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Janina Skirlińska
Janina Skirlińska (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1993) was a Polish Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Polish women's team at those Olympics, where they placed 6th in the team competition. Additionally, she was the Bronze All-Around Medalist at the 1934 World Championships (the first-ever edition of those games that included a women's competition), helping her Polish team to the bronze medal at both that World Championships and the next edition of the World Championships in 1938. Early life Skirlińska was born on March 8, 1907 in the small village of Żurawiczki, Poland to Władysław and Helena (née Kwaśniewski) Skirliński who have alternatingly been described as belonging to the intelligentsia and Polish landed gentry, landed gentry classes. She graduated from high school in the nearby larger town of Jarosław with a course emphasis on physical education and military training. In her years after high sch ...
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3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ...
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