• In 1977 Yorkshireman Geoff Boycott reached the landmark in a famous Test against Australia.

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  • In a famous football game between Princeton and Dartmouth in 1951, scientists confirmed the existence of alternative realities.

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  • The buzz is now all about how best to obscure that she's a carpetbagger, and an especially giant one since she lives famously in a famous house in another city.

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  • He started scaling back French troop contingents in Africa, and in a famous speech gave deep offence on the continent, when he basically said it was time Africans started doing things for themselves.

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  • Instead it was Barrett v Baker, with the Irishman not allowing Baker to bask for long in a famous win over Williams, thanks to a fusillade of punches that propelled Barret into the final.

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  • In a famous 2006 presentation at a conference hosted by Grant's Interest Rate Observer, he explained in painstaking detail the flaws in subprime-mortgage securitizations, and in the high grades awarded to them by government-anointed credit-rating agencies.

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  • Resemblances between his work and that of Rodin, Dali and others are, he says, coincidental although the black fedora apparently plastinated to his head is a nod towards the anatomist's hat in a famous portrait by Rembrandt.

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  • In a famous scene from the film, Dylan, with Allen Ginsberg lurking in the background dressed as a rabbi, stands tossing cards with key words from the song as it plays on the soundtrack, an early music video.

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  • In 1900, David Hilbert, a German mathematician and contemporary of Einstein's, in a famous speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians, presented a list of what he considered to be the 23 most important problems for the new century.

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  • He led the Nittany Lions to an 11-0 record in his third season, its first football national championship in 1982 and another national title in 1986 defeating favored Miami in a famous No. 1-versus-No. 2 battle in the Fiesta Bowl.

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  • In a famous analogy, the economist John Maynard Keynes once likened the stock market to a beauty contest in which the object is to vote not for the prettiest face but for the face that the majority of voters will consider the prettiest.

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  • This, coupled with an aggressive television campaign (in which a famous warlord about to leave for battle ponders whether to leave his kingdom in the hands of his wife or Mobit), has won it some 3, 000 loan applications a day, more even than the industry leaders.

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  • It is hard to find bad champagne, given how tightly regulated the grape and wine production is in a region famous for quality grapes.

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  • And in 1995 a famous interior by Mies was summarily demolished.

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  • Alistair Wood of Vanderbilt University, who chaired the panel, joked that perhaps there should be new ads in which a famous figure skater with arthritis drops on the ice from a heart attack.

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  • But not much of the debate so far has directly tackled why, in a society famous for its ability to integrate, some shuck off their American identity with such vigour, and to such a violent end.

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  • This is where all the business travellers stay and is part of a respected, though not exactly cutting-edge, chain - the branch in Peshawar has a famous sign: 'Please leave your guns in the lobby'.

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  • After fleeing the war in Lebanon in 1983, Arafat started to transform himself into a statesman in Tunisia, leading to a famous handshake with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn in 1993.

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  • Those who need to brush up on their moves should book a private dance lesson at Elmayer in the 1st District, a famous dance school established in 1919.

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  • There is a new seriousness of intent in Islamic practice here in a place once famous for more tolerant liberal ways.

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  • To those who have lost a loved one in the service of our nation, I recall a famous headstone in Ireland.

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  • Back home in Australia after his wartime adventures, Mark Oliphant turned his mind to creating a scientific elite in a country more famous for its fine wool and champion cricketers.

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  • Another tweet, in a reference to the famous "hand of God" episode involving footballer Diego Maradona in a match against England in 1986, claimed the new Pope would be likely to allow football "hand goals".

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