During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

As the sea ice recedes epontic algae dominate the first phase of the bloom, and a strong bloom dominate by diatoms follows the ice melt south < sup ></ sup >.

During winter, fast ice, which is attached to the shoreline, develops first, rendering the ports unusable without the services of icebreakers.

Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.

* 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

If the indoor air is very humid, rather than moderately so, water will first condense in small droplets and then freeze into clear ice.

Italian-run ice cream parlours were the first large wave of foreign-run eateries in Germany, becoming widespread in the 1920s.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.

Stanley's son Arthur helped organize the Ontario Hockey Association and Stanley's daughter Isobel was one of the first women to play ice hockey.

A similar sport had been popular in the United States ( US ) during this time called ice polo, but by 1893 the first ice hockey matches were being played at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.

In 1896, the first ice hockey league in the US was formed.

The first ice beer marketed in North America was Canadian Ice, which was introduced by Molson in April 1993, although the process was patented earlier by Molson's competitor, Labatt ( now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev ), instigating the so-called " Ice Beer Wars " of the 1990s.

( 2008 ) The first humans travelling on ice: an energy saving strategy?

During this battle, Iceman's ability to transform his body into ice is finally shown, giving him the form of Iceman from the comics, being first implied in a previous confrontation between the two former best friends in which Bobby's fist ices over.

In 1837 Agassiz was the first to scientifically propose that the Earth had been subject to a past ice age.

Evolving to sentience from colonies of carnivorous tubeworms living beneath the ocean of an ice moon similar to Europa, the Gw ' oth broke through the ice and first experimented with fire only two generations previous to mastering nuclear fission.

Women's field hockey was first played at British universities and schools, and the first club, Molesey Ladies, was founded in 1887.

The first national association was the Irish Ladies Hockey Union in 1894, and though rebuffed by the Hockey Association, women's field hockey grew rapidly around the world.

The first recorded use of the word " hockey " is found in the text of a royal proclamation issued by Edward III of England in 1363 banning certain types of sports and games.

While current field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England, primarily in schools, it was not until the first half of the 19th century that it became firmly established.

Much of the equipment for the sport was first developed in Canada, such as sledge hockey sticks laminated with fiberglass, as well as aluminum shafts with hand carved insert blades and special aluminum sledges with regulation skate blades.

The first game of inline sledge hockey was played at Bisley, England, on the 19th of December 2009 between the Hull Stingrays and the Grimsby Redwings.

Immigrants from Iceland then played on behalf of Canada and won the first ever Olympic medal in hockey.

The name of hockey itself has no clear origin, though the first known mention of the word ' hockey ' in English dates to 1363.

The first hockey club, McGill University Hockey Club, was founded in 1877 followed by the Montreal Victorias, organized in 1881.

The JMU women's field hockey gave the university their first national title in 1994.

In 2013 Luanda together with Namibe city, will host the 2013 FIRS Men's Roller Hockey World Cup, the first time that a World Cup of roller hockey is held in Africa.

* 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.

* 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.

Gretzky's first team, at age six, was a team of ten-year-olds, starting a pattern where Gretzky always played at a level far above his peers through his minor hockey years.

That year, Gretzky became the first hockey player and first Canadian to be named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

The player whose tile is in the topmost row ( closest to row A ) goes first.

If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

Then, starting with the first player, each player draws six tiles.

The Rockies won, 9 – 2, with Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, and Travis Lee being the first player to hit, score, homer and drive in a run.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

Brady Anderson was the first, and currently only, player to be hit by the pitch two times in the same inning in an American League game.

To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

In more recent years, pure steals of home are rare, although a player may steal home plate during a " delayed double steal ," in which a runner on first attempts to steal second, while the runner on third breaks for home as soon as the catcher throws to second base.

The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.

A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )