Search results for "Boxing" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Other popular sports include basketball, netball, boxing, volleyball, athletics, and rugby. The National Sports Council also known as Baraza ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-born American entertainer whose prolific career spanned ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Kenya, among them football (soccer), cricket, and boxing. But Kenya is known chiefly for its dominance in cross country and the marathon, middle and ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:JohnTNeufeld.jpg|thumb|right|John T. Neufeld was a WWI conscientious objector sentenced ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Boxing, baseball, and basketball are popular. They have their own professional baseball leagues, though San Juan hosted the Montreal Expos for ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- , and auto racing. He flirted with boxing, and he was offered a pro football contract by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966. He also was an actor ...36 KB (5,732 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- rounders, lawn tennis, basketball, table tennis, boxing, squash, and a few others. Guyana played host to international cricket matches as part ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- imposing Idi Amin was the Ugandan light heavyweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1960, as well as a swimmer and rugby player. [https://www.scotsman.com/news/ob ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- League has a large following. Muay Thai (Thai boxing), Thailand's native martial art, is probably the most popular spectator sport. The other main ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- medalist, Clarence Hill, who won a bronze medal in boxing. Bermuda also competed in Men's Skeleton (head first luge) at the 2006 Winter Olympics ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- skiing, gymnastics, volleyball, track and field, boxing and wrestling) despite losing the thumb and index finger of his left hand when he and some friends ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- attended. Aged nineteen, he took an interest in boxing and running. After matriculating, he started to study for a B.A. at the Fort Hare University, where ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- table tennis, volleyball, tennis, boxing, and track and field are also popular in the country. ==Sierra Leone in literature== Several Hollywood ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- star was granted after the committee decided that boxing could be considered a form of "live performance." Its placement on a wall of the Dolby ...43 KB (6,309 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2022
- include soccer, track and field, judo, boxing, women's basketball and women's tennis. Madagascar sent its first competitors to the ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- table tennis, fencing, weightlifting, boxing, judo, short track speed skating, marathon, taekwondo, kumdo, wrestling, as well as handball and ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- are the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, starting on Boxing Day in Sydney and usually arriving at Constitution Dock in Hobart around three to four days later ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- sports include field hockey, basketball, rugby, boxing, tennis, polo, and auto racing. === Public holidays === Argentines commemorate a number ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- murder. He loved hunting, martial arts (except boxing), and was a patron of the arts. Whether his attempt at cultural fusion was purely pragmatic, or ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- tiles, is very popular, especially with women. Boxing, badminton and billiards are popular. === Social status === Filipinos value social acceptance ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
