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Sybil Evers could not have children, so they adopted an eight-week-old boy, Alan, in 1942, and a nearly three-year-old girl, Susan, in 1946; Susan ("Sue") later married the formerly imprisoned anti-nuclear activist
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Olympic medal to make the bridal wedding ring. Both the medal and the ring (following Sybil's death) were later stolen, on separate occasions.
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Graves of Sybil and Harold Abrahams (at findagrave.com)
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Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
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774:(CBE) in 1957. Abrahams has been recognised with an
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980:Kebric, Robert B. (2002) . Dawson, Dawn P. (ed.).
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1108:"Uc_Hilal : Jews in Sports @ Virtual Museum"
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1430:"Hall of Fame – Inductees 2009: Harold Abrahams"
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1052:"Harold Abrahams, 1899–1978 " Keynes Society"
1432:. England Athletics. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
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1319:Oxbury, Harold (1985).
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641:The Rome Olympiad, 1960
371:Harold Maurice Abrahams
247:Achievements and titles
128:University of Cambridge
56:Harold Maurice Abrahams
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802:. The film won four
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622:1936 Berlin Olympics
488:Abrahams had been a
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457:University Pitt Club
414:Partitions of Poland
264:440 yd – 50.8 (1923)
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262:200 m – 21.9 (1924)
260:100 m – 10.6 (1924)
258:100 yd – 9.9 (1924)
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1371:Ryan, pp. 323–324.
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