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Why Do Some People Call Football “Soccer”?
Car with a pickle design in the Zagreb Red Bull Soapbox Race, Zagreb, Croatia, September 14, 2019. (games, races, sports)
10 Unusual Sports
NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.
10 Great Sports Rivalries
golf. Competitive and cheating golfer wears golf gloves on golf club greens and prepares golf ball for lucky hole in one. Unsportsmanlike, sports, cheater
7 Unsportsmanlike Sportsmen
Tug-of-war at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 2005.
7 Canceled or Reintroduced Olympic Sports
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Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
Statue of Nostradamus
Nostradamus and His Prophecies
All Saints Day. All Souls Day. Candles in cemetery in Poland on All Saints Day, November 1. All Souls Day, November 2. Christian church, All Hallows, Solemnity of All Saints, Feast of All Saints, purgatory, Roman Catholic church
7 Unique Burial Rituals Across the World
July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Ancient Song Dynasty. The background of Chinese cultural elements.
The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems

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Also Known As Anthony John Francis O’Reilly
Born May 7, 1936 (age 88) • Dublin • Ireland
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards
Welsh rugby union football player
Cliff Morgan
Welsh rugby player
Henry John Heinz
American manufacturer
Statue of Edmund Ignatius Rice
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
Irish missionary
Grace, William R.
William R. Grace
American businessman
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
Canadian shipwright
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet
Irish brewer
Marcus Daly
American industrialist
Charles Lang Freer
American industrialist and art collector
August Belmont, Jr.
American banker
Simon Guggenheim
American industrialist and public official
Anton Fugger
German merchant
John F. Dodge
American industrialist
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Agostino Chigi
Italian banker
Horace E. Dodge
American industrialist
Marshall Field III
American businessman
John Zachary DeLorean
American automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur
Martin Eberhard
American entrepreneur
John Anthony Volpe
American politician

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