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  Ellery Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellery Harding Clark (born March 13, 1874 in East Roxbury, Massachusetts; died February 17, 1949) was an American athlete.
Clark is the only person to have won both the Olympic high jump and long jump.
Clark achieved it in 1896, at the first modern Olympics in Athens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ellery_Clark   (405 words)

  
 Ellery Clark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellery Harding Clark (born March 13, 1874 in East Roxbury, (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies) Massachusetts; died February 17, 1949) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A person trained to compete in sports) athlete.
Clark achieved it in 1896, at the (Click link for more info and facts about first modern Olympics) first modern Olympics in (The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) Athens.
Ellery also competed in the (Click link for more info and facts about 1904 Olympics) 1904 Olympics in (The largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century) St.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/ellery_clark.htm   (446 words)

  
 clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Versatile in both his athletic and personal life, Ellery Clark was a double gold medalist at the first Modern Olympic Games in 1896.
A Harvard graduate, Clark was one of the nation's top all-around athletes from 1893 to 1912.
Clark made his second Olympic appearance in 1904 at St. Louis, but bronchitis limited him to a sixth-place finish in the all-around competition.
www.usatf.org /athletes/hof/clark.asp   (184 words)

  
 William Ellery
Ellery continued a member of the congress till 1786, with the exception of the years 1780 and 1782, and, overcoming his natural diffidence, became a ready debater.
Ellery died in 1820 at the age of...
Ellery, William (1727-1820), was one of the Rhode Island signers of the Declaration
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 Advertise - Ambrose Peale
Ellery, in full evening war paint, was wandering up and down evidently looking for her.
The sight of Ellery Clark completed his distaste with the whole sorry scheme of things, making him itch to remold it nearer to his heart's desire.
Ellery Clark, that pinhead, went round with girls who trimmed him like the " Countess," supplied with plenty of money by his doting father, while Rodney and Mary had to slave and worry.
www.oldandsold.com /articles09/advertise-13.shtml   (1448 words)

  
 Almeda Jane Hinshaw
Clark, Almeda, wife, age 50, born in Iowa; father born in Indiana; mother born in Tennessee; occupation: none.
Clark, Edna, daughter-in-law, age 27, born in Iowa; father born in Illinois; mother born in Virginia; occupation: none.
Clark, Almeda, wife, age 61, born in Iowa; father born in Indiana; mother born in Tennessee; first married at age 20; occupation: none.
www.rawbw.com /~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?13076   (394 words)

  
 Advertise - Sowing The Wind
The truth is John Clark's Ellery was a real pin-head, and always would be, overdressed in the latest style, affected, aping the English when he remembered to do so, but oftener than not forgetting.
Ellery proceeded to explain that his father had been particularly offensive lately, so that he had decided to give a little time to business and make a success of it.
Ellery pounced upon it at once, handing it to her with a flourish.
www.oldandsold.com /articles09/advertise-9.shtml   (3670 words)

  
 20742-1-III - David Alan Basham, et ux V Ellery Clark, et Ux, et al File Date: 02/06/2003
Clark (the driver of the vehicle involved in the January 5 accident), Mr.
Clark, and for $2,557.61 (reduced from $2,692.33 for 5 percent contributory negligence) against Mr.
Defendant Clark, while admitting plaintiff sustained some injury in the accident of January 5, 1999, denies the nature and extent of the injuries being claimed by plaintiff.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/slip/appellate/207421MAJ.htm   (6252 words)

  
 Whatever Happened to Thoreau's Hut at Walden? (Part 2)
Ellery Channing noted the windows were already gone when he visited in 1863.
She was shown this by the late Gladys Clark -- a member of the Clark family which brought the hut to the farm -- about a dozen years ago.
The location was at the Brooks Clark farm, on the edge of the Estabrook Woods, which agrees with the written documentation available.
www.concordma.com /magazine/feb99/hut.html   (959 words)

  
 The Official Australian F1 Powerboat Tour - News
Wayne Clark made a triumphant return to racing at the St George Motorboat Club with a start to finish win in the final 20 lap heat ahead of Craig Bailey and Jeremy Crook, but it was Bailey who took the days overall honours and the series, his 7th National Title.
Ellery showed a clean pair of heels though finally sorting out his engine dramas and held off Craig Bailey to the flag.
Clark and Coles were on equal points but it was Clark who had qualified quicker and was given the nod.
www.f1powerboat.com /news/news.php?id=75   (523 words)

  
 Crippen & Landru Books: Challenge the Widow-Maker by Clark Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Clark Howard is one of mystery’s most honored writer.
In these and ten other compelling stories, Clark Howard demonstrates why he is one of the finest storytellers of this generation.
Clark Howard, whose tales of ex-cons, professional killers, old soldiers, jazz musicians, prize fighters, bootleggers, prostitutes, auto racers, and a wide variety of multicultural misfits and outsiders have captivated readers for more than four decades, is as preeminent in the solidly constructed twist-in-the-tail crime story as Edward D. Hoch is in the classical detective story.
www.crippenlandru.com /books.asp?ID=18   (459 words)

  
 Advertise - A Visit From Father
There was a pause and then in a moment Ellery Clark stuck his head through a door on the left.
Old Clark's Ellery was a fool; you could see that with your eyes shut.
Ellery sounded for all the world as if he were trying to recite some piece that Rodney and that fellow Peale had taught him.
www.oldandsold.com /articles09/advertise-10.shtml   (3938 words)

  
 USATF - Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Versatile in both his athletic and professional lives, Ellery Clark was a double gold medalist at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.
At age 30, Clark made his second Olympic appearance at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, but bronchitis limited him to a sixth place finish in the all-around competition.
A Harvard graduate, Clark was one of the nation's top all-around athletes from 1893 to 1912 and competed as a race walker until the age of 56.
www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=31   (200 words)

  
 Ellery Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Clark did it in 1896, at the first modern Olympics in Athens.
In the long jump, he had used his hat to mark his runway.
Ellery Clark in USA Track & Field Hall of Fame
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ellery_clark   (413 words)

  
 Mary Higgins Clark -- Recent and Upcoming Books
Two years after her son Bobby is killed in a collision with a train, children's author Menley Nichols, still haunted by anxiety attacks about Hannah, the daughter whose birth reunited her with her estranged lawyer husband, Adam, is vacationing with them in Remember House in the Cape Cod town of Chatham.
Lacey Farrell, the heroine of Mary Higgins Clark's 15th novel, is having a bit of an identity crisis.
At the heart of Mary Higgins Clark's stunning new novel of suspense is a brutal murder: that of Gary Lasch, a respected and successful young Greenwich, Connecticut doctor.
www.non.com /books/Clark_Mary_Higgins_r.html   (1814 words)

  
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Mike Reynolds Restoration of Chabot's Clark and Brashear Refractors The fine 8 inch Clark, built in 1883 and the 20 inch Brashear, mounted in 1915 by Warner and Swasey, are still in superb condition and are in regular use whenever conditions permit.
But a 1929 dispute with the owners of the Clark Corporation led to Lundin's resignation and his creation of "C.A. Robert Lundin and Associates." This short-lived firm built several observatory refractors, including a 10 1/2-inch for the retired chairman of General Electric, but none were entirely successful, and the Great Depression finished off the company.
The Alvan Clark and Sons firm built a 6-inch observatory refractor for the College of the Pacific, a Methodist institution, in 1884.
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 MHS | Colonial Society of Massachusetts Collection, 1710-1939 : Guide to the Collection
Their papers include deeds for property in Tewksbury and Chelmsford, a bill from Jonathan Clark to the estate of Henry Kittredge, and an appointment of Jonathan Clark as a justice of the peace.
William Ellery Channing's passport to France and Holland, 1822, a letter to William H. Channing from Marianne G. Jackson regarding William Ellery Channing, clippings, engravings, including two of William Ellery Channing, and ephemera including bookplates and calling cards.
Clark family papers include correspondence to Jonas and Jonathan Clark, bills, deeds for property in Chelmsford and Tewksbury, and a commonplace notebook kept by Mary Clark containing original poetry.
www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0033   (1139 words)

  
 Welcome to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine!
EQMM Readers Award:Doug Allyn WON for "Palace in the Pines" 7/03; Clark Howard 2nd for "The Mask of Peter" 4/03; Clark Howard 3rd for "The Leper Colony" 8/03.
Edgar: Doug Allyn nominated for "The Murder Ballads" 3/02; Clark Howard nominated for "To Live and Die in Midland, Texas" 9-10/02; Joyce Carol Oates nominated for "Angel of Wrath" 6/02; Raymond Steiber WON for "Mexican Gatsby" 3/02.
The Ellery Queen 1962 Anthology, edited by Ellery Queen, and consisting of stories previously published in EQMM, was also nominated.
www.themysteryplace.com /eqmm/about/awards.shtml   (3533 words)

  
 Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 395
     Elizabeth Ellery was the daughter of William Ellery and Ann Remington.
Mabel Clark married Joseph Abbott Thompson, son of Samuel Thompson and Mary Ellsworth.
     Charles Clark was the son of Gideon Clark and Jemima Newcomb.
www.holcombegenealogy.com /data/p395.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
The Princeton athletes traveled with six Bostonians: Charles Arthur Blake, Thomas Burke, Ellery Harding Clark, James Brendan Connolly, Thomas P. Curtis and William W. Hoyt.
Emphasizing Harvard’s resistance to support these athletes’ efforts is the fact that three of them -- Ellery Clark, James Connolly, and William Hoyt -- were enrolled undergraduates at the time of the Games.
Clark was the only one given permission to leave -- his cause was no doubt helped by the fact that the President of Harvard had attended Harvard with Clark’s father.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=3553&method=text   (1473 words)

  
 Chippewa County Visitors Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
State Highway 27, Cadott, WI In 1880, Captain ' Ellery Clark of DePere, Wisconsin moved his hub and spoke factory to Cadott.
Clark had been a steam boat operator moving logs on the Fox River.
In 1898 Clark and several of his company heads transferred their operation to Ironton, Missouri.
www.chippewacounty.com /visit2004/HistoricalMarkers-33.htm   (229 words)

  
 Big Entertainment Joins With Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines in Internet Venture, ...
The website will sell subscriptions to all three magazines, and plans to offer mystery books for sale on-line in conjunction with a major Internet book retailer.
Other material will include book and film reviews, lists of forthcoming books, and message boards so that fans and readers can contact their favorite authors.
Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock have been leaders in the field of short crime fiction for many decades.
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 A Magazine Area - compare price: ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE magazine
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine brings you the best in short mystery fiction.
Published monthly, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine presents the finest in mystery short stories.
About Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: Contains stories in the field of crime, suspense, mystery and detection.
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 The Clark Family Registry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Henry Dolphus Clark was born Sept 25, 1856 in Tenn. He is buried in Taylor County, Texas.
My mother was very proud of her Clark heritage and so am I. I was the last child born to middleage parents and I was privileged to hear to hear stories about earlier generations of the Clark family.
Cornelius Morgan Clark lived in Laurens county Ga, was a Methodist minister, and lived in a square hewn log house.
currieart.com /clark/book.html   (4923 words)

  
 Running Past - The First Americans at the Olympic Games - Ellery Clark - Part 1
This is a first person account of the first Olympic Games, held in the spring of 1896 in Athens, Greece.
Written by Ellery Clark, this article was first published on March 9, 1911.
Through the summer and autumn of 1895 the newspapers from time to time would speak of the project, then on foot, for revival of the Olympic games at Athens in the spring of the following year.
www.runningpast.com /olympics_1896_part1.htm   (1023 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Among the men going are numbered Don Gilman, the captain, Jack Kearns, Paul Gerhardt, Johnny Barrett, Ellery Clark, Charlie Hall, and Goochy Smith.
In the Interclass meet Saturday, he ran a tw o-mile race that made the rest of the men despair, and seems to have enough left at the end of the hardest races to make the final sprint that counts.
As well as these two veterans, there is Ellery Clark-, who scored in the New Englands, and Paul Gerhardt, who has run for some time here at the Institute.
www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_051/TECH_V051_S0268_P001.txt   (2313 words)

  
 Running Network Archives
Well, lets put it this way, Ellery Clark of the U.S won the long jump in 1896 and we have won a medal every Olympics since then, except when President Carter had this great idea about boycotting the Moscow Olympics.
My favorite Marxist revisionist, Ivan Pedroso of Cuba won a house, a car, and an autographed copy of the Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx, the original writer and his pal Engels are both dead, but Fidel Castro and Alberto Danger Juantorena would sign it).
Note should be taken of Georgie Clarke, a distant relative of Aussie Great Ron Clarke.
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 Contents Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 85 # 2, No.501, February 1985] ed.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 85 # 3, No.502, March 1985] ed.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v 85 # 4, No.503, April 1985] ed.
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 ipedia.com: 1896 Summer Olympics Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fight between the two master fencers on foil is won by Leonidas Pyrgos, which thereby becomes the first Greek Olympic Champion of the modern era.
In the stadium, the Americans continue their dominance in athletics, winning the long jump (through Ellery Clark), the shot put (Garrett, winning his second title) and the 400 m (Tom Burke).
A fourth track and field event, the 1500 m, is won by Teddy Flack of Australia.
www.ipedia.com /1896_summer_olympics.html   (939 words)

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