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  • 31Deseado — (Spanish for wished or wished for ) is a 10 m sloop rigged yacht that survived about a month in the Southern Ocean and Bass Strait after being abandoned in stormy seas off Tasmania, the southern island state of Australia. It was found off the… …

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  • 32Tony Bullimore — (born circa 1939) is a British sailor from Bristol.He is most famous for being rescued during the 1996 Vendee Globe single handed around the world race. The race was marked by a number of incidents including the death of another contestant, Gerry …

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  • 33Seb Clover — Infobox Person image size = 150px name = Sebastian Clover caption = education = Ryde School with Upper Chine, Isle of Wight birth date = birth date and age|1987|1|15 birth place = death date = death place = other names = Seb Clover residence =… …

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  • 34Tabarly, Eric Marcel Guy — ▪ 1999       French yachtsman who became a national hero when he won the 1964 Observer Single Handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) in record time and, in a series of sailboats named Pen Duick, went on to win numerous other solo races, including the… …

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  • 35Chichester — /ˈtʃɪtʃəstə/ (say chichuhstuh) noun Sir Francis, 1901–72, English yachtsman; first person to sail around the world single handed, in the Gipsy Moth IV …

  • 36Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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  • 37Dates of 2004 — ▪ 2005 January It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment. David Kay, former U.S. chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, January 28 January 1              Haitian Pres. Jean… …

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  • 38Malcolm Page (sailor) — Olympic medalist Malcolm Page (sailor) Medal record Competitor for  Austral …

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  • 39Second Test, 2007–08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy — Umpire Steve Bucknor, whose decisions in the Test were controversial and led to him being dropped from officiating in the Third Test …

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  • 40Calendar of 1998 — ▪ 1999 January January 1       At the stroke of the new year, the Russian ruble is worth a thousand times less than before as three zeros are removed from its value; about six new rubles equal one U.S. dollar.       Foreign Minister David Levy… …

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