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amateur amateur, in sports, one who engages in athletic competition without material recompense.
biathlon biathlonbīăth´lŏn, sport in which cross-country skiers race across hilly terrain, occasionally stopping to shoot with rifles at sets of fixed targets.
curling curling, winter sport, similar in principle to bowls and quoits (see horseshoe pitching), played on an ice court by teams of four.
Pro sports and gambling interests get cozier(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The relationship between sports and gambling, once at arm's length and now almost hand in hand, is embodied by the brothers Maloof.
The next sports team to do that could be the Penguins, who hope to use a slot machine parlor to finance construction of a new arena.
In return, their sports books -- Ontario's lottery and ITT's casinos -- were forced by the leagues to remove any hockey and basketball betting from their wagering.
1840s Plaza, A Luxurious Maryland Entertainment Complex in Baltimore near...
"Slaves of the Needle:" The Seamstress in the 1840s
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Olds Alto Horn(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is possible that this was an early use of bottom sprung Perinet piston valves on a transitional instrument - between a valveless natural horn and a conventional valved french horn.
Perinet patented his piston valve designs in the late 1830s and early 1840s.
This horn sports a lyre holder, so it may have been used as a marching instrument.
After WW1, few bore rifles were manufactured and many of the European sporting arms manufacturers went out of business or concentrated on less powerful, small bore hunting rifles.
Most shotgun manufacturers were happy to build their guns with a smooth bore for sporting uses, or for Police & Military Riot/Trench Gun duty.
Sporting guns usually were made with a choke of various constrictions for different types of bird or deer hunting with shot loads - not for heavy ball or slugs.
An 1840s house dismantled by hand - April 4, 2004(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The farmhouse as it stood was one of the oldest homes in Snyder County, Wendy said.
It was built in the 1840s and was purchased by her grandparents, Blanche and Byron Klinger, in 1952.
The Ragers bought a lot of land from Wendys grandparents a few years ago and built their current home on Back Mountain Road, which has a Beavertown R.R. address.
HISTORY OF AMERICAN SPORTS(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
to assess the role that the capitalistic organization of sports has played in developing the games and in determining the interrelationships of various interest groups while analyzing under what conditions the American people have decided whether their government should play an active or passive role in the gamesĀ
Describe the two groups responsible for the growth of American sports in the 1840s and 1850s.
Describe the collapse of segregated sports in the 1940s.
In the 1840s, Esther A Howland began to sell the first mass-produced Valentines in America.
Valentine's greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400) and the oldest known Valentine's card is on display at the British Museum.
The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the US were created in the 1840s by Esther A Howland.
N.Y. Knickerbockers—Knicks for short, this is a reference to the style of pants worn by 17th century Dutch settlers, who founded what is now New York.
The rolled-up-just-below-the-knee look, known as knickers, was very popular, and its association with N.Y. sports' teams dates back to the 1840s.
Seattle Supersonics—When the expansion franchise in Seattle joined the NBA in 1967, Boeing, the airplane manufacturer then headquartered in Olympia, Wash., was working on supersonic jet that would rival the Concorde.