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Nairn Makes Headway With Knot; Bump on the Noggin Can't Knock Local Sailor Off Mighty Mary
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There's been some confusion about exactly whose names Susie Leech
Nairn forgot after she was cracked on the head by a shattering carbon
fiber spinnaker pole on the way to beating Dennis Conner's Stars &
Stripes in America's Cup trials the other day.
"Somebody said I forgot my own name but I don't think that's
really true," said the 29-year-old bowman on the mostly women's team
on Mighty Mary, who is still a little fuzzy about details of the
incident.
"Then they said I couldn't remember the other people on the crew,
and I did have a hard time with some. I remember looking at Leslie
{skipper ...
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Antiques/collecting: Original Stravinsky manuscript set to fetch record auction price.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...of the greatest autographs of Stravinsky ever to be offered at auction...orchestras throughout the world.' Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was born in Russia in 1882...s musical connections young Igor met Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov...
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Symphony offers musical prelude to 'Czars'
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal
; ...prevented Mussorgsky from completing many of his works. Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, whose "Suite from 'The Firebird' " will be...under the reign of the last czar, Nicholas II. Stravinsky then became an expatriate following the Russian...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Births: Adam Smith, political economist, 1723; Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, 1882; John Maynard Keynes, first Baron Keynes, 1883; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1884; Federico Garca...
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