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    Ralph Harold Boston (May 9, 1939 – April 30, 2023) was an American track athlete who received three Olympic medals and became the first person to break...
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    continue his studies after the Mexico City Olympics. Fellow Olympian Ralph Boston became his unofficial coach. Beamon entered the 1968 Summer Olympics...
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  • to the progression list, "with no deletion of later marks." Hence, Ralph Boston's 8.31 metre jump from 1964 remains on the list. "12th IAAF World Championships...
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    broken in 1960 by countryman Ralph Boston. Coincidentally, Owens was a spectator at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome when Boston took the gold medal in the...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in Boston....
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    Michigan, a record that was not broken for over 25 years, until 1960 by Ralph Boston. Boston improved upon it and exchanged records with Igor Ter-Ovanesyan three...
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  • Ralph Helmick (born 1952) is an American sculptor and public artist. Helmick was born in Pittsburgh, PA, the middle of three sons of an electrical engineer...
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    Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (/reɪf ˈfaɪnz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. He graduated from RADA...
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    Ralph Lauren (/ˈlɔːrən/ LOR-ən; né Lifshitz; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best...
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  • Ralph James Capone (/kəˈpoʊn/; born Raffaele James Capone, Italian: [raffaˈɛːle kaˈpoːne]; January 12, 1894 – November 22, 1974) was an Italian-American...
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    Heike Drechsler is the only woman to win two Olympic long jump titles. Ralph Boston and Jackie Joyner-Kersee are the only other two athletes to win three...
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    and Ralph Boston (USA) with 8.03 m 1968 Mexico: Fourth with 8.12 m behind Bob Beamon (USA) with 8.90 m, Klaus Beer (GDR) with 8.19 m and Ralph Boston (USA)...
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  • Ralph Pratt Hoagland III (August 1, 1933 – January 17, 2020) was an American businessman. Hoagland was born in Boston. He attended Princeton University...
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    United States' 14th gold medal in the men's long jump. Beamon's teammate Ralph Boston became the first man to win three medals in the event (gold in 1960,...
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  • Ralph Fulsom "Red" Marston (February 16, 1907 − December 7, 1967) was an American football player. Marston was born in 1907 in Malden, Massachusetts,...
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  • Ralph de la Torre is a Cuban American former health care executive and cardiac surgeon. The CEO of Steward Health Care from 2010 to 2024, and previously...
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    on May 16, 1968, in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Patricia Tresvant and Ralph Hall. Tresvant grew up enjoying music with his...
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  • the Boston Marathon, Ralph decides to train for it in the hope his victory would fulfill the miracle needed to save his mother's life. At first, Ralph cannot...
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    Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. (May 29, 1910 – October 10, 1978) was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record...
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    musician Marsha Blackburn, U.S Senator, former congresswoman from Tennessee Ralph Boston, Olympic champion athlete Correll Buckhalter, former professional football...
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  • victory by Kenyan athlete Kip Keino in the 1500m final. Bob Beamon broke Ralph Boston's 1965 and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan's 1967 World Record in the Men's Long Jump...
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    Ralph Lee Sampson Jr. (born July 7, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall...
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  • Absalom Boston Rachel Boston (born 1982), American model and actress Ralph Boston (1939–2023), American track and field athlete Richard Boston (1938–2006)...
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    William Petersson in 1920 the only non-American to win before Davies. Ralph Boston of the United States and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of the Soviet Union became...
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    Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a cousin of Ralph Warren Cram. At age 18, Cram moved to Boston in 1881 and worked for five years in the architectural...
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    County is in the zone of Jones College. Lance Bass, singer with NSYNC Ralph Boston, Olympic track and field medalist Jason Campbell, retired National Football...
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    Major Ralph Lowell (July 23, 1890 – May 15, 1978) was a World War I veteran, banker, and philanthropist from Boston. Lowell was born in Chestnut Hill...
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    Ralph Nader (/ˈneɪdər/; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform...
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  • large family. The Moody clan returned to Boston some time after Charles's death, because Mary-Emma, Ralph's mother, was served a subpoena but did not...
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