NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was founded by William HG France[?] in 1948[?]. Officially incorporated on February 21, its purpose was to organize and promote the sport of stock car racing on sanctioned high-speed oval circuits and a few road courses.The closest European equivalent is Touring car racing, although the European circuits are not simple ovals.
See also: List of famous NASCAR drivers, NASCAR Championship, Stock car racing
He, too, is now an
character, as secret ambassador from the Constitutional
ambassador. On the whole, Talleyrand's diplomacy has not been
before the 10th of August, he returned to London in September
jacobin, others a royalist in disguise. And now, while he is in
Talleyrand, it seems, has professed himself " disposed to serve
decreed accused, and his name is inscribed on the list of
indignation on the news of that 10th of August, constitutional
destroyed, the king a prisoner: let us march for Paris and
Lafayette, but hope tells a flattering tale : the soldiers, it
Lafayette sees that all is lost ; rides (August 18) for Holland
take passage thence for America, but falls, instead, into the
in an Austrian fortress. General d'Arblay, after a few days, is
Dumouriez. Brunswick with his Prussians and emigrants, Clairfait
take Longwy and Verdun; try to take Thonville and Lille, but
passes of Argonne, the "Thermopylae of France," an unexpectedly
Dumouriez, " more successful than Leonidas," flings back the
November, assuming the offensive, conquers the whole Austrian
progresses also favourably, and Savoy and Nice are added to.
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