Gellar's first major break came in 1992, when she starred in the serial Swans Crossing and was subsequently cast in the soap opera All My Children, playing Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane ( Susan Lucci ).

The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans.

The team's first successful AFL grand final was in 2005 when Sydney Swans won the Grand Final against West Coast Eagles in a tight, low-scoring game.

An incident in which Swans ' captain Barry Hall punched Saints ' defender Matt Maguire threatened his place in the grand final but he was let off on a lesser charge.

A cumulation of close games, including a goal after the siren win by Daryn Cresswell in 2002, and immense and 100 + point winning margins, ensured the Swans ' rivalry was maintained with the Kangaroos in recent years.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

He was and still is known to Swans fans everywhere as " Captain Courageous ".

Recruited to the AFL by the Swans, Kelly made his debut in 1990 after being the best player in his school, and was appointed captain in 1993, won the Brownlow Medal ( the AFL's highest individual honour ) in 1995, won club best and fairests in 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997, All-Australian selection in 1995, 1996 and 1997 ( the last two as captain ), and the AFLPA's Robert Rose Award for Most Courageous Player in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2000.

Kelly led the Swans to the AFL Grand Final in 1996 — its first since 1945 — and was considered one of the best players in the competition during the mid-1990s, but from 1998 onwards was severely hampered by injuries.

In 2005, Kelly was on hand to present the premiership cup to Paul Roos and Barry Hall after the Swans ' nailbiting 4-point Grand Final win.

In 1987, Carey was picked up by North Melbourne after a series of events which would have left the Sydney Swans ' recruiting staff slightly red-faced in hindsight.

Staines Rugby Football Club which used to play at the Lammas ( a recreation ground on Wraysbury Road, which was also known as the Ashby Recreation Ground ) relocated to The Reeves ( on Snakey Lane, near Hanworth ) in the 1960s but still proudly bears the name of the town with teams named Swans, Cobs and Mucky Ducks.

Fairy tales with hostility between the mother-in-law and the heroine — such as Mary's Child, The Six Swans, and Perrault's Sleeping Beauty — have been held to reflect a transition between a matrilineal society, where a man's loyalty was to his mother, and a patrilineal one, where his wife could claim it, although this interpretation is predicated on such a transition being a normal development in societies.

While this comparison might initially seem unlikely, there are in fact some similarities worth noting — the music of early Swans was often based on a single riff, played repeatedly to hypnotic effect.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.

This was typical of such games, which were earnestly played to win and practically never wound up in an expression of good fellowship.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Next to Leo Durocher, Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle.

Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent ( could mean presented ) to him just before leaving Melbourne .”

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's airspeed indicator was over 350 when he leveled off just above the trees.

Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.

He looked as if he was going to keel over.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

Matsuo puzzled and grew anxious over the complete passiveness, concluding that he was the butt of a devilish joke.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.