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  Charles Dumas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Everett Dumas (February 12, 1937 - January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.
Dumas, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, made his memorable jump on June 29, 1956, in the US Olympic trials in Los Angeles, breaking a barrier previously thought unbreakable.
In 1960, Dumas competed in his second Olympics, but a knee injury prevented him from winning a second medal, finishing 6th.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Dumas   (202 words)

  
 SUNS: Richard Dumas on '93
Originally drafted in the second round of the 1991 draft, Dumas was suspended for the 1991-92 season for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, but returned and became a major contributor to the Suns’ 1993 playoff drive.
Dumas: Just to excite the fans who understood the game and (be someone) knew where his place was, coming in trying to do whatever we could to win the game.
Dumas: I probably would have been one of those making those $100 million contracts, but that is something I have to learn from and just go ahead and be happy to be alive.
www.nba.com /suns/gallery/dumas_93.html   (3193 words)

  
 Renaissance Man
Dumas, a tall man with a graying beard, a deep, warm voice and attentive, brown eyes, sits in the middle of the room.
Dumas acted on one of his mother's favorite soaps as a judge in court case.
Dumas' love of theatre can be seen just by taking a look around his office: every book is carefully placed, every poster is proudly displayed and in every photograph, the smiles of Dumas and those around him appear very genuine.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1998/01/01-15-98tdc/01-15-98d01-013.asp   (2096 words)

  
 ESPN.com: OLY - Dumas, first high jumper over 7 feet, dies
Dumas was a straddle jumper in the era before the "Fosbury Flop" sent the numbers soaring when it became the favored high-jump technique starting in 1968.
Dumas, who taught and coached in high school after his track career, was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1990.
Dumas is survived by son Kyle and daughter Keasha.
espn.go.com /oly/news/2004/0105/1701283.html   (297 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Charles Dumas, at 66; broke 7-foot barrier in high jump
LOS ANGELES -- Charles Dumas, the first athlete to high jump 7 feet and a gold medal winner at the 1956 Olympics, died of cancer Monday at his home in Inglewood, Calif. He was 66.
Dumas made his historic jump while competing in the 1956 Olympic trials at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Dumas participated in the 1960 Rome Olympics, but a knee injury prevented him from repeating as Olympic champion.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/01/09/charles_dumas_at_66_broke_7_foot_barrier_in_high_jump   (414 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Charles Dumas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At the 1956 Olympic Trials in Los Angeles, Charles Dumas took a running start, leaped into the air and hurled his body over a thin bar.
Dumas followed the record-breaking feat by winning a gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics.
An injured knee forced Dumas to retire from the sport, so he became a teacher and a high school track coach.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000647.html   (152 words)

  
 Personnages qui sont associées à Alexandre Dumas père   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dumas said he was even given a pig which he adored and allowed to sleep in his bed.
In his Mémoires, Dumas says she was promoted from the position of slave to wife and managed the estate in Jérémie, San Domingo (now in Haiti) until her death in 1772.
Dumas wrote two stories which concern the Duchesse de Berri (Berry) and her abortive attempt to install her son, the grandson of Charles X, as king of France in 1832.
www.cadytech.com /dumas/personnages.php?_order=Last_Name+DESC   (3967 words)

  
 I.H. Slater Collection of Alexandre Dumas Papers
Dumas used many collaborators in his writing, especially Auguste Maquet, who collected facts for the historical backgrounds of Dumas' novels.
The material in the Slater Dumas collection spans from 1918 to 1968, and includes notebooks that contain partial translations, typescript drafts of transcriptions of Dumas' works, as well as the correspondence between Slater and fellow Dumas collector F.W. Reed.
The HRHRC holds an extensive collection of Dumas' published works in its library which may serve as a compliment to this vast and detailed Dumas archive.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/slater.html   (1473 words)

  
 :: School of Theater at Ohio University ::
Les Trois Dumas Ohio University Professor and world-renowned playwright Charles Smith weaves the tale of three generations of infamous Frenchmen.
Dumas pere, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, anxiously awaits his admission to the French Academy.
Dumas fils, repelled by his father's spendthrift and decadent ways, struggles in his strange fever visions with the specter of his grandfather, a man of French-African decnt and a General for Napoleon.
www.ohiou.edu /theater/news/letroisdumas.htm   (120 words)

  
 Aisle Say (PA): LES TROIS DUMAS
From start to finish the play is a high spirited jaunt through the colorful escapades of Dumas pére, whose passion for writing is matched only by his passion for living.
His son, Dumas fils, who is horrified by his father's scandalous behavior, begs him to tone down his antics for the sake of his social standing in Parisian society.
It is 1848 and as Dumas pére awaits his induction into the hallowed Academie Francaise he fills his time by chasing his latest flame, actress Ida Ferrier around the estate.
www.aislesay.com /PA-LES-TROIS.html   (777 words)

  
 Ivie Funeral Home - LOIS DUMAS
She was the daughter of the late Charles and Ava McAulay Washam and the wife of the late Eugene Staton Dumas, who died in Oct. 1988 after 46 years of marriage.
Dumas and her husband operated The Dumas Grocery for 27 years and she was a charter member of the Long Shoals Baptist Church in Arden, where she served as secretary of the Sunday School for a number of years and was a member of the Women’s Missionary Union.
Surviving are a son, Charles Dumas and wife, Elaine of Murphy; a sister, Sadie Enloe of Gilkey, NC; a brother, Benjamin F. Reid of Brooklyn, NY; two grandchildren, Charles Dumas Jr.
iviefuneralhome.com /obits/nov2004/l_dumas.htm   (299 words)

  
 news4.html
Dumas said he came here with the intent of sharing his successful experiences and simply returning to his career.
In films and on television, Dumas, who has played a cop, a doctor, a judge, a minister, the husband of a cop and an FBI agent, said that being typecast is fine with him.
Dumas currently has classes five days a week, so his acting is limited to what he can work around his academic schedule.
www.psu.edu /ur/archives/intercom_1998/Feb12/news4.html   (2044 words)

  
 Branchereau Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles was baptized by LeRoyer, the Cure of Macqueville, France on September 10, 1662.
Charles was a soldier, serving under the command of Pierre Payen du Noyan.
Michel Brancheau, the fifth son born to Charles Branchereau and Marie-Marthe Garant, was married at Contrecour, Quebec, on January 7, 1733, to Marie-Jeanne Leclerc, the daughter of Jean Leclerc dit Lefrenay and Genevieve St. Michel-Circe.
www.home.earthlink.net /~djmill/branchereau.html   (2180 words)

  
 CHARLES DUMAS FACTS AND INFORMATION
Charles Everett Dumas (February_12, 1937 - January_5, 2004) was an American high_jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.
Dumas, from Tulsa,_Oklahoma, made his memorable jump on June_29, 1956, in the US Olympic trials in Los Angeles, breaking a barrier previously thought unbreakable.
This jump not only ensured him of a place in the American Olympic team, but also made him the top favourite for the gold medal at the 1956_Summer_Olympics.
www.beatlesfacts.com /Charles_Dumas   (177 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Vicomte De Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Alexandre Dumas,David Coward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dumas has kept me entertained for the first two thousand pages of this saga and I am counting on him to keep me entertained for the next 1500 pages.
Dumas has yet to find his proper voice for this installment, and hence he loses the reader.
As someone whose knowledge of Dumas begins with his birth in 1802 and ends with his death in 1870, I have to say that the saga never runs short on swashbuckling action, heart-stopping suspense, forbidden and intriguing romance and impossible obstacles.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192834630?v=glance   (2722 words)

  
 ALEXANDRE DUMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alexandre Dumas, a prolific quadroon French writer, grandson of Davy de la Pailleterie and a negro slave of San Domingo, and son of Thomas-Alexandre "Dumas" and Marie Louise Elizabeth Labourer, daughter of an innkeeper, was born July 24, 1802, at Villers-Cotterets.
The style of writing adopted by Dumas was that which was so common to many of the dime novelists of a later day.
By this time Dumas had become enormous in body; his hair, mustache, and goatee were white, his breath short, and he waddled when he walked.
www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/dumas_alexandre.html   (679 words)

  
 The Guide on the Side
rustrated by failure, actor Charles Dumas abandoned the theater in the 1960s for Yale Law School and a career in law and politics.
When he was offered a position at Penn State as a lecturer, Dumas made a decision many of his colleagues didn't understand: He left New York to become a teacher.
This year, 16 of his Penn State students were extras on Ed, the popular NBC romantic-comedy on which Dumas played a judge.
www.rps.psu.edu /0405/guide.html   (429 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Le vicomte de Bragelonne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dumas describes the situation and gives fascinating descriptions of the personalities of Lambert and Monk, the 2 English generals struggling for power after the fall of Cromwell's son.
There are also very interesting descriptions of Charles II (Stuart), Louis XIV, and Cardinal Mazarin, along with a description of the political situation in France at the time (1660).
Dumas' grab of high adventure is still well focused with Athos' and d'Artagnan's separate jaunts to England, which results in d'Artagnan finally becoming a man of independent means.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/2258050170   (903 words)

  
 Uncle Tom's Cabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bank succeeded, for the play shows Tom as in fact a strong and brave man who was whipped to death for failing to reveal the whereabouts of the runaway slaves.
Director Charles Dumas was faced with a considerable challenge in attempting to resurrect this 155-year-old melodrama.
The set, by Charles Kirby, was appropriate and quite imaginative; lighting, by Mark Simpson, was quite good; and costumes, by John Khristiansen, were apt.
www.oobr.com /top/volFour/four/0928toms.html   (528 words)

  
 About Us - Lemery MacKrell Greisler LLC
Charles B. Dumas is experienced counsel in commercial and residential real estate transaction and development, including: land use and planning; title examination; construction law; finance; leasing; and management.
He was admitted to the bar in 1982 and is licensed to practice in all New York and Federal Courts.
Dumas is active in community affairs and serves several Capital District not-for-profit organizations in various leadership capacities.
www.virtualflow.com /vfclients/lmg/dumas.html   (144 words)

  
 Charles Dumas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Everett Dumas (February 12, 1937 - January 6, 2004)was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.
This jump not only ensured him of a place in the American Olympic team, but also made him the top favourite for the gold medalat the 1956 Summer Olympics.
In 1960, Dumas competed in his second Olympics, but a knee injury prevented him from winning a secondmedal, finishing 6th.
www.therfcc.org /charles-dumas-26339.html   (188 words)

  
 Ex-Trojan Charles Dumas, World's First 7-Foot High Jumper, Dies :: He won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
Ex-Trojan Charles Dumas, World's First 7-Foot High Jumper, Dies :: He won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
USC Olympic gold medalist Charles Dumas, the first human to high jump 7 feet, died on Monday (Jan. 5) of cancer in Los Angeles.
Dumas accomplished his historic feat when he cleared 7-0 ½ in the high jump as a Compton (Calif.) College athlete at the 1956 Olympic Trials in the Coliseum.
usctrojans.collegesports.com /sports/c-track/spec-rel/010504aaa.html   (300 words)

  
 Nodier, Charles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Écrivain des romans noirs et des contes fantastiques, et ami de Dumas.
Wrote Souvenirs de la Révolution which was essential in Dumas' Les Blancs et les Bleus and Les Compagnons de Jéhu.
Dumas credits Nodier for the story of Femme au collier de velours and the whole of the first chapter is a reminiscence of Nodier's life.
www.cadytech.com /dumas/personnage.php?key=96   (100 words)

  
 N.Y. cites ex-doctor at Bassett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Khan does admit that some responsibility is hers, Dumas said, as the ultimate duty for completing medical records is the physician’s.
Bassett didn’t comment on Dumas’ allegations that Bassett sent patients to Khan even though she wasn’t certified in pediatric hematology.
Dumas said Bassett pointed fingers at Khan after the child had the seizure.
www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/2005/08/24/doc1.html   (1034 words)

  
 Press on Guerilla Theatre @ Georgian House, Oct 24 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
American actors were thrown out of the Georgian House for putting on an impromptu play about the horror of slavery.
New York actor Charles Dumas, who is descended from an Afro-Caribbean slave, said: "We wanted to tell people the truth about the house and the man who built it."
Respectfully submitted, Charles Dumas, Lee Simon of the Miss Evers' Boys Company.
www.hotwells.freeserve.co.uk /press2.html   (484 words)

  
 Charles Smith: playwright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Smith was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago.
His plays explore issues surrounding the perceptions of race and politics from an African-American point-of-view.
Much of his work spans from the investigations of historic icons such as Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Dubois, and Alexandre Dumas, to examinations of race and politics in more contemporary settings such as the impact of the end of segregation on Chicago’s Southside.
www.csplays.com   (68 words)

  
 Charles Dumas - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Charles Dumas - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Dumas   (222 words)

  
 Instrument helps teach family value of heritage
Dumas has directed several other pieces such as A Raisin in the Sun, Once on this Island, The Diary of Anne Frank and Fences, another Wilson play, just to name a few.
Dumas is thrilled to be directing this particular production.
The Charles family has an ornately carved piano collecting dust in the parlor of their home that tells the history of their family.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2000/11/11-03-00tdc/11-03-00darts-4.asp   (604 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Albany County, NY, Obituaries
Dumas moved to this area in 1953 and began a 37-year career as a reporter and press aide to government officials.
Dumas received the Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association Award for excellence in reporting three times.
Dumas of Albany; a son, Charles B. Dumas of Colonie; three sisters, Violet Reichert, Margaret Andresen and Dorothy Dumas, all of New England; a brother, Douglas Dumas of New England; and three grandchildren.
www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/ny/ny-albany1.htm   (3497 words)

  
 California Track and Running News -- Regional News Article
From 1955 to 1959, Dumas won or shared five-straight national high jump titles, and was ranked first in the world twice in that span.
Dumas was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 12, 1937.
Dumas jumped 6-10 1/4 on June 10, 1955 at the Southern Pacific AAU meet.
www.caltrack.com /news/conning010604.html   (4507 words)

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