• A national sport is a physical activity or sport that is culturally significant or deeply embedded in a nation, serving as a national symbol and an intrinsic...
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    Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located...
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    Aix-en-Provence, Plan Guide Blay-Foldex. "Map of central Aix". Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010. "Just Sport – New...
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    Châlons-en-Champagne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑlɔ̃ ɑ̃ ʃɑ̃paɲ]) is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the department of Marne...
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    runs over a 52 m (171 ft) tall and 600 m (2,000 ft) long viaduct built in 1856. Chaumont station has rail connections to Paris, Reims, Dijon, Mulhouse and...
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    February 1856: Charterhouse School v. St Bartholemew's Hospital. 7 November 1856: Bedford Grammar School v. Bedford Town Gentlemen. 13 December 1856: Sunbury...
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    gallery beneath the Cathédrale Saint-Louis-des-Invalides: Albert d'Amade (1856–1941) Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova (1778–1853), Governor 1852–1853...
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    Bourg-en-Bresse (French pronunciation: [buʁk‿ɑ̃ bʁɛs] ; Arpitan: Bôrg) is the prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern...
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  • (1888–1946), Norwegian sport shooter Axel Gyntersberg (c. 1525–1588), Norwegian nobleman and feudal overlord Axel Otto Hagemann (1856–1907), Norwegian politician...
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  • 2007-08-22. Retrieved 2012-12-04. "Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica - Universiteit van Amsterdam". Astrobiology.nl. 2012-11-08. Archived...
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  • Nepela Arena OVO Hydro Palais Nikaïa Palau Sant Jordi Palazzetto dello Sport Paris La Défense Arena Parkbühne Wuhlheide PostFinance Arena PSD Bank Dome...
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    race : the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles, planter in Martinique, 1808-1856. Elborg Forster, Robert Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press...
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    the river's north bank. This was finally ceded to the United Kingdom in 1856. As many as three million people may have been taken as slaves from this...
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  • October 19, 1856, by provisional president Ramón Castilla, and was of a very liberal character, leading to the Peruvian Civil War of 1856–1858. The Political...
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    Haitian invasions that served to consolidate their independence from 1844 to 1856. Under the command of Faustin Soulouque Haitian soldiers tried to gain back...
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    tackle game fish. Fishing for bonefish, called bonefishing, is a popular sport in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, southern Florida, Cargados Carajos. Since bonefish...
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    Logistical difficulties made this an unpopular arrangement, and although an 1856 vote passed for the lower house of parliament to relocate permanently to...
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  • Karen Tighe announces her departure from the ABC after 35 years of covering sport on both television and radio. 28 February – The Matildas defeat Uzbekistan...
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    Brignoles (section Sport)
    Brignoles had a population of 17,652. It was the birthplace of: Antoine Albalat (1856–1935), writer specialising in French literature. Louis of Toulouse (1274–1297)...
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    in his book Three Visits to Madagascar during the years 1853, 1854, and 1856. The Queen made heavy use of the traditional practice of fanompoana (forced...
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    Magazine, Vol XIII, No. LXXIII (June, 1856):118.|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2CoZAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA118%7C. Rose, Sarah. For All...
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    as published in de Coussemaker, Chants Populaires des Flamands de France (1856), runs as follows: According to de Coussemaker, the song was recorded "in...
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    Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact fighting sport based on striking and grappling, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around...
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    Saint-Honoré. On account of the new street numbering policy implemented in Paris in 1856, the address changed to 233, rue Saint-Honoré. His successors remained at...
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    Castres (redirect from Castres-en-Albigeois)
    might expect of a town of western Occitania nicknamed Ovalie, the main sport in Castres is rugby union, followed religiously by many locals. The local...
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    de 3m, 50 [11 ft 5.8 in]. "Article 34". The New York Times. November 21, 1856. p. 6. "Jose Punlos The tallest man Andorra". 2017-09-02. Archived from the...
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    Rijswijk (section Sport)
    Cabel (1630–1705) a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856 in Rijswijk) poet P. J. Cosijn (1840–1899) a Dutch scholar of Anglo-Saxon...
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    Principalities under the collective guardianship of the Great Powers in 1856. After special assemblies convoked in Moldavia and Wallachia urged the unification...
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  • 11 March – Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago en route from Zermatt to the village of Arolla. A sixth person is still missing...
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    Monte Carlo (section Sport)
    and 8 kilometres (5 mi) to its east is the western border of Italy. In 1856, Charles III of Monaco granted a concession to Napoleon Langlois and Albert...
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