“I was such a large sperm, my mother went into labor during conception.”
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Robert Garrett
Robert S. Garrett was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations. Garrett was the first modern Olympic champion in discus throw as well as shot put. With six Olympic medals, he is one of the most successful track and field Olympians of all time.
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business · United States athlete (1875–1961) · athletics competitor · financier · collector · banker · politician · also Robert Garrett, Garrett
Born 24 June 1875 · Died 25 April 1961 · Q315205
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1961· 2 entries
Died 1961-04-25.
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In Baltimore, Maryland He was buried at Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery
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1948· 1 entry
As the year's outstanding layperson in the field of religious education by the International Council of Religious Education
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1942· 1 entry
Garrett donated his collection of more than 11,000 manuscripts to Princeton University, including the "Aksum Scrolls" and sixteen Byzantine Greek manuscripts, containing rare examples of illuminated Byzantine art
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1919· 1 entry
Garrett gave to the City of Baltimore a tract of land of a city block along East Patapsco Avenue, between Second and Third Streets in its recently annexed Brooklyn neighborhood in South Baltimore to be used as a public p
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1914· 1 entry
By his aunt Mary Elizabeth Garrett, (1857-1915), and working in the relocation and construction project of their new museum building designed by famous American architect John Russell Pope (1874-1937), on Art Museum Driv
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1910· 1 entry
Shortly after its national establishment and imported from Great Britain with founder
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1896· 1 entry
Professor William Milligan Sloane suggested that Garrett also try the discus
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1888· 1 entry
Robert spent the following two and a half years traveling extensively with his mother and two brothers, Horatio and John, in Europe and the Near East
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-06-24.
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