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Page 55
... chess ) , go ( a strategy game also similar to chess ) , Japanese and Western card games , basketball , vol- leyball , pingpong , bowling , wrestling , jūdō , kendō ( Japa- nese fencing ) , karate , and gymnastics . Sumo wrestling is ...
... chess ) , go ( a strategy game also similar to chess ) , Japanese and Western card games , basketball , vol- leyball , pingpong , bowling , wrestling , jūdō , kendō ( Japa- nese fencing ) , karate , and gymnastics . Sumo wrestling is ...
Page 233
... chess players , horticulturists , students of Jewish affairs , archaeologists , and other specialized groups . BIBLIOGRAPHY . A.H. SMITH ( ed . ) , Pictorial History of Johannesburg ( 1956 ) ; H.A. CHILVERS , Out of the Crucible : Being ...
... chess players , horticulturists , students of Jewish affairs , archaeologists , and other specialized groups . BIBLIOGRAPHY . A.H. SMITH ( ed . ) , Pictorial History of Johannesburg ( 1956 ) ; H.A. CHILVERS , Out of the Crucible : Being ...
Page 454
... chess reportedly was also brought by him from India . Astrono- my and astrology flourished at the court of Khosrow , and one star table ( called the zij - i Shahriyār ) , which was the basis of many later Islamic tables , is said to ...
... chess reportedly was also brought by him from India . Astrono- my and astrology flourished at the court of Khosrow , and one star table ( called the zij - i Shahriyār ) , which was the basis of many later Islamic tables , is said to ...
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