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Dick Button Dick Button
Dick Button 1929- American figure skater Ranked as one of the greatest figure skaters of all time—perhaps second only to Sonja Henie in terms of his impact on the sport—Dick Button remains an influential force on the contemporary scene more than fifty years after he won his s... Read more
Dorothy Hamill Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Hamill 1956- American figure skater In the mid-1970s, American figure skater Dorothy Hamill was the leader in her field, capping her success with a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics. She was known for her signature "Hamill camel" and wedge/bob haircut which started a fashion... Read more
Antonio Stradivari Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari , or Antonius Stradivarius , 1644-1737, Italian violin maker of Cremona; pupil of Niccolò Amati . He was apprenticed to Amati c.1658 and may have remained with him until Amati's death in 1684. Stradivari's earliest extant label is dated 1666 and his last 1737. His... Read more
Tenley Emma Albright Tenley Emma Albright
Tenley Emma Albright In 1953, American figure skater Tenley Albright (born 1935) became the first "triple crown winner" ever, as she captured the World, North American, and United States ladies figure skating titles. However, she faced her ultimate challenge as she competed with a serious foot... Read more
Bonnie Blair Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Blair 1964- American speed skater American speed skater Bonnie Blair won six medals competing in three Winter Olympics Games, the second most medals won by a woman in the Winter Olympic Games (the first was Lydia Skoblikova ). Of the six, five were gold, making Blair the only American... Read more
ice skating ice skating
ice skating gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. Skating as a Sport Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice ) has developed into three different sports—speed skating,... Read more
Sonja Henie Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie , 1912-69, Norwegian-American figure skater and movie actress, b. Oslo, Norway. She began ice skating at the age of eight and two years later won the first of six straight Norwegian figure-skating championships. She won the world's figure-skating crown ten consecutive years, the European... Read more
Peggy Fleming Peggy Fleming
Peggy Fleming 1948- American figure skater One of the most influential female athletes of the past century, Peggy Fleming combined grace and power to create some of the most memorable figure-skating programs of her era. After winning a surprising victory at the 1964 United States... Read more
Lydia Skoblikova Lydia Skoblikova
Lydia Skoblikova 1939- Russian speed skater Before American speed skaters Eric Heiden and Bonnie Blair raced to fame as Olympic champions, Soviet speed skater Lydia Skoblikova set a standard of excellence. She was the first athlete, man or woman, to win six gold medals in Olympic... Read more
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Stars Stars are huge balls of very hot, mostly ionized, gas (plasma) that are held together by gravity. They form when vast agglomerations of gas and dust known as molecular clouds (typically 10 to 100 light yearsacross) fragment into denser cores (tenths of a ... Read more

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