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Cricket bat and ball. cricket sport of cricket.Homepage blog 2011, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
Sports Quiz
The peloton, including Thomas Voeckler-Europcar, passing the Col de Val Lauron-Azet during the stage 9 of Le Tour de France on July 7,2013. (cycling, extreme sports)
Quick Quiz: All About Cycling
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Pack of cyclists racing in the evening light of the Glenelg leg of the Tour Down Under 2008, Adelaide, South Australia. 20th January 2008. Cyclist in light blue is with team Milram.
Olympics: Cycling
Advertising poster for the opening in Paris of "Montagnes Russes" (Russian Mountains), c. 1882-1888, by an anonymous artist; in the collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France. (graphic arts, posters, roller coasters)
Where Was the First Roller Coaster Invented?
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
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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England
7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
What is Holy Week?

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Also Known As Gregory James LeMond
Born June 26, 1961 (age 63) • Reno • Nevada
Awards And Honors Tour de France (1990) • Tour de France (1989) • Tour de France (1986)
Eddy Merckx
Belgian cyclist
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
American cyclist
Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist
Miguel Induráin
Spanish cyclist
Chris Froome
Chris Froome
British cyclist
Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins
British cyclist
Alberto Contador celebrating after winning the 2009 Tour de France.
Alberto Contador
Spanish cyclist
Fignon, Laurent
Laurent Fignon
French cyclist
paving the way
Major Taylor
American cyclist
Canadian speed skater Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes
Canadian cyclist and speed skater
Anna Meares at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games
Anna Meares
Australian cyclist
Chris Hoy
Chris Hoy
British cyclist
Speed skater and cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
East German speed skater and cyclist
Walter Knott
American entrepreneur
Vitaly Komar
American artist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Maria Jolas
American editor
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
American clergyman and politician
Clark Howell
American journalist
Victor Mature
American actor

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