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  Christy Ring: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Christy Ring (December 12, 1920 - March 2, 1979) is regarded as one of the finest hurlers ((baseball) the person who does the pitching) ever to play the game.
Christopher Ring was born in Cloyne (additional info and facts about Cloyne), County Cork (additional info and facts about County Cork), Ireland (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
Christy Ring died suddenly at the age of 58.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christy_ring.htm   (309 words)

  
 Drifta - Trip to America
For a phone card, instead of sticking it in the phone, and just ringing the number like me an Dutchy used to do in Darwin, the phone cards here had a 16 digit number, plus a four digit pin, which you had to press in, and then the number, which is also pretty long.
Or some phonecards, you had to ring an operater and tell them the number, which was even worse, cause they all sounded pakastani or something, and neither of us could understand each others accents.
Christy is Claude and Patty's daughter and married to Chris.
www.drifta.com.au /america.htm   (24022 words)

  
 CBZ Journal -- December 1999
After the decision was announced, Quarry grabbed the microphone from the ring announcer and dramatically announced his retirement from boxing in the middle of the ring.
He was the runaway consensus as the greatest fighter of all-time, pound-for-pound, almost from the moment he exited the ring against Jess Willard until the mid-1960s, when those who saw him fight began dying off, and the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali began to "overtake" him in popular opinion.
So the fight was declared a no-contest, and Mike Tyson left the ring with smoke coming out of both ears, to the boos of the paying crowd who were duped again into parting with their hard-earned cash.
www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/box12-99.htm   (20671 words)

  
 James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - OneLang.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When the morning practice was over the trainer would make his comments and sometimes illustrate them by shuffling along for a yard or so comically in an old pair of blue canvas shoes.
A small ring of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch him and linger even when he and uncle Charles had sat down again and were talking athletics and politics.
On the way home uncle Charles would often pay a visit to the chapel and, as the font was above Stephen's reach, the old man would dip his hand and then sprinkle the water briskly about Stephen's clothes and on the floor of the porch.
books.onelang.com /A-Portrait-of-the-Artist-as-a-Young-Man   (20694 words)

  
 Resources
Web rings for folk and traditional and Celtic music.
An introduction to the strange world of Shakespearean insults: be insulted, compose your own insults, or view a compendium of Shakespearean insults.
The Songbird Foundation, how your cup of coffee makes a world of difference.
www.kalwfolk.org /sources.html   (5411 words)

  
 August 19 Events in History
August 19, 1995 Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
August 19, 1993 34th Walker Cup: U.S., 19-5
August 19, 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
www.brainyhistory.com /days/august_19.html   (1847 words)

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