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William Tatem Tilden II
Bill Tilden 1893-1953 American tennis player Bill Tilden has been called the greatest men's single players of all time, a player's player whose cannon of a serve, psychological know-how, paralyzing drop shot, and canny backcourt play transformed the game of tennis. Tilden's dazzling eighteen-year... Read more |
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Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe Singer, mandolin player For the Record... Read more |
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Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella 1921-1993 American baseball player Known as "Campy" by his friends, colleagues, and fans, Roy Campanella is considered by many to be the best baseball catcher in the history of the game. He is often mentioned in the same breath as the great catcher Yogi Berra , who played for the... Read more |
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fan tan
fan tan card game for three to eight players using a regular deck. All cards are dealt after each player antes (pays) one chip into a pool. Play rotates to the left and if a player cannot play a card he must ante into the pool. Sevens must be played first. These are set (or foundation) cards, and... Read more |
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Gaspara Stampa
Stampa, Gaspara (ca. 1523–1554) Italian poet whose sonnets in the style of Petrarch, dedicated to a largely unrequited love, made her reputation as one of the finest poets of the Italian Renaissance. Born in Padua, she moved to Venice at the age of eight with her mother Cecilia, soon after... Read more |
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Alonzo Mourning
Alonzo Mourning 1970– Professional basketball player Early Basketball Career Learned About Life and Basketball Succeeded in the NBA Sickness Forced Early Retirement Off The Court Sources Alonzo Mourning has been called a prodigy and an enigma. Through hard work and dedication, he turned from... Read more |
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Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley 1966— Chess player Maurice Ashley helped shatter stereotypes by becoming the top-ranked black chess player in the world, as well as by coaching championship school teams made up mostly of minority children. "For kids, it's what they see," he said in the New Yorker. "And they... Read more |
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The Players
Players, The, New York City club for actors, writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, was founded by Edwin Booth (1888), who was president until his death, and presented the organization with a building designed by Stanford White. Later presidents included Joseph Jefferson and John Drew.... Read more |
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player piano
player piano an upright piano incorporating a mechanical system that automatically plays the encoded contents of a paper strip. This strip, perforated with holes whose position and length determine pitch and duration, is drawn over a pneumatic device that shoots streams of air through the holes.... Read more |
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The Pariah Chess Club
...mortification older players felt upon losing to...short pants." The Pariah Chess Club, where I...with the three of us. Pariah status has not been...encouraged. Being a chess player already makes you suspect...social status. Our friends think ... |
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Coming-out tale that blossoms ; `Pariah' is a rare revelation about life as a...
...which Alike hails. So "Pariah" really feels like something...The great moments in "Pariah" are the calm but loaded...good with the supporting players, like Sahra Mellesse...indelicate, devoted best friend. There's some real...Rees is going for. ... |
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Pariah No More: It's a new era for Israel at the United Nations. How
...The Jewish Week 10-13-1994 Pariah No More: It's a new era for...ago that Israel was considered a pariah state at the United Nations. Evelyn...from the UN, is now "a very good friend and a major player in the Arab-Israeli peace talks... |
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Don't make Ferguson a pariah, pleads Weir But new captain backs Ibrox decision
...think he should become a pariah because of this. At...anybody. He is a football player who has maybe made a...their own business. "Players need to unwind after...s all about football players. I don't think you...t agree. I think players have ... |
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A drug critic becomes psychiatry's pariah
...known as both a scholar and a pariah.In 1997 he established himself...I don't even know about friends, what they think about me...company employee and an old friend and colleague. Its subject...years. When he called his friend to ask about the note, ... |
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BILL TILDEN: FROM ICON TO PARIAH.(SPORTS)
...been the world's best tennis player and one of sports' brightest...funeral service in Los Angeles, a friend had to buy a decent sweater...Philadelphia patrician quickly became a pariah. ``Maybe it was because this...as a quality Main Line tennis player ... |
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Paa to Pariah ; As the Congress distances itself from the Bachchans at two...
...When did Amitabh Bachchan go from Paa to pariah? When did Bollywood's first family...they attacked him for saying Pakistani players should have been selected in the IPL...once one of Rajiv Gandhi's closest friends, invented the new business-entertainment... |
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Pittodrie's pariah finds redemption in hard graft and sober redemption;...
...form and recovery mission from being the pariah of Pittodrie continuesat this rate, there...you how much things can turn around for players.One minute he was labelleda disgrace...still go out and enjoy myself with my friends.But I've learned alot and, now that... |
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Parnevik goes to war with Euro Tour chiefs on behalf of himself, Lawrie and...
...Invitational to the top 12 players in the European Order...perceive themselves to be pariahs. Tiger Woods finished...The Helensburgh-born player's blistering start...one of the best young players on the Eurpopean Tour...had to watch his close ... |
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ICC chief must face the truth, we simply can't go to Mugabe's land of terror;...
...Zimbabwe should be a pariah state. Speed should...didn't stop Jowell's friends from calling cricket names. 'It's time the players showed some moral backbone...Nasser Hussain has, that players cannot form a judgment...neither here nor there. ... |