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2002 Winter Olympic Medal Sports

  Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsled Salt Lake City Olympic Firsts Cross Country Skiing Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Luge…

Coubertin, Pierre Frédy, baron de

(Encyclopedia) Coubertin, Pierre Frédy, baron deCoubertin, Pierre Frédy, baron depyĕr frādēˈ, də c&oomacr;bĕrtăNˈ [key], 1863–1937, French founder of the modern Olympic games. Born into an…

Herzog, Roman

(Encyclopedia) Herzog, Roman, 1934–2017, German political leader and legal scholar. After receiving his doctorate in law from Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (1958), he taught there, at the Free Univ…

Mansfield, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Mansfield. 1 Town (1990 pop. 20,634), Tolland co., NE Conn.; settled c.1692, inc. 1702. It is an agricultural and manufacturing town. The Univ. of Connecticut is in Storrs, which is…