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  2. Badminton - Wikipedia

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    Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game ...

  3. List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Participatory budgeting (PB) first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil as 1986. Lua (programming language) created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes from Tecgraf. Elixir (programming language) created in 2012 by José Valim from a research and development project at Plataformatec.

  4. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.

  5. Sport in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Pelé celebrating the victory of Brazil in the FIFA World Cup.. Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The Brazil national football team, governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, has won the FIFA World Cup a record 5 times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, and 2002, [1] and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every FIFA World Cup competition ever held.

  6. List of music museums - Wikipedia

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    This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.

  7. Brazil national badminton team - Wikipedia

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    It is controlled by the Brazil Badminton Confederation (CBBd; Confederação Brasileira de Badminton), the governing body for badminton in Brazil. Brazil is one of South America's most active badminton nations. The team is a member of Badminton Pan America and the South American Badminton Confederation. The team was formed in the early 1980s.

  8. Battledore and shuttlecock - Wikipedia

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    Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...

  9. Badminton Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Badminton World Federation (BWF) Hall of Fame is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.It honours both players and other contributors to the sport of badminton.The BWF Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization with the goal to preserve, celebrate, and inspire the sport of badminton around the world.