Word: augusta
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...chipped silver disc about the size of a dime. On one side, it is stamped with a cross; on the other, with a stylized animal head. Found in 1961 by an amateur archaeologist named Guy Mellgren, the coin was turned over Animal head to the Maine State Museum in Augusta four years ago and described as a 12th century English coin. But Riley Sunderland, a retired military historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with Peter Seaby, a noted British numismatist. After examining photographs, Seaby...
...company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
Gary Player won his third Masters on Sunday with a final round tour de force that shattered the serene ante-bellum atmosphere of the Augusta National Golf Club...
Player's sixth sense has been invaluable for a golfer who regularly plays in championships on every continent. This year he won his tenth South African Open. On Sunday he displayed all of his dexterity in gauging the manifold contours of Augusta's greens, which hold approach shots much better than the hard greens of South African courses...
...over the years is uniquely fitting. The course was designed by Alister Mackenzie, an Englishman who had fought in the Boer War. Mackenzie was deply impressed with the Boers' ability to consistently ambush the British forces because of their familiarity with the terrain. When it came time to design Augusta, he was inspired by the subtle techniques of camouflaging he had learned in South Africa...