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The Torch Bearer, a 1916 American silent film; The Torchbearer, a 2005 Czech animated short film; The Torchbearers, a sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin; Torchbearers International, a network of Bible schools; VAW-125, a United States Navy squadron known as the Torch Bearers; A person who carries the Olympic Torch
The Torchbearers is a 1962 bronze sculpture by Charles Umlauf, installed outside the Flawn Academic Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas, United States. [1] It was cast in Milan at the Fonderia Battaglia. [2]
The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, including a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was the torchbearer of the Olympic flame.
Houston Museum of Natural Science. This list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
At all times, the torch runners were accompanied by a caravan of support vehicles, custom-designed for the relay by sponsor General Motors. The torch was run for roughly 14 to 20 hours per day at a pace of roughly seven miles per hour. [3] Boston mayor Raymond Flynn holds the torch in front of City Hall.
A torchbearer carries the Olympic flame over a building along the Seine River during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Paris, France on July 26, 2024.
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Unsuccessful candidates were encouraged to escort the torch-bearer during their run. [ 2 ] For the first time in history, there was prior training for all selected torchbearers a copy of the "Flame Bearer's Guide".This guide book was send several months before the event and in this guide all the rules and the specific details about how they ...