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4 unusual facts about toss


Andrew III of Hungary

Elizabeth (1292 – 6 May 1338, Töss, Switzerland), nun in the Dominican monastery in Töss

Fenenna of Kuyavia

When King Andrew III died in 1301, Elizabeth was taken by her stepmother Agnes to Austria and forced by her to join the Dominican monastery in Töss, Switzerland, where she died in 1338 as the last representative of the Arpad dynasty.

In 1292, Fenenna gave birth her only child, a daughter named Elizabeth.

Jakob Ceporin

Around the second half of 1523, Ceporin married Elsbeth Scherer, a former Dominican nun of the monastery of Töss.


1960 American Football League Championship Game

In the final quarter, Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon caught a short toss from Blanda and went for an 88-yard touchdown scamper.

1980 WAFL Grand Final

South Fremantle won the toss and kicked into the light wind in the first quarter.

2011 Army Black Knights football team

Former Rutgers player Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed in last season's contest between the two teams appeared prior to the game to perform the honorary coin toss.

Ball of the Century

English captain Graham Gooch won the toss and elected to bowl first, hoping to use the pitch conditions to make batting difficult for the Australians.

Brad Schneider

The non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report reported the 10th district election as "Leans Democrat" while Roll Call categorized the race as a toss up.

Eric Bedser

A flip of the coin saw Alec win the toss, and Eric consequently took up off-spin bowling, for which he became very adept in a Surrey county team that was dominated by famous spinners such as Jim Laker and Tony Lock, and concentrated on his batting.

Evgeny Aydamirov

He held the junior world record with 82.62 metres with the 6 kg until Javier Cienfuegos beat it with an 82.96 toss in 2009.

Hampshire County Cricket Club in 2005

Hampshire won the toss and chose to bat at a Southgate wicket which the final scores suggested to be not as batting-friendly as a month ago, when 13 wickets fell in the Championship match between Middlesex and Glamorgan.

Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005–06

The Indians won the toss and chose to bat at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore, and in 77 overs on the first day, they made 298 for four after half-centuries from Gautam Gambhir, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar.

Jim McIngvale

Gallery Furniture, prompted by McIngvale, ran a promotion for Super Bowl XLVIII promising customers a full refund on any purchase of more than $6,000 if the Seattle Seahawks, selected as the team of choice by a coin toss, won the Super Bowl.

Laxman Sivaramakrishnan

The only wicket that he took was that of Zimbabwean John Traicos, caught at midwicket by Gavaskar off a full toss.

Mucker

Muckers also known as ring toss (not to be confused with the ring toss carnival game) or circle horseshoes, is an outdoor game, commonly played at summer camps.

My Boomerang Won't Come Back

The tune concerns a young Aboriginal lad (with Drake's signature Cockney accent) cast out by his tribe due to his inability to toss a boomerang.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Paul Spicer

The producers of the movie needed a burly security guard who could toss Fallon out of an airplane for a scene at Jacksonville International Airport.

Pong Toss! Frat Party Games

The Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal sent a letter which criticized the ESRB for its Teen rating of Pong Toss.

Randall Garrison

This January 2006 election was again considered a toss-up and as a result CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup broadcast a show highlighting the riding and the candidates.

Saad Hafeez

In the match, held at Old London Road in Copdock, Suffolk, Denmark won the toss and elected to bat first, making 112 all out from 28.4 overs against their minor county opponents, with Hafeez scoring 9 runs before he was dismissed by Ian Graham.

SWALEC Stadium

England winning the toss decided to bat first, with Andrew Strauss scoring the first test runs scored at the venue and Ben Hilfenhaus taking the first wicket.

Terry Whitfield

Whitfield also runs a youth baseball camp and is the inventor of a soft-toss machine called the "Terry-Toss", which can be found at Future Pro Baseball; in California's Great America, an amusement park in Santa Clara; and as a fan attraction at professional stadiums in California such as AT&T Park in San Francisco and Oakland Coliseum in Oakland.

The Corrs: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Mick Fleetwood join The Corrs on Stage For Dreams, Haste To The Wedding and Toss The Feathers.

Trams in Winterthur

It served as a complement to the existing Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway line, which had been in service since 1876, and which already had a station at Töss.

Yip Yip Yaphank

He called for his friend and co-worker Harry Ruby to join him in writing down the flurry of songs that Berlin would create, including "God Bless America," which Berlin would eventually toss out of the play for being too sticky.


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