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Fanny Blankers-Koen Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen Fanny Blankers-Koen (born 1918) was known as the "first queen of women's Olympics." She remains the first and only woman ever to win four gold medals at a single Olympics. When Blankers-Koen began her sports career, Norman Giller noted in The 1984 Olympic Handbook, "women's... Read more
Cathy Rigby Cathy Rigby
Cathy Rigby 1952- American gymnast Before Mary Lou Retton , before Nadia Comaneci , even before Olga Korbut came the gymnast whose prodigious talent and upbeat personality served to make her a representative of her sport. America's Cathy Rigby never won an Olympic medal, but she was... Read more
Forgetting Forgetting
ForgettingSources of evidenceSingle-task studies of forgettingMultiple tasks and forgetting theoryBIBLIOGRAPHYIt seems quite unnecessary to be concerned with a definition of “forgetting.” Each of us has had innumerable experiences, often painful, with this phenomenon, and we know that, in general,... Read more
Origin of Life Origin of Life
Origin of Life How did life begin on Earth? The fact is that no one knows the answer yet, and it remains one of the primary unsolved questions of biology. We may never know with certainty because life began on Earth nearly four billion years ago. The events that initiated... Read more
Standard deviation Standard deviation
Standard Deviation BIBLIOGRAPHY The standard deviation is found throughout the behavioral and social science literature. It is the average spread among a set of scores around their mean, and it is the most frequently used measure of variability in parametric datasets. Researchers analyze their... Read more
Ludo Ludo
LudoRock group Ludo was formed during lead singer Andrew Volpe's sophomore year of college, when, he wrote on the Island Records Web site, "I finally accepted that all I wanted to do in life was rock." He soon recruited Tim Ferrell, another guitarist. Despite the fact that they were still in... Read more
Alexander of Tralles Alexander of Tralles
Alexander of Tralles (b. Tralles, in Lydia, first half of the sixth century a.d.; fl. in the time of Justinian) medicine. Alexander of Tralles was the son of Stephanus, a physician. He had four brothers: Anthemius, a famous mechanician who was involved in rebuilding Hagia Sophia; Metrodorus, a... Read more
Gerontocracy Gerontocracy
GERONTOCRACY More than any other topic in historical gerontology, gerontocracy forces us to distinguish between valid representations and stereotypic images of age and aging, past and present. Our presumptions about the powers ascribed to long life must be tested in light of what we know today... Read more
Insufflation Insufflation
Insufflation Occultist Éliphas Lévi, in his book Transcendental Magic (1896), defines insufflation as follows: "[It]" is one of the most important practices of occult medicine, because it is a perfect sign of the transmission of life. To inspire, as a fact, means to breath upon some... Read more
Borgia Borgia
Borgia , Span. Borja , Spanish-Italian noble family, originally from Aragón. When Alfonso de Borja, cardinal-archbishop of Valencia, was pope as Calixtus III (1455-58), several relatives followed him to Rome. His nephew Rodrigo became pope as Alexander VI , and Rodrigo's illegitimate... Read more

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