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08/06/2020

Boxing and cinema : The Set-Up (1949)

The Set-Up is a 1949 boxing film by Robert Wise starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter, a drama in which Bill "Stoker" Thompson, a boxer at...

29/05/2020

French origins of tennis

Derived from the Jeu de paume introduced in England by the Duke of Orléans during the Hundred Years' War, tennis born in England during the...

25/05/2020

The return of vegetable tanning

Unlike industrial mineral tanning, polluting and allergenic, the traditional and ancestral technique of vegetable tanning produces leather...

15/05/2020

The jumping rope, child's game and training

Like the medicine ball, the jump rope has been an accessory for maintaining physical fitness since the dawn of civilization. Commonly...

08/05/2020

From round to American football

From the match considered to be the very first in American football in 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton to modern times, the ball has...

17/04/2020

Come back stronger, like Marcel Cerdan

Then freshly titled European champion, Marcel Cerdan was mobilized in the navy for the Second World War. He narrowly escapes the explosion of...