• edition of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic race was held on Sunday, 6 April 1942. Belgian Briek Schotte won the Monument for a first time. Of the 67...
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    race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Its nickname is Vlaanderens Mooiste (Dutch for "Flanders' Finest")...
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  • second win in the Tour of Flanders, after 1942. 265 riders, of which 50 non-Belgians, started the race, an all-time record. 85 of them finished. The...
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    Belgium: two of the five Flemish provinces: West Flanders and East Flanders part of the Flemish province of Antwerp: the land of Bornem part of the Walloon...
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  • The 25th edition of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic race was held on Sunday, 4 May 1941. Belgian Achiel Buysse won the Monument for a second time...
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  • The 27th edition of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic race was held on Sunday, 19 April 1943. Belgian Achiel Buysse won the Monument for a third time...
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    Walter Flanders was asked by Benjamin Briscoe to help save the United States Motor Company which was in severe trouble. Flanders agreed. In the end, of the...
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    first Flanders and Swann show Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic...
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    Briek Schotte (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
    stage of the 1947 Tour de France and finished second in the 1948 Tour, behind Gino Bartali. He twice won the Tour of Flanders (1942, 1948), Paris–Tours (1946...
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    Dolores Gray (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    cabaret at The Talk of the Town in February 1963. Among her many stage roles, she appeared in Two on the Aisle (1951), Carnival In Flanders (1953); Destry...
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    1972). Only Merckx has won the combinations Milan–San Remo/Tour of Flanders and Tour of Flanders/Liège–Bastogne–Liège, when he won all three Monuments in...
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    Wout van Aert (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
    they finished the race over 90 seconds ahead of the next group. In the lead-up to the Tour of Flanders, Van Aert tested positive for COVID-19, and missed...
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  • writing and philosophy of Albert Camus, with existentialism and absurdism being two major themes throughout the album. Camus' 1942 novella The Stranger...
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    held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race...
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    Tom Boonen (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
    the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France...
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  • Karel Van Wijnendaele (category Tour of Flanders)
    and first organizer of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic. Van Wijnendaele was the fifth of 15 children of a family in the hamlet of Wijnendaele, near...
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  • This is a list of American films released in 1996. The highest-grossing American films released in 1996, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:...
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    Johan Museeuw (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
    considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion...
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  • Vuelta a España (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbwelta a esˈpaɲa]; English: Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while...
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    Fiorenzo Magni (category Italian Tour de France stage winners)
    rainy or snowy days. All three of his victories at the Tour of Flanders were in harsh, cold conditions. He rode Tour de France in 1949–53 and wore the...
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  • The following is a list of famous French military leaders from the Gauls to modern France. The list is necessarily subjective and incomplete....
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    Felice Gimondi (category 1942 births)
    Tre Valli Varesine 9th Overall Tour of Belgium 10th Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 3b (ITT) 10th Tour of Flanders 10th La Flèche Wallonne 1967 1st...
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    Winston Groom (category United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War)
    Alabama (2002) A Storm in Flanders: The Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front (2002) ISBN 0871138425 OCLC 49285528 1942: The Year that Tried Men's...
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  • Back-Room Boy (1942) The Balloon Goes Up (1942) Banana Ridge (1942) The Big Blockade (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) Go to Blazes (1942) The Goose...
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    Picardy terrain provided a good surface for tanks, unlike in Flanders, and the defences of the German 2nd Army under General Georg von der Marwitz were...
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    road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España...
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    (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2015, Jens Debusschere crossed...
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    Ghent (redirect from History of Ghent)
    southern part of the city. As the largest city in East Flanders, Ghent has four large hospitals, numerous schools, and shopping streets. Flanders Expo, the...
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    Rickenbacker (car) (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States)
    Rickenbacker serving as Vice President and Director of Sales. Everitt's former partners Walter Flanders and William Metzger were also involved. Rickenbacker...
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  • Tour of Flanders (amateur version) 1942 2nd, National Road Race Championship 1943 - Dilecta 2nd, Tour of Flanders 5th, Paris–Roubaix 1944 - Dilecta 1945...
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