St Petersburg
St Petersburg (formerly Petrograd and Leningrad) Second-largest city in
Russia, and a major seaport at the
e end of the Gulf of Finland, on the delta of the River Neva. Founded in 1703 by
Peter I (the Great), the city was the capital of Russia from 1712 to 1918. It was the scene of the Decembrist revolt (1825), and the Bloody Sunday incident in the
Russian Revolution of 1905. Renamed Petrograd in 1914, it was a centre of the political unrest that culminated in the
Russian Revolution. Petrograd workers were the spearhead of the 1917 Revolution, and the city was renamed Leningrad in 1924. Damaged during World War 2, it has since been rebuilt. Renamed St Petersburg (1991), following the break-up of the Soviet Union, it has federal status within the Russian Republic. Industries: shipbuilding, engineering, electronics, chemicals. Pop. (1999 est.) 4,661,000.
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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RUGBY: A DIFFERENT KIND OF FOOTBALL
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/6/1987; 700+ words
; ...defends on the play during a recent Northwest Indiana Rugby Club practice. Rugby rules permit lateral and backward passes, but not...is compared to the football-shaped ball used in rugby. It is kicked, passed and carried as in American...
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Rugby Players Give More Than Just All-Out Effort; Athletes Find New Challenge In Rough Sport
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...few kids in an English boys schoolyard, rugby grew to become one of England's most...000 Americans annually participate in rugby, which is a 10-month sport in many part...including Washington. Recently, the Potomac Rugby Union, which covers the Washington, Baltimore...
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Rugby injuries: a review of concepts and current literature.(Report)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Rugby football continues to grow in popularity internationally and within the United States. In 1995, rugby union, one form of rugby, turned from amateur to professional throughout Europe, increasing...
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Rugby Union: PROVINCIAL RUGBY: THIS LOT SAY IT WILL WORK, BUT HE SAYS IT WON'T.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales); 9/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...Hansen all have one thing in common - provincial rugby. All five men may have been Wales coaches - but they also ALL believed provincial rugby could be the answer for Welsh rugby. Last week Hansen was the latest Wales coach to...
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Welsh rugby's been re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic for too long.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 12/7/2002; 700+ words
; Byline: RHODRI OWEN WELSh rugby has been ``re-arranging the deck...provincial plan. On day two of Welsh rugby's ``civil war'', the tough-talking...sides by saying the fundamentals of Welsh rugby were clearly not right and it was time...
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Rugby union: Moffett makes impassioned plea for crucial change.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 12/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...his provincial plan and claimed regional rugby in North Wales would work. And Moffett...while another chairman said provincial rugby was ``attractive only to the union...by telling the leading men in Welsh club rugby to come up with something better...
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Rugby Union: Brown would back provincial set-up.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 11/1/2002; 700+ words
; Byline: GARETH ROBERTS Rugby Reporter NEWPORT backer Tony Brown is prepared...short of going into a partnership with the Welsh Rugby Union. Brown says he has been approached by WRU director of rugby Terry Cobner with a view to continuing to make...
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Rugby Union: Game thrives as fanbase grows.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 11/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...for all those involved with grassroots rugby sides. We'll try to cover the best stories...well as junior competitions involving the rugby stars of the future. There will also be...RICHARD NEALE: 0191 2016283 UNIVERSITY rugby in the North-East has never been in better...
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RALPH'S RUGBY PITCH.(Ralph Lauren's plans for Rugby store)
Magazine article from: WWD; 10/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...with a new vertical retail concept called Rugby. "It's the new Polo," said Lauren...tour of the first 2,500-square-foot Rugby store, which opened Saturday at 342 Newbury...here. Geared to the collegiate set, the Rugby store offers a preppy lifestyle collection...
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Rugby's great divide.
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 9/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...the upcoming season. It's been a big week for rugby, particularly with the rugby union World Cup well underway in France. Unfortunately...the Friday night game against South Africa. As a rugby league man it was interesting to see how ex-league...
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The Rugby Group Plc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
The Rugby Group Plc. Crown House Rugby Warwickshire CV21 2DT United Kingdom Telephone: 44(0)1788...www.rugbygroup.co.uk Public Company Incorporated: 1925 as Rugby Portland Cement Company Ltd. Employees: 10,000 Sales...
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rugby
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
rugby game that originated (1823), according to tradition, on the playing fields of Rugby, England. It is related to both soccer...The game is said to have started when a Rugby School student named William Webb Ellis playing...
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rugby football
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
rugby football. William Webb Ellis is credited with inventing rugby in 1823 by picking up the ball while playing football at Rugby School and running with it. The claim is much disputed but there is little doubt that rugby developed at public...
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Rugby
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rugby town (1991 pop. 59,039), Warwickshire, central...important railroad junction and engineering center, Rugby is the seat of one of England's most esteemed public schools. Rugby School was founded in 1567 under the terms of the will...
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Rugby School
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Rugby School is a boys' public school founded by Laurence Sheriff, a merchant...by soldiers with fixed bayonets and drovers with horsewhips. The game of rugby takes its name from the school where the sport is said to have originated...
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