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Recreation Summary
793 words, approx. 3 pages
The term recreation comes from the Latin word recreatio, referring to refreshment, restoration, or recovery. The modern notion of recreation is complex, and many definitions have been suggested to capture its meaning. In general, the term recreation...
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Recreation and Social Life Summary
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In antebellum America (1840–1860), recreational and social amusements tended to differ according to region, ethnicity, class, and gender. Rural communities frequently combined socializing with work such as quilting bees or barn raisings....
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Recreation Information
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Recreation or fun is the use of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner....


Quotations
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Recreation Quotes
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Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to...


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The Boston Herald
Recreation.
07/23/1997: 399 words, approx. 1 pages
[H] Traffic jams the Charles Traffic backups. Arguments and curses. Collisions and injuries. The recreational pathways along the Charles River are getting as busy - and potentially dangerous - as Storrow and Memorial drives at rush hour. One admittedly loose...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Recreation
06/10/2001: 892 words, approx. 3 pages
RECREATION NOTES AND CALENDAR Sunday, June 10, 2001 School's out! Hey, it's time to lie around and chill until the fall semester starts, right? Well, no, not if you intend to take part in fall sports such as football, soccer,...
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AP News
Film recreates Guantanamo tribunal
2/3/2008: 768 words, approx. 3 pages
Sig Libowitz played a lawyer on TV before he became one in real life. Now, he's bringing his entertainment industry expertise to the debate over the rights of suspected enemy combatants.Working from transcripts of the U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Libowitz crafted a 30-minute...
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AP Features
Web site for federal recreation sites
4/2/2007: 342 words, approx. 1 pages
A new Web site makes it easier to plan trips to federal recreation sites, from monuments and historic attractions to forests, parks and scenic byways.Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns formally launched the http://www.recreation.gov Web site at a demonstration...
 


 

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