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Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. [ citation needed ] Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
Procedure words (abbreviated to prowords) are words or phrases limited to radiotelephony procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information in a condensed standard verbal format. [1] Prowords are voice versions of the much older procedural signs for Morse code which were first developed in the 1860s for Morse telegraphy, and ...
The tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is considered one of the greatest in the history of the sport. [ 1 ] Federer and Nadal played each other 40 times, with Nadal leading 24–16 overall, including 14–10 in finals. Of their 40 matches, 20 were on hard court, 16 on clay, and 4 on grass.
In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate Hróðgeirr. [3] The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate Hroðgar. Roger became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name Roger that is closer to the name's origin is Rodger. [4]
A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to a speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [1] It is a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures. The first four-minute mile is usually attributed to the English athlete Roger Bannister, who ran it in 1954 at age 25, in ...
Roger Federer(German pronunciation:[ˈrɔdʒərˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennisplayer. He was ranked world No. 1in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals(ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
The Big Three was a common nickname in tennis for the trio of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, each considered to be among the greatest players of all time. [2] [3] The trio dominated men's singles tennis for two decades, collectively winning 66 major singles tournaments; Djokovic leads with an all-time record of 24 titles, followed by Nadal with 22 and Federer with 20.
Defending champion Roger Federer defeated Andre Agassi in the final, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6 (7–1), 6–1 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2005 US Open.It was his second US Open title and sixth major title overall.