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121Dangerous Sports Club — The Dangerous Sports Club, a group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London, were active from the late 1970s for about ten years, during which they developed modern bungee jumping and experimented with a variety of… …
122A Rake's Progress — is a series of eight paintings by 18th century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–33 then engraved and published in print form in 1735. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and …
123Dandy horse — Wooden draisine (around 1820), the first two wheeler …
124Howdah pistol — A Howdah Pistol was a large calibre handgun, often with two or four barrels, used in India and Africa during the period of British Colonial rule in the mid to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, typically for defence against tigers,… …
125Jang Yeong-sil — This is a Korean name; the family name is Jang. Jang Yeong sil Korean name Hangul …
126Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore — Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, (14 August 1769 ndash; 6 March 1793) was an English nobleman of Ireland, as well as an infamous rake, gambler, sportsman, theatrical enthusiast and womanizer. He was known as the Rake of Rakes [… …
127Trịnh Tùng — (died c.1623) ruled Vietnam from 1570 to 1623 (he is also known as Trịnh Tòng and also given the title Bình An Vương ).He was reputed to have been the first of the famous Trịnh Lords who ruled Vietnam from 1553 to 1789. Theoretically, Trịnh Tùng… …
128Ernest Henry Wilson — E.H.Wilson Ernest Henry Chinese [1] Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear… …
