grandfather
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At the Milan Cortina Games, a maniacal Norwegian named Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has turned the quiet world of Nordic skiing on its head with a frenetic sprinting technique that he concocted with his grandfather.
He still lives in the more than century-old house his grandfather built.
Posting on social media, Bowman said the suitcase contained sentimental items in a jewellery box, including a pinkie ring with her grandfather's ashes in it.
From BBC
“If somebody could build an affordable sedan, it would sell,” said Lee, who, along with a cousin and a friend, took over the business that his father and grandfather had run since the 1930s.
Adenot credits her grandfather, a mechanic in France's air force, for giving her a love of "taking things apart and fixing them".
From Barron's
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