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History Of Figure Skating
The history of figure skating stretches back to prehistoric times. Primitive ice skates appear in the archaeological record from about 3000 BC. Edges were added by the Dutch in the 13th and 14th century. International figure skating competitions began appearing in the late 19th century; in 1891, the European Championships were inaugurated in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1896, the first World Championship were held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England, figure skating became the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics. Archaeology and earliest historical documentation The exact time and process by which humans first learned to ice skate is unknown. Primitive animal bone ice skates have been found in Scandinavia and Russia, some dating back to about 3000 BC. The earliest clear, written mention of ice skating is found in a book written in the 12th century by William Fitzstephen, a monk in Canterbury. In the work, centered on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Isaiah ( or ; he, , ''Yəšaʿyāhū'', " God is Salvation"), also known as Isaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet", but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and the actual prophet Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by approximately 15 years, and that the book includes dramatic prophetic declarations of Cyrus the Great in the Bible, acting to restore the nation of Israel from Babylonian captivity. Another widely held view is that parts of the first half of the book (chapters 1–39) originated with the historical prophet, interspersed with prose commentaries written in the time of King Josiah a hundred years later, and that the remainder of the book dates from immediately before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Lidwina
Lidwina (Lydwine, Lydwid, Lidwid, Liduina of Schiedam) (1380-1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patron saint of the town of Schiedam and of chronic pain. Lidwina is also thought to be one of the first documented cases of multiple sclerosis. At the age of fifteen, she suffered a serious injury while ice skating and became progressively disabled. Hendrik Mande wrote for her consolation a pious tract in Dutch. She fasted frequently and acquired a reputation as a healer and holy woman. Upon her death in 1433, her grave became a place of pilgrimage. Life Lidwina was born in Schiedam, Holland, one of nine children. Her father was a laborer. At age 15, she was ice skating when she fell and broke a rib. She never recovered and became progressively disabled for the rest of her life. Her biographers state that she became paralyzed except for her left hand and that great pieces of her body fell off, and that blood poured from her mouth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (artilleryman)
Robert Jones ("Captain Jones") was an officer in the Royal Artillery of the British Army, who wrote and self-published the first book on figure skating, ''The Art of Skating'', in 1772. He was known for popularising figure skating in Great Britain, and for his 1772 trial for sodomy. He also wrote a book about and popularising fireworks. ''The Art of Skating'' was called "a milestone in the history of figure skating". Jones described basic techniques of skating, which was a recreational activity at the time, before the development of figure skating as a sport in the late 1800s. He was the first to characterize skating as an art form. He wrote that he saw no reason for the exclusion of women in skating, as long as they did it for recreational purposes. In 1772, Jones was convicted of sodomy against a 12-year-old boy; he was sentenced to death but allowed to go into exile. The court case was widely debated and discussed among politicians and in the popular press of the day and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Skating Club
The Edinburgh Skating Club is recognized as the first organized figure skating club A figure skating club is a local organization of figure skaters, often centered on a single ice rink. Typical club activities include arranging practice ice time, hosting test sessions and competitions, and producing an annual ice show in which clu ...."In The Beginning...", ''Skating'' magazine, Jun 1970 While some sources claim the club was established in 1642, most sources accept 1742 or 1744 as the date of its founding. The next-oldest skating club, in London, was not founded until 1830. The club was dissolved in 1966 after the decline in interest in combined figure-skating. The claim to the 1642 founding date appears to derive from a small book published by the club council in 1865, ''The Edinburgh Skating-Club with Diagrams of Figures and a List of the Members''. As of that writing, the club's oldest extant records were dated January 1778, and the reference to 1642 appeared only in club re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
