Word: historicization
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Forget that hockey match the U.S. won 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating...
The "Croatian Sensation" missed the first half of the World Cup season completely, and her results when she did take to the piste were far from her best. But come the Olympics she switched up a gear to the form that last year had won her eight consecutive slalom races...
None of the hoopla surrounding Racine and Johnson, however, should overshadow what was a historic, heroic performance by Bakken and Flowers. They are the best in the world - never again will they be just the "other team."
The historic room, also known as Eliot C-11, served as the office of Professor of History and Literature Francis Otto Matthiessen until his 1950 suicide—and now houses the Matthiessen Memorial Library’s 1,600 volumes, which constituted Matthiessen’s working library.
It wasn't quite like landing on the moon?there was oxygen, atmosphere, lots of Hello Kitty?but the 13 brave Chinese tourists who took their first steps on Taiwanese soil last week knew they were on a historic mission. After 50 years, Taiwan is allowing mainland Chinese tourists to...