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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt

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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. [1]

94 relations: Alva Belmont, America's Cup, America's Cup Hall of Fame, American Sail Training Association, Amtrak, Armistice, Auction bridge, Barclay H. Warburton III, Belcourt of Newport, Bermuda, Block Island, Blue Club, Charles Goren, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Cobh, Connetquot River, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Contract bridge, Coral reef, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Dowling College, Eastover (Manalapan, Florida), Ely Culbertson, George VI, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt, Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Hypoluxo, Florida, J-class yacht, John Lennon, Joseph Kiselewski, List of contract bridge people, Long Island, Manalapan, Florida, Marble House, Mary of Teck, Murder of John Lennon, Nashville, Tennessee, New Jersey Junction Railroad, New London, Connecticut, New York and Harlem Railroad, New York Central Railroad, New York Social Diary, New York Yacht Club, Newport, Rhode Island, North American Bridge Championships, Oakdale, New York, Oliver Belmont, ..., Order of the British Empire, Palm Beach, Florida, Penguin (dinghy), Penn Central Transportation Company, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Polish Club, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Precision Club, Preservation Society of Newport County, Private school, Regatta, Rhode Island, Robert R. Young, Shamrock IV, Sikorsky S-43, SS Finland (1902), St David's Battery, St. Mark's School (Massachusetts), Stirling Punch, The Beatles, The Bridge World, The New York Times, Time (magazine), United Kingdom, United Service Organizations, United States Navy Reserve, USS Patrol No. 8 (SP-56), USS Valiant (PYc-51), Vanderbilt Club, Vanderbilt family, Vanderbilt houses, Vanderbilt Trophy, Vanderbilt University, Via Rail, William Kissam Vanderbilt, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, World Bridge Federation, World Mind Sports Games, World Team Olympiad, World War I, World War II, Yacht racing, Yachting. Expand index (44 more) »

Alva Belmont

Alva Belmont (January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), née Alva Erskine Smith — known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896 — was a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite and a major figure in the American women's suffrage movement.

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America's Cup

The America's Cup, affectionately known as the "Auld Mug", is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts.

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America's Cup Hall of Fame

The America's Cup Hall of Fame, located at the Herreshoff Marine Museum of Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, honors individuals for outstanding achievement in the America's Cup sailing competition.

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American Sail Training Association

Founded on April 3, 1973, by Barclay Harding Warburton III, the American Sail Training Association (ASTA), now known as Tall Ships America, is currently the largest sail training association in the world and a founding member of Sail Training International.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Auction bridge

The card game auction bridge, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge (i.e. bridge whist) in 1904.

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Barclay H. Warburton III

Barclay Harding Warburton III (February 5, 1922 – May 1, 1983) was founder of the American Sail Training Association.

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Belcourt of Newport

Belcourt is a former summer cottage designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Bermuda

Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Block Island

Block Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block.

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Blue Club

Blue Club is a bridge bidding system, developed mainly by Benito Garozzo.

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Charles Goren

Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

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Cobh

Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland.

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Connetquot River

The Connetquot River (also known as Great River) is a river in Islip, New York.

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Consuelo Vanderbilt

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.

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Contract bridge

Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.

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Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad

The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad operated from 1905 to 1983 between its namesake cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Ironton, Ohio, via Toledo.

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Dowling College

Dowling College was a private co-educational college in Long Island, New York, United States.

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Eastover (Manalapan, Florida)

Eastover is a historic site in Manalapan, Florida.

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Ely Culbertson

Elie Almon Culbertson (July 22, 1891 – December 27, 1955), known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant during the 1930s.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt (1901 - August 6, 1978) was an American socialite and philanthropist.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hypoluxo, Florida

Hypoluxo is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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J-class yacht

A J-Class yacht is a single-masted racing sailboat built to the specifications of Nathanael Herreshoff's Universal Rule.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Joseph Kiselewski

Joseph A. Kiselewski (1901–1986) was an American sculptor.

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List of contract bridge people

This list is a compilation of contract bridge players, writers, administrators and personalities who have been recognized for their skills, achievements or contributions to the game as identified by various specific sources.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Manalapan, Florida

Manalapan is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Marble House

Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King George V. Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in England.

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Murder of John Lennon

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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New Jersey Junction Railroad

The New Jersey Junction Railroad (NJJ) was part of the New York Central Railroad and ran along the Hudson River in Hudson County, New Jersey, from the West Shore Railroad (NYCRR) yards at Weehawken Terminal south to Jersey City.

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New London, Connecticut

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.

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New York and Harlem Railroad

The New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United States, and was the world's first street railway.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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New York Social Diary

New York Social Diary is a website that publishes photographs of "the rich and powerful" socialites and a social calendar of events that they might attend.

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New York Yacht Club

The New York Yacht Club is a private social club and yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.

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North American Bridge Championships

North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).

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Oakdale, New York

Oakdale is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Oliver Belmont

Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (November 12, 1858 – June 10, 1908) was an American socialite and United States Representative from New York.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Penguin (dinghy)

The Penguin is an cat-rigged sailing dinghy designed in 1938 by Philip Rhodes.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1968 until 1976.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875.

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Polish Club

Polish Club (Polish: Wspólny Język, literally "Common Language") is a bridge bidding system which was developed in Poland, where it is the most popular bidding system, and which is also used by players of other countries.

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Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.

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Precision Club

Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge.

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Preservation Society of Newport County

The Preservation Society of Newport County is a private, non-profit organization based in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Private school

Private schools, also known to many as independent schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments.

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Regatta

A regatta is a series of boat races.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Robert R. Young

Robert Ralph Young (February 14, 1897 – January 25, 1958) was a United States financier and industrialist.

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Shamrock IV

Shamrock IV was a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Lipton and designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson.

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Sikorsky S-43

The Sikorsky S-43 was a twin-engine amphibious aircraft manufactured in United States during the 1930s by the American firm Sikorsky Aircraft.

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SS Finland (1902)

SS Finland was an American-flagged ocean liner built in 1902 for the Red Star Line.

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St David's Battery

St.

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St. Mark's School (Massachusetts)

St.

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Stirling Punch

Stirling Punch is an alcoholic punch made from grain alcohol, Mount Gay Rum, and a dash of whiskey.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Bridge World

The Bridge World (TBW), the oldest continuously published magazine about contract bridge, was founded in 1929 by Ely Culbertson.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment, such as comedians and musicians, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.

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United States Navy Reserve

The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy.

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USS Patrol No. 8 (SP-56)

USS Patrol No.

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USS Valiant (PYc-51)

USS Valiant (PYc-51), originally USS PC-509, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1941 to 1944.

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Vanderbilt Club

Vanderbilt Club was one of the earliest bidding systems in the game of contract bridge.

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Vanderbilt family

The Vanderbilt family is an American family of Dutch origin who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.

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Vanderbilt houses

From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the United States's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States.

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Vanderbilt Trophy

The trophy is awarded for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams national bridge championship held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).

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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Via Rail

Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as VIA Rail Canada) is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by Transport Canada, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt II

William Kissam Vanderbilt II (26 October 1878 – 8 January 1944) was a motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.

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World Bridge Federation

The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge.

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World Mind Sports Games

The World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) is a quadrennial multi-sport event created by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) as a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".

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World Team Olympiad

The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yacht racing

Yacht racing is a form of sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing.

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Yachting

Yachting refers to the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts for sporting purposes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stirling_Vanderbilt

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