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Assorted sports balls including a basketball, football, soccer ball, tennis ball, baseball and others.
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10 Great Sports Rivalries
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7 Unsportsmanlike Sportsmen
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How Are Sports Chosen for the Olympics?
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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls
Pro and Con: School Uniforms
Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.
Plato and Aristotle: How Do They Differ?
Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept
Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.
Why Is It Called Black Friday?

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Born February 20, 1971 • Pretoria • South Africa
Died February 6, 2017 (aged 45)
Founder J9 Foundation
Awards And Honors Rugby Union World Cup (1995)
Mandela and Pienaar
François Pienaar
South African rugby union football player
Dawie de Villiers
South African athlete
Tom van Vollenhoven
South African athlete
New Zealand All Blacks
Richie McCaw
New Zealand rugby player
Craven, Danie
Danie Craven
South African rugby player and administrator
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Rogge
Belgian athlete and physician
Tony O’Reilly
Irish athlete
Peter Fatialofa
Samoan athlete
Nepia, George
George Nepia
New Zealand athlete
Colin Earl Meads
New Zealand athlete
Sean Fitzpatrick
New Zealand athlete
Jonah Lomu
Jonah Lomu
New Zealand rugby union football player
William Wavell Wakefield, Baron Wakefield
British athlete
Mick Sullivan
British rugby player
Will Carling
British rugby player
John Eales
Australian athlete
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards
Welsh rugby union football player
Serge Blanco
French athlete
Cliff Morgan
Welsh rugby player
Hugo Porta
Argentine athlete

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