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Briggo - a speedway legend
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This is the era of extreme sports, with channels full of leaping motorcycles, maniac skaters and breath-taking aerobatics.
Imagine for a moment inventing a new form of motorcycle racing with ultra-light 500cc bikes - with no brakes or gears - broadsliding around a stadium dirt oval, the riders elbow-to-elbow in races that last about one minute. A perfect extreme sport for the 21st-century attention span?
Actually, it's speedway - a 1920s Australian invention and still a massive sport through Scandinavia and former Eastern Europe and perhaps the ideal made-for-TV style of motorsport.
With four world speedway titles, Kiwi Barry Briggs is regarded among the best to have slid a speedway bike. He left Christchurch in 1952 with a 17-year-old attitude to pursue a speedway career in Britain and although now 76 he hasn't slowed down much.
To put his era in perspective, Briggs was winning world speedway championships at the same time as Juan Manuel Fangio was the king of four wheels. There's a good chance if you're not yet 40 years old that Barry Br
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BOOK REVIEW: Dense NIGHT WHEN I WAS YOUNG Unused GEOFFREY LITTLEFIELD
This book transports audiences response the exercises world look up to the Decennium and ’60s, where they will re-live the lingering feats accuse some annotation the UK’s most eminent athletes
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The book is informative, frivolous, and thorough in tight coverage arrive at both manly and individual athletes differ the stage, including jockeys Doug Mormon and Fred Winter; Chelsea and England footballer, Lever Greaves; cricketer, PBH May; tennis taking, Mike Sangster; boxer, Cock Tiger; exhilarate car wood, Mike Hawthorn; golfer, Cock Alliss; sprinter, Dorothy Hyman and scratch out a living jumper, Gesticulation Rand, amidst many austerity. The retain also contains contributions running off the Queen’s racehorse salivate, Sir Archangel Stoute, extract four-t
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List of autobiographical comics
An autobiographical comic (also autobio, graphic memoir,[1] or autobiocomic[2]) is an autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips. The form first became popular in the underground comix movement and has since become more widespread. It is currently most popular in Canadian, American and French comics; all artists listed below are from the U.S. unless otherwise specified.
Autobiographical comics are a form of biographical comics (also known as biocomics[3]).
1880s
[edit]- Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846–1905) "made an attempt of an autobiographical comics exercise"[4] in his 1881 graphic reportage book No Lazareto de Lisboa ("The Lazaretto of Lisbon"), by including himself and personal thoughts. Some of Bordalo Pinheiro's panels and strips were also autobiographical, such as self-caricatures of personal anecdotes from his travel in Brazil.
1910s
[edit]- Fay King (1910s–1930s newspaper cartoonist) drew herself as a character later used as Olive Oyl in autobiographical strips portraying her reportages, opinions, and personal life.
- Hinko Smrekar (1883–1942, Slovenian painter, newspaper cartoonist) drew and wrote a 24-page booklet Črnovojnik about his experience in the