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2002 Women's Olympic Speed Skating Medalists

500 meters Times reflected are a combination of two heats with each skater racing once on the inside lane and once on the outside lane.     Time   1 Catriona Lemay-Doan, CAN 74.…

INDIVIDUAL: College Basketball, Sports

Scoring ClGmPtsAvgAllison Feaster, HarvardSr.2879728.5Cindy Blodgett, MaineSr.2670427.1Korie Hlede, DuquesneSr.2875827.1Amy O'Brien, Holy CrossJr.3078226.1Tamika Whitmore, MemphisJr.2975426.…

Plutarch

(Encyclopedia) PlutarchPlutarchpl&oomacr;ˈtärk [key], a.d. 46?–c.a.d. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where he lectured on…

Quezon, Manuel Luis

(Encyclopedia) Quezon, Manuel LuisQuezon, Manuel Luismänwĕl l&oomacr;ēsˈ kāˈsōn [key], 1878–1944, first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935–44). While a law student, he joined…

Gray, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Gray, Thomas, 1716–71, English poet. He was educated at Eton and Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1739 he began a grand tour of the Continent with Horace Walpole. They quarreled in Italy, and…

African music

(Encyclopedia) African music, the music of the indigenous peoples of Africa. Sub-Saharan African music has as its distinguishing feature a rhythmic complexity common to no other region. Polyrhythmic…