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Unofficially, the Streak probably began in the late '60s in the basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss...
Myrbeck was also knighted by the King Gustav VI of Sweden for cultivating relations between Sweden and the United States...
According to Article VI, Section One of the council's constitution: "Any of the council's constitution: "Any document or record produced by the council or any department shall be a matter of public record...
...Agca. John Paul has written an apostolic letter on the supernatural value of human suffering in which he teaches, "Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ." Though he does not mortify his flesh with a hair shirt -- as Paul VI sometimes did -- he clearly sees his own physical ailments in this light...
...responsibilities he has to bear. "I remember when he was elected. A friend called me and said, 'Wojtyla's the new Pope.' I was so shocked that I didn't respond. My friend hung up, and then I just cried, because I remembered the anguished face of Paul VI...