21. Women In Sports In this chapter book, kids are introduced to four medalwinning skaters Kristi Mini-biographies of five of the greatest women golfers are also given http://www.childrenslit.com/th_sportwomen.html

Women in Sports Babe Didrikson Zaharias: All-Around Athlete Jane Sutcliffe Illustrated by Jeni Reeves ISBN: 1-57505-421-3 Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Driven to Win Nancy Wakeman ISBN: 0-8225-4917-4 Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion Russell Freedman It's not Babe Ruth, but Babe Didrikson Zahariasthe greatest woman athlete of all time. Few men, if any, have ever bested her feats in sports from track and field to golf. Babe broke barriers for women. Contrary to Aver Brundage's belief that women had no place in sports, Babe proved that women could sweat, succeed, set new records and still enjoy dancing at night. Freedman presents Babe as a complete and complex person. Terrific photos show her in action. She was a one-woman team! If Babe is the tops in sports, Freedman holds that same honor in the field of photobiography. His books are "must reads" for all ages. 1999, Clarion, Ages 10 up, $18.00. Reviewer: Jan Lieberman ISBN: 0-3956-3367-2 The Best of the Best in Gymnastics Rachel Rutledge Women gymnasts have always possessed precision, power and grace. But it was not until 1972 that a young Soviet athlete, Olga Korbut stepped into the Olympic spotlight and changed the face of the sport forever. Until Korbut, the stars of women's gymnastics were mature, conservative, technically sound veterans in the twenties or early thirties. Today's gymnasts are young risk-takers with a keen competitive spirit and a passion for perfection. This nonfiction book profiles eight of the world's best female gymnastsSimona Amanar, Vanessa Atler, Dominique Dawes, Ling Jie, Svetlana Khorkina, Kristen Maloney, Shannon Miller and Dominique Moceanu. Chapters giving a brief overview of the sport are also included. This is a great reference book for school or library, and or a gift book for the budding gymnast! It is part of the "Women of Sports" series. 1999, Millbrook Press, Ages 8 to 12, $22.90 and 6.95. Reviewer: Dianne Ochiltree

22. Biography biographies of Belle Boyd, spy Susan B. Anthony, worker for women’s vote; ClaraBarton Profiles 23 famous skaters from World and Olympic Championships. http://www.halifaxschool.org/cyberlib/biography.htm

Biography Print Resources: 92 Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. A young boy is adopted by his Cherokee grandparents and raised in the traditional ways of their people. Moving story, powerfully told. C ooney, Barbara. Eleanor. New York: Viking, 1996. Picture book format tells the story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s life as a child. 920 Furbee, Mary Rodd. Outrageous Women of the Civil War. New York: Wiley, 2003. Biographies of Belle Boyd, spy: Susan B. Anthony, worker for women’s vote; Clara Barton, founded the American Red Cross and Harriet Tubman, founded the Underground Railroad. 920 Furbee, Mary Rodd. Outrageous Women of Colonial America. New York: Wiley, 2001 Meet these brave women from Colonial America: Mimbet, a slave who won her freedom in a court room; Peggy Arnold, spy and wife of Benedict Arnold; play write Mercy Warren, and more. 920 Haskins, Jim. Black Stars of the Civil War . New York: Wiley , 2003. Inspiring stories of 23 black heroes during the Civil War.

23. Librarians Internet Index Olympic Athletes Http//lii2.wested Detailed results of ISU events, biographies of skaters past and present, From an online exhibit called women In History Living Vignettes of women From http://lii2.wested.org/pub/subtopic/47963

24. Page Two Summary The story of two champion skaters going for Olympic gold. SummaryA collection of ten biographies of women who have served in the military http://web.dexter.k12.mi.us/~palmer/Page_two.html

Creekside Library Home Page Women's History Bibliography Creekside Library Media Center Dexter, Michigan A red dot ( ) indicates a highly recommended title RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 221.9 Sas Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg Andersen. But God remembered: stories of women from creation to the promised land . Woodstock, Vt : Jewish Lights Publishing, 1995. Summary: Here are stories that might have happened, about four women of biblical tradition. 296.4 Gol Goldin, Barbara Diamond Weihs, Erika. Bat mitzvah: a Jewish girl's coming of age . York : Viking, 1995. Summary: A history and description of the bat mitzvah, the ceremony in which a Jewish girl marks her transition to adulthood. 299 Sey Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness. The gift of Changing Woman . New York : H. Holt, 1993. Summary: Describes the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for young Apache women, in which they use special dances and prayers to reenact the Apache story of creation and celebrate the power of Changing Woman, the legendary ancestor of their people. 305.23 Col

25. Links On Women's History, By Category biographies and other information on individual British women in history. women Figure skaters Olympic Medal Winners - Female Ice Skating http://www.jjnet.com/women/netlinks.htm

By topic: 1920s and 1930s - Women's History Women's history during the 1920s and 1930s, between the two World Wars. The Twenties began with the ratification of woman suffrage in the United States and proceeded through the Jazz Age; the Thirties saw more change in women's roles. Student Activists of the 1930s A series of autobiographies of young women who identified as student activists, socialists, reformers and radicals describe their backgrounds, their activist activities, and what brought them to radicalism. Nineteenth Century Women in the nineteenth century: research the everyday lives of women in the 1800s, from domesticity to slave narratives to fashion. Abigail Smith Adams - First Lady 1797-1801 - wife of John Adams the second President of the United States Abigail Adams, First Lady 1797-1801, wife of John Adams, second President of the United States. Louisa Catherine Adams - biographical and other resources Louisa Adams, First Lady 1825-1829, wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. First Lady - Barbara Pierce Bush - biographical and other resources Barbara Bush, First Lady 1989-1993, wife of George Bush, forty-first President of the United States.

26. Miscellaneous Sports Brief paragraphs about the three young skaters Tara Lipinski, biographies ofwomen who ve made their mark on the sport, from women in Sports. http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/themes/Sports/sprtmisc.html

Home Page Safety Net Newsletter Teacher Resources Libraries ... Projects Miscellaneous Sports Table of Contents Archery Badminton Bicycling Bobsledding ... Wrestling Archery Archery: Sport of Champions This ThinkQuest site goes over the sport's history, techniques, and the science behind the bow and arrow! Federation of Canadian Archers Information on this organization, history of archery, events and more. MSN Encarta - Archery Encyclopedia entry offers history and a description of this bow and arrow sport. National Archery Association Official site for U.S. Olympic Archery. Includes info on how to join and the history of archery. Olympic-Style Archer's Corner Individual archer presents target scoring format, equipment details, and educational articles. Find related links. U of T Archery Club - Links A comprehensive site with links to archery sites world wide. "Victoria Bowmen" A site with a wealth of information about archery, including: history, types of archery, equipment, events and more. (Back to Table Of Contents) Badminton Badminton Canada's Homepage Site includes athlete profiles, a list of champions, tournament results, a newsletter, badminton links and more.

27. Skøyter The skaters started two at a time. Originally, the winner of each pair proceededto the next round so that Or Paul Hanlin s biographies of the women http://home.ringnett.no/lars.finsen/speedskating.htm

Back to menu Statistics: Current records. A ranking of all the best speedskaters in history, based on a points system designed for a fair comparison between old and new speedskaters of the ISU era, as well as between European and non-European skaters and between men and women. What is a championship without a 10000 m? Still open for new entries. E-mail me with yours! Some well known statistics pages: http://www.skatebase.com http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46130641/other.htm (Evert Stenlund's speedskating pages) http://www.skyggespill.no/skate/index.html (Terje Baard Hansen's speedskating pages) Short speedskating histories for the various countries: Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Bhutan Bosnia-Herczegovina ... Canada China Croatia Czech republic Denmark Estonia Finland France ... Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland India Iran Ireland Italy Japan Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Mongolia Netherlands New Zealand North Korea Norway Panama Poland Portugal Rumania Russia Slovakia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Ukraine USA Virgin Islands RACING Racing is something fundamentally human. We race on our feet, in the air, over snow and ice, on bikes, boats and in airplanes, we race our next door neighbours for the most advanced satellite receivers or the biggest and noisiest lawn mower, we race our colleagues at work for more money and influence, we race the next door superpower for more and bigger warheads on our nuclear weapons. It's "The Human Race", and every time we reach our goal as the ultimate winner, we feel an undescribable joy.

28. Causes For Concern: Immature Bones And Emotions : For Lipinski, Thin Ice Ahead To live with such requirements, Smith said, many women skaters may have to to remove all mention of weight from the biographies of women athletes. http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/03/26/bodies.t.php

Subscribe to the newspaper ARTICLE TOOLS CHANGE FORMAT PRINT PAGE EMAIL ARTICLE Business Asia by Bloomberg ... Remove all read clippings LANGUAGE TOOLS Language Tools What is this? English Definitions English->Spanish English->French English->German English->Italian Eng->Portuguese Powered by Ultralingua ARTICLE TOOLS CHANGE FORMAT PRINT PAGE EMAIL ARTICLE ) Font ( ) Font Causes for Concern: Immature Bones and Emotions : For Lipinski, Thin Ice Ahead By Ian Thomsen International Herald Tribune Wednesday, March 26, 1997 The smaller, younger girls were told to stand on the upper steps as if they were posing for a portrait. In fact, they were receiving their awards at the World Figure Skating Championships last weekend. The "ladies" gold medalist, Tara Lipinski, was by far the tiniest skater at the weeklong event, and at 14 she was its youngest champion of all time. For the next year leading up to the Winter Olympics, Lipinski will continue to receive three personal tutors at her home near Detroit, where she and her mother moved to be near her coach. She will practice skating for about five hours a day, five days a week, which seems to be as much as her developing joints and bones can handle. There is talk of her joining an ice tour this summer and earning more than $1 million for the year, with potentially $10 million to come if she prevails at the Olympics next winter in Nagano, Japan.

29. Sports Links women s NBA players stats and bios, team standings, news, schedules, Skating Online - biographies and competitive histories of current skaters, http://library.loganutah.org/directory/links/sports.html

Logan Library's Internet Directory Sports Local Sports Local Recreation General Topics Baseball ... Other Sports Local Sports: BYU Basketball - news, schedule, stats, roster, staff, recruiting, history, information about the team, fan information and media links; purchase tickets and apparel online BYU Football - news, schedule, stats, roster, staff, recruiting, history, information about the team, fan information and media links; purchase tickets and apparel online Ogden Raptors - team information, tickets, stadium, fan information media links, news, standings, schedule, stats, and shop for apparel online Pacific Coast League - triple AAA baseball league, includes Salt Lake Stingers; information teams, scoreboard, standings, statistics, schedule for both Pacific Coast League and International League Salt Lake Stingers - news, roster, stats, promotions, multimedia, fan information, front office, stadium and food information, links to related sites, purchase tickets and merchandise online, schedule, kids club, and site in Spanish University of Utah Basketball - news, fan information, recruiting, online store, buy tickets online, parking, staff, schedules, audio/video broadcasts

30. Web Picks Archive - What's New? - Lake-Sumter Community College Libraries This page compiled by the National women s History Project provides an overview biographies and competitive histories of current skaters, schedules and http://www.lscc.edu/library/archive02-03.htm

A-Z Index Ask A Librarian LOIS What's New! Web Picks Archives Current In Print! Archives Current Cyberlibrary Library Catalogs Net Search ... Web Site Evaluation What's New Web Picks Archive 2002-2003 July August September October ... June July July Dates The University of Kansas Medical Center Diversity Initiative provides a reliable list of monthly holidays. How Fireworks Work This site provides detailed information about how things work. The page, created by Marshall Brain (yes, this is his real name), began as a hobby and quickly grew into a business. He uses library and internet resources to gather information and provides links to other resources for every guide he creates. Week of July 1st through July 14th The Booklist Center Billing itself as "The Web's Largest Selection of Booklists," this site, by a retired librarian, lists links to more than 230 browsable booklists divided into more than 50 categories. In addition to the usual lists (science fiction, young adult, best sellers) there are links to such lists as African Americans, Environmental Issues, Financial Investments, and Islamic Religion and Culture. CDI: Terrorism Project The Center for Defense Information (CDI), an independent think tank in Washington, DC, provides reports to multiple categories of information, including Eye on Iraq, Terrorist Networks, Responding to Terrorism, homeland security, weapons, policy, legislation, and more. Each report is written by a CDI staff member. There are links (many with annotations) to additional resources.

31. Sports Guide This supplement includes over 600 biographies of notable men and women American lacrosse players, skiers, soccer players, speed skaters, tennis players, http://www.princeton.edu/~econlib/SportsGuide.htm

32. Persons Jeroen Heijmans Full results of all major events!!!, skaters biographies Olympianson IOC site Paul Hanlin s biographies of the sweet sixteen women http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/cvanstaaveren/schaatsen/links/persons.htm

FANPAGES/SKATERS General information Find more on the professional teams links Jeroen Heijmans Full results of all major events!!!, skaters biographies Olympians on IOC site All sporters on alphabetical order (not finished yet) Skatelog find info about a lot of skaters Evert Stenlund's biographies of the greatest male speedskaters in history Paul Hanlin's biographies of the "sweet sixteen" women Canadian team Dutch teams ... Golden coaches NED among them skating coaches Dutch stars search under birthname Right to Play topsporters for sporters NED branch sportswitnesses fans Langebaanschaatsen en sprinten NED Norwegian skaters NED Koninklijk Oranje Bitter Comité NED Schaatsen Schaatsskeeler NED Schaatsen te gek joh he !!! NED Sexy Dutch some skaters among them The Kneuzen IJsvereniging Interscotts Dutch speedskating Supporters Norway supporter team Zuidelijke Schaatsers Villa web schaatsen Villa next Birthdays January-June July-December Skaters Henk Angenent Monique Angermüller Bianca Anghel ENG Daniela Anschütz Susan Auch Eelco Bakermans Andreas Behr ... Anni Friesinger GER+NED Jan Friesinger Rayk Fritzsche Monique Garbrecht Enfeldt GER+ENG Annette Gerritsen Helen van Goozen Marc Greenwald Picture's of Marc and US an Dutch team Matthijs van Gink Øystein Grødum Renate Groenewold NED+ENG Stefan Groothuis Romke de Haan Kuniomi Haneishi Sören Harder ... Katherine "Kit" Klein look at 1932 Moniek Kleinsman Jacques de Koning Tine Køpke Pasi Koskela ... Geir Nesset from mid Norway Dave Newman Beorn Nijenhuis fanclub Gunda Niemann - Stirnemann ... Tomomi Okazaki JAP JAP+ENG

33. Derry Public Library Booklist: Winter Sports Rutledge, Rachel women of Sports The Best of the Best in Figure Skating presents biographies of eight of the sport s most famous skaters Oksana Baiul, http://www.derry.lib.nh.us/childrens/booklists/booklistwintersports.html

Winter Sports Bobsledding Brimner, Larry Dane Bobsledding and the Luge J 796.95 BRL Describes the history of bobsledding and luge competition, with a look at these sports at the Olympics. Hockey Brooks, Bruce Woodsie J Brooks, B. At the start of the new ice hockey season, Woodsie alone believes that his teammates can pick themselves up after several key players defect to a rival team. Christopher, Matt Ice Magic J Christopher, M. The twins' toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen. Christopher, Matt The Hockey Machine J Christopher, M. Abducted by a "fan" and forced to become a member of a professional junior hockey team, thirteen-year-old star center, Steve Crandall quickly realizes that he must play not only to win but to survive. Dadey, Debbie Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks Series Fiction, Bailey School Kids #34 The Bailey school kids suspect that the new hockey coach is really Frankenstien's monster. Foley, Mike Fundamental Hockey J 796.962 FOM

34. Science Is For Everyone -- Mohonasen Central School District Clothing designer – In the Winter Olympics, speed skaters wear clingy suits made biographies of six women whose interest in nature began as young girls. http://www.mohonasen.org/03parents/ElemParent/science.htm

Back HELP FOR PARENTS OF: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Science is for everyone In most every job or profession that people do today – from the retail store manager who tracks inventory with computer programs to technicians who draw blood for lab work – science and technology play important roles. For this reason, everyone needs to have a firm understanding of science and technology to compete in an ever-changing job market. To illustrate the importance of science to today’s elementary school students, here are some of the "When I grow up I want to be " professions that now require a detailed knowledge of the same scientific concepts and tools that your child is learning to use every day at school: Auto mechanic – Though there is still a lot of hands-on work with grease and goo, auto mechanics now need a knowledge of technology to use many of the diagnostic tools (such as computer programs and computer-generated graphs) to determine what is wrong with your car and how best to fix it. Police officer – Behind the uniforms and fancy cars with shiny lights are people who use lots of scientific reasoning skills to do their jobs. Police use deductive reasoning as they gather facts and collect evidence for criminal cases and make accurate decisions based on what they see, hear, smell or touch. They use charts, tables, books and other facts to help make decisions and use computer technologies for such tasks as DNA and fingerprint identification.

35. City Of Lake Oswego: Public Affairs: News & Events: Hello LO - March, 2000 Taking the long view, the skaters preferred to wait for permanent ramps, on the library’s second floor throughout March biographies of famous women and http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/newsletters/2000 Newsletters/March_2000.htm

Choose One Community Services Government Business Visitors Advanced Search Site Map Jump to a Department Department Search Adult Community Center Building City Attorney City Council City Manager Engineering Finance Fire Department Human Resources Library Maintenance Municipal Court Planning Police Public Affairs Redevelopment Agency Water Treatment Plant Lake Oswego Home Find a Document or Form Community Dev Code Community Survey Council Meetings East End Dev Plan Financial Reports Job Applications Land Use Code Listserv (email signup) Map - Neighborhood Map - Parks Map - Zoning Trails Master Plan Tree Removal Form Quick Links Choose One 2003 Survey Results FAQS Job Openings City Store Other Useful Links Library Catalogue 2025 Periodic Review Lake Oswego Tour Neighborhood Program About Lake Oswego Contacts How are we doing? You are Here Home Departments Public Affairs Hello LO - March, 2000 Contents: City Council Outlines Goals for Coming Year A Lesson in City Finance Budget Time at City Hall 1999 City Water Projects Under Construction Vacancies on Boards and Commissions Council puts Street Utility Fees on hold Skate Park Plans Moves Ahead News You Can Use Ball Park Renovations Library Happenings Adult Community Center City Council Outlines Goals for the Year By Mayor Bill Klammer In January the City Council met to discuss what we felt were the important issues for the year. In order to work efficiently we chose to focus on four policy areas: urbanization, strategic financial planning, redevelopment and quality of life indicators. These items, outlined below, will help guide our agenda.

36. Tallulahs Directory Of Collector Articles; Affordable Romance Cards 3 Welldressed pair of Estonian skaters in love for women vintageerotica menu postcard biographies vintage collector articles collector http://tallulahs.com/romance.php

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37. Library Of Information Provides women skaters of all ages with products and info geared especially Promotes female golf, with tournament informations, biographies of players, http://www.smartgirl.org/about/library.html

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38. Great Olympians - Biographies - JO women s Individual, fifth, 11th, , 1596 Their son Jean-Pierre was one ofonly two skaters ever to win against Dick Button. http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/biojo.htm

Great Olympians Biographies - JO Knut Johannesen Norway Speed Skating (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) HP 10000 m silver gold bronze 5000 m silver gold 1500 m 500 m His gold at 10000 m at Squaw Valley was with a world record that beat the previous best by 46 seconds ! Claes Edvin Johanson B. 1884-11-04, Sweden; D. 1949-03-09 Greco-Roman Wrestling (2 gold) HP Middleweight A (-73 kg) gold Light heavyweight (-82.5 kg) gold +82.5 kg Carl Hugo Johansson Sweden Shooting (2 gold, 3 bronze) HP Free Rifle, 3 positions fourth Free Rifle, team gold sixth Military Rifle, Free position Military Rifle, 300m, prone sixth Military Rifle, 600m, prone gold Military Rifle, team bronze Military Rifle, 300m, prone, team fifth Military Rifle, 600m, prone, team bronze Military Rifle, 300m, standing, team bronze sixth Greta Johansson Sweden Diving, Swimming (1 gold) HP gold 100 m Free-style 4x100 m Free-style Relay fourth Hjalmar Johansson B. 1874-01-20, Sweden; D. 1957-09-30 Diving, Swimming, Athletics (1 gold, 1 silver) HP Combined Platform sixth fourth gold silver 100 m Free-style eighth 200 m Breaststroke Standing Long Jump Ivar Johansson Wrestling (3 gold) HP Greco-Roman, -72 kg

39. Women Speed Skaters - Olympic Medalists - Female Ice Skating women speed skaters of the Olympics medal winners and world champions in thesport of Quotations by Notable women IndexCoco Chanel - Biography and http://womenshistory.about.com/od/speedskaters/

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40. Rainbow Ice - Flavor Of The Month When it comes to autobiography or authorized biography, male skaters have bisexual) male skaters refer ostentatiously to their romances with women. http://www.plover.com/rainbowice/flavor0900.html

Graphic by YIKES,Inc. Skaters and autobiographies Homophobia affects all male skaters, regardless of their personal sexual orientation. Many assume that all male skaters are gay; even when individual male skaters are known to be straight, they are frequently the target of anti-gay slurs just for being in the sport. When it comes to autobiography or authorized biography, male skaters have taken a number of approaches to this phenomenon. In a few cases, the silence has spoken loudly. Of the male skater autobiographies Rainbow Ice is aware of, only one, Icebreaker: the Autobiography of Rudy Galindo , with Eric Marcus, acknowledges the subject as gay. Another, Toller Cranston's Zero Tollerance , with Martha Lowder Kimball, describes a same-sex rendezvous, although Cranston does not identify as gay or bisexual. Of the other male skater autobiographies, there are a few which employ a curious "don't ask, don't tell" strategy. It cannot be easy to decide to collaborate with a writer on the story of one's life while omitting any mention of a love life whatsoever, but this is the choice made by Brian Orser in his 1988 book A Skater's Life with Steve Milton, and by the 1998 authorized biography

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