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- Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Delia Gonzalez (2350 bytes)
7: ...r of [[women's boxing]]'s most accomplished world champions, the talented [[Regina Halmich]], in May of [[200... - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
3: ...he Tar Heels to four consecutive [[NCAA]] women's championships. She was an All-American and [[Atlantic Coast...
5: ...ship at the age of 19. In [[1993]], she graduated from college with the all time records for [[Atlanti...
9: ...the gold medal in the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in front of 80,000 spectators in [[Athens, Georgia]], t...
11: ...st of the women on the national team became world champions again, by winning the FIFA Women's World Cup. Cha...
21: In a friendly against [[Australia women's national footba... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: [[image:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
8: ...ld not bring himself to have life support removed from his wife, it fell to Jackie and Al to authorize...
10: ...est challenge, however, was physical. She suffers from exercise-induced [[asthma]], and on more than o...
17: {{Footer_Olympic_Champions_Heptathlon_Women}}
19: {{Footer Olympic Champions Long Jump Women}} - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...d her at a later age. Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a ca...
10: ...at same year she won the International Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during ...
14: ...ntil [[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[Wimbledon Championships]] were again organised after a four year hiat...
16: ...d Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] bet... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ... She won the women's singles title at [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] a record 9 times.
9: ...átilová won the Czechoslovakian national tennis championship. In [[1973]], aged 16, she turned professional...
13: ...stralian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[French Open]] to [[Chris Evert]]. After losing to Ev...
17: ... [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wimbledon and the French Open in [[1982]].
19: ... in December at that time). She then won the 1984 French Open to hold all four Grand Slam singles titl... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: [[Image:BabeDidrikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic jave...
9: ...] for her fourth and fifth [[women's majors|major championships]].
11: ...er tenth and final major with a U.S. Women's Open championship. Her [[cancer]] reappeared in 1955 and limited...
25: {{Footer_Olympic_Champions_80_m_hurdles_Women}}
27: {{Footer Olympic Champions Javelin Throw Women}} - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ...e [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Luxembourg]], [[France]], and the [[North Sea]].
3: ...lemish]]), mainly in the north, [[French language|French]] speakers, mainly in the south (the [[Walloo...
13: ...emish]]: Eendracht maakt macht; [[French language|French]]: L'union fait la force; [[German language|G...
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]], [[Flemish language|Flemish]], [[German lan...
50: ...l><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[franc|Belgian franc]].</small> - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
7: ...These names are also used to distinguish the game from other sports known as "[[football]]". <!-- Plea...
11: ...rope]], [[Latin America]], and increasingly in [[Africa]] — football evokes great passions and p...
17: ...g|thumb|250px|A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal.]]
19: ...he ball close to their feet); by passing the ball from team-mate to team-mate; and by taking shots at ...
21: Football is generally a free-flowing game with the ball in play at all times... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
40: ...e English. Other theories are that the name comes from words meaning "Gathering of the Waters" or "Gre...
47: ...] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it w...
51: ...ocialist, [[Daniel Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] ...
53: ...thousands of miners—many of them immigrants from [[Cornwall]], England—flocked to southern...
61: ...adison is also home to the [[Vilas Zoo]] which is free for all visitors as well as the [[University of... - Horse (38916 bytes)
19: ...[[Evolution of the Horse|evolution of the horse]] from the very early (around 55 million years ago) ''...
21: ...less than 180 degrees to each side, overlapped in front and leaving a blind spot in the rear). Even do...
23: ... harem of his own, having separated female equids from another stallion's band.
28: ...ence for the [[domestication of the horse]] comes from [[Central Asia]] and dates to about [[30th cent...
40: ...sive selective breeding that took place in Europe from the middle ages onwards, giving us a picture of... - Auto racing (15302 bytes)
8: ...aged, from [[Paris]], [[France]] to [[Bordeaux]], France. First over the line was [[ɭile Levassor]] b...
12: ...go]], [[Illinois]] on [[November 2]], [[1895]], [[Frank Duryea]] winning in 10 h and 23 min, beating t...
16: ..., connecting with another major city in Europe or France.
18: ...he Paris-Madrid race. Eight fatalities caused the French government to stop the race in [[Bordeaux]] a...
23: ...to 450 kW with the aid of multiple superchargers. From [[1928]]-[[1930]] and again in [[1934]]-[[1936]... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
7: ...World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship, and is the most expensive sport in the world,...
9: ...or [[Mexico]], [[India]], [[Russia]] and [[South Africa]] have reinforced the sport's "worldwide" imag...
16: ...e [[List of Formula One Grands Prix]] for results from past seasons and individual races.''
18: ...onship for constructors followed in [[1958]]. Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years, bu...
22: [[Giuseppe Farina]] won the first World Championship in his [[Alfa Romeo]] in [[1950]], barely beat... - Stock car racing (7372 bytes)
5: ...n. This term was used to differentiate such a car from a ''race car'', a special, custom-built car des...
7: ...ugh automobile dealers, and that all cars must be from a model run of which at least 500 cars of that ...
13: Engines, whilst containing varying components from the various manufacturers who compete in the se...
19: ...nt championship in stock car racing is the NASCAR championship, currently called the [[Nextel Cup]] after its...
21: ...ASCAR, there is [[IROC]] (''International Race of Champions'') and the [[IPower Dash]] series, formerly known... - National League (4871 bytes)
3: ...eginning with the 1903 season, the regular season champions of the two leagues have met in the [[World Series...
7: ...vision champions meeting in the [[National League Championship Series]] (an additional round of postseason co...
38: *[[San Francisco Giants]]
52: *[[Ford Frick|Ford C. Frick]] [[1934]]-[[1951]]
65: *[[National League Championship Series]] (NLCS) - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ankees have the most World Series titles, with 26 championships.
3: ...r games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 W...
7: ...y preceding it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the ...
9: ...s to pit the [[North America]]n champions against champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues have, s...
11: ...ing a linear progression from the phrase "World's Championship Series" (used to describe the [[1903]] series)... - Arizona Diamondbacks (6463 bytes)
1: {{MLB Diamondbacks franchise}}
12: :'''[[World Series]] championships won''' (1): [[2001]]
14: == Franchise history ==
18: ...ecome the youngest expansion franchise to win the championship. See [[2001 World Series]].
22: ...g the Backman incident, the Diamondbacks spent on free agents in order to build a contender. The club... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
1: {{MLB Braves franchise}}
3: ...ican sport, while collecting one [[World Series]] championship in that time (in 1995, also a strike-shortened...
5: ...ngs founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and took the nick...
6: ...liam Russell (lawyer)|William Russell]] owned the franchise, [[1911 in sports|1911]]). Following the ...
13: ..., [[2003 in sports|2003]], [[2004 National League Championship Series|2004]]
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