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Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;
As Player began his second round in a twosome with amateur Bill Hyndman, his share of the gallery was not conspicuously large for a contender.
Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.
Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.
She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.
A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.
Martin Luther and some modern scholars have proposed Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, rather than Barnabas, another contender.
Its best players ( and its manager, Ned Hanlon ) regrouped with the Brooklyn Dodgers, turning that team into a contender.
A year earlier, he succeeded in establishing the Orioles as a legitimate contender when they stood atop the AL standings as late as early September before finishing in second place at 89 – 65.
All the while, Wallace seeks the assistance of Robert the Bruce ( Macfadyen ), the son of nobleman Robert the Elder and a contender for the Scottish crown.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Bengals were a perennial playoff contender and they won AFC championships in and, but lost Super Bowls XVI and XXIII to the San Francisco 49ers.
Led by native Ohioan Cy Young, the Spiders became a contender in the mid-1890s, when they played in the Temple Cup Series ( that era's World Series ) twice, winning it in 1895.
The club struggled and suffered more key injuries, only managing to win 79 games after being picked by many to be a serious contender for the N. L.
Stalin, the second major contender, and future leader of the Soviet Union, was the least known of all the contenders, and he was not a popular figure with the masses.
On race day, Earnhardt showed himself to be a contender early.
Earnhardt finished 7th in the standings that year, and looked like a contender again.
In 1993, PLH candidate Carlos Roberto Reina was elected with 56 % of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos.
But having lost in his home state, Hoover was not considered a serious contender at the convention.
Holt's disappearance at the end of 1967 forced the party to choose a " wild card " successor from the Senate after the leading contender, deputy Liberal leader William McMahon, was unexpectedly eliminated from the contest due to a dispute with their Coalition partners, the Country Party.
Hoping to build a first class contender for future years the new team debuted in Serie B in 1929.
The only recent American contender in the harmonica market was Harrison Harmonicas, however the company folded in July 2011 due to production issues.
* Lamborghini Cheetah, an Italian contender for the original HMMWV contract.
However, the energy density of hydrogen is considerably higher than that of electric batteries, making it a serious contender as an energy carrier to replace fossil fuels.
Disorganization and failure to agree on William H. Crawford, Daniel Tompkins, Henry Clay or another possible contender weakened opposition to Monroe.
The leading contender for the presidential nomination was former President Martin Van Buren, who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.

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