In the United States, track racing reached a peak of popularity in the 1930s when six-day races were held in Madison Square Garden in New York.

The length of these races varies from 12 – 16 laps for the Individual and Team Pursuit races, up to 200 laps for a full length Madison race in World Championships or Olympic Games.

Madison races team up pairs of riders in a tag-team format.

The eugenicist Madison Grant of New York wrote in his book, The Passing of the Great Race ( 1916 ): " The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian ; the cross between a white man and a Negro is a Negro ; the cross between a white man and a Hindu is a Hindu ; and the cross between any of the three European races and a Jew is a Jew.

Madison Grant's map, from 1916, charting the distribution of the European races.

This model was repeated in Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race ( 1916 ), in which the Alpines were portrayed as the most populous of European and western Asian races.

However, the event did not become popular until 1891 when six-day races were held in Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Tait defeated the American in 2 of 4 races held in New York City at Madison Square Garden, and in Buffalo, NY.

He won nine Six Day races and the European Madison championship in 1965.

The ASA filed a lawsuit in Madison County, Indiana court in an attempt to stop the tape delays, but dropped the lawsuit after MTV agreed to air just one of the two races in the lawsuit live.

When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as president in 1801, he named Madison to be his secretary of state.

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

The madison is a team event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the " American race " in French ( course à l ' américaine ) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.

A lodge had been built three years after James Madison's death in a critical spot at the then-northernmost departure and arrival point in New York City — and named Madison Cottage in honor of the recently deceased fourth president.

The site of Madison Cottage would remain a critical crossroads throughout the city's history — after its demise the site gave rise to a park, in turn named Madison Square, which remains today.

When they first kiss in the episode " The Killer in Me ", Willow's realization that she let Tara go reacts with a curse put upon her by another witch named Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ), turning Willow into Warren, Tara's murderer.

Madison County is the name of nineteen counties and one parish in the United States, most of which are named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States.

It is named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America.

Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U. S. who had died on June 28, 1836 and he named the streets for the other 38 signers of the U. S. Constitution.

Being named for the much-admired founding father James Madison, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers of the Constitution, may have also helped attract votes.

The Madison Black Wolf, based in the capital of Wisconsin, and Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks, based in Fargo, North Dakota but named for the metropolitan area that includes Moorhead, Minnesota, joined the league.

It was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America, who served from 1809 to 1817.

It is named after Madison Square, the location of the first incarnation of the arena.

The county is named in honor of James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America, and the first to visit the state of Alabama.

The county is named for the Madison family that owned land along the Rapidan River.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

Covington is named in honor of General Leonard Covington, hero of the War of 1812 and friend of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

This " excessive democracy ," Madison grew to believe, was the cause of a larger social decay which he and others ( such as Washington ) believed had resumed after the revolution and was nearing a tipping point.

Madison adopted Todd's one surviving son, John Payne Todd ( known as Payne ), after the marriage.

Madison then argued that a state, after declaring a federal law unconstitutional, could take action by communicating with other states, attempting to enlist their support, petitioning Congress to repeal the law in question, introducing amendments to the Constitution in Congress, or calling a constitutional convention.

* Months after the attacks, events were still impacted, with Blockbuster Entertainment cancelling its Spring 2002 Awards Show and the 2003 Grammy Awards being held at Madison Square Garden instead of Staples Center as planned.

Madison Square Garden photographer George Kalinsky's image of Gretzky waving to the crowd at the Garden, like his image of Messier after the Rangers won game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals five years earlier, would become an iconic image to the Rangers and their fans, documenting one of the greatest moments at the Garden, and even to hockey fans.

This occurred after Madison had been nominated by the Democratic-Republicans, but before the Federalists had made their nomination.

In 1940, after being recommended by Birkhoff, Ulam became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

The rest of the series, however, is dominated by three long segments by a single writer: No. 21 through No. 36 by Hamilton, No. 37 through 58 by Madison, written while Hamilton was in Albany, and No. 65 through the end by Hamilton, published after Madison had left for Virginia.

As of July 1, 2011, Madison had a population of 236, 901. making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 81st largest in the United States.

Opened to the public in February 1968, the current Madison Square Garden is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and is the second oldest arena in the National Basketball Association, after the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

On February 11, 1968, the current Madison Square Garden ( sometimes referred to as Madison Square Garden IV ) opened after the Pennsylvania Railroad tore down the above-ground portions of Pennsylvania Station.

The theater received its next name, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, in the mid-90s, after Viacom bought Paramount and sold the MSG properties.

Madison Square Garden seen in October 2011, during the first Rangers hockey game after completion of stage one of the transformation, featuring the complete renovation of the lower bowl.

An album, Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden, was released after the concert, on June 18, 1972.

* Supertramp sold out Madison Square Garden on May 31, 1979 during their Breakfast in America tour and was presented with their first platinum record awards there, followed by an after party to celebrate the sell out.