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The Autobiography of Harvard Gymnast Winship Tale
An 1850s memoir details Dr. Winship from Harvard and Hoyard College describing how he trained to lift heavy weights, facing schoolyard torment, building strength over two years, and the first experiments with a home lifting barrel that weighed hundreds of pounds.
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Atlantic Monthly
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Julius Caesar
Ayeelf
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Frend
Case Mate
Intercestor
Towill
Ernest
Enteaun
Rackman
Harvard Medics School
Thomas Topham
Bath Street
Bath Fields
London
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Porto Bello
Addon Hall
Derbyshire
England
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Vernons
Lacy
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Lanan
Pater-Familias
Ishop Simpson
Brooklyn
Heaven
Allons
TRENT
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Lord Lyons
Seward
National Intelligencer
Earl Jonsell
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Govocamenc
United States
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