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This question may have been answered before but I couldnt find it. Has anyone ever won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics? I suspect the best chance would be someone competing in Shooting in the summer and Biathalon in the winter, but I'd be interested to know if it's actually happened. - Running On Brains 03:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Gillis Grafström won gold medals in the summer and winter Olympics in the same sport: figure skating. That's because winter events were part of the summer games before the winter games were established. --Anonymous, 04:31 UTC, August 12, 2008.
I've bought a few and they all rip after a few months. Is that what I have to live with? Brand, no brand...doesn't seem to make a difference. Thanks. 67.243.6.204 ( talk) 14:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
For a while There was an area on the flushed away (Film) page about the sequel to the movie titled flushed away again. Recently the subject has been deleted and I don't have a clue why. Can you tell me who deleted it and why? Can you also give me any information links given by the person when they created the subject?
Thank you Ritaslilsis ( talk) 18:42, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Did the concepts of A-side and B-side traditionally have significance to full albums as they did to singles and EPs? Neon Merlin 21:45, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I’ve never been greatly into popular culture, so I don’t know if what I’m about to describe still happens.
An album is sometimes named after one of the songs on the album. However, I’ve often noticed that the “name song” is almost never the first track. Neither is it the last track. It’s more often than not about 3rd last. In the good old LPs days, the song would be on side B, towards the end of the side, but not right at the end. With CDs it’s in an equivalent place in the order of the songs. I’ve often wondered why this was done so often. My impression was that they were in some way downplaying the importance of the name song.. Was this to inject some balance? By that I mean, they’d already given the song a boost by naming the album after it, so they needed to give greater prominence to some of the other songs. I’m sure there are lots of exceptions to this practice, but I noticed it a lot when I was in my noticing days. Any ideas about this? -- JackofOz ( talk) 09:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
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This question may have been answered before but I couldnt find it. Has anyone ever won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics? I suspect the best chance would be someone competing in Shooting in the summer and Biathalon in the winter, but I'd be interested to know if it's actually happened. - Running On Brains 03:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Gillis Grafström won gold medals in the summer and winter Olympics in the same sport: figure skating. That's because winter events were part of the summer games before the winter games were established. --Anonymous, 04:31 UTC, August 12, 2008.
I've bought a few and they all rip after a few months. Is that what I have to live with? Brand, no brand...doesn't seem to make a difference. Thanks. 67.243.6.204 ( talk) 14:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
For a while There was an area on the flushed away (Film) page about the sequel to the movie titled flushed away again. Recently the subject has been deleted and I don't have a clue why. Can you tell me who deleted it and why? Can you also give me any information links given by the person when they created the subject?
Thank you Ritaslilsis ( talk) 18:42, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Did the concepts of A-side and B-side traditionally have significance to full albums as they did to singles and EPs? Neon Merlin 21:45, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I’ve never been greatly into popular culture, so I don’t know if what I’m about to describe still happens.
An album is sometimes named after one of the songs on the album. However, I’ve often noticed that the “name song” is almost never the first track. Neither is it the last track. It’s more often than not about 3rd last. In the good old LPs days, the song would be on side B, towards the end of the side, but not right at the end. With CDs it’s in an equivalent place in the order of the songs. I’ve often wondered why this was done so often. My impression was that they were in some way downplaying the importance of the name song.. Was this to inject some balance? By that I mean, they’d already given the song a boost by naming the album after it, so they needed to give greater prominence to some of the other songs. I’m sure there are lots of exceptions to this practice, but I noticed it a lot when I was in my noticing days. Any ideas about this? -- JackofOz ( talk) 09:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)