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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
The Cassini periodical cicadas are a pair of closely related species of periodical cicadas: Magicicada cassini [a] (Fisher, 1852), having a 17-year life cycle, and Magicicada tredecassini (Alexander and Moore, 1962), a nearly identical species with a 13-year life cycle. Courting behavior of Cassini cicadas is unusual because large groups of ...
Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was a British athlete. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
Ewa Janina Kłobukowska (born 1 October 1946) is a Polish former sprinter.She competed at the 1964 Olympics in the 4×100 m relay and 100 m sprint and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. [2]
A cicada from the 13-year Brood XIX in Chicago, Ill. Certain neighborhoods, notably wealthy ones with big gardens, mature trees, lawns and most importantly- decades of undisturbed soil appeared to ...
Photojournalist John Stanmeyer photographed cicadas during this year's Brood XIX and Brood XIII emergence. Cicadas among 20 mesmerizing photos on National Geographic's 2024 'Pictures of the Year ...
Check out these rare photos of Rochester's people and places via the 1960s. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.