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Bill Smith's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born May 16, 1924

United States

Died February 8, 2013

The Success Communicator

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Olympic medal.

In the record

William Melvin Smith Jr. (May 16, 1924 – February 8, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in four events. The birth-card coordinate for May 16 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Bill Smith's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1948. Only Summer Games gold medals count here. Winter-only careers and single-gold athletes are out of this pack. The medal list is a public award record for Bill Smith (Q621106), not a reading of character. 1948 1948 Summer Olympics: gold in 1948 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1948: gold in swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1948: gold in swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Bill Smith was born May 16 (1924-05-16). Month 5 and day 16 give solar value 29, which is the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1924 is unused. The 3 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Bill Smith for United States. Quoted system copy for the 3 of Diamonds, not a biography of Bill Smith: You can make value visible without overselling the thing underneath. You're good at selling—ideas, products, yourself. You understand marketing and the psychology of desire. Your gift is making things feel valuable through how you present them.

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Bill Smith in the public record

He was one of the most successful competitive swimmers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. Smith was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, of mixed Irish and Native Hawaiian ancestry. He attended Ohio State University under Hall of Fame Coach Mike Peppe, and competed for the Ohio State Buckeyes swimming and diving team within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a college swimmer, he was undefeated in three years of dual meet competition, and was a four-time All-American. He set seven world records and won fourteen U.S. national championships: seven NCAA, six AAU indoor and one AAU outdoor. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England, Smith won gold medals in the 400-meter freestyle and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. At one time, Smith held all of the world records in freestyle swimming events between 200 and 1,000 meters. At the US Olympic trials of the 1948 4x200-meter freestyle relay, several swimmers who had already qualified in other events slowed down in their heats or swam fast in the prelims and scratched themselves for the final to allow more swimmers to qualify for the US Olympic Team.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bill Smith (swimmer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Bill Smith, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Bill Smith's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth

A♠ — PRC Karma — Environment, fixed to the 3♦, from the published Ace of Spades meaning

William Melvin Smith Jr. (May 16, 1924 – February 8, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in four events.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.

Also on the record

  1. Smith was one of the instigators of this "conspiracy".
  2. Ultimately, coach Robert Kiphuth did hold a time trial shortly after the actual trials with eleven of the swimmers.
  3. This time trial had Jimmy McLane as first overall with a time of 2:11.0, Bill Smith, and Wally Wolf in 2:11.2, and Wally Ris in 2:12.4.
  4. This quartet was used for the Olympic final and won the gold medal.

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FAQ

What is Bill Smith's birth card?
The 3 of Diamonds. May 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Bill Smith's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict Olympic medals?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast races, medals, character, or fate.
Where do Bill Smith's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1924-05-16 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Bill Smith, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Medal count (3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming) comes from Wikidata P1344 event claims with P166 Olympic gold, limited to Summer Games. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q621106; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bill Smith (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1924-05-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.