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National History Day is a nonprofit organization in College Park, Maryland that operates an annual project-based contest for students in grades 6-12. It has affiliates in all fifty states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, South Korea, China, South Asia, and Central America. [1] It started as a local program in Cleveland ...
Tom Cubbage is the only contestant in Jeopardy! history to win both the show's College Championship and the Tournament of Champions. Cubbage became the first ever winner of the College Championship in May 1989, winning $26,600. In November of that year, he was the $100,000 grand prize winner of the 1989 Tournament of Champions.
The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Merseyside, England. First run in 1839, it is a handicap steeplechase over an official distance of about 4 miles and 2½ furlongs (4 miles 514 yards (6.907 km)), with horses jumping 30 fences over two laps. [1] It is the most valuable jump race in ...
Bui, of Temple, Texas, is one of half a million young scholars taking part in this year's National History Day, a Maryland-based nonprofit's annual campaign that encourages students to take ...
Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.
July 23, 2024 at 5:09 PM. TAMPA, Fla. - History was made in Maryland this summer, with students from Dunedin taking top honors at the National History Day Contest. The team from Dunedin Highland ...
The national competition will be held June 9-13, Ovenell said. About 3,000 students from all 50 states and overseas will compete, according to the National History Day website.
Year Winner Age Handicap (st-lb)Jockey Trainer Owner SP Winning time; 1839: Lottery: 9 12-00 Jem Mason: George Dockeray: John Elmore 5/1 F 14m 53.0s 1840: Jerry: 10 12-00