Legend has it that on his first attempt, the steel blade broke, with no effect on the diamond.
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Columbus did, indeed, insist the world was round and then promptly missed America on his first attempt.
On the first attempt, Red Bulls defender Jamison Olave, who had a brilliant all-around game, made a sliding tackle to knock the ball away.
On her first attempt in August, an 11-hour asthma attack and shoulder pain forced Nyad out of the water about 29 hours into her swim.
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The Progress 47 successfully completed the docking test on its second try, after a first attempt on July 23 was prematurely aborted due to a technical glitch.
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The Israeli air strike which killed him was not the first attempt on his life.
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After Ilya Kovlachuk failed to score on the Devils' first attempt, Ennis scored.
Both teams made a sluggish start to the game but it was the visitors who had the first attempt on goal.
The home side had started brightly in Cardiff and it took just five minutes for Collins to record Wales' first attempt on target.
The Marlins scored twice on three hits and a walk in the first against Sabathia, who also was charged with an error on an errant pickoff attempt to first.
Moreover, they can root customer perceptions of a category by focusing attention on a bold but misguided first attempt at cracking the market (think of the first mobile Internet experience, WAP).
They should have taken the lead with the first real attempt on goal just before the half-hour mark when Troy Brown's header from Leadbitter's cross was excellently tipped over the bar by Forest keeper Lee Camp.
In fact, Ask's focus on answers isn't its first attempt to gain a competitive advantage against Google by methods other than improving its search algorithm.
The Penn State team carried out the largest genetic study so far of when land plants and fungi first appeared on Earth in an attempt to resolve this debate.
The first attempt at convicting them on multiple counts of grand larceny and securities fraud ended in a mistrial last year.
Amid the Reds onslaught, Sunderland managed only a single attempt on goal in the first half, an innocent Jordan Henderson shot flying harmlessly wide, and it was five minutes into the first half before the visitors forced their first corner.
Who now recalls Operation Lucy, the first attempt to investigate black-on-black crime, which was disbanded in 1989 against the advice of many of the detectives who worked on it?
Prime Minister David Cameron said in his speech at the Conservative party conference that he would meet First Minister Alex Salmond on Monday in an attempt to finalise a deal on how the Scottish referendum will be staged.
"Point of No Return, " for instance, chronicled Jonny Copp and Micah Dash (the latter whom I knew) and their attempt to make a first ascent on a peak in China.
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Emmanuel Agyemang Badu grabbed the first on 39 minutes, converting from a Mubarak Wakaso attempt on goal.
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The Southern Amateur League won the cup at the first attempt in 2008, defeating the Midland Combination on penalties.
We had no previous experience in publishing books, but with our first attempt, we had secured a number one spot on both sides of the Atlantic.
The junior guard got going with a layup on Iowa's first possession and rattled off 10 points in the first 4 minutes, completing a nifty three-point play on a drive through the lane and hitting his first 3-point attempt.
Button, the man who has deposed Hamilton as champion, has not been on pole since Monaco in May and will attempt to win his first race since Turkey in early June with four of his strongest rivals in front of him.
Bob Champion won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti, but their attempt at a repeat was ended at the first fence the following year.
"Notes From the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher" is the first major attempt to explore the development of his ideas based on this documentary evidence.
The three-year-old will attempt on Saturday to claim the Belmont Stakes and become the first horse to win the treble for 25 years and the first ever gelding to achieve the feat.
In the United States, President Ronald Reagan, after an assassination attempt on a Washington sidewalk in the second month of his first term, was assured that efforts would be redoubled to make certain no one who wished to hurt him would be able to get that close again.
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