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2008 London Marathon
The 2008 London Marathon was the 28th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 13 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Martin Lel in a time of 2:05:15 hours and the women's race was won by Germany's Irina Mikitenko in 2:24:14. In the wheelchair races, Britain's David Weir (wheelchair athlete), David Weir (1:33:56) and Switzerland's Sandra Graf (1:48:04) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. Graf knocked over a minute off the course record. Around 120,000 people applied to enter the race: 48,630 had their applications accepted and 35,037 started the race. A total of 34,212 runners, 23,574 men and 10,638 women, finished the race. Marathon Guide. Retrieved 2020-04-25. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora 2008 London Marathon
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is ''funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
