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    The Boston Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) race which has been held in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts...
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    Clarence DeMar (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    U.S. marathoner, winner of seven Boston Marathons, and Bronze medalist at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was known by the nickname "Mr. DeMarathon." DeMar...
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  • the oldest marathon in Europe and the third-oldest in the world (after the Boston Marathon, first held in 1897, and the Yonkers Marathon, first held...
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    the poet (1977) The Tortoise and the Hare, Nancy Schön (1994) The Boston Marathon Centennial Monument, Mark Flannery (1994). Additions by Robert Shure...
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    rooms with Jim Thorpe on the way to the Olympics. Smith also ran the Boston Marathon 10 years in a row. He finished 10th at the 1912 event with a time of...
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  • Paavo Kotila (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    (26 August 1927 in Veteli – 26 January 2014) was a Finnish long-distance runner, Olympian, and three-time national champion in the marathon (1955, 1956...
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  • The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately 88 kilometres (55 mi) which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between...
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    Gelindo Bordin (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    an Olympic gold in the marathon and the only male to win both the Boston Marathon and the Olympic gold medal in this event. Born in Vicenza, Italy, Bordin...
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    Johnny Miles (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    CM (October 30, 1905 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian marathon runner. He won the Boston Marathon in 1926 and 1929. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, as...
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  • John McDermott (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    or "little Mac", he won the first marathon run in the United States in 1896, as well as the inaugural Boston Marathon, then known as the B.A.A. Road Race...
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    the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing took place at the cathedral, with President Barack Obama delivering the eulogy. In 1927, Cardinal William O'Connell...
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  • the Marathon". Boston Marathon. Boston Athletic Association. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Who We Are, French Cultural Center of Boston, retrieved...
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    for her dual role as Maria and her double named Futura, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis. Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm was born on 17...
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    Lawrence Cherono (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    fastest marathon performer of all time with his 2:03:04 clocking at the 2020 Valencia Marathon. Cherono is a past winner of both the Boston and Chicago...
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    Keizo Yamada (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    Keizō, January 30, 1927 – April 2, 2020) was a long-distance runner from Japan, who won the 1956 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:25:15 on...
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    Albin Stenroos (category Finnish male marathon runners)
    marathon in 1924. He won the race in hot conditions, beating second-placed Romeo Bertini by almost six minutes. He placed second at the 1926 Boston Marathon...
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    World Series win in 2018. Boston sports continue to dominate. On April 15, 2013, two bombs were detonated during the Boston Marathon, killing three people...
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    United Church of Christ High Victorian Gothic architecture in America Boston history and architecture Old South Bell for Boston Marathon on YouTube 2007...
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  • retired NHL defenseman Ronald MacDonald, 1898, second winner of the Boston Marathon Mike Mamula, 1995, NFL defensive end/linebacker Kelvin Martin, 1987...
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    before a loss to the Ottawa Senators in a make-up game following the Boston Marathon bombing on April 28 gave the Canadiens the division title. In the opening...
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    War II; in Płock (d. 2013) The 31st Boston Marathon, and the first to use the internationally recognized marathon distance of 26 miles and 385 yards (42...
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    Road, on the outskirts of Boston. Boston Rowing Club, near Carlton Road, hosts the annual 33 miles (53 km) Boston Rowing Marathon each year in mid-September...
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    Sandwich and Wareham. BIDMC received and cared for 21 victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as receiving Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he was arrested...
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    The North End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the city's oldest residential community, having been inhabited since it...
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    New Balance (category Manufacturing companies based in Boston)
    the New York City Marathon; the National Basketball Association (NBA); major league baseball teams the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox; and Team...
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    cotta Beaux-Arts architecture facade on a steel frame. Boston Park Plaza (George B. Post, 1927), a prototype of the grand American hotel, it was the first...
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  • The following table shows the yearly rankings in the marathon since 1921 (men) and 1970 (women), based on the best performance in the classic distance...
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  • Drama Marathon A 15-year-old boy attempts to run in the 1954 Boston Marathon. Terry 2005 Documentary Road running Made for TV. Documents the Marathon of...
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    Dave (April 5, 2016). "Miranda Richardson Joins Jake Gyllenhaal's Boston Marathon Bombing Movie Stronger". Variety. Retrieved September 25, 2024. Harvey...
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    within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city...
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