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Debating Sports Records
Mark Purdy, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News in California, compiles a list of sports records that he believes will never be broken and a separate list of
records that he thinks are soon to be eclipsed.
UCLA’s dominance of NCAA men’s college basketball in the late 1960s and early 1970s will never be matched. With John Wooden as coach, the Bruins went from1967 to 1973 without losing a tournament game. Wooden built a dynasty around a system that stressed team play and solid defense, anchored by standout centersLew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton. The Bruins’ ten straight appearances in the Final Four (1967-1976) will alsobe tough to top, given that tod...
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Debating Sports Records
Mark Purdy, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News in California, compiles a list of sports records that he believes will never be broken and a separate list of
records that he thinks are soon to be eclipsed.
UCLA’s dominance of NCAA men’s college basketball in the late 1960s and early 1970s will never be matched. With John Wooden as coach, the Bruins went from1967 to 1973 without losing a tournament game. Wooden built a dynasty around a system that stressed team play and solid defense, anchored by standout centersLew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton. The Bruins’ ten straight appearances in the Final Four (1967-1976) will alsobe tough to top, given that tod...
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World Track and Field Records.
Women's Records: Hurdles.Event Record Holder Country Date 100 m 12.21 sec Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria Aug. 20, 1988 400 m 52.34 sec Yuliya Pechonkina Russia Aug. 8, 2003 . Women's Records: Relay Races.Event Record Holder Country Date 400 m(4 x 100) 41.37 sec National team (Gladisch,Rieger, Auerswald, Göhr) East Germany Oct. 6, 1985 800 m(4 x 200) 1 min, 27.46 sec National team 'Blue' (Jenkins,Colander-Richardson, Perry,Jones) United States April 29, 2000 1,600 m(4 x 400) 3 min, 15.17 sec Nation...
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World Track and Field Records.
Women's Records: HurdlesEvent Record Holder Country Date 100 m 12.21 sec Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria Aug. 20, 1988 400 m 52.34 sec Yuliya Pechonkina Russia Aug. 8, 2003 . Women's Records: Relay RacesEvent Record Holder Country Date 400 m(4 x 100) 41.37 sec National team (Gladisch,Rieger, Auerswald, Göhr) East Germany Oct. 6, 1985 800 m(4 x 200) 1 min, 27.46 sec National team 'Blue' (Jenkins,Colander-Richardson, Perry,Jones) United States April 29, 2000 1,600 m(4 x 400) 3 min, 15.17 sec National...
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Maris Breaks Home Run Record.
Bothered by an injured hip, Mantle was removed from the lineup in mid-September with 54 long balls, leaving Maris alone in the home-run derby. The pressureincreased as a result of a July 17 ruling by Major League Baseball Commissioner Fred Frick that the record would have to be matched or bettered within 154 games,the number of games played in the 1927 season. In 1961, for the first time, American League teams played 162 games. Frick, a friend of Ruth's, said that if therecord was broken after 1...
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Un brasseur anglais invente le livre des records
C'est à cet ancien prêtre baptiste, Glynn « Scotty » Wolfe, de Californie, que revient l'honneur douteux d'être l'homme qui s'est marié le plus souvent dans les pays monogamiques. Il conduit sa 27• fiancée à l'hôtel et devient, selon ses propres indications, père pour la 41" fois. Un brasseur anglais invente le livre des records Le prem ier Guinness Book des records, qui paraît en 1955 , fait imm édiatement partie des meil leures ventes dans...
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Joyner Breaks World Records.
track. In the 200 meters Griffith Joyner set an Olympic record with a time of 21.76 seconds in the quarterfinals; broke the world record in the semifinals with a time of21.56 seconds; and then, 100 minutes later, again broke the record with a time of 21.34 seconds in the finals. She added another gold medal as a member of the U.S.4 x 100 relay team and a silver medal as part of the 4 x 400 relay team. Her three gold medals and one silver made her one of the stars of the U.S. team. Microso...
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Lenny Wilkens Takes All-Time Victory Record.
Wilkens showed us that loyalty to one's work is necessary, that it never stops, and that only when such a commitment is made can something good come out of it.There are worse lessons to learn from a public figure.” Four days later Wilkens was denied again when the Hawks lost to the Portland Trail Blazers by 5 points before a relatively small crowd of 8,477 at the Omni.Atlanta's rally from a 17-point deficit in the third quarter fell just short. A cake—the second one—remained in its box....
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Avions : records et conquêtes
Amelia Eahrart est la première femme à avoir traversé l'Atlantique comme passagère puis comme pilote. . , �---- Charles Lindbergh devant le Spirit of Saint-Louis, le premier à avoir traversé l'Atlantique Nord • Hélène Boucher battra de nombreux records avant de s'écraser en 1934 à Guyancourt . 1 Costes et Bellonte relient Paris à New York sur Le Point d'interrog ation.
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The Record Jump.
circuit in the United States before retiring from competition. Eventually he would complete a degree in sociology and go on to be a coach and educator. It tookanother 15 years before his successors even reached the 8.53 m (28 ft) mark. And until 1991, when Mike Powell of the United States jumped 8.95 m (29 ft 4 1/2 in),Bob Beamon's extraordinary record had stood unsurpassed. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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The Golden Record
A partir de cette œuvre, l’artiste fait donc un parallèle entre ces deux types d’enregistrement. L’œuvre est constituée de deux parties directement reliées : visuelle et auditive. On s’approche de celle-ci, attiré par la bande son qui a été créée à partir d’archives sonores des années 60 s’inspirant des souvenirs des différents membres de l’ancien centre de recherche. On entend alors un son qui a vieillis digne des enregistremen...
- La chasse aux records
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LES RECORDS DU Sport de 1990 à 1994 : Histoire
Chinois. Dès 1993, les coureuses de fond et de demi-fond rallent les records du monde.
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National Football League Records.
Norm Johnson 1,736 Matt Stover 1,752* Nick Lowery 1,711 Jan Stenerud 1,699 Jason Elam 1,696* Eddie Murray 1,594 Field Goals MadeMorten Andersen 546* Gary Anderson 538 John Carney 418* Matt Stover 418* Nick Lowery 383 Jan Stenerud 373 Jason Elam 382* Norm Johnson 366 Jason Hanson 362* Eddie Murray 352 Longest Field Goal (yards)Jason Elam 63 Tom Dempsey 63 Morten Andersen 60 Steve Cox 60 Morten Andersen 59 Steve Christie 59 Pete Stoyanovich 59 Tony Franklin 59 InterceptionsPaul Krause 81 Emlen Tun...
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National Basketball Association Records.
Elmore Smith 1973-74 4.85 Mark Eaton 1985-86 4.61 Hakeem Olajuwon 1989-90 4.59 Dikembe Mutombo 1995-96 4.49 David Robinson 1991-92 4.49 Hakeem Olajuwon 1991-92 4.34 Manute Bol 1988-89 4.31 Tree Rollins 1982-83 4.29 1. Introduced in the 1979-80 season.2. Did not become an official statistic until 1973-74 season. Source: National Basketball Association.. NBA Records - Career.Player Total Points Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 38,387 Karl Malone 36,928 Michael Jordan 32,292 Wilt Chamberlain 31,419 Moses Mal...
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National Basketball Association Records.
Elmore Smith 1973-74 4.85 Mark Eaton 1985-86 4.61 Hakeem Olajuwon 1989-90 4.59 Dikembe Mutombo 1995-96 4.49 David Robinson 1991-92 4.49 Hakeem Olajuwon 1991-92 4.34 Manute Bol 1988-89 4.31 Tree Rollins 1982-83 4.29 1. Introduced in the 1979-80 season.2. Did not become an official statistic until 1973-74 season. Source: National Basketball Association.. NBA Records - CareerPlayer Total Points Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 38,387 Karl Malone 36,928 Michael Jordan 32,292 Wilt Chamberlain 31,419 Moses Malo...
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Les records du monde en athlétisme
RECORDS DU des athlètes. !:utilisation de • Record d'Amérique : DES RECORDS SANS produits dopants fut particulièrement 9"79 détenu par CESSE EN PROGRESSION développée dans certains pays l'Américain Maurice AUX JEUX OLYMPIQUES jusqu'aux années 80. C'est la raison Greene depuis 1999 . pour laquelle certains records établis • Record d'Océanie : à l'époque n'ont toujours pas été 10"03 détenu par dépassés. l'Australien Matthew Burke (USA) 12"...
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Ripken Breaks Record.
Ripken's achievement and his accompanying modesty, combined with his clean-cut image and avowed passion for the sport, have caused many in and out of baseballto hold him up as a welcome positive in a year of negatives. Attendance at major league games has dropped this season, a fact generally attributed to a backlash byfans after a players' strike ended last year's season in August and canceled the playoffs and World Series. After a tension-filled spring training in which baseball teamowners hir...
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Didrikson's Records.
The American public received Didrikson with great fanfare. Never before had a woman achieved such athletic success or shown such remarkable physical ability.Her versatility warranted comparisons with Jim Thorpe, a great football player who had won the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon 20 years earlier. Grantland Rice,the famed sportswriter, joined her in one of her first rounds of golf. After she beat him, Rice called Didrikson “without any question the athletic phenomenon of alltime, man or woma...
- Cigar Matches Record.
- World Indoor Records.
- World Indoor Records.
- World Series Records Record Player Team Most World Series appearances by a team - New York Yankees Total/Average Date 39 - Most World Series wins by a team - Best career batting average Pepper Martin New York Yankees 26 - St.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Sets Career Points Record.
Play stopped as Abdul-Jabbar was swarmed by players, coaches, photographers, and reporters. During the ceremony he thanked his family and fans. He left the gamewith 22 points on 10-of-14 field-goal shooting and 2-of-2 free-throw shooting, along with 5 rebounds and 3 assists. The Lakers won the game, 129-115. Among the many basketball figures offering praise for Abdul-Jabbar's achievement was Kansas City Kings head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons. “Kareem scored 15,000of his points with skyhooks, du...
- Natation : records du monde (bassin de 50 m) - sport.
- Auto Racing: Notable Land Speed World Records.
- Bastié, Maryse Bastié, Maryse (1898-1952), aviatrice française détentrice de nombreux records internationaux.
- Long Course World Records.
- Long Course World Records.
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Athlétisme : records du monde (plein air).
Disque 76,80 m Gabriele Rensch (Républiquedémocratique allemande) 1988 Javelot 71,70 m Osleidis Menendez (Cuba) 2005 Marteau 78,61 m Tatyana Lysenko (Russie) 2007 Heptathlon 7 291 points Jackie Joyner-Kersee (États-Unis) 1988
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- Hank Aaron Hank Aaron, born in 1934, American baseball player, nicknamed Hammerin' Hank, whose 755 home runs broke the all-time record previously held by Babe Ruth.
- Auto Racing: Notable Land Speed World Records All cars have gasoline-driven internal-combustion engines unless marked (E) for electric, (S) for steam, (T) for turbine, (J) for jet, or (R) for rocket.
- World Series Records.
- Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), American professional baseball player, also known as the Iron Horse because he established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player, appearing in 2130 games in succession from 1925 to 1939.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I INTRODUCTION Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born in 1947, American professional basketball player, a dominant competitor who holds the record for most points in National Basketball Association (NBA) history.
- Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), American singer and songwriter, a recording artist for Motown Records, and one of the most popular and influential singers of rhythm-andblues music (R&B) in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong, born in 1971, American cyclist, a record seven-time winner of the Tour de France, the most prestigious cycling race in the world and one of the most grueling contests in all of sports.
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La compétition et les records automobiles
D'introduction plus récente que les Grands Prix, les dragsters permettent aux ingénieurs construisant des voi tures ordinaires d'en tirer des leçons. Parallèlement à un travail en profondeur, qui tentait d'arracher sans cesse plus de puissance à des moteurs de grande fiabilité, d'é normes efforts étaient consacrés à la conception de pneu matiques, d'embrayages, de boîtes de vitesses et de moyens de contrôle de plus en plus élaborés. En 1938, les...
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Rhythm-and-Blues Music
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INTRODUCTION
Tina Turner
American singer Tina Turner began performing rhythm-and-blues music in a band led by her former husband, Ike Turner,
in the 1960s.
thousands of black Americans migrated from the rural South to Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast cities. In popular music, new styles were created to meet thechanging tastes of this demographic group, leading to the development of the urbane sounds of R&B. The profound sociological changes of the World War II period were accompanied by two significant technological developments: the invention of the electric guitar in thelate 1930s and the discovery of the German-invented tape recorder by the mu...
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Rap
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Jay-Z
Rapper Jay-Z rose to popularity with such albums as Vol.
Run-DMCTypically in rap music, vocalists recite rhyming lyrics in time to a beat that may be sampled from prerecorded music byother groups. Black youths developed rap music on the streets of inner cities in the United States during the 1970s, butthe style has expanded to include a wider variety of performers and audiences. The rap group Run-DMC, shown here, wasa powerful early influence in the genre. The group helped bring rap music into the mainstream when it released “WalkThis Way” (1986), a s...
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LE MONDE VEGETAL EN GRAND ET EN PETIT
seule fois dans sa vie, au bout d'une dizaine d'années, mais sa hampe florale peut mesurer près de 9 mètres de hauteur et porter plus de 20 000 fleurs blanches , qui produiront plusieurs millions de graines. Le talipot (Corypho umbrocu/ifero) est assez spectaculaire lui-aussi. Ce palmier de la famille des Arrcochs pousse en Asie et ne fleurit qu'une seule fois à l'âge de 50 ou 70 ans. li développe alors un système floral en forme de parap luie qui...
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Les épreuves de voile (Exposé – Sports & Loisirs – Collège/Lycée)
MINI· TRANSAT • Créée en 1977. • Cour se en solitaire ou en double . • Parcours : d ép a rt d e France , arrivée aux Antilles ou au Brésil (en 2001 ) avec une escale (4 500 milles). • Fréquence :tous les 2 ans. • Type de bateau : classe Mini. • D ésormai s, les coureurs (de plus en plus nombreux ) doivent se qualifie r en participant à plusieurs courses de la classe M in i : Mini-Fastnet (transmanche ), Transgascogne , Mini Pavois (la Rochell e-Saint -Quay Po...
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aviation.
d’aéroplanes, mais à chaque fois, il sombre dans les eaux du fleuve Potomac. Le 17 décembre 1903, en Caroline du Nord, à Kitty Hawk, les frères Wilbur et Orville Wright réussissent le premier vol motorisé à bord d’un avion à deux hélices. Ce biplan, équipé d’un moteur à essence de 12 CV, exige une grande habileté de la part du pilote. En septembre 1904, les frères Wright effectuent le premier vol en demi-cercle, puis parviennent à décrire avec leur avion un circuit fermé. 2. 4 Premiers records...
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Joyner-Kersee Wins Heptathlon.
With her knee throbbing once again, Joyner-Kersee taped up for the javelin throw. Her toss of 45.35 m (149 ft 9.5 in) was about 3 m (10 ft) short of her personalaverage, dropping her another 86 points off of the record pace. “It was disgusting,” she told Sports Illustrated. ”The knee was sore. I wasn't using the legs. I was just arming it.” One event remained: the 800 meters, the most demanding of the heptathlon's seven tests. It was also the event that had cost Joyner-Kersee the gold meda...
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Oerter Wins Third Gold Medal.
Few expected Oerter to show up for the qualifying rounds. Nevertheless he did, with several parts of his 6-foot-4-inch, 270-pound body wrapped in tape, packed inice, and numbed with Novocain. After doffing his neck brace, he propelled the discus a miraculous 198 ft 7.5 in (60.5 m) in his first effort, achieving anotherOlympic record. Wrenched with pain, Oerter told a teammate before the start of the final round that his only chance to win was with a strong first throw. His initial effort, ho...
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The Four-Minute Mile.
The nervous runners false-started once before setting off cleanly. As planned, Chris Brasher led Bannister through the first half-mile. After a half lap (200 meters),Bannister called out to his teammate: “Faster! Faster!” Accelerating, the runners sped through the first quarter-mile in 57.5 seconds-ahead of pace. At 600 meters,Stampfl shouted from the infield: “Relax! Relax!” Running smoothly behind Brasher, Bannister reached the half-mile mark in 1 min 58.2 sec. Chataway sprinted into the l...
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Les jeux Olympiques de 1968 : Grenoble et Mexico
L'Américain Bob Beamon bénéficiant d'un vent favor able à la limite admi se de 2 m/s, pulvérise le record mondi al de saut en lon gueur de 55 cm en att eignant 8,90m. Les jeux Olympiques de 1968 : Grenoble et Mexico Deux noms ont marqué les jeux Olympiques de 1968 à Grenoble et à Mexico : Jean-Claude Killy et ses trois médailles d'or, et Bob Beamon, champion américain de saut en longueur qui améliore le record mondial de 55 cm en le po...
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Shang Dynasty - history.
dependents, and sacrificial victims lay among and beyond the buildings. The Xiaotun settlement was linked to a complex of settlements and craft centers bordering thefoothills of the Taihang Shan to the west. The absence of a wall around the site suggests the Late Shang kings were confident they could defend their settlement againstattacks from outsiders. On the north side of the Huan River, a Shang cemetery at Xibeigang contains the burial pits of eight of the last nine Shang kings. (Another tom...