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  • Athletics of the ancient world / [Edward Norman Gardiner].
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    Play and health in medical literature / Alessandro Arcangeli.

    Arcangeli, Alessandro | Date: [1985-]
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    Sport in history : an introduction / Jeffrey Hill.

    Hill, Jeff, 1943- | Date: 2011
  • view The sports and pastimes of the people of England including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings.
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    The sports and pastimes of the people of England including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings.

    Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802 | Date: 183l
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    Sport and society in ancient Greece / Mark Golden.

    Golden, Mark, 1948- | Date: 1998
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    Cultivating the national body : a history of physical culture in republican China / by Andrew D. Morris.

    Morris, Andrew D. (Andrew David) | Date: 1998
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