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Flying/Sporting is the name of one of three main groupings of breeds of domesticated pigeons used by pigeon fanciers in the United States. The other two are Fancy and Utility. Vienna Highflier. These groupings, which can be somewhat arbitrary, are useful mainly in the context of a pigeon show.
Tournaments and competition during the beginning to mid-twentieth century were worldwide. In the 1900 Paris Olympics, live pigeon shooting was one of the events. [7] The prize for the winner was 20,000 French Francs (more than US$82,000 in 2017), [8] though the top four finishers agreed to split the prize money.
The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies.
Archaic humans hunted wild horses for hundreds of thousands of years following their first arrival in Eurasia. Examples of sites demonstrating horse butchery by archaic humans include: the Boxgrove site in southern England dating to around 500,000 years ago, where horse bones with cut marks (with a horse scapula possibly exhibiting a spear wound [3]) are associated with Acheulean stone tools ...
Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state.
The limit on read distance then becomes the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal reflected from the tag back to the reader. Researchers at two security conferences have demonstrated that passive Ultra-HighFID tags normally read at ranges of up to 30 feet can be read at ranges of 50 to 69 feet using suitable equipment. [148] [149]
This is the list of episodes of the American live-action/animated anthology comedy television series Toon In with Me.The show premiered on January 1, 2021, [1] on MeTV.Most shorts featured are from the Golden Age of American animation (mainly 1930s-1960s), though some from the Modern Era of American animation (1970s to 2000s) have also been included.
[14] [b] [50] The award of a knighthood had been announced in the 1998 New Year Honours list, [13] [51] but investiture with the award had been delayed, at Clarke's request, because of an accusation by the tabloid the Sunday Mirror of paying boys for sex. [52] [53] The charge was subsequently found to be baseless by the Sri Lankan police.