In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

* 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

The Copernican theory of the solar system – that the Earth revolved annually about the Sun – had received confirmation by the observations of Galileo and Tycho Brahe ( who, however, never accepted heliocentrism ), and the mathematical investigations of Kepler and Newton.

That autumn he enrolled in the King Khaled University at Abha to study Sharia, he left his family home in Khamis Mushayt in the summer of 2000 to complete the Hajj, but never returned – instead travelling to the Al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan where he met and befriended Waleed and Wail al-Shehri, two brothers from Khamis Mushayt, and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

Nami's Visa application has since been reviewed, and while he mentioned that Mushabib will be travelling with him, he listed his occupation as student but failed to provide an address for his school, and listed his intended address in the United States merely as Los Angeles – in the end he never used this Visa to enter the United States, and reported his passport ( C115007, which showed evidence of travel to Afghanistan ) as " lost ", and procured a new one from Jeddah ( C505363 ).

But it was not a secret that Bulgaria's target was the fulfilment of the never materialized Treaty of San Stefano signed after the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Vendôme formally took over command in Flanders on 4 August ; Villeroi would never again receive a major command – " I cannot foresee a happy day in my life save only that of my death.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

# Building a new city ( Ezekiel 33: 1 – 48: 35 ): The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.

In Poland, fast moving armies encircled Polish forces ( blue circles ), but the blitzkrieg idea never really took hold – artillery and infantry forces acted in time-honoured fashion to crush these pockets.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

Of the famine in Povolzhie ( 1921 – 1922 ) he wrote: " That horrible famine was up to cannibalism, up to consuming children by their own parents — the famine, which Russia had never known even in Time of Troubles 1601 – 1603 ..."

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

The result of all the moves was a 67 – 95 record in 2005, which tied for the worst record in franchise history, as the young players — many of whom had never been everyday players in the majors prior to that season — struggled.

In spite of the some of the edicts issued by Constantius, it should be recognised that he was not fanatically anti-pagan – he never made any attempt to disband the various Roman priestly colleges or the Vestal Virgins, he never acted against the various pagan schools, and, at times, he actually made some effort to protect paganism.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

After 1080, he never showed any indication of repentance, and therefore remained excommunicate for twenty-six years ( 1080 – 1106 ).

Of individuals with chronic Chagas disease, 60 – 80 % will never develop symptoms ( called indeterminate chronic Chagas disease ), while the remaining 20 – 40 % will develop life-threatening heart and / or digestive disorders during their lifetime ( called determinate chronic Chagas disease ).

At The Limelight in Manhattan, Giger's artwork was licensed to decorate the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but it was never intended to be a permanent installation and bore no similarity to the real Giger Bars in Switzerland.

Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player ( along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson's home run has never been conclusively verified ) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game.

Johnson had promised Yankee owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to get them better players, but never followed through.

Pipgras never played for Boston ; his eleven-year career included three Yankee pennant seasons.

Schilling joked about the incident: " I've been called a lot of things ... But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

Since New York Yankee Andy Hawkins ( who never gave up a hit during a game against the Chicago White Sox on July 1, 1990, despite the White Sox winning the game 4-0 ) played for the visiting team, the White Sox never batted in the ninth inning and Hawkins lost the credit for a no-hitter.

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In 1949, joined by Vic Raschi and Eddie Lopat, he was a star of a Yankee team that won the first of five consecutive league championships, a feat that had never been achieved before.

From 1982 to 1988 McDermott worked for the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, where he trained to become a reactor operator, though never managed to attain the position.

* " When I'm in New York I'll never go the Yankee Stadium!

Bill Bevens, the Yankee starter, had pitched innings of a no-hitter, a feat never before accomplished in a World Series game, and his team was ahead 2 – 1.

" Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!

Later that same month, the FCC approved the transaction after securing an affidavit from General Tire's president that " no better deal " would be offered the tire company to buy " time, facilities and services " on Yankee Network stations, and that General Tire would " never " use its ownership to gain an unfair advertising advantage over competitors.

" So in Yankee Stadium, Dennis Boyd was never introduced as " Oil Can ", nor Jim Hunter as " Catfish.

The Rodgers and Hart Connecticut Yankee, like many of the team's earlier musicals, has never been filmed for the big screen.

It is said that Kaga had " realised his dream in a form never seen before " and specially constructed a cooking arena called " Kitchen Stadium " in his castle.

Eriksson is the only England manager never to have led an England team out at their permanent home venue of the old Wembley Stadium or the new Wembley Stadium.

When it opened it was known as Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium ( though the " Civic Center " was almost never used in the media ) until New Year's Day 1982, when it became just Busch Stadium.

The Tigers honored him by renaming National Avenue ( behind the third-base stands of the old Tiger Stadium ) Cochrane Avenue, but have never retired the uniform number 3 he wore with them.

The big left field stand was originally planned to be capable of sliding toward or away from the gridiron ( as Denver's Mile High Stadium later would be ), but that part of the project was never realized.

He played against Los Angeles Galaxy on 6 December 2008 in an exhibition match held at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, as part of an Oceania XI All-Star team, despite the fact he is not from Oceania and has never played for an Oceanic club or national team.

However, a previously scheduled San Francisco 49ers football game at Kezar Stadium, located in Golden Gate Park, the weekend of December 6 – 7 made that venue impractical, and permits were never issued for the concert.

The club has never played in a drawn match, despite a controversial Round 5 match against St Kilda at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania in 2006, which initially ended in a draw.

While Nekon was in college, Brown scheduled concerts and other appearances around the Hokies home schedule to ensure that he would never miss a game, and became a fixture at Lane Stadium.

Plans to modify and maintain Tiger Stadium as the home of the Tigers, known as the Cochrane Plan, were supported by many in the community, but were never seriously considered by the Tigers.

It was one of the few baseball-only facilities built in the majors during the heyday of the cookie-cutter stadium era, and is one of two such facilities ( Dodger Stadium is the other ) that are still active and were never converted for use as multi-purpose stadiums.

* The U. S. Men's National Team has never lost a game played at Columbus Crew Stadium, and have allowed only one goal against ( as of September, 2012 ).

After hosting several exhibition games at Tulane Stadium during typical New Orleans summer thunderstorms, Dixon was told by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle that the NFL would never expand into New Orleans without a domed stadium.

After a great semifinal performance, the Stormers went down badly in the final 25 – 17 to the Bulls at the historic Orlando Stadium in a game that the Stormers never looked like winning.

He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Ohio State University in 1919, and is remembered for his successful efforts to close the College of Homeopathic Medicine and his unsuccessful effort to limit the capacity of Ohio Stadium to 45, 000 seats, contending that it would never be able to fill to its design capacity of 63, 000 seats.

He enjoyed his first career multi-home run game in the third game of the season, against the Montreal Expos, one of which went halfway up in section 48 of the left field upper deck at Shea Stadium, a feat that was never matched.

The Aryan Games were a proposed replacement for the Olympic Games by the National Socialist ( Nazi ) government of the Third Reich, to be housed permanently in Nuremberg at the German Stadium that was designed, but never built, by Albert Speer.

WCPO-TV reported that a friend of Palmer quoted him as saying, " I will never set foot in Paul Brown Stadium again "; " I have $ 80 million in the bank ," Palmer reportedly said ; " I don't have to play football for money.

The Morelos Stadium has never seen its team actually winning a final.

The Vols have never had more than 4 consecutive losses at Neyland Stadium.