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<snip> (...) Lego(R) (...) I apologize for ignorance but what is a CIP record? Ian (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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(...) Event if false its certainly an intresting story! Do you have a CIP record for the book? Anyhow the reason I asked was that I was trying to put together a Lego(R) equivilant to the meccano magazine and wanted to include a pages on Lego(R) (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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(...) I found this description in Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, by Paul Aurdant. I am not directly quoting it... During the quarter century between A. D. 1016 and 1042, England was occupied by the Danes, that is Denmark had successfully (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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Does any reader of this group have a simple history of Football(Soccer)? I mean the actual game not the Lego range. Thanks Alex (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:FyrArs.IA9@lugnet.com... (...) Hence, also, the popularity of cricket, a game which _definitely_ needs a lot of space to avoid the window-smashing deal. :) david drew (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports)
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I remember reading a history of soccer that attributed the popularity of the game to the fact that it could be played on any patch of waste ground or street without the risk of injury, unlike other sports which required the use of a proper playing (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports)
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With Rugby, League and AFL (1), the ball is in the players hands for most of the time. So I don't see how it can be called Football. Call me picky but I use the term football or "footie" to mean exactly that: Game played with the foot. Bear in mind (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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"Casper van Nimwegen" <neverroads@soneramail.nl> wrote in message news:Fyr5yx.H6t@lugnet.com... (...) There are many sports which feature contact between the foot and the ball. In Australia, the popular foot-and-ball sports are historically rugby (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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As far as I know it, the game is called Football in England, Fußbal in Germany and where I'm from, The Netherlands, voetbal Most countries use the term football... so why not the rest of the world? Whytcross, Benjamin <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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