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Historical Context Standing, from left to right are nine famous kings of Europe in 1910: King Haakon VII of Norway Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King of Prussia King George I of the Hellenes King Albert I of the Belgians Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain King George V of the United Kingdom

Growing up, Simone Manuel was used to being the only Black swimmer on the pool deck. “There was a feeling of loneliness,” she says. When she beat the field in the 100-m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, she became the first Black American swimmer to earn an individual Olympic gold. After making history, her swimming journey became challenging in a different way. She didn’t make the team in that event in 2021 because of overtraining syndrome, after repetitive, intense training brought her body to its breaking point.

April 10, 2014 12:15 PM EDT A California teenager was reportedly selling pot brownies to raise money to buy a prom dress, but got caught when a student who consumed one had to be hospitalized, CBS News reports. River Valley High School student Saira Munoz of Yuba City was reportedly 18 at the time when she enlisted the help of a friend to help sell marijuana-laced brownies last fall. CBS Sacramento reports, “A judge sentenced her to four years probation on Monday and nine days in jail with credit for time served.

He has a knack for crafting simple premises what if you woke up and had psychic powers? What if your car had a mind of its own? and taking them horrifying places. "Pet Sematary," opening in theaters Friday, is about a family that moves to a small town with a haunted woods where buried pets spring back to life and wreak havoc. ADVERTISEMENT Here are the 17 best TV and movie adaptations based on King's work.

TIME October 3, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-5 Now maids and men, hark well to me, Sing Aleluya—wellaway! Full blest shall such a wooing be, Sing hey, God loves a lover! For they that meet in chapel cell, Are wooed and won and wedded well; Their lives ring sweet like chiming bell, Forever and forever! Rollicking verses like the foregoing (Chapel Wooing) have appeared in Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume “Friar Tuck,” for 20 years.

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From Vienna, Rome. Zurich and Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist.

January 1, 1984 The expectations were lofty for ski racers Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney, both the 1983 World Cup champions. McKinney was the first American woman to win the coveted title (and would be the only one until Lindsey Vonn in 2008). And the U.S. wasn’t lauded for their winter sporting prowess at the time. TIME’s cover story put it metaphorically: “Alpine skiing is baseball to the Swiss, the Scandinavians and the Liechtensteiners.

Sharia law is an Islamic system of jurisprudence. It is a religious law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet (Hadith and Sunna). Sharia prescribes both religious and secular duties and sometimes spells out retributive penalties for lawbreaking. ADVERTISEMENT 1..Why do we have Sharia courts in Nigeria? Are they legal? The manner in which Sharia should be applied in modern, secular states has been the subject of dispute globally between Muslim traditionalists or fundamentalists and reformists.