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Austrian athlete and graphic designer [200] Marie Provazníková: 1890–1991: 100: Czechoslovak sports official active in the Sokol movement [201] Maurice Racca: 1922–2023: 100: French Olympic sport shooter [202] Marko Račič: 1920–2022: 102: Slovenian Olympic athlete [203] Ted Radcliffe: 1902–2005: 103: American Negro league baseball ...
American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) [40] James W. Downing: 1913–2018: 104: American Navy lieutenant [41] Leo J. Dulacki: 1918–2019: 100: American Marine Corps lieutenant general [42] James Francis Edwards: 1921–2022: 100: Canadian fighter pilot [43] William J. Ely: 1911–2017: 105: American Army officer [44] William A ...
There he became a member of the track and field team, and excelled in the sprint events. He won the 100 and 200 m in the first major sporting event after the war, the 1919 Inter-Allied Games, in which soldiers of the Allied nations competed against each other. Paddock was the first person named "The fastest man alive".
The regiment was raised in Aberdeenshire by General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, as the 100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 10 February 1794. [2] It embarked for Gibraltar in September 1794 [3] and then moved on to Corsica in June 1795. [4]
How did Hawaii’s first group of nisei soldiers — who averaged only 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 125 pounds — of the 100th Infantry Battalion in World War II become one of the most decorated ...
Since early photographers were not able to create images of moving subjects, they recorded more sedentary aspects of war, such as fortifications, soldiers, and land before and after battle along with the re-creation of action scenes. Similar to battle photography, portrait images of soldiers were also often staged. In order to produce a ...
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.
Soldiers of the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, c.1850. The regiment was raised by the East India Company as a Guard of Honour in 1652. [1] The regiment was initially involved in guarding the East India Company's factories along the Hugli River in Bengal which was India's richest province.