The Grand Tour was a European cultural jaunt focused on Italy that became part of the education of 18th-century high society.
At the start of the 19th century, the Grand Tour was still the privilege of a small number of aristocrats.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
If it does not, and if the grand tour leader cannot lay the blame on Mr Fox, he faces an uncomfortable choice: back down and negotiate a new agreement, return to the jungle and take up arms once more, or disappear into the obscurity from which he came.
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From there the field is eventually whittled down to 30 players, who compete in the grand finale, the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
Carter is one of 17 players in the current squad who also featured on the last grand slam tour in 2005, only the second time a New Zealand party had beaten England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the same tour, following the successful 1978 All Blacks.
But it was felt that the opportunity of a Grand Slam tour in the same year as the series against the British and Irish Lions was something not to be passed up.
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Although Guardi is best known today as a vedutista, or view painter, the British aristocrats on their "Grand Tour" preferred the near-photographic precision of Canaletto's views to take home as souvenirs.
Meanwhile, in Westminster Hall there are a series of debates led by backbench MPs - topping the bill one on Yorkshire and the Tour de France, as the Conservative MP Julian Smith leads a show of political support for the decision to stage the Tour's Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014 (it often stages part of the race outside France).
She also spent stretches in Venice where, as an ageing celebrity, she was a must to visit for the young noblemen doing their grand tour gap-year travellers of the time and provoked either delight or disgust.
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"I rate the World Tour Finals after Grand Slams as the biggest event in our sport, so being the title defender is a big responsibility, but I don't think I'm the favourite, " he tells BBC Sport after the photo call ends.
He covered Spain's 2010 World Cup victory from Madrid and has broadcast live from Wimbledon, the US Open (both tennis and golf), the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and five consecutive Champions League finals.
While Williams continues to dominate the WTA Tour, no American man has reached the past five Grand Slam quarterfinals.
Right after the neighborhood tour, we helped to cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Green Impact Zone Community Assistance Center.
Australian skipper Rocky Elsom was disappointed to concede the late try which cost his side victory and the chance of a successful grand slam tour of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Fortunately the All Blacks have moved on from that and things are looking up again as they head to Europe again for what they hope will be another Grand Slam tour of the home nations.
Thompson was on the bench for Northampton's Heineken Cup win in 2000, and he won the 2003 Six Nations Grand Slam with England and was selected for the 2005 Lions tour to New Zealand.
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In the late 1970s, Wojtek Fibak reached the Top 10 on the men's ATP Tour while much further back, Jadwiga Jedrejowsa reached three grand slam finals in the 1930s which -- even if she didn't win one -- is still the Polish record for the Radwanskas to beat.
After his second place in this year's Giro, he should at least be a contender for the top 20 in the Tour de France, depending how his body copes with pushing strongly in two Grand Tours.
Though in recent decades the final traces of the grand old days of mahogany dining cars and dinner-jacketed waiters serving up turtle soup have vanished, the line still makes for an adventure worthy of any Grand Tour, particularly with your own diminutive passengers in tow.
To be eligible for the European Tour, Mickelson would have to play in a minimum of 12 tournaments, which can include the four grand slams and three World Golf Championship events, and Mickelson said he would be open to taking part in the future.
The list of its events this year reads like a modern Grand Tour: Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Prague, Zagreb.
Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France and Andy Murray won the Tennis Grand Slam in New York.
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He will hope to repeat the dose on 6 November when he is expected to face Wales in Cardiff as South Africa begin their quest for a Grand Slam tour of Europe, but he believes the challenge will be stronger.
Alex Dowsett will be competing in his first Grand Tour in Spain next month, and is keen to match the success of his elder compatriots.
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