Search results for "Boxing" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In high school, Nagurski took up wrestling and boxing. In 1926 Nagurski entered the University of Minnesota. From 1927 through 1929, he starred ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- helping arrange for the broadcast of a heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in July 1921. Up to 300,000 people heard ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- American to win the heavyweight championship in boxing.]] ... contributions to the nation's sports. Boxing was the first sport to accept ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Image wanted Annenberg, Walter Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- all 32 points on a compass rose is called "boxing the compass." 1 point = 1/8 of a right angle = 11.25° = 12.5 gon. *The astronomical ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- To deal with bullies Roosevelt started boxing lessons. Two trips abroad ... Club; and runner-up in the Harvard boxing championship, losing to C ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- * The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York: Nation Books, 2006 ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- grabs on to the back of a female with a "boxing glove" like structure on his front claws, often holding on for months at a time. After the ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and as a result was poorly attended. Thankfully ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- American boxer Jack Johnson. Himself a devotee of boxing, Davis drew parallels between Johnson, whose career had been defined by the fruitless search ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- chi gong, meditation and forms of boxing. === Prohibition of Shaolin kung fu === The Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911) prohibited all combat arts ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as president of Argentina ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- scene, along with baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, American football's Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden. He was ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- and bets were paid, a Yale alum threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it. Hancock called ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- sport, followed by track and field, boxing, and table tennis. Yoruba athletic events take place in either the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- *Many boxing matches have been held at Yankee Stadium, notably Joe Louis's first-round knockout of Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. Heavyweight ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- fist," or "great extremes boxing" (note that 'chi' in this instance is an earlier romanization of modern 'ji,& ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- Monday; Whit Monday; First Monday in August; Boxing Day in England and Wales and St Stephen's Day in Ireland), and five in Scotland (New Year's ...22 KB (3,231 words) - 02:32, 9 February 2023
