Bobby Riggs
Bobby Riggs (Robert Larimore Riggs), 1918-95, U.S. tennis player, b. Los Angeles. Playing tennis from the age of 11, Riggs won several tournaments in the 1930s and helped the U.S. team win the Davis Cup in 1938. After winning the singles crown at Wimbledon (1939) and the U.S. National Championships (1939, 1941), he turned professional (1941). He won the national professional singles championship in 1946, 1947, and 1949. In May, 1973, he emerged from retirement as a professional tennis competitor to play Margaret Court , whom he defeated in a nationally televised winner-take-all match. Proclaiming the superiority of the male athlete over the female no matter what the age, he challenged Billie Jean King to a match. Riggs was soundly defeated (Sept., 1973) by her before a national television audience and 30,492 spectators in Houston.
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ROME BURNS TO BE BEST IN BUSINESS.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...things,'' Rogers said of Rome, who started as a fill...the early 1990s. Syracuse University TV and pop culture professor Robert Thompson said Rome's ability to grab and keep...Thompson said. ``Rome has developed his own brand...
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Rome, If You Want To; Boxing News Conference, Female Division
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/7/2003; ; 673 words
; ...job?" Rome asked. There's Rome the biologist. "Albert Pujols...left fielder. Then there's Rome the moralist, and this is where...are mercenaries for cash," Rome said about those involved in the ACC-Big East fiasco. "These university presidents can go to their mixers...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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ROME COMING TO TOWN FOR HIS 29TH TOUR STOP'.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 12/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...male bonding session." Rome and WTSO have compiled...guest list, including University of Wisconsin football...In between guests, Rome will talk smack, with...radio talk show host Jim Rome, along with WTSO-AM...Thurston and Kramer; University of Wisconsin football...
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Rome reborn.(INFO ZONE)(new computer simulation )
Magazine article from: WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin); 9/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...that re-creates the ancient city of Rome. Scientists based at the University of Virginia recently created Rome Reborn, a 3-D computer model of Julius...copy, of an ancient city. Just like Rome, this high-tech city wasn't built...
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Rome.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Marcia B. Hall, ed. Rome. Artistic Centers of the Italian...Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 358 pp. + 32...the visual arts of Renaissance Rome has long been lacking from the...fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Rome and Marcia Hall looks at "High...
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ROME WELCOMES REFUGEES TO FILL ITS SHRINKING POPULATION.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 10/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...many others. Now, the city of Rome is taking a cue from its sister...Brackett, a former Colgate University professor who runs the Brackett...Myanmar, also known as Burma. Rome's mayor looks at what the...the city, but also at what Rome can provide for people in need...
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Tour Ancient Rome at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles.
Business Wire; 8/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...experiences of ancient Rome. * The Institute...edu/) at the University of Virginia is...rights to the Rome Reborn model...Srl. and the University of Bologna have...greater than HD. "Rome Reborn represents...inside several universities
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PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Sarah Rome; A sensational surprise Four years ago, an inexperienced Sarah Rome joined the volleyball team at Eagan High School. It didn't take long before she became a dominant outside hitter for one of the state's most powerful programs.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 11/9/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Renick, who now plays at the University of Pittsburgh, was another influence. Rome was a ninth-grader when Renick...starred for the Wildcats. "[Rome] pulls up the rest of the...kids who have to take Sarah Rome's hits - boy, they will...
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Pennsylvania Delegation Visits Rome to Sell Tourism.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 3/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Ridge, making his first visit to Rome, the three-day trip has meant...he joined students from Temple University's Rome campus in a rare two-way computerized...Their live images floated back to Rome in the same jerky, slow-motion...
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COLLABORATION WITH GOOGLE EARTH PUTS U.VA.'S 'ROME REBORN' ON INTERNET
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/12/2008; 700+ words
; The University of Virginia issued the following news release: "Rome Reborn," the digital...fragments of a map of ancient Rome, developed at Stanford University. Over time, other resources...bubbles" for "Ancient Rome 3D" have been translated...
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Rome, Treaty of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
ROME, TREATY OF French – Italian pact...minister Pierre Laval signed the Treaty of Rome with Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini...edition. 2 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975 – 1979. Taylor...
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University of Rome
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
University of Rome at Rome, Italy; founded 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII. It has faculties of jurisprudence; political science; economics and commerce; statistics, demography, and actuarial science; letters and philosophy; education; medicine...
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Baccelli, Guido
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the autonomy of the Italian universities and reformed the system of...center which was opened in Rome on 9 April 1906. A fascinating...Society of Internal Medicine (Rome, 1888), and the Eleventh...International Congress of Medicine (Rome, 1894). Baccelli ’...practical medicine at Padua ...
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Fontana
Book article from: Contemporary Fashion
...Moda SrL by Micol Fontana, Rome, 1985; sold Valextra to French...Exhibitions: retrospective, University of Parma, 1984; evening dresses...Castel Sant'Angelo Museum, Rome, 1985; Munich, March 1986...1956; Silver Mask award, Rome, 1960; Fontana sisters named...
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Capucci, Roberto
Book article from: Contemporary Fashion
...Capucci, 1965; returned to Rome and opened Via Gregoriana studio...Italian Cultural Life, Columbia University, New York and Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1986-87; Fashion and Surrealism...Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, late 1990s; Roben wie R...
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