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Pigeon-shooting, the Glossary

Pigeon shooting is a type of live bird wing shooting competition.^[1]

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American Anti-Vivisection Society

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is a Jenkintown, Pennsylvania-based animal protectionism organization created with the goal of eliminating a number of different procedures done by medical and cosmetic groups in relation to animal cruelty in the United States.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andorra la Vella

Andorra la Vella is the capital and largest city of Andorra.

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Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

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Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.

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Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania

Bensalem Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Berks County, Pennsylvania

Berks County (Pennsylvania German: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Boathouse

A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Carlos Alfonso de Mitjans, 21st Count of Teba

Carlos Alfonso de Mitjans y Fitz-James Stuart, 21st Count of Teba, GE (3 May 1907 – 28 August 1997) also known as Bunting, was a Spanish nobleman and distinguished hunter, most noted for being one of the greatest Olympic shooters of his time.

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Caroline Earle White

Caroline White (Earle; 1833–1916) was an American philanthropist and anti-vivisection activist.

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Charles Biddle

Charles Biddle (December 24, 1745 – April 4, 1821) was a Pennsylvania statesman and a member of the prominent Biddle family of Philadelphia.

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Choke (firearms)

A choke is a tapered constriction of a firearm barrel at its muzzle end.

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City of San Marino

The City of San Marino (Città di San Marino), also known simply as San Marino and locally as Città, is the capital city of the Republic of San Marino and one of its nine.

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Clay pigeon shooting

Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting at special flying targets known as "clay pigeons" or "clay targets" with a shotgun.

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Columbidae

Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.

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Cruelty to animals

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon animals, either by omission (neglect) or by commission.

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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Dauphin County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Deauville

Deauville is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Edward Burd Grubb Jr.

Edward Burd Grubb Jr. (known as E. Burd Grubb) (November 13, 1841 – July 7, 1913) was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War.

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Elche

Elche (Elx) is a city and municipality of Spain, belonging to the province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Estoril

Estoril is a town in the civil parish of Cascais e Estoril of the Portuguese Municipality of Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera.

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Feral pigeon

Feral pigeons (Columba livia domestica or Columba livia forma urbana), also called city doves, city pigeons, or street pigeons,Nagy, Kelsi, and Johnson, Phillip David.

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Field & Stream

Field & Stream (F&S for short) is an American magazine focusing on sport hunting, recreational fishing and other outdoor activities.

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

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Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.

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Harry Payne Whitney

Harry Payne Whitney (April 29, 1872 – October 26, 1930) was an American businessman, thoroughbred horse breeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.

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Hegins, Pennsylvania

Hegins (pronounced Higgins) is a census-designated place located in Hegins Township, Schuylkill County in the state of Pennsylvania, United States.

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Humane Society of the United States

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is an American nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope.

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Hunting dog

A hunting dog is a canine that hunts with or for hunters.

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Jim Inhofe

James Mountain Inhofe (November 17, 1934 – July 9, 2024) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023.

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Labor Day

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to Spain

The incumbent ambassador is Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, she was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on January 7, 2022, and presented her credentials on February 2, 2022.

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List of medalists at the European Shotgun Championships

This is the list of medalists at the European Shotgun Championships from the first edition held in 1929 (until 1954 the European Shotgun Championships were held in pigeon shooting and only from 1955, they take place in the current configuration).

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Málaga

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo,; or colloquially Monte-Carl,; Munte Carlu) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Montecatini Terme

Montecatini Terme (Montecatini-Terme, according to ISTAT documentation) is an Italian comune (municipality) of inhabitants in the province of Pistoia, in the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Namur

Namur (Namen; Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium.

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Nash Buckingham

Theophilus Nash Buckingham (May 31, 1880 – March 10, 1971), commonly referred to as Nash Buckingham, was an American author and conservationist from Tennessee.

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National Rifle Association

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pat Browne

Patrick M. Browne (born December 8, 1963) is an American accountant, lawyer, and politician.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pevidém

Pevidém is a village in the municipality of Guimarães, province Minho, Portugal.

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Pigeon racing at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, six pigeon racing events were contested.

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Plantation

Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Ranch

A ranch (from rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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San Sebastián

San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián, is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.

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Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo (Sanrémmo(ro), locally Sanreumo(ro); Sant Rémol) is a comune (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Skeet shooting

Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity whose participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. Pigeon-shooting and Skeet shooting are shotgun shooting sports.

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Sporting clays

Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain. Pigeon-shooting and Sporting clays are shotgun shooting sports.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.

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Stock dove

The stock dove or stock pigeon (Columba oenas) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Toluca

Toluca, officially Toluca de Lerdo, is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca.

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Trap shooting

Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting. Pigeon-shooting and Trap shooting are shotgun shooting sports.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Upper class

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.

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Valencia

Valencia (officially in Valencian: València) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain.

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Vanderbilt family

The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.

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Vichy

Vichy (Vichèi) is a city in the Allier department in central France.

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Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (born Győző Vásárhelyi,; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.

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Vilamoura

Vilamoura is a coastal luxury resort in the Loulé municipality in Algarve, Portugal.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt II

William Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Zaragoza

Zaragoza also known in English as Saragossa,Encyclopædia Britannica is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.

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1900 Summer Olympics

The 1900 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon-shooting

Also known as Live pigeon shooting, Pigeon shooter, Pigeon shooting.

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Pigeon-shooting, the Glossary

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Animal welfare and rights legislation in the United States

Shotgun shooting sports

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