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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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    times at the Berlin Marathon, three times at the Boston Marathon, five times at the Chicago Marathon, six times at the London Marathon, and five times at...
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  • 1926 Boston Bulldogs (NFL), a professional American football team that was originally the Pottsville Maroons, playing in Boston in 1929 Boston Bulldogs...
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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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    including: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard. The city is also home to prestigious sports events such as the Boston Marathon and the...
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  • Rich Busa (category American male marathon runners)
    (born October 30, 1929) is an amateur runner from Marlborough, Massachusetts who has run in over 70 marathons and 61 ultra marathons. He ran the Vermont...
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    vigil was held at the cathedral in honor of the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. US President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy. In 2018, the...
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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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    Johnny Miles (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    (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 a child...
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    since Boston Marathon bombings". 12 April 2023. "An Effort to Curtail the Use of Tear Gas on Protesters Is Underway in Massachusetts". Boston. 2020-06-03...
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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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  • public appearances related to the Boston Marathon bombing. The Boston Globe maintains two distinct major websites: BostonGlobe.com is a subscriber-supported...
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    organization formed a close association with the city of Boston and its people in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred on April 15, 2013. On April...
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    Thomas Burke (athlete) (category 1929 deaths)
    was one of the initiators of the annually held Boston Marathon, inspired by the success of the marathon event at the 1896 Olympics. Burke later became...
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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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    directors: Germain Fried, Joe May, Erich Schmidt The Marathon Runner (Der Läufer von Marathon, 1933), director: Ewald André Dupont Spies at Work (Spione...
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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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    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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  • The USA Marathon Championships is the annual national championships for marathon running in the United States. The race serves as a way of designating...
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    only in league history. The 1928–29 season was the first played at Boston Garden. In 1929, the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers to win their first Stanley...
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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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    wire-to-wire coverage of the Boston Marathon; the station continued to do so every year through 2022, and was the only Boston station to do so starting in...
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    mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral...
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    twenty innings in a game since 1929. On May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers played the Boston Braves at Braves Field in Boston. The Dodgers, or Robins, as...
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    within walking distance of The Atrium. Each April on Patriots' Day, the Boston Marathon is run through the city, entering from Wellesley on Route 16 (Washington...
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    Dave Komonen (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    was a Finnish-Canadian athlete, who mainly competed in marathon running. He won the Boston Marathon in 1934, after placing second the previous year. Taavi...
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  • Carroll and Loyola Marymount universities Michael P. Walsh, SJ, 1929, former president, Boston College and Fordham University Alex Riley, 2002, professional...
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    unauthorized exhibition game at Philadelphia's Shibe Park. The team moved to Boston in 1929, but folded at the end of the season. The Philadelphia Quakers played...
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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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  • (b. 1944) Jim Knaub, 68, wheelchair marathon athlete and actor (The Man Who Loved Women), five-time Boston Marathon winner (b. 1958) November 18 Mike C...
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