Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those morning people, try the Harvard and Radcliffe crew teams, which last year both finished first at the Eastern Sprints and second at the Henley Regatta in England. Although crew is a spring sport, the biggest crew event comes in the fall, when zillions of drunk and obnoxious prep school kids invade Cambridge for the Head of the Charles Regatta. No one actually watches the race, just sit on the shore and people-watch...
Emotions don't run quite as high in Foxboro, where the National Football League's New England Patriots play their home games in the fall. The Patriots have followed the style of Coach Raymond Berry in the last few seasons: bland, boring and beaten...
...England hasn't been that bad, but sometimes you wish it would be. Last season's squad actually almost made the playoffs behind a game plan of run, run, run. For professional fans, that means yawn, yawn, yawn...
Stopping in Cyprus on his way home to England, a Palestinian traveler fell into conversation with the distraught Ahmed and alerted the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in London of Ahmed's plight. Ahmed was soon assured by UNHCR that he would receive assistance in Cairo, so he flew back to Egypt. But when the Egyptians tried to send him to Somalia, Ahmed kicked and screamed. The Somalian Ambassador was called in, and he acknowledged that Ahmed would be imprisoned if he landed in Somalia. So the Ethiopian was returned to Cyprus...
...Aztecs, the sun god was Huitzilopochtli, whom they nourished with human sacrifices. Egypt's great pyramids at Giza were built with their sides aligned with the rising sun at the vernal equinox, and the temple complex at Karnak was dedicated to Ra. The ancient circle at Stonehenge, in England, was apparently constructed so that the sun would rise over one of the great stones at the time of the summer solstice...