Surfing is such a cornerstone of Australian leisure that it is difficult to imagine a time at which it did not exist.

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published February 17th, 2013

The Sledging depicts the joy of the people who are having fun with friends sledging down in the snow.

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published January 7th, 2013

In his book ‘A Century Of British Chess’, Philip Sergeant writes that Britain’s first chess club, Parsloe’s, which opened in 1774, numbered among its early supporters George Eliot, later General Eliot, Governor of Gibraltar and commander of the forces during the Great Siege of 1779-1783. Many famous military men have played chess. Down the ages Gibraltarians, together with other local residents and Gibraltar garrison personnel, have included chess amongst their leisure activities.

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published July 31st, 2012