Monthly Archive: November 2017
On the History in Color cover photo, two legends of the super heavyweight class, Anatoly Pisarenko (left) and Vasily Alexeev are having a conversation during training in February 1982. 2x Olympic champion and author...
November 9, 1986 – 19-year old Naim Suleymanoglu competes for Bulgaria and lifts a 188kg world record in clean-and-jerk at the 1986 World Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. The “Pocket Hercules” was a featherweight lifter...
November 9, 1986 – 19-year old featherweight Naum Shalamanov of Bulgaria snatches a 147.5 kg world record at the 1986 World Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. In a few years, young world record breaker will...
3-time Olympic champion and 7-time world champion Naim Süleymanoğlu has died at the age of 50 at the Ataşehir Memorial Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. Due to liver failure caused by cirrhosis, Naim Süleymanoğlu had a...
April 1984 – Soviet heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of Urozhay (Harvest), Minsk, and his coach Ivan Logvinovich are having a tough one-on-one session during the 1984 USSR Championship that was held in their hometown Minsk,...
She had an open heart surgery on Wednesday. It lasted 6+ hours. From the procedure standpoint, it was case #78887. But it wasn’t just some odd set of numbers for me. My wife had...
This panoramic view of Boston with a watch bird was taken from the Mount Auburn Tower in Cambridge, MA. The watch bird observing the town can be seen on the right. It is a...
Red-Tailed Hawk as spotted in the Mount Auburn Cemetery area in November 2017. From the Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
Blue Jay as seen in the Mount Auburn Cemetery area. From the Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
Cooper’s Hawk as seen in the Mount Auburn Cemetery area. From the Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.