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The Croquet Game (French: 'La Partie de Croquet') is an 1873 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. It shows a group of people playing croquet , a very fashionable game at that time.
This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have notably represented Vietnam. Note that articles are sub-categorized by whether a player has done so in male or female competition, and also by particular notable competitions.
("Upon the smoothly shaven lawn, Beneath the skies of May, Oh, boys and girls, this merry morn, Come out and play Croquet ..."); there are four full verses. Winslow Homer, [39] Édouard Manet, [40] and Pierre Bonnard [40] all have paintings titled The Croquet Game. Norman Rockwell often depicted the game, including in his painting Croquet.
Dating itself from 1795 when Thomas Jaques, a farmer's son of French Huguenot descent, set up as a "Manufacturer of Ivory, Hardwoods, Bone, and Tunbridge Ware", [1] the company gained a reputation for publishing games under his grandson John Jaques the younger. Jaques is said to have been instrumental in the invention and popularisation of Croquet.
Photo taken in Nghệ An province (1920) of children playing a traditional. Commercial salon photography practices decreased with the onset of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and Second Indochina War (1955–1975) and were displaced by representational photography practices such as photojournalism, that served to document historic events as well as disseminate images of war to an ...
Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff members of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, state media reported ...
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Ian started playing croquet in 1993, and won the All England Association Handicap Championship in 1995. More recently, he won the Chairman's Salver in 2004 and played for Great Britain in their successful Solomon Trophy team against the United States in Palm Springs. Ian's achieved his highest world ranking of ninth in early 2005.