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Players such as Maykel Galindo, Lester Moré and Osvaldo Alonso have represented the Cuba national football team and since defected to the United States but are now unable to represent another nation at football.


1990 Caribbean Series

The club got a fine offensive performances from outfielder and Series MVP Gerónimo Berroa, who hit .300 with four home runs and eight runs batted in, including two homers and five RBI in the decisive game against the Senadores de San Juan of Puerto Rico, who tied for second with the Leones del Caracas of Venezuela.

1994 Minnesota Vikings season

Looking for only their third win of the season, the Bucs held off the Vikings for a 17–9 lead in the fourth until Warren Moon once again found Qadry Ismail; a two-point conversion throw to Cris Carter forced overtime tied 17–17, but the Bucs drove downfield for Michael Husted's winning field goal and the 20–17 loss, the third loss in a row and second in overtime in that span.

2006 National League Championship Series

The game would stay tied until the top of the fifth inning when Paul Lo Duca reached on an error by Cardinals second baseman Ronnie Belliard.

Alcohol during and after prohibition

The nation was highly optimistic and the leading prohibitionist in the United States Congress confidently asserted that "There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Although he was born in Kensington, London, as son of an old Perthshire family Kinnaird also played for Scotland, winning his solitary cap against England in the second ever international, played in 1873 at The Oval.

Canadian military fur wedge cap

In Canadian Forces nomenclature it is known as Cap, Man’s Winter, Fur, C.F. Exactly when the fur cap stopped being in general issue is unclear; however, it is still being worn today by the officer cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada.

Cap Fréhel

The Cap is located 8.5 km from the town centre of Fréhel, although, administratively, it is located within the territory of the commune of Plévenon.

Cap'n Jazz

After a number of name changes and the addition of guitarist Davey von Bohlen the band began to earn a cult following in the Chicago area and the Midwest.

Charley Hoffman

Hoffman came close to his third PGA Tour win at the Valero Texas Open finishing tied for 2nd with Kevin Chappell behind tour rookie Brendan Steele.

Coat of arms of Argentina

The Phrygian cap was typically worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, in the Anatolian peninsula, and is commonly mistaken for being a Pileus.

Cole Swindell

Swindell grew up in Bronwood, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2007 (he still famously wears the Georgia Southern Eagle baseball cap in many public appearances).

Colley Cibber

(A "steinkirk" was a loosely tied lace collar or scarf, named after the way the officers wore their cravats at the Battle of Steenkirk in 1692.)

Cut, Cap and Balance Act

The provisions of the bill included a cut in the total amount of federal government spending, a cap on the level of future spending as a percentage of GDP, and, on the condition that Congress pass certain changes to the U.S. Constitution, an increase in the national debt ceiling to allow the federal government to continue to service its debts.

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

Dick Kryhoski

On July 16 of that year, the Browns tied, by then, a majors record with three successive home runs belted by Clint Courtney, Kryhoski and Jim Dyck, in the first inning of a 8–6 victory over the Yankees.

Duthiers Point

It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, who named it "Cap Lacaze-Duthiers" for Félix Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, a French naturalist and authority on the anatomy of mollusks.

El Capitan High School

El Capitan High School (commonly known as El Cap) is a public high school in Lakeside, California, United States, a census-designated place in San Diego, and serves students in grades nine through twelve.

Ernest Benach i Pascual

Head of the La Mulassa, a Boy Scout association of Reus (1981–1986) and president (1991–1994) and cap de colla (head of group) of the Colla castellera Xiquets de Reus (an association of castellers), he is also a member of the Pedagogy section of the Reading Center of Reus.

Glynn Nicholas

In one episode, the real Patsy Biscoe was seen presenting the Big Gig show with Bongo, having tied Patẻ Biscuit up.

Handkerchief

In the United Kingdom, the habit of wearing a handkerchief with tied corners on one's head at the beach has become a seaside postcard stereotype, referenced by the Gumby characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Harry Feather

Harry (J.?) Feather won a cap for England while at Bradford F.C. in 1905 against Other Nationalities.

History of Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Beale writes of the place "I rode yesterday with Mr. Green up this stream for about three miles, and discovered on a small tributary of it the remains of old Choteau's trading post; looking among the ruins, I found a human skull, which I tied behind my saddle, and brought back to camp." Apparently at this time Chisholm was not doing business here as there is no mention of him.

Ian Lygo

On November 30, 2004, this record was tied by Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!.

Igor Klyuchnikov

He gained his 50th cap in Russia's World Cup opener against USA on 15 September 2011.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov

In August 2005, three months before his death, he tied for eighth place at the U.S. Open Chess Championship in Phoenix, Arizona against some of the best players in the country.

Jason Kendall

Kendall attended and played at Torrance High School in California, where he tied a national high school record by hitting safely in 43 straight games.

Jay Ward Productions

The company also designed trademark characters like Cap'n Crunch, King Vitaman, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals, and made numerous commercials for these products.

John E. Morgan

At the suggestion of his manager, Eddie Hearn, Morgan entered the PGA Tour qualifying school, and survived all three stages, finishing tied for 11th at the School finals to earn playing privileges in the United States.

Love Comes Quickly

The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys image.

Magic Cap

Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, the most notable of which being the Sony Magic Link released in 1994 and the Motorola Envoy, also released in 1994.

Mame Biram Diouf

On 12 August 2009, Diouf won his first cap for Senegal in a 2–1 friendly win over Congo DR in Blois, France.

Mary Franson

On April 20, 2012 Franson objected to the opening prayer on the House floor, where the House Chaplain Rev. Francis Grady mentioned Earth Day and tied it to the Gulf oil spill.

McNeil, Texas

Freight operations on Cap Metro are operated under contract by Austin Western Railroad.

Mentonasc dialect

It is still spoken by a minority (approximately 10%) in the city of Menton and in the following municipalities: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Castellar, Castillon, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès and Sospel, near the border with Italy.

Millom RLFC

Samuel Northmore won a cap for England (RU) while at Millom in 1897 against Ireland

Monomakh's Cap

The first version of the orient origin of the Cap (Uzbeg Khan) was arisen by George Vernadsky.

Nichols cap guns

By 1962 the matinee idols like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy and many others were gradually making less movies and television shows and children's interest in cap guns began waning.

Nichols Industries, Inc.

By 1962 the matinee idols like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy and many others were gradually making fewer movies and television shows, and children's interest in cap guns began waning.

Oskar Piotrowski

tied for 2nd-3rd with Erich Cohn, behind Ossip Bernstein, in the Berlin Summer Tournament - Section I (Quadrangular), and shared 2nd with Moritz Lewitt, behind Bernstein, in the 1st Tournament of the General Chess Federation of Berlin.

Pembina, North Dakota

Started by the French as a fur trading post for commerce with the American Indians, it was also tied to trade for American Bison.

Ricardo Sanabria

Sanabria obtained his only cap for the Paraguay national football team on 15 August 1993 in a World Cup qualifying match against Peru (2-1 win), substituting Luis Alberto Monzón in the 83rd minute.

Sixpence

Flat cap, a rounded cap with a brim, also called a sixpence

The Colleen Bawn

Sullivan took her out on the River Shannon near Kilrush, County Clare where he killed her with a musket, stripped her and dumped her body in the river, tied to a stone.

Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks

Former Chicago Cubs first-round pick Ty Griffin hit .274 and tied for the league lead with 11 home runs.

Trip MacCracken

He spent eleven years with the Cleveland Browns, where he was in charge of managing the salary cap and the team's chief contract negotiator.

Vlastimil Bubník

He was tied with Canada's Harry Watson and Russia's Valeri Kharlamov for the all-time Olympic scoring lead, until he was surpassed by Finland's Teemu Selänne in the 2010 Winter Olympics

Walter Niephaus

1947, tied for 9-10th in Kassel (Efim Bogoljubow won), took 3rd in Riedenburg (Ludwig Roedl won), finished 1st ahead of Bogoljubow in Heringen, tied for 5-7th in Weidenau (the 11th GER-ch, Georg Kieninger won), and shared 2nd, behind Rellstab, in Stuttgart.

War of the Genders

An average of 3.1 million viewers watched the episode finale live, creating the highest rating average below the 2003 Charity Football Competition Real Madrid vs Hong Kong and tied with the 2005 Korean TV drama Dae Jang Geum and the 2008 TVB TV drama Moonlight Resonance.

Yuri Drozdovskij

He won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tied for first place at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2007.

Zygmunt Waliszewski

He was a participant in the Capists' plein-air painting workshops in Cagnes, Valence, Cap Martin, and Avignon.


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