• Harold John Parlett (19 April 1925 – 6 March 2022) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bromley...
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  • Kennis, cricketer Cameron McGeehan, footballer David Ottley, cricketer John Parlett, 800m runner, 1950 European champion Alec Stewart OBE, former England...
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    this type of game during the 20th century, British games scholar David Parlett notes that there are good reasons for preferring the name 'patience'. Firstly...
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    (2005) Ovett and Coe The Record Breaking Rivalry. Phoenix ISBN 0-7538-1900-7 John Gibson "Face to face: Steve Cram" The Sunday Sun, 2 May 2006 Celebrate 19...
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  • Ives, actor (Doctor Who) and director (Poldark, Secret Army) (b. 1934). John Parlett, Olympic runner (1948) (b. 1925). 7 March Paul Anderson, sailor, Olympic...
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    series Who Do You Think You Are?, which showed that he is descended from John Astley, the portrait painter, Jamaican sugar farmers and slave owners, George...
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  • football player (West Ham, national team) and manager (Manchester United). John Parlett, 96, British Olympic runner (1948). Andrew Reddy, 89, Irish Olympic boxer...
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  • Hampson (ENG) 1934:  Phil Edwards (BGU) 1938:  Pat Boot (NZL) 1950:  John Parlett (ENG) 1954:  Derek Johnson (ENG) 1958:  Herb Elliott (AUS) 1962:  Peter...
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  • Phyllis Richards 1947 Tom White 1947 Nellie Batson 1948 John Parlett 1948 Nellie Batson 1949 John Parlett 1949 Hazel Spears 1950 Roger Bannister 1950 Margaret...
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    have six children. Elliott carried the torch of peace to the MCG when Pope John Paul II visited Melbourne in 1986. His career inspired the 1962 Australian...
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    and are taken from the main 4-player rule sets provided by John McLeod and David Parlett. Deal 4 players 13 cards each from a standard 52-card deck....
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    History of Middle and Long Distance Running|url=http://www.racingpast.ca/john_contents.php?id=113 Bay Area Orienteering Club (2003). 2003 Silva U.S. Orienteering...
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  • Morris Curotta AUS 48.2 Jim Reardon IRL 48.6 Bill Roberts 48.8 880 yards John Parlett 1:52.2 Douglas Harris NZL 1:52.5 Arthur Wint GBR/JAM 1:54.0 1 mile Bill...
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  • yards John Parlett 1:53.7 Tom White 1:53.7 Roy Morley 1:54.3 1 mile Bill Nankeville 4:08.8 Richard Morris 4;11.8 Len Eyre 4:12.8 3 miles John Joe Barry...
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    and the Special Olympics from 1992 to 1995. In 2004, Boit and his friend John Manners, whom he met while in high school when Manners was in the Peace Corps...
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  • Tom White 1:53.5 1 mile Roger Bannister 4:07.8 Bill Nankeville 4:08.6 John Parlett 4:09.2 3 miles Roy Beckett 14:02.6 Chris Chataway 14:02.6 Harry Hicks...
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    or more frequently oh hell. David Parlett gives other names: blackout, bust, elevator and jungle bridge; while John McLeod adds blob, so called because...
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  • IRL 49.1 880 yards Arthur Wint GBR/JAM 1:51.6 Roger Bannister 1:52.1 John Parlett 1:53.1 1 mile Bill Nankeville 4:12.2 Len Eyre 4:13.2 Alan Parker 4:14...
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    the Italian Wars during the reign of King of France Charles VIII. David Parlett considers Macao as the immediate precursor to baccarat. Its name and rules...
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  • listed above: Roger Bannister, GBR Brendan Foster, GBR Brian Hewson, GBR John Parlett, GBR Mike Rawson, GBR Sydney Wooderson, GBR Other athletes who were ranked...
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  • Hampson (ENG) 1934:  Phil Edwards (BGU) 1938:  Pat Boot (NZL) 1950:  John Parlett (ENG) 1954:  Derek Johnson (ENG) 1958:  Herb Elliott (AUS) 1962:  Peter...
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    Parlett (2008), pp. 119, 67, 121–122 and 125–126. Parlett (2008), pp. 577 and 594. Dummett & McLeod (2003), pp. 4–9. Foster 1897, p. 678. Parlett 2008...
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  • John Kipkurgat (born 16 March 1944) is a Kenyan former middle-distance runner who won gold in men's 800 metres at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games....
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    1868. Piomingo [John Robinson] (1810). The Savage. Philadelphia: Thomas S. Manning Websites "Euchre: History of, by David Parlett". Parlett Games. Schossow...
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