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  • Haggis is also used in a sport called haggis hurling, throwing a haggis as far as possible. The Guinness World Record for Haggis Hurling was ...
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  • sickle, cutting off his testicles then promptly hurling them into the sea. With Uranus reeling in pain, Cronus proceeded to free his imprisoned brothers ...
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  • However, the game they presented resembled "Hurling to Goal" a variant of the Celtic sport of hurling, described by Richard Carew in his 1602 ...
    32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
  • to promote traditional Irish sports, such as hurling and to reject imported games like rugby and soccer. The first Gaelic football rules were drawn ...
    41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
  • Ireland: Gaelic football, soccer, rugby union and hurling. Croke Park is the 5th largest stadium in Europe. It hosts Gaelic football and hurling games ...
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  • * Hurling and Camogie are Irish games bearing some resemblance to—but notable differences from—hockey. * Indoor field hockey is an indoor ...
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  • moving of large, heavy objects or the violent hurling of smaller ones. Electrical disturbances, such as the turning on or off of appliances or lighting ...
    20 KB (2,844 words) - 00:18, 12 April 2023
  • dragged chains behind them, even occasionally hurling them towards children in their way. These Krampusläufe (Krampus runs) still exist, although perhaps ...
    19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
  • of the sky, stopped Hanuman in mid-flight by hurling his thunderbolt at him. The thunderbolt struck Hanuman, sending him hurtling back to earth ...
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  • motivation for his action, whereas his hurling himself on a grenade in order to save a chocolate cake would ordinarily be seen as non-rational ...
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  • #039;s baroque David is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm ...
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  • I used the same reverse as Menander I, Athena hurling a thunderbolt, and also the title Soter. According to this scenario, Agathocleia and Straton ...
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  • Europe during the Middle Ages, like hurling, and the word 'hockey' was recorded in the Galway Statutes of 1527. The modern game of hockey ...
    33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
  • Yahweh as a fire-breathing, lightening-hurling storm deity, who thunders from heaven, mounts the cherubim, and rides on the wind, much like the ...
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  • (cursing festival) at Ibaragi prefecture begin by hurling insults at each other, in preparation for a contest of abuse with a priest dressed as a tengu ...
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  • similar to the Scottish game of shinty, and Irish hurling. Once the most popular sport on the Island, it ceased to be played by the start of the twentieth ...
    38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
  • Football Championship and All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship are held on Saint Patrick's Day in Croke Park, Dublin. The Interprovincial ...
    52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
  • the most popular being Gaelic football, hurling and camogie, rugby union ... In Ireland many sports, such as rugby union, Gaelic football and hurling ...
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  • Athletic Association, are Gaelic football and hurling, arguably the world's fastest field team sport in terms of game play. Also popular ...
    93 KB (13,993 words) - 13:11, 6 March 2024
  • sport of shinty, the closely-related Irish sport of hurling, and versions of field hockey played in England. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted ...
    69 KB (11,304 words) - 17:15, 10 February 2024

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