What a Racket!, also known as Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in 'What a Racket!', is the 21st studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician...
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Racket sports are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that...
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War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor...
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Racketeering (redirect from Racket (crime))
otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. Narrowly, it means coercive or fraudulent...
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Gwar (redirect from God, What a Racket)
explanations that Gwar is an acronym for something (such as "God what an awful racket"), band members have consistently stated that the letters do not...
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allowing a player to see what side of a paddle hits the ball mid-play. The player has the right to inspect their opponent's racket before a match to see...
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A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees...
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Cambridge Theatre. He appeared as the pop singer Willie in Dennis Spencer's What a Racket at Manchester's Palace Theatre in December 1963 and appeared in Paula...
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has since recorded several more solo albums, the most recent being What a Racket! in 2023. Credited to the Joe Jackson Band. Credited to Joe Jackson's...
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au. 2009-06-23. Retrieved 2009-07-06. Tom Geoghegan (2009-06-22). "What a racket". BBC News. Retrieved 2009-07-06. Rachel Heyler Donaldson (2009-06-22)...
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Joe Jackson (musician) (category A&M Records artists)
(2003) Rain (2008) The Duke (2012) Fast Forward (2015) Fool (2019) What a Racket! (2023) A Cure for Gravity, 1999, autobiography ISBN 1-86230-083-6 In 2004...
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A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock back-and-forth in games such as tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball...
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tennis is unique among racket sports in that it supports a wide variety of playing styles and methods of gripping the racket, at even the highest levels...
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What's Your Racket? is a 1934 American Pre-Code crime film directed by Fred Guiol and starring Regis Toomey, Noel Francis and J. Carrol Naish. It was produced...
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Space. Retrieved September 13, 2013. Tom Geoghegan (June 22, 2009). "What a racket". BBC News. Retrieved July 6, 2009. "TENNIS.COM PODCAST: AN IN-DEPTH...
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Numbers game (redirect from Numbers racket)
numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery...
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com. Retrieved 2024-02-03. "The Evolution of the Tennis Racket". ca.complex.com. "What a Racket! | the Wilson ProStaff, Circa 1983". 10 September 2009...
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Table tennis (category Racket sports)
as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the...
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the Ealing Comedies, on stage in The Lovebirds, Pillar to Post and What A Racket, and on television with James Bolam in Love on the Dole. In 1964, she...
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Racket Boys (Korean: 라켓소년단) is a 2021 South Korean television drama. The series, directed by Cho Young-kwang and written by Jung Bo-hun, stars Kim Sang-kyung...
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Thomas for Netflix. The series follows the exploits of the titular team, a group of 4 specially-trained kids who go around making "Zenkos" (Japanese...
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The tennis racket theorem or intermediate axis theorem, is a kinetic phenomenon of classical mechanics which describes the movement of a rigid body with...
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Jessie Matthews (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Sonnie Hale to star in a comedy, Nest of Robins, which toured British theatres. The duo also went on tour with the play in 1957, in what would be their final...
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Padel (category Racket sports)
called padel tennis, is a racket sport of Mexican origin, typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court....
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The Alexander Patent Racket Company was an Australian sports equipment manufacturer based in Launceston, Tasmania, which operated between 1925 and 1961...
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album in whichever city the tour finished, which happened to be Boise after a performance at the Egyptian Theatre. It was released on 18 January 2019 through...
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Marillion discography (section Racket Records releases)
which were released to retail on a major label. In addition, there have been many live releases on the band's own Racket Records label, which are detailed...
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Glossary of tennis terms (section A)
ball is hit with the back of the racket hand facing the ball at the moment of contact. A backhand is often hit by a right-handed player when the ball...
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The Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded in 2021 by a group of former City Pages editors: Jessica Armbruster, Jay Boller, Em Cassel...
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Soapy Smith (redirect from Prize Package Soap Racket)
had a large hand in organized criminal operations in both Colorado and the District of Alaska. Smith gained notoriety through his "prize soap racket," in...
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