#rugby Poland

[superbeans89]

Latest results from the Rugby Europe Championship.

It’ll be a repeat of the infamous RWC draw for first place, where Georgia face Portugal once again, but honestly it’d take a miracle to stop the Lelos.

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

rugby on my tv, boxing on my laptop, skateboarding highlights on my phone, learning a new song on the guitar, cooking breakfast, memorizing the vball schedule during breaks like olympics season is busyyyyyy

[depoteka]

man, rugby is crazy

[world-of-wales]

HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY TO THE SWEETEST AND SASSIEST QUEEN, HRH PRINCESS CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH DIANA OF WALES (B. 2 MAY 2015) ♡

On 2 May 2015, Princess Charlotte was born to Catherine and William, then known as Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in St Mary's Hospital, London, at 8.34 BST weighing 8 pounds and 3 ounces. She was born during the reign of her paternal great-grandmother Elizabeth II is the second child and only daughter of Will & Cat. The little princess' name was announced on 4 May as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. Charlotte is the feminine version of her paternal grandfather's name - Charles & also her aunt Pippa's middle name. Elizabeth honours her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, and is also the middle name of her grandmother Carole and her mum Catherine. Diana is in honour of her late paternal grandmother, Princess Diana. Lottie was nine weeks old when she was christened by the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on 5 July, at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham. She wore the handmade replica of the Royal Christening Robe, and the Lily Font and water from the River Jordan were used during the baptism. Charlotte spent the first two years of her life at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, before relocating to Kensington Palace in 2017. She started at Willcocks Nursery School in 2018 and later joined her brother George at Thomas's School in Battersea in 2019. In 2022, Lottie and her family relocated to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, after which she started at Lambrook School with her siblings. Born as a Princess of Cambridge, she became HRH Princess Charlotte of Wales after her grandfather conferred her parents with the titles of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Charlotte who is currently third in line to the throne, made history as the first British princess to outrank a brother in the line of succession. She made her official royal debut at the Trooping of Colour in 2016 and since then has accompanied her parents and brothers for engagements and events. Charlotte joined her parents on official tours to Canada, Germany, and Poland. Taking part in two royal weddings, Lottie has also been a part of her great-grandmother's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022 and her grandfather's coronation in 2023. Charlotte is a nature pixie, and is a keen rugby and tennis player. She loves gymnastics & acrobatics and does amazing cartwheels & handstands. She adores dancing, especially Tap & Ballet and has a passion for theater, putting on shows for her family at home. Lottie loves Pizza and Olives (that's a queen, right there). She's an excellent footballer, which her father was sure to mention to the Lionesses, who she is a big fan of during a visit.

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

I am a proud patriot of Texas 🤠 Mexico 🇲🇽 Ireland 🇮🇪 Poland 🇵🇱 USA 🇺🇸 South Carolina 🌴 DC 🌸 Sakartvelo 🇬🇪 Fiji 🇫🇯 Qatar 🇶🇦 Germany 🇩🇪 and Miami, Florida 🐬

Important PSA:

Patriotism vs Nationalism vs Jingoism:

Patriotism: I love my country when she is right, I acknowledge my country when she is wrong

A patriot loves their country, celebrates when their country does good things, holds remembrance when their country disappoints them. A patriot from one nation can be friends with a patriot from another nation, and may even be patriotic for multiple nations. When their country achieves greatness, they are genuinely proud. When their country claims to achieve greatness but achieved nothing, they feel empty. A patriot typically values unity for all over prosperity for a few. They value the opinions of people critical of the country they love, and see constructive criticism as a form of love for their country.

Nationalism: I love my country, right or wrong, may she always do right

A nationalist loves their country, celebrates their country when their country does good things, and typically ignores or refuses to acknowledge that their country can do bad things. A nationalist believes their country is the best country to ever exist and thus may find it difficult to be friends with a patriot or another nationalist (for, only one nationalist’s opinion can be true). A nationalist rarely is nationalistic to more than one nation. A Nationalist cannot tell the difference between genuinely achieved greatness and false claims to genuine achieved greatness. A nationalist typically values unity for as many people as possible as long as it leads to prosperity primarily for them. They ignore the opinions of people critical of the country they love, often believing they are “fake news”.

Jingoism: I love my country, right or wrong, she is ALWAYS right

A jingoist loves their country, celebrates their country when their country does good things, and will celebrate their country when their country does evil by finding some way to make said evil good, for a jingoist believes their country is unable to be bad. A jingoist believes their country is the best country to ever exist and thus all other countries should be subservient to their country, if not outright invaded and forced into submission. A jingoist could never be friends with a jingoist from another country nor a patriot from another country nor a nationalist from another country. A jingoist does not care about the difference between genuine achieved greatness, false claims to genuine achieved greatness, or even acknowledgements of wrongdoings for their country is always correct no matter what. A jingoist could care less about unity, as long as they and other “real countrymen” are prosperous, that is all that matters. They hate the opinions of people critical of the country they love, and will silence and suppress them.

Examples:

Patriots: The vast majority of people in the vast majority of countries. Most Americans are included under this label, because, if there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s how bad their country is (whether that be “our deficit is too high and we don’t take care of our vets” or “legalized racism is still a problem and the withdrawal from Afghanistan was too early”)

Nationalists: Extremists (eg Neo Confederates, Reagan obsessed conservatives) and many former colonial countries, including Japan, the UK, France, Spain, Turkey, China, Russia, and to a lesser extent, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal. For example, most Brits genuinely believe that the British empire did more good than bad, and Japanese history in schools paints Japan in WW2 as a victim. Similarly, Neo Confederates focus on the “greatness” of the CSA without thinking about the not so great parts of it… like, ykno, slavery. Note, this is not all the people of these nations, more their governments

Jingoists: Nazis, modern day Israel under Netanyahu, the propaganda media, and extreme Zionism, MAGA Anti-Woke WASP Americans, Putin’s inner circle, the KKK, and North Korea to name a few. It’s very cult like to say the least, and often genocidal.

The Fourth Category: I love my country when she is right, and I am disturbed when she is wrong, so I will focus on when she is wrong more than when she is right, because I believe righting these wrongs is more important than anything else, and that is how I show love for my country

I’m not sure what to call this category, and only two nations — Germany and Rwanda — fit within this category really, though their are minorities of people in other countries (namely, USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, most Latin American countries, most settler colonialist countries, and Netherlands) who view their country this way

Be a Patriot not a Jingo!!!

[aimeedaisies]

Aimee’s 2023 royal family engagement count: The final results!

Disclaimer; everyone’s counts will be different, people have different rules to their method of counting the Court Circular. It isn’t a definitive count and is done just for fun 💗

The court circular doesn’t record any work behind the scenes, only public engagements, official meetings and luncheons/dinners. It’s more a gauge of their public facing roles.

👑 Princess Anne 👑

Once again Princess Anne tops the chart as the hardest working royal, completing 467 engagements.

She has done 393 engagements in the UK.

She travelled to 10 different countries this year and did 74 engagements there. 🇨🇾🇪🇪🇳🇿🇦🇺🇫🇷🇨🇦🇩🇪🇯🇪🇮🇳🇬🇮

Dubbed by some as the unofficial Queen of Scots she did 62 in Scotland.

King Charles III

In the first year of his reign King Charles did a grand total of 463 engagements

In the UK he did 386 engagements.

He travelled to 5 different countries where he completed 76 engagements and did 3 full royal tours in Germany, France and Kenya. He also hosted a state visit for South Korea at Buckingham Palace. 🇩🇪🇷🇴🇫🇷🇰🇪🇦🇪

What is also worth mentioning is that he has Red Boxes that he has to go through every single day, except Christmas Day and Easter Sunday as well as a lot of work behind the scenes.

Prince Edward, The Duke of Edinburgh

This year, on his 59th birthday, Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh, taking the title of his father. With this he increased his work with the Duke of Edinburgh award and travelling to visit international sections of the award. Prince Edward also visited a lot of theatre related organisations and youth centres and charities.

He completed 294 this year and visited 13 countries on solo tours and with his wife. 🇹🇨🇧🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇿🇮����🇹🇷🇧🇭🇸🇬🇳🇿🇦🇺🇮🇩

Sophie, The Duchess of Edinburgh

In 2023 Sophie carried on her hard work in areas like women’s rights in disadvantaged areas, avoidable blindness, hygiene and agriculture.

She completed 226 this year in the UK and the commonwealth and visited 10 countries on solo tours and with her husband. 🇳🇱🇹🇨🇧🇸🇮🇶🇮🇹🇪🇹🇨🇦🇨🇴🇨🇭

Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester

The Duke of Gloucester has this year completed 208 engagements in the UK.

He continued his long lasting work in heritage, architecture, the St John’s Ambulance and military organisations.

Hopefully next year we will see him do some overseas engagements. 🕯️

Queen Camilla

In the year of her Coronation, Queen Camilla carried out 198 engagements.

She visited Germany, France and Kenya where she did 42 engagements whilst on official tours. 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇰🇪

She focused a lot of her engagements this year on sectors close to her heart like women’s & children’s charities, osteoporosis care and animal welfare.

Prince William, The Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales this year carried out engagements in the UK and the Commonwealth in areas like mental health, homelessness and conservation. In 2023 he did 183 engagements.

Prince William travelled to 4 countries where he did 32 engagements related to Earthshot in USA and Singapore, visiting Ukrainian troops in Poland, attending the Jordanian royal wedding in June and finally travelling to Kuwait to give his condolences to to The Emir of Kuwait following the death of The Emir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. 🇵🇱🇺🇸🇯🇴🇸🇬🇰🇼

Catherine, The Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales carried out 134 engagements throughout 2023. Catherine continued her work in her Early Years foundation and childhood development.

She visited France for two, one off engagements for the rugby World Cup in France and to Jordan for Crown Prince Hussein and Princess Rajwa’s wedding in June. 🇫🇷🇯🇴

Hopefully we will see her and the Prince of Wales go on a couple of overseas tours next year now that their children are older.

Birgitte, The Duchess of Gloucester

The Duchess of Gloucester has this year completed 127 engagements in the UK. She continued her long lasting work in sports, the arts (Opera, Ballet, Acting etc…) and accompanying her husband to official engagements.

Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence

Although not an official working royal, Sir Tim often attends as a great support to his wife’s engagements as well as having his own non-royal patronages and interests. It was recently announced that he would become chair of the Science Museum group and is the patron of a number of heritage organisations.

He accompanied his wife to a total of 92, represented her 4 times and accompanied her to 27 engagements abroad in 5 countries. 🇪🇪🇳🇿🇦🇺🇫🇷🇬🇮

(Operation working royal Tim) 👏

Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent.

Despite being 88, Prince Edward, the late Queens cousin, has carried out 75 engagements even with his ailing mobility.

He continued his valued hard work with organisations like the RNLI, the Royal Scots Guards and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which he recently passed on the presidency to the Princess Royal.

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Although she is practically retired now, we have seen Princess Alexandra attend four official engagements in 2023. Firstly she attended a Reception for British East and South-East Asian Communities, secondly to present medals to members of The Royal Lancers, thirdly she attended the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla and lastly she visited the Royal Chelsea Flower Show.

This year the British Royal Family completed a grand total of 2476 in the UK and 29 different countries across the world.

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See below for engagements from the past decade and the types of engagements carried out in 2023

[slavicafire]

Great breakfast, if you have some very fancy olive oil, is just bread, mozzarela or feta, tomatoes and salt. Dip the bread a little in the oil and put salt on it and eat the cheese and tomatoes with it as you please. If you want, you can put some rosemary or other herbs on it too. It's amazing in the summer. Another big thing for me is budapest spread,I wonder if it's as popular in Poland as it is in Czechia. Quark, caraway, fresh peppers and loads of paprika spice. And fruit to go with it, I'm a massive fan of those green melons that look like rugby balls, i buy one a week and slowly devour it for breakfast :-)

hmmmmm I don't know if budapest spread is big here, I'm only now reading about it to learn what it is... caraway is one of my greatest enemies but perhaps in this form it might actually be good? I must be brave and explore this option

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.22 (after 1900)

1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40. 1921 – Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco. 1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community. 1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. 1942 – Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins. 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily. 1943 – World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22. 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland. 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths. 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. 1963 – Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance. 1973 – Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78. 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War. 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. 1981 – The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States is held in Gisborne, New Zealand. 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked. 1990 – Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory. 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States. 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario. 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard. 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings. 2011 – Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya. 2012 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes with pro-government forces in Al-Hasakah. 2013 – Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others. 2019 – Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover.

[joeyvimsantepoet]

Cross Border Cups With Scotland

How about Saudi Arabia fund a cross border club trophy with teams from Saudi Arabia, Scotland, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France, North America, Africa and other European nations? Saudi Arabia has wealth, but Scotland has intense passionate supporters. Clubs like Glasgow Celtic, Aberdeen, Glasgow Rangers, Motherwell, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Dundee, and Dundee United could bring passionate games and lore to Saudi soccer.How about cross border cups for Scottish football. I say a good way for Scottish football to improve is to have cross border trophies on top of domestic and European football.There are an entire host of ideas that could happen. Bring back the Anglo Scottish Cup.Change the Scottish Premiership to a 16 team 30 game league. Then have extra cross border cups.Ideas could include a North Atlantic League Cup. With the top four to 8 SPFL clubs playing a group stage trophy with teams from Europe, Asia, or Africa, or North America, or Saudi Arabia.The Scottish allow Welsh and Northern Ireland club sides in the Scottish Challenge Cup.The Scottish and Welsh Rugby clubs travel to places like South Africa, and Italy. And UEFA soccer has seen Scottish sides travel to Central Asia. So football clubs could travel 5 or 8 times a year to the USA, or Africa. In UEFA trophies Scottish and Welsh sides have been to Central Asia.Other ideas could include having all Scottish Premiership sides not in Europe, plus selected Welsh Cymru Premier club sides, and perhaps Belgian, and North West French sides in the Football League Trophy. There could easily be 16 teams added to the EFL Trophy with a little reorganisation of the trophy to add the new sides.Perhaps all Scots Championsip sides, Welsh Cymru Premier sides, and some North Western French sides in the non-league FA Trophy.

Or a Celtic Nations Club Cup of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Ulster, Cornish, Cumbria, Brittany, Isle of Man and Yorkshire club sides.Perhaps leading Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, Belgian or German sides invited as guests into the Engliah FA Cup, or English League Cup.I do not support merging the British leagues, as people would wrongly think Scotland was part of England. And all the Scottish trophies in history would be relegated to the status of lower tier trophies. While all the English trophies would be seen as forerunners of the British trophies. So Scottish clubs would be seen to be reset as having won ZERO trophies. Also 30 trips into England a year might be too much bit 5 to 8 times a year would keep it a novelty and highlight of the season.We need Pan-Great Britain Cups on top of domestic and European football.If we had a British League a club like Dundee could make 25 trips year of up to 800 miles. That would be too tough. It has to be at a manageable number of games.

[rabbitcruiser]

Boxing Day

The best way to celebrate the day is to take part in festivities in a country where Boxing Day is a bank holiday or public holiday. Watch some soccer, rugby, or cricket games, or go on a traditional fox hunt. If you can’t be in a country where these events are taking place, you could still get together with family and friends and eat leftovers from Christmas, or make some foods traditionally eaten on Boxing Day. You could also go shopping, as this is another important part of the day in many countries.

Boxing Day takes place the day after Christmas and is primarily observed in the United Kingdom, where it started, as well as in countries that were once part of the British crown. There are a few possible theories as to how it got started, but its exact origin is unclear.

One theory says it was inspired by Christmas boxes. In seventeenth-century Great Britain, boxes holding a present or gratuity were given to tradesman and workers in service industries for their previous year’s work. This went back to an even earlier tradition where servants would wait on and serve their rich masters on Christmas Day and would visit and celebrate with their own families on the day after Christmas. Their rich masters would sometimes give them a box with leftover food, a bonus, or another type of gift.

The day may have also stemmed from alms boxes that were put in Anglican churches on Christmas Day or during Advent and opened on the day after Christmas. These boxes collected money for the poor. Similarly, boxes were put outside of churches to collect money on Saint Stephen’s Day, which is held the day after Christmas. The events in the song “Good King Wenceslas” take place on Saint Stephen’s Day. The song recounts a story of King Wenceslas, a Bohemian king of the tenth century, bringing food and wine to a poor man. There is one other possible source for the beginning of the day. Ships once set sail containing a box of money for good luck. If the trip was a success, the box would be given to a priest, and he would open it on Christmas and give its contents to the poor.

Boxing Day has been a bank holiday in England, Wales, North Ireland, and Canada since 1871. It is celebrated in Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nigeria. It is celebrated in Hong Kong, where the United Kingdom held sovereignty until 1997. In Ireland and in parts of Spain, it is known as Saint Stephen’s Day. It is celebrated as Second Christmas Day in some European countries, such as Poland, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands; it is celebrated as such in Scandinavia as well. Boxing Day is generally not celebrated in the United States.

In some countries where it is celebrated as a bank holiday or public holiday, it is observed a day or two after December 26. If December 26 takes place on a Saturday, it may be observed the following Monday. If December 26 is on a Sunday, it may be observed on the following Tuesday. This is not always the case, however, as it is often observed on a Sunday if it falls on a Sunday.

Boxing Day is a day of the gathering of family and friends. Leftovers from Christmas are commonly eaten. Popular foods include baked ham, mince pies, Christmas cakes, and other desserts. In many countries of celebration, it is a shopping day similar to Black Friday. Sales take place and many retailers run them the whole week. Although, in some places, such as in parts of Canada, stores aren’t allowed to be open, in order to give families time to be together instead.

Sports are an important part of Boxing Day. In the United Kingdom, the top football (soccer) leagues of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland play games. Lower leagues play games as well, and rugby leagues also hold matches. In various countries, events of other sports, such as cricket, horse racing, yacht racing, hockey, and boxing are often held to celebrate the day. Fun runs and swims in the cold English Channel take place. Fox hunting meets have been held for hundreds of years. A law passed in 2004, which went into effect the following year, banned the use of dogs to attack animals during hunts. But hunters have still used their dogs to chase artificial scents on the day, and have still gone on hunts where dogs are used to flush out foxes, but not to attack them.

Boxing Day, also known as Saint Stephen’s Day and Second Christmas Day, is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on December 26th.

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[goalhofer]

2024 olympians representing non country of residence part 9

Samoa: Kaiya Brown, swimming (Auckland, New Zealand); Samalulu Clifton, canoeing (Auckland, New Zealand); Tuva'a Clifton, canoeing (Auckland, New Zealand); Akazawa Gaku, wrestling (Tokyo, Japan); Lalomilo Lalomilo, rugby (Auckland, New Zealand); Eroni Leilua, sailing (Auckland, New Zealand); Tom Maiava, rugby (Sydney, Australia); Alamanda Motuga, rugby (Auckland, New Zealand); Alex Rose, athletics (West Branch, Michigan) & William Tai-Tin, judo (Melbourne, Australia) San Marino: Myles Amine, wrestling (Novi, Michigan) Saudi Arabia: Abdulrahman Alrajhi, equestrian (Marburg, Germany) Senegal: Yves Bourhis, canoeing (Gouesnac'h, France); Ibrahim Diaw, table tennis (Paris, France); Ndèye Diongue, fencing (Saint-Maur-Des-Fossès, France); Oumy Diop, swimming (Grenoble, France) & Matthieu Seye, swimming (Aix-Les-Bains, France) Serbia: Yvonne Anderson, basketball (Columbia, Missouri); Tijana Bošković, volleyball (Bile��a, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Strahinja Bunčić (Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Saša Čađo, basketball (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Sara Ćirković, boxing (Bratunac, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Angela Dugalić, basketball (Des Plaines, Illinois); Tina Krajišnik, basketball (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Aleksandr Komarov, wrestling (St. Petersburg, Russia); Nemanja Majdov (Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Nikolay Pimenov; Jr., rowing (Moscow, Russia); Ivana Raca, basketball (Athens, Greece); Natalia Shadrina, boxing (Yakutsk, Russia); Velimir Stjepanović, (Dubai, U.A.E.); Khetag Tsabolov, wrestling (Vladikavkaz, Russia) & Nemanja Vico, water polo (Kotor, Montenegro) Seychelles: Simon Bachmann, swimming (Nice, France) Singapore: Caroline Chew, equestrian (London, U.K.) & Shannon Tan, golf (Charters Towers, Australia) Slovenia: Eugenia Bujak, cycling (Sosnowiec, Poland) & Elizabeth Omoregie, handball (Bucharest, Romania) South Africa: Kayle Blignaut, athletics (Rome, Italy); Matthew Guise-Brown, field hockey (London, U.K.); Antonie Nortje, athletics (College Station, Texas) & Nic Spooner, field hockey (Hamburg, Germany) South Korea: Byeong-Hun An, golf (Orlando, Florida); Mi-Mi Huh, judo (Tokyo, Japan); Ji-Su Kim, judo (Himeji, Japan); Jin-Young Ko, golf (Frisco, Texas) & Hee-Young Yang, golf (Orlando, Florida) South Sudan: Sunday Dech, basketball (Perth, Australia); Majok Deng, basketball (Adelaide, Australia); Wenyen Gabriel, basketball (Manchester, New Hampshire); Kacoul Jok, basketball (Des Moines, Iowa); Carlik Jones, basketball (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bul Kuol, basketball (Canberra, Australia); Anyiarbany Makoi, basketball (St. Louis, Missouri); Khaman Maluch, basketball (Kampala, Uganda); Lucia Moris, athletics (Nairobi, Kenya); Anunwa Omet, basketball (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Marial Shayok, basketball (Ottawa, Ontario) & J.T. Thor, basketball (Norcross, Georgia) Spain: Lorenzo Brown, basketball (Roswell, Georgia); Gerard Clapés, field hockey (Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Andy Criere, surfing (Hendaye, France); Megan Gustafson, basketball (Port Wing, Wisconsin); Marc Miralles, field hockey (Bloemendaal, The Netherlands); Jon Rahm, golf (Scottsdale, Arizona) & Carmen Weiler, swimming (Singapore) Sudan: Yaseen Abdalla, athletics (Austin, Texas) & Ziyad Saleem, swimming (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Suriname: Irvin Hoost, swimming (Miami, Florida) Sweden: Ludvig Åberg, golf (Tallahassee, Florida); Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, equestrian (Breitenburg, Germany); Therese Nilshagen, equestrian (Niedershachen, Germany); Alex Norén, golf (Jupiter, Florida); Louise Romeike, equestrian (Meyn, Germany); Sofia Sjöborg, equestrian (London, U.K.) & Henrik Von Eckermann, equestrian (Peel En Maas, The Netherlands) Switzerland: Alexandre Dällenbach, pentathlon (Saint-Denis, France); Nikita Ducarroz, cycling (Sonoma County, California); Albane Valenzuela, golf (Dallas, Texas); Zoé Vergé-Dépré, volleyball (Berne, Germany) & Felix Vogg, equestrian (Weiblingen, Germany) Syria: Hasan Bayan, judo (Berlin, Germany) & Lais Najjar, gymnastics (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Thailand: Jai Angsuthasawit, cycling (Adelaide, Australia)

[world-of-wales]

HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY TO THE SWEETEST AND CUTEST LITTLE MAN, HRH PRINCE GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS OF WALES (B. 22 JULY 2013) ♡

On 22 July 2013, Prince George was born to Catherine and William, then known as Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in St Mary's Hospital, at 16:24 BST weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces. He was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandmother Elizabeth II and is the first child and eldest of Will & Cat.

The little prince's name was announced on 24 July as George Alexander Louis. George is one of his paternal grandfather King Charles’ middle names and was the regnal name of Queen Elizabeth's beloved father Albert. Alexander is the masculine version of Queen Elizabeth's middle name Alexandra and was also Catherine's top choice for a baby boy's name. Louis is in honour of his 3rd-great-uncle Earl Mountbatten of Burma - Louis, his father - Prince William and King Charles.

Georgie was was christened by the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on 23 October, in the Chapel Royal in St. James' Palace.

George spent the first few months of his life in Anglesey, Wales, before his family relocated to Kensington Palace in 2014. He started at West Acre Montessori School Nursery in 2016 when his family moved to Anmer Hall in Norfolk and then studied at at Thomas's School in Battersea. In 2022, George and his family relocated to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, after which he started at Lambrook School with his siblings.

Born as a Prince of Cambridge, he became HRH Princess George of Wales after his grandfather conferred his parents with the titles of the Prince and Princess of Wales. George was third in line to the throne upon his birth but is now second in line following hid dad taking over as the heir.

He made his official royal debut during the Cambridge tour of Australia & New Zealand in 2014. His first Palace balcony was in 2015 and has also joined his parents on official tours to Canada, Germany and Poland. Taking part in two royal weddings Georgie has also been a part of his great-grandmother's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022 and was a page of honour at his grandfather's coronation in 2023.

George is a keen tennis and football player (a huge Aston Villa & England fan) and loves rugby, cricket & triathlons. He is adores AC/DC and Led Zeppelin & is learning to play the electric guitar. Georgie is known to love the military and wanted to join the air cadets when he was younger.

He also loves helicopters and police cars and was a fan of Fireman Sam. As per his mum, he likes thunderstorms, and when younger T-rex, the dinosaur fascinated him the most. George spends a lot of time outdoors, helping out with the farm animals & is quite a competitive gardener.

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Events 4.12

240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York. 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland. 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day. 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships. 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain. 1807 – The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli. 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse. 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw). 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. 1900 – One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule. 1910 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched. 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. 1927 – Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. 1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history. 1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed. 1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England. 1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death. 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin. 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. 1961 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1. 1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. 1980 – The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed. 1980 – Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed. 1980 – Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF. 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago. 1990 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. 1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris. 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred. 2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104. 2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency. 2010 – Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28. 2013 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali. 2014 – The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.

[rabbitcruiser]

Boxing Day

The best way to celebrate the day is to take part in festivities in a country where Boxing Day is a bank holiday or public holiday. Watch some soccer, rugby, or cricket games, or go on a traditional fox hunt. If you can’t be in a country where these events are taking place, you could still get together with family and friends and eat leftovers from Christmas, or make some foods traditionally eaten on Boxing Day. You could also go shopping, as this is another important part of the day in many countries.

Boxing Day takes place the day after Christmas and is primarily observed in the United Kingdom, where it started, as well as in countries that were once part of the British crown. There are a few possible theories as to how it got started, but its exact origin is unclear.

One theory says it was inspired by Christmas boxes. In seventeenth-century Great Britain, boxes holding a present or gratuity were given to tradesman and workers in service industries for their previous year’s work. This went back to an even earlier tradition where servants would wait on and serve their rich masters on Christmas Day and would visit and celebrate with their own families on the day after Christmas. Their rich masters would sometimes give them a box with leftover food, a bonus, or another type of gift.

The day may have also stemmed from alms boxes that were put in Anglican churches on Christmas Day or during Advent and opened on the day after Christmas. These boxes collected money for the poor. Similarly, boxes were put outside of churches to collect money on Saint Stephen’s Day, which is held the day after Christmas. The events in the song “Good King Wenceslas” take place on Saint Stephen’s Day. The song recounts a story of King Wenceslas, a Bohemian king of the tenth century, bringing food and wine to a poor man. There is one other possible source for the beginning of the day. Ships once set sail containing a box of money for good luck. If the trip was a success, the box would be given to a priest, and he would open it on Christmas and give its contents to the poor.

Boxing Day has been a bank holiday in England, Wales, North Ireland, and Canada since 1871. It is celebrated in Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nigeria. It is celebrated in Hong Kong, where the United Kingdom held sovereignty until 1997. In Ireland and in parts of Spain, it is known as Saint Stephen’s Day. It is celebrated as Second Christmas Day in some European countries, such as Poland, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands; it is celebrated as such in Scandinavia as well. Boxing Day is generally not celebrated in the United States.

In some countries where it is celebrated as a bank holiday or public holiday, it is observed a day or two after December 26. If December 26 takes place on a Saturday, it may be observed the following Monday. If December 26 is on a Sunday, it may be observed on the following Tuesday. This is not always the case, however, as it is often observed on a Sunday if it falls on a Sunday.

Boxing Day is a day of the gathering of family and friends. Leftovers from Christmas are commonly eaten. Popular foods include baked ham, mince pies, Christmas cakes, and other desserts. In many countries of celebration, it is a shopping day similar to Black Friday. Sales take place and many retailers run them the whole week. Although, in some places, such as in parts of Canada, stores aren’t allowed to be open, in order to give families time to be together instead.

Sports are an important part of Boxing Day. In the United Kingdom, the top football (soccer) leagues of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland play games. Lower leagues play games as well, and rugby leagues also hold matches. In various countries, events of other sports, such as cricket, horse racing, yacht racing, hockey, and boxing are often held to celebrate the day. Fun runs and swims in the cold English Channel take place. Fox hunting meets have been held for hundreds of years. A law passed in 2004, which went into effect the following year, banned the use of dogs to attack animals during hunts. But hunters have still used their dogs to chase artificial scents on the day, and have still gone on hunts where dogs are used to flush out foxes, but not to attack them.

Boxing Day, also known as Saint Stephen’s Day and Second Christmas Day, is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on December 26th.

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2024 olympians representing non-birth nation by country: part 4

France: Christina Bauer, volleyball (Norway); Anastasia Bayandina, swimming (Russia); Emil Bjorch, water polo (Denmark); Catherine Clot, field hockey (The Netherlands); Marie Fegue, weightlifting (Cameroon); Rafael Fente-Damers, swimming (U.S.A.); Albane Garot-Loussif, field hockey (Belgium); Delfina Gaspari, field hockey (Argentina); Onema Geyoro, soccer (Democratic Republic Of Congo); Makenson Gletty, athletics (Haiti); Varvara Gracheva, tennis (Russia); Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang, rugby (U.K.); Ilionis Guillaume, athletics (Haiti); Azeddine Habz, athletics (Morocco); Tamara Horaček, handball (Croatia); Roger Hunt, diving (U.K.); Yuan Jia, table tennis (China); Nikola Karabatić, handball (Serbia); Anastasiia Kirpichnikova, swimming (Russia); Karl Konan, handball (Côte d'Ivoire); Hilary Kpatcha, athletics (Togo); Youssef Krou, volleyball (Morocco); Juliette Landi, diving (U.S.A.); Dominique Malonga, basketball (Cameroon); Luka Mkheidze, judo (Georgia); Bernardin Matam, weightlifting (Cameroon); Iman Ndiaye, volleyball (U.S.A.); Oscar Nilsson-Julien, cycling (U.K.); Frank Ntilikina, basketball (Belgium); Michael Olise, soccer (U.K.); Hertzka Orsolya, water polo (Hungary); Christo Popov, badminton (Bulgaria); Toma Popov, badminton (Bulgaria); Xuefei Qi, badminton (China); Mia Rycraw, water polo (U.S.A.); Fabrizio Saïdy, athletics (Madagascar); Tessa-Margot Schubert, field hockey (Germany); Dora Tchakounté, weightlifting (Cameroon); Adrien Truffert; soccer (Belgium); Guusje Van Bolhuis, field hockey (The Netherlands); Ming Van Eijken, gymnastics (China); Gabby Williams, basketball (U.S.A.); Meky Woldu, athletics (Eritrea); Antoine Zeghdar, rugby (Monaco) & Alexandre Zhoya, athletics (Australia) Gabon: Virginia Aymard, judo (France) & Noëlie Lacour, swimming (France) Gambia: Alasan Ann, taekwondo (U.S.A.); Ami Barrow, swimming (U.K.); Gina Bass-Bittaye, athletics (Senegal); Sanu Jallow, athletics (U.S.A.) & Faye Njie, judo (Finland) Germany: Samuel Fitwi-Sibhatu, athletics (Eritrea); Grozer György; Jr., volleyball (Hungary); Kathrin Hendrich, soccer (Belgium); Melat Kejeta, athletics (Ethiopia); Camilla Kemp; surfing (Portugal); Szabó Mátyás, fencing (Romania); Alina Oganesyan, gymnastics (Uzbekistan); Dmitrij Ovtcharov, table tennis (Ukraine); Paulina Paszek, canoeing (Poland); Gonzalo Peillat, field hockey (Argentina); Alexis Peterson, basketball (U.S.A.); Amanal Petros, athletics (Eritrea); Constantin Preis, athletics (Moldova); Salou Sabally, basketball (U.S.A.); Artem Selin, swimming (Russia); Xiaona Shan, table tennis (China); Xenia Smits, handball (Belgium); Nelvie Tiafack, boxing (Cameroon); Darja Varfolomeev, gymnastics (Russia); Nick Weiler-Babb, basketball (U.S.A.); Kaii Winkler, swimming (U.S.A.) & Oleg Zernikel, athletics (Kazakhstan) Ghana: Joselle Mensah, swimming (Germany) & Harry Stacey, swimming (U.K.) Great Britain: David Ames, field hockey (South Africa); Jeremiah Azu, athletics (The Netherlands); Georgia Bell, athletics (France); Lizzie Bird, athletics (The Philippines); Sky Brown, skateboarding (Japan); Charlie Elwes, rowing (South Africa); Andy Macdonald, skateboarding (U.S.A.); Mahamed Mahamed, athletics (Ethiopia); Jonathon Marshall, swimming (U.S.A.); Delicious Orie, boxing (Russia); Honey Osrin, swimming (South Africa); Liam Sanford, field hockey (Germany); Cynthia Sember, athletics (U.S.A.); Eve Stewart, rowing (The Netherlands); Saskia Tidey, sailing (Ireland) & Nicole Yeargin, athletics (U.S.A.) Greece: Nick Calathes, basketball (U.S.A.); Kristian Gkolomeev, swimming (Bulgaria); Tatiana Gusin, athletics (Moldova); Dauren Kurugliev, wrestling (Russia); Cameron Maramenides, sailing (U.S.A.); Stamatia Scarvelis, athletics (U.S.A.); Theodoros Tselidis, judo (Russia) & Thomas Walkup, basketball (U.S.A.) Grenada: Tilly Collymore, swimming (U.S.A.); Zackary Gresham, swimming (U.S.A.) & Halle Hazzard, athletics (U.S.A.) Guam: Maria Escano, judo (South Korea); Joseph Green, athletics (U.S.A.) & Nicola Lagatao, weightlifting (The Philippines)

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Australia and France were named the HSBC SVNS 2024 Champions

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Australia and France were named the HSBC SVNS 2024 Champions

At the first-ever Grand Final in Madrid, France’s men and Australia’s women were declared the HSBC SVNS 2024 Champions following the most dramatic and intense rugby sevens competition in history. Following an incredible 19-5 victory against Argentina in the men’s final to deprive the HSBC SVNS 2024 League Winners the double in Madrid, France will head into their home Olympic Games with a lot of confidence.

After winning in Vancouver, France ended their 19-year cup drought. They sealed the victory with two tries in the second half, and Rodrigo Isgro of Argentina was sent out late for an illegal tackle.

Meanwhile, with the Olympics approaching, a rejuvenated Fiji defeated New Zealand for the second time this weekend to take home bronze, matching their best finish of the year. Australia won the women’s division after defeating France 26-7 behind a hat-trick from Maddison Levi, who gave her team their first cup victory since Cape Town in December. Australia was the best team all weekend in Madrid, defeating New Zealand 21-19 in an exciting semifinal comeback. Australia was the HSBC SVNS League leaders for nearly the whole season until falling short to fierce rivals New Zealand in the last round in Singapore.

In retaliation for losing to the same opponents in the pool round, the Blacks Ferns Sevens defeated Canada 26–14 to win the bronze medal. The top four teams from the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2024 competed against the teams placed ninth through twelfth in the SVNS 2024 promotion and relegation Play Off competition.

Samoa and Canada lost their spots on the HSBC SVNS series in the men’s HSBC SVNS Play-Offs, but the USA and Spain kept their spots thanks to wins. Following their respective victories over Germany and Chile in the Challenger Series, Kenya and Uruguay will be joining them.

China won the women’s play-offs and will join South Africa on the SVNS Series the following season. In the qualification final, the newcomers overcame Belgium 33-0, while South Africa was crushed 22-0 by hosts Spain. Brazil defeated Poland 38–7 with a commanding performance, and Japan defeated Argentina 26–12 to keep their spots on HSBC SVNS 2025. The Play Off losing teams will go through the regional qualification process to compete in the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025. News for The Daily Rugby

“We’re finally getting some pay for our hard work, which is good,” Maddison Levi of Australia stated. We’re finally building; the Olympics are so close. It’s always a hard struggle between the two, and the fact that we haven’t defeated New Zealand since Perth, in my opinion, simply shows that we can succeed.

They did a great job with the framework, in my opinion. Sevens is an exhilarating experience, and as an athlete, you can’t always perform at your best. Our coaches have our utmost confidence and trust, and I believe that their efforts are truly evident on the pitch. the bravery and readiness of each person to delve deeply throughout training.