first baseball team to wear numbers was the New York Yankees, in 1929. The numbers represented their batting order.4 Roger Bannister ran a 3:59:4-minute mile, the first under four minutes, in…
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(Encyclopedia) Chatterton, Thomas, 1752–70, English poet. The posthumous son of a poor Bristol schoolmaster, he was already composing the “Rowley Poems” at the age of 12, claiming they were copies of…
(Encyclopedia) Meyerhold, VsevolodMeyerhold, Vsevolodfəsyĕˈvəlŭt mēˈûrhōlt [key], 1874–1940?, Russian theatrical director and producer. Meyerhold led the revolt against naturalism in the Russian…
(Encyclopedia) North, Douglass Cecil, 1920–2015, American economic historian, b. Cambridge, Mass., Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1952. North was on the faculty at the Univ. of Washington,…
(Encyclopedia) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), former U.S. government agency, created in 1932 by the administration of Herbert Hoover. Its purpose was to facilitate economic activity by…
The first women's gymnastics instruction in the United States was given at Mount Holyoke College in 1862. Olympic gymnastics competition for women was…
First Olympic Appearance: 1912 (men); 2000 (women)
by Mike Morrison and Mark Zurlo Related Links Olympics Overview 2012 Encyclopedia: Gymnastics Always one of the most…
