Ralph Waldo Rose

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Ralph Waldo Rose

American shot-putter

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- London 1908 Olympic Games
  …began when the American shot-putter Ralph Rose would not dip the U.S. flag in salute to King Edward VII. This refusal later became standard practice for U.S. athletes in the opening parade. (See Sidebar: Ralph Rose and Martin Sheridan: The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush.)
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  …began when the American shot-putter Ralph Rose would not dip the U.S. flag in salute to King Edward VII. This refusal later became standard practice for U.S. athletes in the opening parade. (See Sidebar: Ralph Rose and Martin Sheridan: The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush.)
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- Olympic Games
  London, England, 1908
  …began when the American shot-putter Ralph Rose would not dip the U.S. flag in salute to King Edward VII. This refusal later became standard practice for U.S. athletes in the opening parade. (See Sidebar: Ralph Rose and Martin Sheridan: The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush.)
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  …began when the American shot-putter Ralph Rose would not dip the U.S. flag in salute to King Edward VII. This refusal later became standard practice for U.S. athletes in the opening parade. (See Sidebar: Ralph Rose and Martin Sheridan: The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush.)
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Ralph Rose and Martin Sheridan
The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush
Sultry heat and pelting rain turned the road through the exhibition grounds into “a sea of liquid mud,” marring the 1908 Olympics, according to the The Times of London. A much greater problem, however, was bitter partisanship that had emerged between the United States and…
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Sultry heat and pelting rain turned the road through the exhibition grounds into “a sea of liquid mud,” marring the 1908 Olympics, according to the The Times of London. A much greater problem, however, was bitter partisanship that had emerged between the United States and…
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