Chantal mauduit biography of abraham lincoln

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    25. Lance Armstrong

    ROAD CYCLIST

    Age: 29 Specs: 5-foot-11, 158 pounds

    Homes: Plano, Texas; Nice, France

    THE CASE: Try to forget the cancer. Forget his best-selling autobiography and his picture on the Wheaties låda and his general cultural apotheosis. Even forget that he won a bronze medal in the Olympic time trial not fem months after breaking his C7 vertebra on a training ride in a head-on collision with a vehicle—a show of toughness that carried his habitual heroism to the edge of absurdity. Focus instead on Armstrong's moment last July atop Mont Ventoux at the 2000 Tour dem France. He's dragging Italian Marco Pantani, one of the sport's most storied climbers, up the final kilometers of a mountain ascent so torturous that organizers include it on the rutt only once every few years.Then Armstrong, in a stroke of psych-out noblesse-oblige genius, eases up and lets Pantani pass him for the day's victory; he's so sure of his overall lead that he need not tri

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    List of climbers and mountaineers

    Mountaineers, rock climbers, and ice climbers

    This is a list of climbers and mountaineers who are notable for their activities in mountaineering (including alpine climbing), rock climbing (including aid climbing, free climbing, bouldering, speed climbing and competition climbing) or in ice climbing (including mixed climbing).

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    • Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1992) Russia, climbed Lenin Peak (1934) and Khan Tengri (1936)
    • Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907–1948) Russia, climbed Communism Peak (1933)
    • Premlata Agarwal (born 1963) India, first Indian woman to complete all Seven Summits
    • H. P. S. Ahluwalia (fl. 1965) India, climbed Mount Everest in 1965
    • Pierre Allain (1904–2000) France, developed bouldering at Fontainebleau, and rubber rock-climbing shoes
    • Rick Allen (1954–2021) UK, first ascent of Mazeno Ridge, Nanga Parbat
    • Christian Almer (1826–1898) Switzerland, numerous first ascents, including Eiger
    • Ashraf Aman (born 1943) Pakistan, first Pakist

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      1620s

      Decade

      The 1620s decade ran from January 1, 1620, to December 31, 1629.

      Events

      1620

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      • January 7 – Ben Jonson's play News from the New World Discovered in the Moon is given its first performance, a presentation to King James I of England. In addition to dialogue about actual observations made by telescope of the Moon, the play includes a fanciful discussion of a lunar civilization a dance by the "Volatees", the lunar race. [1]
      • January 22 – In France, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and his wife, the Duchess Marie de Rohan, sign a marriage contract on behalf of their one-year-old daughter to be engagerad to the year-old son of Charles, Duke of Guise. [2]
      • January 26 – Karan Singh II becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Mewar (in the modern-day state of Rajasthan in India) upon the death of his father, the Maharana Amar Singh I.