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Caught

In a Super Sixes match in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, South Africann Herschelle Gibbs caught Australian captain Steve Waugh but Waugh was given not out when Gibbs was ruled to not have control of the ball when attempting to throw the ball in celebration.


1980 Los Angeles Rams season

Preston Dennard caught a pair of TD passes, one from Ferragamo and one on a halfback pass by Mike Guman.

2005 Fiesta Bowl

Paris Warren was Smith's go-to man during the game, as he caught a Fiesta Bowl record 15 passes for 198 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Adnan Menderes

On 17 February 1959, the Turkish Airlines aircraft Vickers Viscount Type 793, registration TC-SEV, carrying Adnan Menderes and a party of government officials on a special flight from Istanbul to London Gatwick Airport crashed a few miles short of the runway, near Rusper, Sussex in heavy fog and caught fire.

Battle of Sorovich

While advancing however, the division was caught at unawares near Banitsa (modern Vevi) by an attack of the Ottoman VI Corps (part of the Vardar Army with the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions), which was retreating following the battle of Prilep with the Serbs.

Bill Haley's Chicks

The Mummies, 1990, Rekkids; Never Been Caught album, Telstar, 2002

Charles Deaton

Deaton caught the ear of Kansas City Chiefs General Manager Jack Steadman and suggested building side-by-side stadiums for the two sports with each stadium customized to its needs.

Charles Edward Stuart

Similarly, the 1994 film Chasing the Deer depicts the 1745 Jacobite rebellion from the point of view of the commoners caught in the struggle.

Coastal plain cooter

Coastal cooters are frequently exported for consumption and the pet trade, with about 60% wild caught individuals and 40% captive bred.

Dadasaheb Torne

He caught another young man there, Baburao Pai, and started releasing Hollywood movies in Karachi.

Dalkey Island

The island is also an ideal spot for fishing, with Pollock, Coalfish, Wrasse and Mackerel being caught.

Deepasthambham Mahascharyam

B. Madhu starring Dileep as an Ottamthullal dancer who is caught in a love triangle with two girls.

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

His ship, caught in a storm, sought refuge at the port of Taranto, Italy where De Dolomieu was made a prisoner of war.

Drisan James

James is best known for his performance in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, where he caught two touchdown passes against the University of Oklahoma and helped lead Boise State to a 43-42 victory in overtime.

Elsevier

One of Elsevier's journals was caught in the sting set-up by John Bohannon, published in Science, called Who's Afraid of Peer Review?.

Enoch Maki

Enoch followed soon after and with is built he caught the eyes of the Eagles selectors and in 2008 he was the sought after player in the Digicel Cup competition.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch/Westerwald; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld/Westerwald; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

Fries with That?

One notable instance involved a particularly attractive exchange student from Flin Flon, Manitoba who caught their eyes.

Fujiwara no Sumitomo

Government efforts to control him met with mixed success at best until the summer of 941, when forces under Ono Yoshifuru and Okura Harusane caught the pirate leader and most of his fleet in Hakata Bay, on the northwest coast of Kyushu, fresh from an unusually destructive raid on Dazaifu.

Giant stumptail stingray

Both known specimens of the giant stumptail stingray were caught in the Peter the Great Bay off Askold Island, near Vladivostok.

Gun port

In the Action of 4 August 1800, the large East Indiaman Exeter passed herself as a 74-gun ship of the line when she endeavoured to chase the much stronger French frigate Médée; after sunset, she perfected the illusion by opening and illuminating all her gun ports, whether armed or not; her appearance was so convincing that when she caught up with Médée, the frigate struck as if hopelessly overpowered.

Hastings Pier

These siblings also own The Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, which caught fire in 2008 and destroyed the pavilion, but they rebuilt it at a cost of more than £50million.

Inauguration of Herbert Hoover

Helen Terwilliger, a 13-year old eighth-grade student in Walden, New York, caught the error and wrote to the Chief Justice to tell him.

J. Presper Eckert

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

His valiant efforts to preserve the position and holdings of his family failed against the overwhelming social and political turmoil resulting from the Civil War and Reconstruction, joined the ever-growing tide of once powerful and proud Creoles caught in a downhill slide toward oblivion.

Jamie Rickers

He also worked on LWT's Caught Red Handed, with Andi Peters on Andi Meets Britney, the CITV Awards and The Richard Blackwood Show.

Jennifer Gove

Her bowling was also used in the match, and she claimed two wickets in the second innings, dismissing Katherine Smith caught and bowled, and trapping Ruth Westbrook leg before wicket.

Joel Barlow

He was caught up in the famous retreat of the French army; and, overcome by exposure, died at the Polish village of Żarnowiec.

John Coburn House

In 1851 he was arrested, tried, and acquitted for the court-house rescue of Shadrach Minkins, a freedom seeker who was caught in Boston by federal slave catchers empowered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Soares

In 1996, Soares joined Benfica after he caught their attention in a late goal in 1995-96 season, appearing sporadically over the course of two seasons, partnering with Bermudez, Hélder, and Tahar.

Keyshawn Johnson

The Trojans then played in the 1996 Rose Bowl, during which Johnson caught 12 passes for a Rose Bowl record 216 yards and one touchdown in the Trojans' 41–32 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats.

Laura Sinclair

Later in the pilot, after new resident Nick Hadley (Jarrod Emick) has caught her eye moving in next door to her, she tries to entice him away from his red haired wife Joanne (Michelle Stafford) by giving him a striptease, stripping away her red dress down to her black bra and panties.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Luis León Sánchez

He also rode his second Tour de France, and won Stage 7 after counterattacking, having been in a breakaway that was caught by the peloton.

Min Patel

Again, Patel struggled on a pitch not suited to spin bowling, however he managed to take his maiden (and last) Test wicket; that of Sanjay Manjrekar, caught by Graeme Hick.

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

Paleteros

In San Jose, California an individual is fined $278 every time they are caught selling paletas without a permit.

Paul Bergmann

Bergmann was a starting member of UCLA's 1983 Rose Bowl, where he led all receivers with 6 catches, and the 1984 Rose Bowl Championship, where he caught the first touchdown pass of the game, thrown by Rick Neuheisel.

Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard

And no Grand Inquisitor has such dreadful torments in readiness as anxiety has, and no secret agent knows as cunningly as anxiety to attack his suspect in his weakest moment or to make alluring the trap in which he will be caught, and no discerning judge understands how to interrogate and examine the accused as does anxiety, which never lets the accused escape, neither through amusement, nor by noise, nor during work, neither by day nor by night.

Pyralis pictalis

The term "Poplar" in its common name does not refer to the trees, but to Poplar, London, where type specimen – from such an introduction – was caught.

Reedville, Virginia

Menhaden, once caught, are cooked in large mass and processed for further use in various applications including as a protein additive for poultry feed; Tyson Foods is a large customer.

Rukun 13

After the second Governor of Sarawak, Duncan Stewart was killed by Rosli Dhobi and later died in Singapore General Hospital, the British caught all Rukun 13 members in March 1950.

Shotgate

The Hurricane fighter recalls the incident on 31 May 1940, when RAF Pilot Officer William Henry Hodgson, a New Zealander, engaged hostile bombers and fighters over the River Thames in his Hawker Hurricane, but it was hit and caught fire.

Stairs Expedition to Katanga

Caught between them, and attempting to play one off against the other, was Msiri, the big chief of Garanganze or Katanga, a tribal land not yet claimed by a European power, and larger than many European countries in acreage.

Stump The Host

In 1991 the band caught the ear of Jim Powers, an A+R rep for Zoo Records.

Tavia Yeung

Having graduated from the 13th TVB Artistes Training Course in 1999, Tavia starred in numerous MTVs and after a few minor roles in series such as Street Fighters and When Dreams Come True, she caught the public’s attention with her role as Ah Yan in The Awakening Story (starring Liza Wang and Damian Lau), in which she portrayed the younger sister of Maggie Cheung Ho Yee with whom she bore a remarkable resemblance.

The Roses of Success

In the film it is sung when "Grandpa Potts" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to modify a car that both floats and flies or face the consequences.

Tirto Adhi Soerjo

Meanwhile, Pramoedya Ananta Toer in his biography of Tirto writes that Tirto was caught giving a prescription to a Chinese man who did not need it, leading to Tirto's expulsion.

Virgin spinedace

As of 1995, the Virgin spinedace were last officially observed by Bureau of Land Management personnel in 1991, where the remaining fish were caught and deposited at the Arizona State University Museum.

Xavier Marshall

Batting at number four, he scored five runs from 10 balls against Australia; he was dismissed caught behind by Adam Gilchrist off the bowling of Brett Lee.


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