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• Superbike World Championship
  ...Chris Vermeulen]] have used the Superbike World Championship as a stepping stone to entering [[MotoGP]], [[James Toseland]] will also move to MotoGP in 2008
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• Tourist Trophy
  ...e high speeds on very narrow, twisting streets, roads and lanes flanked by stone walls and even buildings. Between 1907 and 2006 there have been 222 deaths
  11 KB (1,683 words) - 08:06, 8 October 2009
• Sardinia
  In [[Prehistory]] Sardinia's inhabitants developed a trade in [[obsidian]], a stone used for the production of the first rough tools, and this activity brought
  15 KB (2,252 words) - 20:25, 1 August 2009
• Tour de France
  ...eaviest rider was Magnus Backstedt at 95 kg (209 lb or 14 [[stone (weight)|stone]] 13 lb). *The lightest was Leonardo Piepoli at 57 kg (126 lb or 8 stone 14 lb).
  51 KB (7,916 words) - 16:23, 13 June 2009
• Wheel
  ...ltures]] seem to have approached it, as wheel-like worked [[rock (geology)|stone]]s have been found on objects identified as [[children]]'s [[toys]] dating
  13 KB (1,944 words) - 12:16, 8 October 2009
• Architecture
  ...glasssteelandstone.com/ Global Architecture Encyclopedia - Glass Steel and Stone]
  15 KB (2,153 words) - 08:12, 8 October 2009
• Rimini
  ...consular roads Via Emilia and Via Popilia that lead north. Built in Istria stone, the bridge consists of five arches that rest on massive pillars with break
  16 KB (2,404 words) - 22:06, 11 August 2009
• Olive oil
  ...ing the [[tree]]s with sticks to knock the olives off and crushing them in stone or wooden [[mortar (bowl)|mortar]]s or [[beam press]]es. Nowadays, olives a
  16 KB (2,501 words) - 11:03, 8 October 2009
• Brescia
  The city has no fewer than seventy-two public fountains. The stone quarries of [[Mazzano]], 20 km east of Brescia, supplied marble for th
  17 KB (2,496 words) - 22:06, 30 June 2009
• Padua
  ...[Troy|Trojan]] [[Antenor]], whose relics the commune recognized in a large stone sarcophagus exhumed in the year [[1274]].
  14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:46, 8 October 2009
• Roman cuisine
  In summer, it was popular to eat outside. Many houses in [[Pompeii]] had stone couches at a particularly beautiful spot in the garden for just that purpos
  18 KB (2,908 words) - 23:41, 11 September 2009
• Macau Grand Prix
  ...the introduction of F3 races, the Macau GP has gradually become a stepping stone for many F3 drivers to higher class motor-racing competitions such as the [
  24 KB (3,173 words) - 21:39, 31 July 2009
• Kart racing
  ...obby]] by non-professionals. Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher and more expensive ranks of motorsports.
  17 KB (2,621 words) - 12:06, 8 October 2009
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  ...e celebration quickly turned into a disaster due to the surface of crushed stone and tar. There were terrible injuries to the race car drivers and spectator
  25 KB (3,666 words) - 10:05, 2 March 2009
• Motor oil
  ...amids]], the ancient Egyptians used lubricants to move the large blocks of stone that made up the pyramids. Synthetic lubricants were invented initially for
  19 KB (3,054 words) - 08:52, 8 October 2009
• Veneto
  ...of an amazing, intricate and harmonious communication network of water and stone casts light and shadows unique in the world upon a city already singular fo
  22 KB (3,101 words) - 20:28, 1 August 2009
• History
  ...imals; they were fairly skilful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay, and they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, the vine, w
  18 KB (2,750 words) - 11:40, 8 October 2009
• Roman Kingdom
  ...ur]], who conducted the king-elect to the citadel where he was placed on a stone seat as the people waited below. If found worthy of the kingship, the augur
  25 KB (4,087 words) - 09:40, 7 October 2009
• Paris-Roubaix
  ...that the Belgians then come out to see the race and they pull up a cobble stone each and take it home as a souvenir. They've even gone off with the milesto ...he Tour [Hinault] - who every year gives the winner his celebration cobble stone on behalf of the organisers - has contributed to the dilution [''paupéris
  78 KB (12,215 words) - 17:28, 14 March 2009
• Ljubljana
  ...mall underground bar that sits level with the river. You can sit inside on stone steps (cushions provided) looking out at the water, or sit outside right by
  18 KB (2,941 words) - 09:24, 7 October 2009

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