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51golf — golfer, n. /golf, gawlf/; Brit. also /gof/, n. 1. a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having… …
52The Staunton-Morphy controversy — concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations of the actions of the two players. The details of the events are not universally agreed, and accounts and… …
53poker — poker1 /poh keuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that pokes. 2. a metal rod for poking or stirring a fire. [1525 35; POKE1 + ER1] poker2 /poh keuhr/, n. a card game played by two or more persons, in which the players bet on the value of their hands,… …
54United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
55GAMBLING — was known to the ancient world. Games of chance were an appreciated pastime, often turning into addiction, among the Greeks – Herodotus relates that the Lydians supposedly invented some games (History 1:94); among the Romans, who are known to… …
56Calendar of 2000 — ▪ 2001 January We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats. Never before have we had such… …
57Wilhelm Steinitz — Infobox chess player playername = Wilhelm Steinitz caption= birthname = Wilhelm Steinitz country = flag|Austrian Empire USA datebirth = birth date|1836|5|17 placebirth = Prague, Bohemia datedeath = death date and age|1900|8|12|1836|5|7 placedeath …
58Daniel Negreanu — Negreanu at the 2007 World Series of Poker Nickname(s) Kid Poker[1] Hometown Toronto, Ontario …
59Calendar of 2002 — ▪ 2003 January I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world s most destructive… …
60Poker tournament — 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event A home poker tournamen …
