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On the first climb, Benoit Poîlvet, Paolo Bettini and Rolf Aldag attacked, later joined by Richard Virenque, the eventual winner of the polka dot jersey, who dropped the others one by one, and took the stage and the yellow jersey from Peña, who had declared in interviews prior to the race that he was going to start working for Lance to win.
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On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
On July 20, the first drawing of numbers occurred in the Senate Office Building before a distinguished group of congressmen and high Army officers.
On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.
On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.
On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
On the economic front, the first priority of these countries is to mobilize a vastly increased volume of resources.
On the positivist theory, everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second.
On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.
On her first visit the orthodontist will take x-rays, photographs, tooth measurements, and `` tooth prints '' -- an impression of the mouth that permits him to study her teeth and jaws.
On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.
On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, the first quarter of 1961 total of 9,273 cars was 21 per cent behind the previous year's 3-month total of 11,744.
On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.
On Thursday, the first day of the Masters, the contest between Palmer and Player developed instantly.
On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.
On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.
On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.
Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.
On May 25, 1961, twenty days after the first US manned spaceflight Freedom 7, Kennedy proposed the Apollo program to Congress in a special address to a joint session:
In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.
On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.
On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:
On and climb
On these vehicles, the hull deck comprises the main portion of the tread way while ramps extend from the front and rear of the vehicle to allow other vehicles to climb over the bridging vehicle and cross obstacles.
On August 24 the Brewers completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to climb to less than five games out in both the NL Central Division and NL Wild Card races, but then Milwaukee went on a 10-game losing streak that ended any postseason hope.
On land he has complete mastery of throwing knives and carries a grappling hook which he is able to use to climb buildings, walls and trees.
On the way up they spent a night at the Russein huts and the next day, on September 1, they climbed to the gap called Porta da Spescha where Placidus and the servant watched the two hunters complete the climb to the top.
On the north and east benches, the houses sometimes climb as far as halfway up the mountain, to the boundary of the national forest, and new communities are also being constructed on the southern and western slopes.
On the one hand, the novel is the fictional biography of Martha Cochrane, a clever and ambitious Englishwoman with a rural lower middle-class background who, after graduating from university, attempts to climb the ladder of success within corporate Britain.
On 31 December 1999, thieves used scaffolding on an adjoining building to climb onto the roof of the Ashmolean to break through a skylight, stealing a painting by Cézanne.
On multi-pitch routes it is usual to give the overall climb an adjectival grade and each pitch a separate technical grade ( such as HS 4b, 4a ).
On average about 140 people climb to the summit each day.
On discovering that being an orang-utan had certain advantages for a librarian-he can climb up to high shelves, for example-he refused to be transformed back into a human and has remained an orang-utan ever since.
On August 7, 1932, Raymond E. Welch, Sr., became the first one-legged man to climb Mount Washington.
On the annual St. Andrew's Day match, the Oppidans climb over the wall, after throwing their caps over in defiance of the Scholars, while the Collegers march down from the far end of College Field, arm-in-arm, towards the near end, where they meet the Oppidans.
On the first platform were the secretaries and scribes ; the orator would climb up to the second.
On 13 April 1995 Simon Nadin free-climbed Nelson's Column with Noel Craine, Jerry Moffat and Johnny Dawes following on top rope, and graded the climb as " E6 6b / 5a ".
On May 19th 2012, 16-year-old Nima Chhamzi Sherpa became the youngest woman to climb Everest.
On operations from runway 19R a steep climb may also be required to allow for a power reduction at about 500 – 700 feet for a quieter overflight over the city of Newport Beach.
On August 26, 2008, Opportunity began its three-day climb out of Victoria crater amidst concerns that power spikes, similar to those seen on Spirit before the failure of its right-front wheel, might prevent it from ever being able to leave the crater if a wheel failed.
* On 27 November 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 446, a DC-8-62, crashed while in an initial climb on a route from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda ).
On the start of the 9 km climb to the finish the leaders had retained their two minute advantage.
On the night of 13 September 1759 he was part of the forlorn hope, the twenty-four volunteers leading the British attempt to climb the cliffs rising above the St. Lawrence River.
On long haul flights, the pilot may climb from one flight level to a higher one as clearance is requested and given from air traffic control.
On 16 September 1911, Whymper died at the age of 71, shortly after another climb in the Alps.
On " Reek Sunday ", the last Sunday in July every year, over 15, 000 pilgrims climb it.
On most multi-engine airplanes, the Flight Engineer ( FE ) sets and adjusts engine power during take off, climb, cruise, go-arounds, or at any time the pilot flying ( PF ) requests a specific power setting to be set during the approach phase.
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