Cavill
Americannoun
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Frederick, 1839–1927, Australian swimmer and coach, born in England: developed the Australian crawl.
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his son Sydney St. Leonards Sid, 1881–1945, Australian-American swimmer and coach: developed the butterfly stroke.
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Cavill co-founded a company that uses a wristband to predict women’s hot flashes, paired with a cooling mattress pad, so she knows a thing or two about sensors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
“This home automation has improved our relationship,” says Cavill, who lives in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
That was followed by 2016’s “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” with Cavill returning and Ben Affleck as Batman, which was panned by critics but made more than $874 million worldwide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
The Netflix adaptation of “Enola Holmes” assigned him a kid sister uninterested in behaving as a lady of society should and, to sweeten the fantasy, cast the muscular Henry Cavill as Holmes.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
In 1877 Cavill, another Englishman, swam from Cape Griz-Nez to South Forland in less than thirteen hours.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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