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unusual facts about half century



Matt Machan

In this match Machan scored his maiden half century in that format, making 56 runs before being caught and bowled by Suresh Raina.


see also

A. G. Hopkins

His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century.

Áine O'Gorman

In September 2012 O'Gorman reached a half century of appearances for Ireland, in a 2–0 EURO 2013 qualifying win over Israel at Ramat Gan Stadium.

Anura Tennekoon

He made the highest score and only half-century of his ODI career during this match, making 59 runs off 96 deliveries before being bowled out by Warren Stott.

Chao Anu Rebellion

After an unpleasant stay in Bangkok in 1825 for the funeral of King Rama II, which included his son, Rama III, rejecting Anu's request for repatriation of Lao ethnic families captured some half century earlier, Chao Anu returned to Vientiane and organized for rebellion.

Colonization

Christopher Caldwell writes that "'colonization' well describes the influx of the past half-century".

Doole, Texas

For nearly a half-century he was a chute director at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Ed Joyce

He totalled 288 runs in nine matches at an average of 32.00, including his maiden half-century in the losing run-chase against New Zealand at Perth.

Etichonids

In the 10th century the Etichonids remained powerful in Alsace as counts, but their power was circumscribed significantly by the Ottonians and by the 11th century, Pope Leo IX seems unaware that his ancestors, the lords (or counts) of Dabo and Eguisheim for the previous half century were in fact the direct descendants of the last Etichonids.

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia

Once a Grand Duke (Farrar & Rinehart 1933) is a source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half-century.

Iran Bethel School

A landmark year was 1921 which brought a unique young American missionary, Jane Doolittle, whose commitment and dedication to Iran would guide the school through the better part of half century.

Jack Robert Nuzum

Judge Jack R. Nuzum was married for nearly a half century to Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004), the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia and interviewer of U.S. Presidents.

Joe Verdeur

Legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice called Verdeur "the greatest swimmer of the first half century."

John Carnac Morris

On the conclusion of the war in 1815 his father sent a note to his captain, George Sartorius: "Your trade is up for the next half-century. Send my son John home by the next coach".

Kadeer Ali

However, his form was disappointing, his only half-century of the tour the 56 he made against Tamil Nadu.

Kamekichi Tokita

Paintings of his were included in 1994's The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 at the Japanese American National Museum, in Los Angeles; and in 1995's Japanese and Japanese American Painters in the United States, 1896-1945: A Half Century of Hope and Suffering, which showed in Japan at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Oita Prefectural Art Hall, and the Hiroshima Museum of Art.

Kato's conjecture

The problem remained unresolved for nearly a half-century, until it was jointly solved in 2001 by Pascal Auscher, Steve Hofmann, Michael Lacey, Alan McIntosh, and Philippe Tchamitchian.

Luodong, Yilan

Its name derives from the Kavalan word rutung, meaning "monkey", referring to a large population of monkeys there half century ago.

Mark Cosgrove

Cosgrove debuted internationally with a One Day International against Bangladesh at Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah on 28 April 2006, responding with an aggressive half-century.

New Ipswich, New Hampshire

In the past half century, a notable influx of peoples of Finnish descent, particularly of the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America, have settled in New Ipswich.

Normative ethics

There has been a significant revival of virtue ethics in the past half-century, through the work of such philosophers as G. E. M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Alasdair Macintyre, Mortimer J. Adler, Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, and Rosalind Hursthouse.

Octatonic scale

1879 (Kahan 2009), which preceded Vito Frazzi's Scale alternate per pianoforte of 1930 by a full half-century (Sanguinetti 1993).

Preston Mommsen

He was stand-in captain against Kenya match where Mommsen took his time getting set striking only one four on his way to a half-century off 81 balls as Scotland clinched their third World Cup berth in dramatic fashion with a tense three-wicket win over Kenya with three balls to spare at Hagley Oval.

Relations between Catholicism and Judaism

According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, "In the following forty years, Christians and Jews were to come together more closely than at perhaps any other time since the half-century after Christ had died.

Rohan Kanhai

In the 1975 World Cup final, when he was grey-haired and 40, his steady half-century set the platform for an explosive innings by Clive Lloyd.

Sam Spurway

The lower-order batsman, who was the preferred wicket-keeper over team-mate Carl Gazzard, continued to pull in impressive performances in the lower-order, none more so than when he was halted in the middle of a run towards his first half-century on 44* in a record-setting Somerset innings of 850-7 declared in April 2007.

Steve Franken

Stephen Robert "Steve" Franken (May 27, 1932 – August 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared on screen and television for a half century.

Sussex County Cricket Club in 2005

Yardy went on to make a half-century, as did wicket-keeper Matthew Prior and Robin Martin-Jenkins, but no-one went further than 66 on the second day, as Sussex were dismissed for 379.

Taman Molek

A little known fact about Taman Molek is that for about half century it was the site of the main transmitting station of the BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation in the Far East - known locally as BBC Tebrau - before this was relocated to Singapore.

The Woodlanders

It was declared by the Saturday Review in April 1887 to be, "the best novel that Hardy has written", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "his loveliest if not his finest book", by William Lyon Phelps, "the most beautiful and most noble of Hardy's novels", and by A. Edward Newton, "one of the best novels of the last half century".

Williams–DuBois House

The Federal style was in ascendance, and builders were often asked to copy the similar Adamesque mode popular in Britain for the preceding half-century.