Robert Garrett, the Glossary

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1. 70 relations: Albert Tyler (athlete), American Civil War, Antioch, Archaeology, Athens, Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw, Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump, Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump, Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put, Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put, Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's standing triple jump, Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, Boy Scouts of America, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Byzantine art, Byzantine Empire, Charles Street (Baltimore), Civil rights movement, Discobolus, Discus throw, Downtown Baltimore, Francis Lane, Greece, Green Mount Cemetery, Hammer throw, Herbert Jamison, History, Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, Hunt Block, Ireland, James Brendan Connolly, John Miller Turpin Finney, John Russell Pope, John W. Garrett, John W. Garrett (diplomat), Johns Hopkins University, Jumping, Library of Congress, List of Princeton University Olympians, Manuscript, Marathon, Mary Garrett, Maryland, Miniseries, NBC, Olympic Games, ... Expand index (20 more) »

2. Olympic tug of war competitors for the United States
3. Track and field athletes from Baltimore
4. Tug of war competitors at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Albert Tyler (athlete)

Albert Clinton Tyler (January 4, 1872 – July 25, 1945) was an American pole vaulter who won a silver medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Robert Garrett and Albert Tyler (athlete) are 19th-century American sportsmen, athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics and olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw was one of two throwing events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

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Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

The men's high jump was one of four jumping events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

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Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

The men's long jump was one of four jumping events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

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Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

The men's shot put was one of two throwing events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

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Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

The men's shot put was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's standing triple jump

The men's standing triple jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States.

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Baltimore County, Maryland

Baltimore County (locally: or) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, is an art museum that was founded in 1914.

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Boy Scouts of America

tag and place it alphabetically by ref name.

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Brooklyn, Baltimore

Brooklyn is one of the southernmost neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Byzantine art

Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Charles Street (Baltimore)

Charles Street, known for most of its route as Maryland Route 139 (MD 139), runs through Baltimore and the Towson area of Baltimore County.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Discobolus

The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.

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Discus throw

The discus throw, also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a farther distance than other competitors.

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Downtown Baltimore

Downtown Baltimore is the central business district of the city of Baltimore traditionally bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the west, Franklin Street to the north, President Street to the east and the Inner Harbor area to the south.

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Francis Lane

Francis Adonijah Lane (September 23, 1874 – February 17, 1927) was an American sprinter who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Greece. Robert Garrett and Francis Lane are 19th-century American sportsmen, athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics and olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Green Mount Cemetery

Green Mount Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Hammer throw

The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin.

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Herbert Jamison

Herbert Brotherson Jamison (September 17, 1875 – June 22, 1938) was an American sprinter who won a silver medal in the 400 m at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Robert Garrett and Herbert Jamison are 19th-century American sportsmen, athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics and olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University

The Homewood Campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Hunt Block

Huntington Macdonald Block (born February 16, 1954) is an American actor.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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James Brendan Connolly

James Brendan Bennet Connolly (Séamas Breandán Ó Conghaile, October 28, 1868 – January 20, 1957) was an American athlete and author. Robert Garrett and James Brendan Connolly are 19th-century American sportsmen, American male high jumpers, American male long jumpers, athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics, athletes (track and field) at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics, olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field, olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field, olympic male high jumpers and olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field.

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John Miller Turpin Finney

John Miller Turpin Finney (June 20, 1863 – May 30, 1942) was an American surgeon and academic who also served as a brigadier general during World War I. He is best remembered for serving as the first president of the American College of Surgeons.

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John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, D.C.

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John W. Garrett

John Work Garrett (July 31, 1820 – September 26, 1884) was an American merchant turned banker who became president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1858 and led the railroad for nearly three decades.

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John W. Garrett (diplomat)

John Work Garrett (May 19, 1872 – June 26, 1942) was an American diplomat.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jumping

Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Princeton University Olympians

This is a list of Princeton University alumni who competed in the Olympic Games.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.

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Mary Garrett

Mary Elizabeth Garrett (March 5, 1854 – April 3, 1915) was an American suffragist and philanthropist.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Miniseries

A miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos

Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos (Παναγιώτης Παρασκευόπουλος, 1875 – 8 July 1956) was a Greek athlete. Robert Garrett and Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos are athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics, athletes (track and field) at the 1900 Summer Olympics and Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

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Pole vault

Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar.

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Presbyterian Church in the United States

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Racial integration

Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation), leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture.

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Scouting (magazine)

Scouting magazine is a publication of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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Shot put

The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the shot—as far as possible.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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The First Olympics: Athens 1896

The First Olympics: Athens 1896 is a 1984 American television miniseries produced by Columbia Pictures Television for broadcast by the NBC network.

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Tug of war

Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.

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Union (American Civil War)

The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the states that remained loyal to the United States after eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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William Milligan Sloane

William Milligan Sloane (November 12, 1850 – September 11, 1928) was an American educator and historian.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics (Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad (Agónes tis 1is Olympiádas) and commonly known as Athens 1896 (Αθήνα 1896), were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history.

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1900 Summer Olympics

The 1900 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900.

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See also

Olympic tug of war competitors for the United States

• Arthur Dearborn
• August Rodenberg
• Charles Chadwick (athlete)
• Charles Dieges
• Charles Haberkorn
• Charles Thias
• Charlton Brosius
• Conrad Magnusson
• Frank Kugler
• Henry Seiling
• James Mitchel
• John Flanagan (hammer thrower)
• Lawrence Feuerbach
• Lee Talbott
• Max Braun
• Orrin Upshaw
• Oscar Friede
• Ralph Rose
• Robert Garrett
• Samuel Jones (athlete)
• Sidney Johnson (tug of war)
• Wesley Coe
• Wilbur Burroughs
• William Seiling

Track and field athletes from Baltimore

• Art Bragg
• Bernard Williams (sprinter)
• Cliff Wiley
• Dameon Johnson
• Dylan Beard
• James Carter (hurdler)
• Joanna Zeiger
• Joel Brown
• Marilyn Bevans
• Markeith Price
• Robert Garrett
• Tanya Hughes
• Tatyana McFadden
• Todd Gurley
• Torrance Zellner

Tug of war competitors at the 1900 Summer Olympics

• August Nilsson
• Charles Gondouin
• Charles Winckler
• Edgar Aabye
• Eugen Schmidt
• Francisco Henríquez de Zubiría
• Gustaf Söderström
• Jean Collas
• Karl Staaf
• Robert Garrett

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garrett

Also known as Garrett, Robert.

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