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1 day ago · The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and ...
1 day ago · That's just a microcosm of what the Olympic organizers have had to navigate. But with the start of the Games less than two months away, Paris is ready. On July 26, the world's focus will be on the ...
1 day ago · v. t. e. Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994.
1 day ago · Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈsnuːkər / SNOO-kər, US: / ˈsnʊkər / SNUUK-ər) [1] [2] is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the ...
1 day ago · June 12, 2024 7:24 am. [Source: Reuters] Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details. A senior official of the Palestinian militant group said in what the U.S. Secretary of State called a hopeful sign. Qatari and Egyptian mediators said they had received a formal reply from ...
1 day ago · At the 1987 British Rowing Championships the club won the men's U-16 single sculls. In 2017 at the British Rowing Championships the women's J16 quad sculls won the national title at the 2017 British Rowing Junior Championships. In 2021 the club came second place in the J18 Double Scull category of the National Schools Regatta.
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