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...Whenever you can be one goal better than somebody, at least, then good things are going on.”For Kessler—who made 21 saves on the evening—the clean sheet was her ninth shutout of the season as well as the 12th of her career. After having already broken Ali Boe ’06’s single season Harvard record of seven in last Sunday’s 4-0 win over Dartmouth, Kessler now stands only three shutouts shy of Boe’s Crimson career record of 15. Kessler also...
...film is based on the 1968 comic book of the same name, which was the 12th in the series of 33 about Asterix and his portly friend Obelix, who travel to Olympia in Greece to compete in the games...
...were away,” co-captain Lindsay Hart said of the team’s strong performance, The meet was only the Crimson’s second after a tough training trip to Florida over winter break. Harvard defeated Penn by a similar 199-96 count on January 12th. “We are still coming off a lot of dry land [training],” said Hart. “Everyone was feeling sore and broken down but really stepped up and swam well in this meet.” A mix of rookies and veterans kicked...
...radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account of King Arthur was in fact a translation of an early work in Welsh - one that nobody else has ever been able to unearth. Geoffrey's "pseudo history," writes Burrow, dressed up myth as fact, thereby launching Arthur and his knights as potent symbols of Britain's "emerging ethos...
...custom of grooms arriving on horseback dates to the 12th century, when Prithviraj Chauhan, a Rajput ruler of north India, eloped on horseback with his lover Sanyogita, daughter of a rival ruler. It has since become a time-honored tradition for north Indian grooms to whisk away their brides on a shining white mare - mare, not horse, as a mare is considered auspicious, although it is an open secret that the mare is often substituted by a castrated horse. But for those looking to flaunt their wealth, a mare just doesn't cut it when there's an elephant...