• Admiral Arthur Phillip, the man who brought the First Fleet into Sydney Harbour in 1788, ended his days tumbling out of an upstairs window in England.

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  • But after chasing the German closely through the first part of the race his hopes were ended when he came out from his pit stop behind Renault's Robert Kubica.

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  • Needing 14 from the final over, bowled by Bracken, New Zealand's hopes of victory looked to have ended when Grant Elliott (23) was run out off the first delivery.

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  • No matter that the whole jamboree was funded (and, of course, guarded) by foreigners: Afghanistan had come together, and as the first week ended the grand council was debating away without being rocketed or bombed out by insurgents.

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  • West Indies were 35 for no wicket when play ended with opener Chris Gayle, who hit 154 in the first innings, nine not out and Wavell Hinds on 22.

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  • Despite a clean image -- partly reinforced by his modest living style -- Chuan was labeled slow and indecisive during his first stint in office, which ended in July 1995 after a key coalition partner pulled out during a parliamentary confidence debate.

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  • World champion Hamilton, 24, struggled with understeer on a crucial sector of a flying lap in the first session of qualifying, from which five drivers are knocked out, and ended up among the last five drivers on the grid for only the second time in his career.

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  • Footnote No. 5: Mr. Obama keeps dining out on the excuse of the recession, but that ended halfway through his first year.

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  • Ms. WALTON: I did at first, but then I really needed to get it--rent it out, and I ended up renting it out from under us.

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  • Sunday's race will be the first time an F1 race has started in daylight and ended under floodlights and the drivers were quick to get out onto the track to assess the impact of the changing light conditions and the cooler track temperatures.

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  • Others point out that a similar period in history of surging globalisation ended not in universal peace but the first world war.

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