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- Long-distance track event (2855 bytes)
1: '''Long-distance track event''' [[track running|races]] require runners to balance their ...
27: * The '''10,000 meter''' is the final standard track event. Most of those running such races also com...
37: .... 3,000 meters is considered a [[middle distance track event]].
39: ==Notable long-distance track athletes==
87: * [[athletics]] (also known as track and field) - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
1: ...help the vehicle to distribute its weight more evenly over a larger surface area than [[wheel]]s can, ...
6: ...eam powered tractors using a form of caterpillar track were reported in use during the [[Crimean War]].
8: An effective caterpillar track was invented and implemented by [[Alvin Lombard]]...
10: ...am]], [[UK]] developed and patented a caterpillar track in [[1905]]. Holt also purchased their patent.
12: ...d construction vehicles and land [[warfare]]. The tracks system have been developed and improved during t...
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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
103: ...[Harold Abrahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
14: ...973 ''''You.'''' But it still produced a standout track ''"Angel",'' written by her sister Carolyn which ...
21: ...the life of gospel legend [[Mahalia Jackson]]) mainly because of her phobia of flying. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
20: ...she was able to record her vocal over the backing track.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
34: She was arguably one of the only white female singers of the period who could gen... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
11: ...sylum. ''[[For the Roses]]'' (1972), whose title track continued her exploration of the themes of "For F...
13: ...ite the commercial success of the more mainstream tracks, she would spend the rest of the decade producin...
15: ...ed Mitchell's trend toward jazz, with many of the tracks led by (jazz musician) [[Jaco Pastorius]]'s fret...
17: ...the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius, [[Wayne Shorter...
19: ...ding [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again patchy and the re... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...lady of rage", though the album itself contained only two songs that hinted at any sort of anger or re...
48: ...t appeared on ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' was the only take the two had ever recorded. With "Perfect", ...
50: ...the pavement. Morissette later revealed that her only concern was for the book of lyrics she was carry...
123: ...all but drained the anger from the song, leaving only an air of sorrow and remorse. That night, Moriss...
134: ...he [[motion picture]] ''[[City of Angels]]''. The track was never officially released as a single, but ne... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
17: ...hild O' Mine]]", which was included on the [[soundtrack]] of the [[Adam Sandler]] film ''Big Daddy''. Thi...
21: ...g, Crow released ''[[C'mon, C'mon]]''. Musically unlike any of her other records, the project had a mo...
25: ...t [[single (music)|single]]s, as well as some new tracks. Among them was the ballad "The First Cut is the...
29: ...te), "Mother Nature's Son" (''[[I Am Sam]]'' Soundtrack), "Ci Darem la Mano Don Giovanni" (''[[Pavarotti ...
35: Modern Rock Tracks #8 - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
13: ... A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
16: ...bruary, she began the "Under the Pink" tour. Four tracks were released as singles: "God", "Cornflake Girl...
18: ...also contributed the song "Butterfly" to the soundtrack for the 1994 movie [[Higher Learning]] as well as...
27: ...featured on the [[The_Crow:_City_of_Angels]] soundtrack.
33: ...and a relatively subdued piano sound. Its closing track "1000 Oceans" was much closer in spirit to her ea... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: ...pposite [[Laurence Olivier]], who was on the fast track to becoming a theater legend, in two films: ''[[F... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...y candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where ...
16: ...e that Marilyn Monroe has. Her [[face]] was certainly her fortune and to this very day - over 40 years...
31: ...Some Like It Hot]]'' in 1959, Marilyn was back on track and [[Billy Wilder]]'s glorious production was he...
44: By [[1958]], Monroe was supporting them. Not only did she pay alimony to Miller's first wife, he r...
59: ...roses delivered three times a week to her crypt. Unlike the other men who knew her intimately (or had ... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
7: ...after which she became leader of the Dutch female track and field team. In 1999, she was voted "Female At...
13: ...ot a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen years old, she was nominated for the [[...
25: ...usband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her son's birth.
39: ...in 11.9, easily beating her opponents [[Dorothy Manley]] and [[Shirley Strickland]], who take second a...
45: ...100 m final was held on the final day of the track and field competitions. The Dutch team, consistin... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
6: ...] and went to [[UCLA]], where she starred in both track and [[basketball]]. She is the sister-in-law of ...
8: .... Also, when she was a freshman at UCLA, she suddenly had to return home when her 37-year-old mother c... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. Many trains feature self-propelled payload-car...
29: By the end of the [[20th century]], almost the only steam power still in regular use in [[North Amer...
34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund... - Cycling (1157 bytes)
32: * [[Track cycling]] - Ptolemy Philadelphus (618 bytes)
3: ...ng|chariot racer]] and died in an accident on the track, competing against his chief rival, Antipater, th... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
6: Compared to the other brass instruments commonly found in the [[orchestra]], the typical range of...
12: ...the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was to use the natural [...
23: ...e higher, brighter tones of the B-flat horn (commonly called "sides"). In the words of [[Reginald Mor...
28: ... E-flat) are increasingly popular for works that only use the upper and upper-middle registers of the ...
40: ...[[marching band]]s. In fact marching band is the only connection between the horn and the mellophone. ... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
29: ...ulations. However, they assumed that the Sun was only glowing from the heat of its [[gravitational con...
31: ... day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right track.
37: ...his estimates were correct. The geologists could only suggest (correctly) that Kelvin didn't have all ...
59: ...as [[helium]] atoms. At the time, Rutherford was only guessing at the relationship between alpha parti...
77: ...ample, he assumed that the samples had contained only uranium and no lead when they were formed. - Volcano (27295 bytes)
47: ...nct volcanoes are those that scientists consider unlikely to erupt again. Whether a volcano is truly e...
109: ...noes. For example, [[Mount St. Helens]] is found inland from the margin between the oceanic [[Juan de ...
126: ...face expression. The large majority of these are only known about at surface because of earthquakes as...
167: ...cano will often measure the tilt of the slope and track changes in the rate of swelling. An increased rat... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ...thern Land") go back to antiquity, the first commonly accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [...
40: ...nd]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the only Antarctic claim area that is not a sector, a Nor...
46: ...; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
75: ...logical station, 1.2Km long, 30 mts. wide landing track (since [[1969]]) ({{flag|Argentina}}) [http://www...
101: * [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s ''Antarctica'' ([[1997]]) - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
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70: ... directly administrated by the Dutch government. Only then did they become official colonies (the [[Du...
72: ...Germany]] in May [[1940]], to be fully liberated only on [[May 5th]],[[1945]]. From [[1941]] until [[1... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
49: ...en}}; , is a [[bicontinental country]] located mainly in the [[Anatolia]]n peninsula, with 3% of its t...
70: ...r]] "Başbakan" and the Council of Ministers "Bakanlar Kurulu". The PM and Ministers have to be parlia...
88: If there is a need to inspect a judge, that can only be performed with the Ministry of Justice's perm...
230: ...682 km in 1999, including 2,133 km of electrified track. There are 1,200 km of navigable waterways. There...
300: ...nsitive issue in Turkey, since the Turkish State only considers the communities mentioned in the text ...
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