It is worth noting that Iran's current revolutionary ferment arose from the unlikeliest of sources.

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In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, President-Elect Barack Obama calls himself the unlikeliest presidential candidate.

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But what happened just goes to show how the unlikeliest events can affect you at the unlikeliest times.

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And so the unlikeliest of curling matches got underway, with every participant on a curling sheet for the very first time.

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Lunch-hour yoga classes are widespread and tai chi, a leisurely martial art and traditional pre-work exercise in China, is finding its way into the unlikeliest of places.

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While men, accidentally or deliberately, can be a barrier to these ambitions, I have also seen how they can be a major part of the solution in the unlikeliest societies.

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With the hosts looking increasingly impotent up front, it was left to the unlikeliest of sources to force their best effort to that point, John Terry unleashing a 40-yard piledriver that Howard tipped wide.

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This research also explains why so many major breakthroughs happen in the unlikeliest of places, whether it's Archimedes in the bathtub or the physicist Richard Feynman scribbling equations in a strip club, as he was known to do.

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It looked as though the visitors might pull off the unlikeliest of victories but Australia were still looking very threatening when they got hold of the ball and two late penalties, from O'Connor and Barnes, ensured the more complete side ran out winners on Saturday.

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