Children's Crusade
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Children's Crusade (1212). A popular movement intended to recover
Jerusalem for Christian rule. Marching from
Cologne, the main party reached Genoa, but went no further. The so-called ‘children’ were perhaps servants, shepherds, and other marginalized people.
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SEN. GOLDEN HONORS BROOKLYN NATIVE, PIONEERING SPORTS HEROINE GERTRUDE CAROLINE EDERLE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/8/2006; 536 words
; ...named Brooklyn native Gertrude Caroline Ederle an Historic New York Woman of Distinction. "Gertrude Caroline Ederle helped pave the way for...Senator Golden's inductee, Gertrude Caroline Ederle, became the first woman...
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Gertrude Ederle; Swam English Channel in '26
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...with new marvels and feats. Ms. Ederle, who suffered a debilitating...she felt nothing of the sort. Gertrude Caroline Ederle was born in New York and spent...in contest-entry forms when Gertrude was content to splash around for...
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Taking a Lake Michigan swim in battle against breast cancer
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 7/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...whirlpool beneath Niagra Falls. [] Gertrude Caroline Ederle, the first woman to successfully...years after Capt. Webb, but Ederle -- a 1924 Olympic gold medalist...off the time. A final note on Ederle: Pay no attention to the footnote...
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BROWSING THROUGH WOMEN'S HISTORY Good CD-ROM tells HERstory `Her Heritage' is biographical encyclopedia of noted Americans
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/12/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, who coined the term "bug" as a moniker for computer glitches, and Gertrude Caroline Ederle, who in 1926 not only proved wrong the prevailing opinion that a woman couldn't swim the English Channel but...
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Biography.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Review)
Magazine article from: Social Education; 5/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...Lerner Biographies series). Caroline Lazo. Illustrated with photographs...AMERICA'S CHAMPION SWIMMER: GERTRUDE EDERLE. David A. Adler. Illustrated...woman to swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle lived a life full of daring and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/6/1994; 700+ words
; ...the Allies landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 1915; Gertrude Ederle, swimmer, became the first woman to swim the English...Bunche, diplomat and Nobel prizewinner, 1904. Deaths: Caroline, Queen of George IV, 1821; Joseph-Marie Jacquard...
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gertrude Caroline Ederle , 1905-2003, American swimmer, b. New York City. Ederle won three medals in the 1924 Olympic games. On Aug. 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, which she crossed in rough seas in 14...
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