But priests ordinarily only wrote detailed descriptions of diseases when what they saw was noteworthy, and it is intriguing that the description of the doctor's illness in the parish book is one of the longest of the year.
Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.
Toronto will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight year, the longest streak of futility in franchise history, but DeRozan already has high hopes for next year, when he and Gay will line up together for a full season.
It was with these words that Barbra Streisand announced the end of one of the longest omissions in the 82-year history of the Oscars -- a woman had finally been chosen as Best Director.
The solstice is a historically pagan celebration to mark the longest and shortest days of the year.
As Bloomberg noted on Thursday, the seven day string of declines seen from the 10-year notes marks the longest streak of losses in over half a decade.
Early next year, the eight-year expansion looks set to become the longest in US history.
And tonight, we have recognized and we have honored a man that at this important time in the history of this two hundred and thirty-five year, the longest running Constitutional republic that the world has ever known, you have been entrusted to be a keeper of that flame at this time.
If it ends up for the year it will be its 10th straight year of gains, and the longest bull market for gold since 1920.
At the same time, the Dow hasn't suffered a three-day losing streak all year, the longest such streak in history.
Tuesday will be the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
"It was a huge trip, the longest trip of the year, " Ward said.
The 40-year-old left-hander stuck out five over 6 1-3 innings in his longest outing of the year as the New York Yankees lost to the Detroit Tigers 10-6 Saturday.
During his 17-year run as the host of "Meet the Press, " the longest of any host in the show's 60-year history, Russert earned the respect and admiration of many journalists and politicians.
The following year, she completed what remains the longest swim in history without a shark cage: 102.5 miles from Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
She won her first 26 matches of the season, the longest streak to start a year in women's tennis since Martina Hingis in 1997.
Even with the improvement in sentiment, pessimism remains high and is above average for the longest period of time in approximately a year. (Bearish sentiment never dipped below 30% during the 18-week period of from May 13 to September 9, 2010.) The failure of Washington to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling and the slow pace of economic growth remain key concerns for individual investors.
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The French government launched a 50-year bond , the world's longest actively traded one.
The forthcoming season is scheduled to be the longest in the elite division of motorsport's 52-year history, with 20 races on the calendar.
It is thought the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the longest distance cycled in a single year - 75, 065 miles - has never been broken.
For the 23 players on the club's postseason tour of the U.S., Saturday's game will finally bring an end to the longest and most gruelling season of the team's 108-year history.
The Yankees have homered in all nine of their road games this year, matching the team's longest streak since 2000.
The 104-metre tapestry, which tells the story of the 1745 Jacobite rising and was completed last year, is now thought to be the longest in the world.
The competition is the world's longest yacht race, with participants taking almost a year to circumnavigate the globe.
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This was the fourth event - the start of a renewed collapse of the birth rate, perhaps its longest and fastest ever, only a year later, quite unlike the more sustained boom of the 1960s and completing a sequence of down, up and then down again in the space of a few years by magnitudes that make you wonder how midwives, hospitals, schools and others coped on this rollercoaster.
The 39-year-old has played the last 61 majors, the longest active streak in golf.
"I've been planning to visit Brazil for the longest time, " said 31-year-old Roop.
Last year ABB helped complete the longest undersea link in the world, stretching 360 miles between hilly Norway and flat Netherlands.
Earlier this year, he registered the longest throw in the world.
Reynolds, the 75-year-old stars of such action classics as Deliverance, The Longest Yard and Smokey And The Bandit, has owned the house since 1980.
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