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Two watch captains on the Swedish yacht Ericsson 4 which won the Volvo round-the-world race earlier this year have been named jointly as New Zealand sailors of the year. Brad Jackson and Stu Bannatyne were announced winners at...
Nov 21, 2009 at 10:00AM - The SAIL Office is sponsoring a bus trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Saturday 11/21. The bus will leave UMD at 10am from parking lot 7 and leave the MFA at 5pm. Tickets are $10 for UMass...
Ibori Golf and Country Club, Asaba will witness one hell of a golf tournament as the 2009 edition of the Governor's Cup tees off on Tuesday with over 80 professional players. The 2009 edition according to IGCC Captain Hon....
The Fresno State swimming team, led by head coach Jeanne Fleck, marched into Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach, Calif., Thursday ready and eager to match up against some of the top schools in the country as they competed...
A mathematician has discovered two entirely new arrangements of rowers in a racing Eight in which the rowing forces cancel to make the boat wiggle-free. So seriously, in fact, that the university has press-ganged John Barrow at...
The family of Canadian sailor Hubert Marcoux, who has been missing for days somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, was confident Friday he survived a series of storms described by some to have winds gusts of more than 110 kilometres...
The ten versagraphs of Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" dramatize a reader's metaphorical journey to explore the nature of a non-existent catastrophe. First Versagraph: “First having read the book of myths” In Adrienne...
Nov 20, 2009 (The Modesto Bee - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- HUNTINGTON BEACH -- The Modesto Junior College women's water polo team arrived at Golden West College on Thursday with one goal already...
First Portuguese Explorer of Newfoundland Close on the heels of John Cabot, Corte-Real disappeared seeking Asia and new lands for Portugal. Gaspar was born between 1450 and 1455, the son of João Vaz Corte-Real, a governor of...
The Discovere of the St. Lawrencer River Believed to be the first European to see the St. Lawrence River, Jacques Cartier claimed what is now the Province of Quebec for France. Born in 1491, in Saint Malo, France, Jacques...
