Pelota (Spanish for ball) can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games: Basque pelota Chaza Jai alai Mesoamerican ballgame Palla...
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Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's...
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Pelotas (Portuguese pronunciation: [peˈlɔtɐs]) is a Brazilian city and municipality (município), the fourth most populous in the southern state of Rio...
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Pelota purépecha (Spanish for "Purépecha ball"), called Uárukua Ch'anakua ( "a game with sticks") in the Purépecha language, is an Indigenous Mexican sport...
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Jugando Pelota Dura is a Puerto Rican television talk show hosted by Ferdinand Pérez. The program initially premiered on Sistema TV network in 2012 before...
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The Pelotas River (Portuguese: Rio Pelotas [ˈʁi.u peˈlɔtɐs]) is a river in southern Brazil, and a tributary of the Uruguay River. The river originates...
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Pelota vasca may refer to: Basque pelota — court ballgame similar to jai alai La pelota vasca — 2003 political documentary about the Basque County, by...
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A pelota was an improvised rawhide boat used in South and Central America for crossing rivers. It was similar in some respects to the coracle of the British...
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Lance Armstrong (redirect from Juan Pelota)
an active businessman and investor. He owns a coffee shop called "Juan Pelota Cafe" in downtown Austin, Texas. The name is a joking reference to his testicular...
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Basque pelota was featured at the Summer Olympics at the 1900 Games. It was contested in another three Olympics as a demonstration sport: 1924, 1968 and...
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