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Did you know... that in 1894 Georges LemaĂźtre won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h (12 mph)?
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It re-creates the ambiance of the event and the time in a single compact space, rather than showing glossy modern pictures. The Commons point could apply to almost every picture in every article on wiki - it's what commons is.
Chienlit (
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18:17, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
If only somebody knew they would be billionaires for all eternity. Instead we all languish at the bottom of the mountain and ridicule Sisyphus.
Chienlit (
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18:11, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
This is an impressive article. For the De Bourmont car, I found a note that it was a light steamer, not a petrol car (Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album), Shire Publications Ltd (1985) ISBN-10 0852637748 and ISBN-13 978-0852637746, p. 15).--
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09:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Some anglophone sources call it a race, a rally or a trial, and it is sometimes described as the world's first competitive motor race although the initial announcement stated that "it will not be a race".[1][Notes 1]
A fact from ParisâRouen (motor race) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 July 2012 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 1894 Georges LemaĂźtre won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h (12 mph)?
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Motorsport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of
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This article is part of WikiProject World Rally, an effort to create and improve
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World Rally Championship. If you would like to participate, please visit the
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It re-creates the ambiance of the event and the time in a single compact space, rather than showing glossy modern pictures. The Commons point could apply to almost every picture in every article on wiki - it's what commons is.
Chienlit (
talk)
18:17, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
If only somebody knew they would be billionaires for all eternity. Instead we all languish at the bottom of the mountain and ridicule Sisyphus.
Chienlit (
talk)
18:11, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
This is an impressive article. For the De Bourmont car, I found a note that it was a light steamer, not a petrol car (Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album), Shire Publications Ltd (1985) ISBN-10 0852637748 and ISBN-13 978-0852637746, p. 15).--
Chief tin cloud (
talk)
09:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Some anglophone sources call it a race, a rally or a trial, and it is sometimes described as the world's first competitive motor race although the initial announcement stated that "it will not be a race".[1][Notes 1]