1976 Olympic Games: Although a World Championship in women's basketball had been held every four years since 1953, women's basketball reached a milestone in 1976 with its first Olympic competition. Featuring athletes such as Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers (Drysdale) and Pat Head (Summit),
the USA finished 3-2 and in possession of the silver medal. The USA's silver medal finish served a notice to the rest of the world that the United States would be a contender for the gold in 1980.
U.S. head coach Billie Moore said it best,:
"I think we've closed the gap."
the USA finished 3-2 and in possession of the silver medal. The USA's silver medal finish served a notice to the rest of the world that the United States would be a contender for the gold in 1980.
U.S. head coach Billie Moore said it best,:
"I think we've closed the gap."
Real Picture and too bad I can't find the Raw Image cuz that Senegal Woman is PiggyBack on the shoulders of another Senegal Woman on the play so I'd estimate the Tallness of each Senagalese Woman to be about 2 feet 4 inches.
They resorted to stealing an old Washington Generals Play that team used vs. The Early Globetrotters when Meadowlark Lemon was with them, one player on another players shoulders. Like that Swimming Pool Battle thing we did as kids.
A 1978 photo shows actress Goldie Hawn with Harlem Globetrotters' Meadowlark Lemon
And, for a kid who looked forward to splurging 25 cents on Westerns and adventure flicks, there was no clear way out.
Then, in the early 1940s, Lemon saw the newsreel that changed his life.
"The newsreel on this particular Saturday was about a new kind of team -- a basketball team known as the Harlem Globetrotters,".
"The players in the newsreel were unlike any I had ever seen. ... They laughed, danced and did ball tricks as they stood in a 'Magic Circle' and passed the ball to a jazzy tune called 'Sweet Georgia Brown.' How they could play!"
"There was one other thing that was different about them, though. They were all black men. The same color as me."
The man the world would come to know as Meadowlark Lemon dreamed what seemed like an impossible dream: to play for the Globetrotters and conquer the globe. Yet it came true.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...-harlem-globetrotter-dead-20151228-story.html
few from the Great White North..
A Canadian veteran cries on Juno Beach on the 60th anniversary of D-Day (2004)
Ralph Steinman's widow Claudia blows a kiss to her husband after accepting his Nobel
Prize for medicine. He died just three days before he was set to accept it
An Afghan child gives a high five to a Canadian soldier in Panjwayi district (2010)
The headdress-bearers cry during the memorial for the Mounties murdered in
Mayerthorpe, Alta. (2005)
A Canadian veteran cries on Juno Beach on the 60th anniversary of D-Day (2004)
Ralph Steinman's widow Claudia blows a kiss to her husband after accepting his Nobel
Prize for medicine. He died just three days before he was set to accept it
An Afghan child gives a high five to a Canadian soldier in Panjwayi district (2010)
The headdress-bearers cry during the memorial for the Mounties murdered in
Mayerthorpe, Alta. (2005)
Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961
[FONT="]Leonid Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960–1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself, a famous case of self-surgery.
[/FONT][FONT="]Rogozov wrote in his diary:[/FONT]
[FONT="]“It seems that I have appendicitis. I am keeping quiet about it, even smiling. Why frighten my friends? Who could be of help? A polar explorer’s only encounter with medicine is likely to have been in a dentist’s chair”.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Leonid Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960–1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself, a famous case of self-surgery.
[/FONT][FONT="]Rogozov wrote in his diary:[/FONT]
[FONT="]“It seems that I have appendicitis. I am keeping quiet about it, even smiling. Why frighten my friends? Who could be of help? A polar explorer’s only encounter with medicine is likely to have been in a dentist’s chair”.[/FONT]
not 'historical' but neat none the less........
Hotaru Ika firefly squids, Japan
That's how they mine diamonds. Mirny, Yakutia, Russia
Sky lantern festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Cherries under the water
Tianzi Mountain (China)- inspiration for the landscapes of Pandora in 'Avatar'
Sunrise in Bushy Park , London
Two worlds divided, New York, USA
Flamingos , Yucatan Peninsula
Netherlands
Lake Rekba, Senegal
Hotaru Ika firefly squids, Japan
That's how they mine diamonds. Mirny, Yakutia, Russia
Sky lantern festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Cherries under the water
Tianzi Mountain (China)- inspiration for the landscapes of Pandora in 'Avatar'
Sunrise in Bushy Park , London
Two worlds divided, New York, USA
Flamingos , Yucatan Peninsula
Netherlands
Lake Rekba, Senegal
