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James Riordan

Riōdan, Jeimuzu 1936-2012

Riordan, Dž.

Riordan, Džejms.

Riordan, James

Riordan, James William 1936-2012

Riordan, Jim, 1936-2012

James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 10 February 2012) was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar.

Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels.


“What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest.”
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“They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity”
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