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1999 Ryder Cup: First Day

Foursome Match ResultsWinnerScoreLoserMontgomerie/Lawrie3&2Duval/MickelsonGarcia/Parnevik2&1Lehman/WoodsJimenez/HarringtonhalvedLove III/StewartMaggert/Sutton3&2Clarke/…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First Edition

Fifth Edition First Edition Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's…

MLB First-Year Player Draft

First round selections at the 37th First-Year Player Draft held June 5-7, 2001 in New York. Clubs select in reverse order of their standing from the preceding season. The worst National…

2000 European Championship: First Round

Round robin; each team played the other three teams in its group once. Note that three points were awarded for a win and one point for a tie. (*) indicates team advanced to second round.…

Brewer's: First-class Hard Labour

Under this sentence, the prisoner sleeps on a plank bed without a mattress, and spends six or eight hours a day turning a hard crank, or treading a wheel. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: First Stroke is Half the Battle

“Well begun is half done.” “A good lather is half the shave.” “Incipe: dimidium facti est coepisse. (Ausonius.)” “Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet.” (Horace.) French: Barbe bien…

First Results of Census 2000 Released

New figures put U.S. population at 281.4 million by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Population Links Census 1790–2000Colonial Population EstimatesTotal Population, 1970–1990Population by Age and Race, 1860…

1997 Ryder Cup: First Day

Four-Ball Match ResultsWinnerScoreLoserOlazabal/Rocca1-upLove/MickelsonCouples/Faxon1-upFaldo/WestwoodParnevik/Johansson1-upLehman/FurykWoods/O'Meara3 and 2Langer/MontgomerieTeams tie, 2-…

Salt Lake City Olympic Firsts

Alpine skier Janica Kostelic of Croatia and cross country skiers Andrus Veerpalu and Jaak Mae of Estonia won the first Winter Games medals for their home countries.Short-track speed skaters…

The First Modern Olympics: Athens, 1896

The birth of the modern Olympic Games by John Gettings Marathon runners, Greece 1896 Related Links Olympics Overview 2012 Memorable Olympic Moments Encyclopedia: Ancient Olympics…