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New Zealand All Blacks
Who actually invented rugby?
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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
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Assorted sports balls including a basketball, football, soccer ball, tennis ball, baseball and others.
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New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
soccer ball in the goal
Why Do Some People Call Football “Soccer”?
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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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)
8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
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Flags That Look Alike
Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls
Pro and Con: School Uniforms
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time

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Born December 31, 1980 (age 43) • Oamaru • New Zealand

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