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Spectator and sports
* Spectator sports
Spectator sports may be professional sports or amateur sports.
Spectator sports have built their own set of culture and traditions including, in the United States, cheerleading and pre-game and half time entertainment such as fireworks, particularly for big games such as competition decider events and international tests.
The Spectator covers campus, local, and national news as well as Hamilton sports and campus life.
In 2001, the staff of the Black & White collaborated to launch the Spectator, a supplementary paper covering sports features and recreation.
In 1899, Seeldrayers began a career as a sports journalist with the magazine " La vie sportive ", ( Sporting life ), writing a column under the pen name Spectator.

Spectator and venues
In 1971, ' Spectator Stages ' were introduced and, by 1975 had become an important part of the event, usually at stately homes and other public venues like Sutton Park.

Spectator and sometimes
On the other hand, one of his mutton pies known as a " Kit-Kat ", always formed a standing dish at meetings of the club and the pie is thus itself sometimes regarded ( e. g., by Addison in the Spectator ) as the origin of the club's name.
Spectator shoes ( British English: Co-respondent shoes ) are full brogue oxfords constructed from two contrasting colors, typically having the toe and heel cap and sometimes the lace panels in a darker color than the main body of the shoe.

Spectator and which
She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.
Yet, his work has been called a " hoax " and " discredited " by conservatives like Ann Coulter, it was also disputed by the American Spectator, which caused Scaife to end his funding of the Arkansas Project with the publisher.
Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".
In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.
The Spectator changed hands again in 1985, by which time it had accumulated an overdraft of over £ 300, 000 and it was facing financial meltdown.
" In the end The Spectator was bought by the Telegraph Group, of which Conrad Black then had a controlling interest.
During his four years as editor of The Spectator, he made several editorial and structural changes to the magazine, " not all of which were universally popular with readers ".
In 2007 The Spectator moved its offices from Doughty Street, which had been its home for 31 years, to 22 Old Queen Street in Westminster, leaving Bloomsbury for the first time since the paper ’ s founding in 1828.
In 1957, Bevan joined Richard Crossman and Morgan Phillips in a controversial lawsuit for libel against The Spectator magazine, which had described the men as drinking heavily during a socialist conference in Italy.
He also gained an acquaintance with a country that would feature prominently in his writing, which he resumed upon his return to London, at the same time entering into a partnership in the Thomas Nelson & Son publishing company and becoming editor of The Spectator.
Chronologically between the two are " The Wimsey Papers ", a series of epistolary articles written at the beginning of World War II, which Sayers wrote for The Spectator.
In 1709 Steele began to bring out Tatler, to which Addison became almost immediately a contributor: thereafter he ( with Steele ) started The Spectator, the first number of which appeared on 1 March 1711.
The Spectator which was issued daily and achieved great popularity.
George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that " PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left-wing bias ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.
The Verri brothers and Beccaria started an important cultural reformist movement centered around their journal Il Caffè (" The Coffeehouse "), which ran from the summer of 1764 for about two years, and was inspired by Addison and Steele's literary magazine, The Spectator and other such journals.
At Edinburgh Mackenzie belonged to a literary club, at the meetings of which papers in the manner of The Spectator were read.
Then followed Daphnis ( 1754 ), Idyllen ( 1756 and 1772 ), Inkel and Yariko ( 1756 ), a version of a story borrowed from The Spectator and already worked out by Gellert and Bodmer, and Der Tod Abels ( 1758 ), which Gessner called “ a sort of idyllic prose pastoral .”
In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton.
He was born at Geneva, of a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his great-aunt, Marie Huber, was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of The Spectator ( Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753 ); and his father Jean Huber ( 1721 – 1786 ), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux ( Geneva, 1784 ).
The Spectator, which gradually became a prosperous property, was an outlet for his views, particularly on literary, religious and philosophical subjects, in opposition to the agnostic and rationalistic opinions then current in intellectual circles, as popularized by T. H. Huxley.
An account of the first floating of the tubes of the bridge is recorded in The Spectator of 23 June 1849, which was Grove's first appearance in print.
In July 2004, they bought The Telegraph Group ( now Telegraph Media Group ), which includes The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator after months of intense bidding and lawsuits.
In 2011, following the term's offhand use in a March 26 article appearing in The Spectator (" white-coated Jap bloke "), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that " most Japanese people find the word ‘ Jap ’ offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used.

Spectator and fans
Spectator seats were in the process of being installed as fans arrived at the arena for the opening home game on October 21, 1967.

Spectator and may
As in most British periodicals, the cryptic in the Spectator is numbered: in the Spectators case, a puzzle's theme may be related to its specific number ( such as a historic event that occurred in the year corresponding to the four-digit number of the puzzle for that week ).
Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary ( 1871 ; revised 1888 ), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers ( 1894 ); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.
The critic for The Independent commented, " It may well be impossible to be a success as Evita and a success as Anna " complaining that Paige was not refined enough for the role, whereas The Spectator asserted that the role further strengthened her title as the " First Lady of British Musical Theatre ".

Spectator and game
O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.
Once that's finished, they can head out on the field for a friendly match or sit back and watch the computer play out a game in Spectator mode.
* Ben Stein, Nixon speechwriter, actor, game show host, TV commentator, American Spectator columnist
The game includes many modes, and they are Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.
The Wellington Spectator reports a game on 28 December 1842 played by a " Red " team and a " Blue " team from the Wellington Club.
The first known documented labeling of this casual parlor game as " Trivia " was in a Columbia Daily Spectator column published on February 5, 1965.
Also, the new to this game is Spectator mode.
When he or she has written the secret rule for a piece, the Spectator also gives it a new name for the duration of the game.
Bouts-Rimés, literally ( from the French ) " rhymed-ends ", is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison, in the Spectator, as

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