When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.

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The Ospreys continued where they left off the previous weekend at the Liberty Stadium, with Parker, Wyn Jones and Thomas crossing in the first 25 minutes in which the hosts were down to 14 men for 10 minutes after Hottie Louw was sin-binned for illegally taking out James Hook.

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The first crossing from Ryde was at 15:15 GMT on Monday.

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The State Railway of Thailand operates several trains a day to the border crossing at Nong Khai, including overnight trains equipped with clean and comfortable first-class sleepers.

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The visitors' reward came two minutes later, wing Kieran Lewis crossing at the corner and Manning converted to give them the lead for the first time.

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In the past two trading days alone, the Nikkei rose 3.8% to a fresh four-year, seven-month high, closing at 12833.64 Friday on record trading volume after briefly crossing the 13, 000 mark for the first time since just before Lehman Brothers collapsed.

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The two sides were locked together at 6-6 after 25 minutes before Saracens went close to scoring the first try of the game, Ratuvou nearly crossing after taking an inside pass from Neil de Kock.

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Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.

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Matt Stevens's early try set the tone for a one-sided first half, with Lee Mears and Matt Banahan also crossing for a 23-0 Bath lead at the break.

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