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1972–73 Rangers F.C. season

The final was attended by Princess Alexandra along with 122,714 other spectators.

1996 Finnish Cup

The final was held at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 3 November 1996 with HJK defeating TPS by 1-1 before an attendance of 3,632 spectators.

807 Naval Air Squadron

In September 1959 the squadron performed in front of thousands of spectators at Farnborough Airshow with a display of formation aerobatics.

A Sunday in Hell

The film is a chronology of the 1976 Paris–Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

Baseball at the Summer Olympics

In 1936 Berlin, two United States teams played each other before approximately 90,000 - 100,000 spectators at the Reichsportsfeld.

Bescot Stadium

5,219 spectators watched Walsall draw 2-2 with Torquay United, with the stadium's first goal being an own goal scored by Walsall defender Matt Bryant after 65 seconds.

Blériot VI

This event was witnessed by a large proportion of the French aviation community, including Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Ferdinand Ferber and the Voisin brothers: also among the spectators was Blériot's wife Alice, who had come to watch one of her husband's flights for the first time.

Bramshill House

A painting by Joseph Nash, now in the National Fencing Museum, depicts 17th-century rapier practice at Bramshill House, with a number of upper-class men, women and children as spectators.

Branko Rašović

Crown of his career was the 1966 European Cup Final in Brussels, when Partizan played in the final againstth Spain champion Real Madrid C.F. They played at the famous Heysel Stadium in front of 55 000 spectators.

Caesar Jenkyns

His career at Small Heath ended in March 1895 when he was released after an incident at Derby where, after being ordered from the field, he attempted to assault two spectators.

Canzoni, Preghiere, Danze del II Millennio – Sezione Europa

The first track, "Il Testamento del Capitano", is a live performance of a traditional song-chorus by the Alpini, an elite mountain warfare unit of the Italian Army, that was booed by the spectators.

Charade Circuit

In 1966, John Frankenheimer made the film Grand Prix in front of 3000 locals who posed as race spectators watching actors like Yves Montand and Françoise Hardy.

Colorado gubernatorial election, 2006

"This is where contrast comes in," Ritter said to spectators at Denver's Jewish Community Center.

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

During the 1890s cycle races like the Cicero Plank Road Race in Cicero, New York and the Century run of the Century Road Club to Utica and back were very popular forms of entertainment and drew thousands of spectators.

Daniell Zeleny

Zelený made his debut for Mohun Bagan A.C. in the East Bengal derby against Kingfisher East Bengal F.C. in front of 100 000 spectators.

Don Barksdale

The rest of the Olympic team, consisting of AAU Champion Phillips 66ers and Kentucky team members, later scrimmaged on Stoll Field, then the home of the Kentucky football team, in front of 14,000 spectators, the largest crowd to watch basketball in Kentucky at that time.

Erotica Expo

In 2006, substantial media coverage of attempts to ban the parade led to several weeks of political and moral debate in local political circles (with the mayor Dick Hubbard condemning the parade and the expo), the public and the media, resulting in the parade drawing several tens of thousands of spectators.

Events at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games

5,500 spectators including Hon. David Brand, Premier of Western Australia attended the second (and final) day of swimming at the Beatty Park Pool.

FC Cournon-d'Auvergne

They are based in the town of Cournon-d'Auvergne and their home stadium is the Stade Joseph Gardet, which has a capacity of 437 spectators.

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark

In July 2006 the first team of Hertha BSC played its UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final match against FK Moscow (0–0) in front of 8,500 spectators here, as well as its UEFA Cup qualification home contest against Georgian club FC Ameri Tbilisi (1–0).

Georgia State Route 10 Loop

At this point the highway right-of-way abuts the University of Georgia campus; immediately north of the College Station Road interchange is an on-ramp from a campus parking lot that is normally closed, but is used on Georgia Bulldogs football home game days to allow departing spectators access onto inner 10 Loop directly from the campus.

Haeundae District

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup match between South Korea and Togo more than 50,000 spectators filled the beach to cheer for the Korean team on a giant projector screen.

Hannes Schäfer

On 14 May 2011 Schäfer played one more Fury concert at the AWD-Arena in front of more than 40,000 spectators when Fury in the Slaughterhouse re-unified celebrating Hannover 96s qualification for the UEFA Europa League.

Indianapolis Tennis Center

Built in 1979, it reportedly held 10,000 spectators and also was the site of the tennis events for the 1987 Pan American Games.

International Cavaliers

The BBC showed the games on television, providing extra revenue, and the games allowed spectators to see a wide range of famous players at county grounds.

James Polkinghorne

This match, the purse for which was £200 a side for the best of three back falls, took place at Tamar Green, Morice Town, near Devonport, on 23 October 1826, in the presence of upwards of 12,000 spectators.

Jimena Hoyos

Perhaps most known for her role in The Devil Wears Prada and for being runner-up in the Soap Net Original Series I Wanna Be a Soap Star, where she showed up her amazing talent touching the fibers of the judge and the spectators.

Jimmy Hare

(The Wright brothers had flown in 1903 but were wary of flying in front of spectators and reporters and Alberto Santos-Dumont had flown in public in 1906 in France.)

Julián Camino

There were 1,20,000 spectators in one of the matches he played against Mohun Bagan A.C. East Bengal could not keep him longer due to financial constraints.

Landshut Wedding

Countless visitors from all over the world have taken part, or have been spectators of the "Landshuter Hochzeit 1475", a pageant held in Landshut, Bavaria (Germany).

Lashina

During the events of Final Crisis, Lashina, once again in her bald-headed human form, is seen as one of the villains running the Dark Side Club, an illegal arena where spectators gamble on battles between brainwashed teen metahumans.

Long Island Rail Road

On the day of the Belmont Stakes horse race, extra trains to accommodate the large amount of spectators attending the event.

Nairi Stadium

With a capacity of 6,800 spectators, Nairi Stadium is the home ground of Alashkert FC (based in Martuni) of the Armenian Premier League.

Oshakati Independence Stadium

Home to Oshakati City F.C. formerly of the Namibia Premier League, Oshakati Independence Stadium can seat 8,000 spectators.

Red Bull X-Fighters

Red Bull X-Fighters had its biggest event in Sri Lanka, Colombo at Galle Face Green on 2010 with a record 230,000 spectators on site.

Rome Antics

The Goodies go to the Colosseum to entertain the spectators, including throwing hoops onto nails, and, in so doing, inadvertently inventing the five Olympic Rings.

Sport in Leeds

Leeds Rhinos are the best supported Rugby League club in the United Kingdom, their Headingley ground holds up to 20,500 spectators and is regularly filled, with sell out's particularly common, at games against Bradford Bulls, St. Helens and Wigan Warriors.

Stena Match Cup Sweden

One of the most popular locations among the sailors, Marstrand offers a unique combination of world class sailing and an extraordinary spectators’ arena.

The picturesque environments that Marstrand and its surroundings offer has single-handedly attracted a great number of both world-class sailors and spectators to the event throughout the years.

Swimming at the Summer Paralympics

Along with track and field athletics, it is one of the largest sports at the Paralympics in terms of the number of events, competitors, and spectators.

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons

It shows a similar scene from further downstream, closer to Waterloo Bridge, with the flames and smoke blown dramatically over a river as spectators on the river bank and in boats look on.

The Wichita Eagle

The paper built its national reputation largely under the editorship of W. Davis "Buzz" Merritt Jr., one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of civic journalism (also known as public journalism) which believes that journalists and their audiences are not merely spectators in political and social processes, and that journalists should not simply report dry facts as a pretense that their reporting represents unadulterated neutrality, which is impossible.

Tiny Lund

Two spectators in the infield climbed over the catch fence, and with help from driver Walter Ballard, pulled Link from his car and managed to revive him.

UEFA stadium categories

Wembley Stadium, the venue of the 2011 and 2013 Champions League Finals, holds 90,000 spectators.

Allianz Arena, the host venue of the 2012 Champions League Final, holds 69,000 spectators.

US Changé

They are based in the town of Changé, Mayenne and their home stadium is the Stade Municipal des Sablons, which has a capacity of 3,500 spectators.

Victoria Ground

The Victoria Ground had been Stoke City's home since March 1878 and the first match was a friendly against Talke Rangers on 28 March 1878, Stoke won 1–0 before 2,500 spectators.

VisionAire 500K

That incident, and a previous incident in July 1998 in a Champ Car race at Michigan which also killed three spectators, led to new rules requiring cars to have tethers attached to wheel hubs in an effort to prevent such incidents from happening again.

Visual hierarchy

Tennis balls are fluorescent green for the perceptual ease of players, match officials, and spectators.


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