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Featured article: September 4, 2007 Australia's participation in the Winter Olympics began with the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Since then, Australia has participated in every Winter Olympics, with the exception of the 1948 Games in St. Moritz. Australia achieved its first medal, a bronze, in 1994 in the men's 5,000 metres short track relay event. Zali Steggall gained Australia's first individual medal in 1998 when she won bronze in the slalom event. In 2002, Steven Bradbury won gold in the 1,000 metres short track speed skating and Alisa Camplin won gold in the aerials event, making Australia the only southern hemisphere country to have ever accomplished gold at a Winter Olympics. Australia sent 40 competitors to compete in 10 sports at the 2006 Games in Turin, a record number of athletes and events for the nation. For the first time, there was a stated aim of winning a medal, and this goal was achieved when Dale Begg-Smith won the gold medal in men's moguls freestyle skiing. Camplin attained her second medal, a bronze in the aerials event. (more...) Recently featured: Hamlet chicken processing plant fire – John Millington Synge – Lage Raho Munna Bhai

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Featured sound A World War II gospel song sung by Bertha Houston and her congregation. (file info)

Featured picture: November 18, 2007 A 1942 aircraft worker at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California. Women on the United States home front during World War II took on many manufacturing jobs in factories, producing munitions and materiel for the battlefront. This photo was one of a series intended to chronicle many aspects of war mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training and women employees. Photo credit: David Bransby, OWI Recently featured: Holoplatys semiplanata – Sitting Bull – Pimelea spicata

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The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e. the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers).     Rank Name Location Main span metres Main span feet Year opened 1 Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (The longest since 1998) Kobe-Awaji Route, Japan 1,991 6,532   1998 2 * Xihoumen Bridge Zhoushan Archipelago, China 1,650 5,414  2009 3 Great Belt Bridge (also known as the Storebælt Bridge; Danish: Storebæltsbroen) (the longest in Europe) Halsskov-Sprogø, Denmark 1,624 5,328   1998 See full list...

Featured topic: Major League Baseball Triple Crown
| discuss | book 7 articles Major League Baseball Triple Crown List of batting average champions List of home run champions List of runs batted in champions List of wins champions List of earned run average champions List of strikeout champions

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