He was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.

The 2006 Main Event, won by Jamie Gold, is the largest single poker tournament by prize pool or by entrant numbers in history ; Gold pocketed US $ 12 million for his victory.

During the history of Palmer there have been hardware stores, millinery stores, restaurants, lumber yards, harness shops, grocery stores, drug stores, shoe shops, butcher shops, elevators, blacksmith shops, saloons, hotels, pool halls, livery stables, bakeries, garages, post offices, and barber shops.

* List of largest poker tournaments in history ( by prize pool )

Mahan used history as a stock of lessons to be learned — or more exactly, as a pool of examples that exemplified his theories.

Brownlee and Reid had a history of working closely not only on fiscal issues, but also on agricultural ones: in July 1923, they had travelled together to investigate the creation of a wheat pool in Alberta.

Remnants of the former Middle School campus include Reynolds Hall, now used for art, history, and foreign language classes, the Marshall Center which houses a gymnasium, weight room, and wrestling room, the swimming pool and diving boards, the outdoor basketball court, and a tennis court.

Originally, the guests on these segments were NPR personalities and reporters, but the pool of guests later expanded to include mostly celebrity guests, ranging from former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked questions on the history of Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine, to author Salman Rushdie who was asked about the history of Pez candy.

This is the classic game from the history of pool and most of the greatest players of all time were known to play this game.

House activities include a swimming pool, gym with services of a personal trainer, treatment rooms offering the Voya organic seaweed range, wine tasting, whiskey tasting, cookery demonstrations, history tour, traditional & classical music, Irish folklore story-telling.

Cup action in the form of the final round of EDF Energy Cup pool stage games, where Saracens failed once again to win away in Wales, but taking a losing bonus point and a try bonus too was enough to see them qualify for the semi-final stage for the first time in their Anglo-Welsh cup history, ahead of their opponents Llanelli Scarlets.

Only in species that have the appropriate traits in their gene pool, and in which individuals typically interacted with genetic relatives in the natural conditions of their evolutionary history will social behavior potentially be elaborated, and consideration of the evolutionarily typical demographic composition of grouping contexts of that species is thus a first step in understanding how selection pressures upon inclusive fitness have shaped the forms of its social behavior.

These include regular local bus and train services ( but only a few long distance services ), an indoor heated pool, gymnasium, baseball field, several small local parks, mountain camping sites, plus a new natural history museum, library, and performance hall seating 500 people.

The Scarlets went on to become only the fifth team in the history of the competition to win all their pool matches ( they would be joined two hours later by Biarritz ).

In 2002 – 03, they became only the third team in the history of the Heineken Cup to win all their games in pool play.

The duration of the life history stages of amphibians relative to the duration of the vernal pool before it dries up regulates the ecological development of metapopulations connecting aquatic patches to terrestrial patches.

Each one of the seven residential buildings at The River Lofts At Tobacco Row has its own personality, its own interpretation of history meeting high style and design: the beautifully appointed townhomes of Cutters Ridge ; the soaring spaces in the American Cigar building ; the extraordinary pool in the courtyard of Consolidated-Carolina ; the serene, Zen-like gardens at Cameron and Kinney ; and the posh details at Lucky Strike.

The towns first swimming pool opened in 1983, and in 1990, both the towns library and local history museum were established.

There is a camping site, an indoor swimming pool with a waterslide, A National history museum and an open air fishing museum.

The campus has facilities such as science and computer laboratories, an astronomical observatory, a library, a school history museum, an indoor sports hall, a grand auditorium, an artistic centre ( studios ), two outdoor stadiums, an indoor swimming pool, student dorms and Business Street.

The Big Show took its title seriously, using a huge stage set ( complete with a live audience and a swimming pool ) and filling a 90-minute time-slot ( one of the only variety programs in American television history to run this length ), with at least one two-hour instalment broadcast.

* FreeWilliamsburg article on the recent history of the pool

In the vote for the greatest figure in the history of horseracing hosted by the Racing Post newspaper, Vincent O ' Brien came first with 28 % of the total vote, with his long-time stable jockey Lester Piggott placed second out of a pool of 100 contenders who had been carefully selected by a panel of racing experts.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.

With this act of disobedience, and not with the inception of his individual existence, man began the downward circuit on the spiral of history, descending from the created capacity for immortality to an inescapable mortality.

As academic disciplines began to differentiate over the course of the nineteenth century, anthropology grew increasingly distinct from the biological approach of natural history, on the one hand, and from purely historical or literary fields such as Classics, on the other.

In the nineteenth century, Nicholas Stark und Peter Paul Dollinger began a collection based on local history.

With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted and he also began to acquire some of the continental languages.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

Soon thereafter he began to write the history of Bremen / Hamburg and of the northern lands in his Gesta.

After collecting much valuable information concerning the geography, geology, archaeology and natural history of Ethiopia, the brothers returned to France in 1848 and began to prepare their materials for publication.

The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens, which began to compete with the thalassocracy of Aegina at the beginning of the sixth century.

The comprehensive series, a reprinting of the entire 43-year history of Li ' l Abner spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note ; Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases.

The state of New York, which also has a civil law history from its Dutch colonial days, also began a codification of its law in the 19th century.

ould it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end?

" An era of peaceful democracy in Costa Rica began in 1889 with elections considered the first truly free and honest ones in the country's history.

The history of discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like copper and gold, and extracted ( smelted ) iron and a few other metals from their ores.

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

It began its new history with five students, one of whom was later to become its dean.

In the early 1920s, dance studies ( dance practice, critical theory, Musical analysis and history ) began to be considered an academic discipline.

The history of education according to Dieter Lenzen, president of the Freie Universität Berlin 1994, " began either millions of years ago or at the end of 1770 ".

" Having unsuccessfully approached both the University of Oxford and Harvard University, Morris was able to talk his way into Princeton University, where he began studying the history of science, a topic in which he had " absolutely no background.