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  • bribery in sport is the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, where ... 80___14/Olympic_Games.html Olympic Games] Encarta. Retrieved May 3 ...
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  • He finished the season hitting .237 in 35 games. In 1905, the Tourists' ... season, Cobb managed to bat only .240 in 41 games. Nevertheless, he showed ...
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  • emotions that are expressed vigorously during the games. organized crime syndicates betting on the games and bribing referees or players ...
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  • ppg, an astonishing amount considering most games were won by teams scoring ... won the first league title 4-1 (four games to one). The first year of ...
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  • same time he began training for the Olympic Games with swim coach William Bachrach ... meter freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games, beating both Duke and Samuel ...
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  • movement, automatic writing was one of many games played by artists to stimulate ... discussing surrealism and playing various games. Automatic writing was a ...
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  • software applications, traditional strategy games like computer chess, and ... In March 2016, AlphaGo won 4 out of 5 games of Go in a match with ...
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  • decorated and then feasting, dancing, and games took place around it. ... decorated horses with garlands, played games like apple-bobbing, and had ...
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  • for casual play, including half court games, where only one basket is ... Yale University began sponsoring men's games. By 1910, frequent injuries ...
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  • is not often used explicitly. The role-playing games Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering have used somewhat traditional basilisk-like ...
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  • The result is a plurality of language-games (a term coined by WittgensteinJean ... and always locally legitimated language games. Postmodernists attempt to ...
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  • comic books, films, television shows, and games. This use covers a wide range ... in fantasy-based video and role playing games. The golem has even been ...
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  • before the bombs went off. From 1968 to 2006 the games started early, in the morning, around 11:00 am. The early start to these games usually resulted ...
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  • differ significantly from reality, as in VR games. In practice, it is currently ... ====Games==== [[Image:AC89-0437-20 a.jpeg|right|thumb|Classic Virtual ...
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  • of their best players. Attendance at Eagles games also plummeted, from 120 ... People (NAACP) and often used Eagles games to promote civic causes, ...
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  • In computer games which depict a three-dimensional virtual world, the need for very fast computations resulted in the adoption of a binary, 256 ...
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  • Hartford of the Eastern League (.214 in 17 games) and Raleigh of the Piedmont ... handed pitching. Greenberg played in 117 games, batted .301, hit 12 homers ...
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  • championship in 1917 and won 33 straight games. He concluded his coaching ... In 1904-5, 44 players had been reported killed in football games, ...
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  • ===Folk games=== to the next, form the core of many folk games, especially the three rites ...
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  • gesture to the Greek origins of the Olympic Games, Michel Bréal came up with ... The marathon races in the first few Olympic Games were not of a set length ...
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