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  2. Gert Jan Timmerman - Wikipedia

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    Gert Jan Timmerman (born 15 April 1956) is a Dutch chess player, most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess, 1996–2002. [1] Before becoming the fifteenth World Correspondence Champion, Timmerman won Final B of the 5th World Cup between 1987 and 1994.

  3. Pigeon racing - Wikipedia

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    Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance.The time it takes the animal to cover the specified distance is measured and the bird's rate of travel is calculated and compared with all of the other pigeons in the race to determine which animal returned at the highest speed.

  4. The American Pigeon Museum & Library - Wikipedia

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    The museum's scope covers various pigeon species as well as their history, with emphasis on domestic and homing pigeons. [9] [10] There are three main sections: one on pigeon racing, another on the use of homing pigeons during World War I and World War II, and the last on the different species of fancy pigeons that are bred for appearances. [4]

  5. Category:Pigeon racing competitions - Wikipedia

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    Pigeon racing at the 1900 Summer Olympics This page was last edited on 15 April 2013, at 04:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Pigeon sport - Wikipedia

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    There are at least four main types of competitive pigeon sport: Pigeon racing; Tumbling; Highflying; Tippler (Endurance) Though not quite a sport, fancy breeds of pigeons are also bred to standards and judged in a competitive fashion. Levi in his book The Pigeon describes all aspects of pigeon keeping.

  7. Category:Pigeon racing - Wikipedia

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    Royal Pigeon Racing Association; U. Up North Combine This page was last edited on 12 June 2014, at 00:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by RFC 2549, on 9 September 2009, the marketing team of The Unlimited, a regional company in South Africa, decided to host a tongue-in-cheek pigeon race between their pet pigeon Winston and local telecom company Telkom SA. The race was to send 4 gigabytes of data from Howick to Hillcrest, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) apart.

  9. Up North Combine - Wikipedia

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    The Up North Combine is an amalgamation of 23 pigeon racing Federations founded in 1905. Its headquarters are located at Sappers Corner in Greatham, Hartlepool, and the radius of serving federations go from Staithes (south) to Berwick (north).