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From today's featured article Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov ice dancing Ice dance is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. A team consists of one woman and one man. Ice dance originated as recreational social skating: couples and friends would skate waltzes, marches, and other social dances. By the early 1900s it was popular in this form around the world. The first international ice dance competition took place as a special event at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1950 in London. Ice dance was formally added to the World Championships in 1952 and became an Olympic medal sport in 1976. Dominated by British teams in the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet teams until the 1990s, and North American teams in the 2000s, the discipline lost much of its integrity as a sport in the late 1990s and early 2000s after a series of judging scandals. Ice dance has certain elements that competitors are required to perform in specific ways, including the dance lift, the dance spin, the step sequence, twizzles, and choreographic elements. (Full article...)
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Thomas François Burgers (1834–1881) was the fourth president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) from 1872 to 1877. The first coins of the Transvaal Burgerspond were introduced by Burgers in 1874, responding to a demand for coinage from the populace dating back to 1853. Burgers sent a portrait of himself to his UK consul-general, who commissioned the coins to be struck at Heaton's Mint in Birmingham, England. Some people in the South African Republic objected to the issue of the Burgerspond because the portrayal of the president on coins was perceived to liken him to a dictator. This one-pound coin, minted in 1874, bears an effigy of Burgers on the obverse and the coat of arms of the Transvaal on the reverse. Coin design credit: Heaton's Mint; photographed by Andrew Shiva
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