But the really surprising twist to this unlikely story: the carwasheros, as they call themselves, won.
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The Pacific Division won the tournament last year, but the weekend was dominated by the unlikely story of Scott.
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Separately, here's the unlikely story of Ekpe Udoh, an American basketball player, who became a cult hero in Turkey.
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The film tells the unlikely story of the discovery of one of the most revolutionary technologies of the modern era.
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Now, from Nicholas Confessore in The New York Times, we have the unlikely story of how the privacy act came about.
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It is an unlikely story of hope emanating from the very county that, in 2016, so resoundingly announced the era of Trump.
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Those problems, however, seemed secondary to the unlikely story of a first baseman playing an important role in a vital Yankees win.
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It&aposs an unlikely story of viral fame from an app that&aposs mostly known for lip-syncing teens and stunt comedy.
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It might sound like the start of a joke, but it's actually the beginning of an unlikely story that recently played out in Queensland, Australia.
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The video above tracks the origin of the peacock wicker chair portrait and tells the unlikely story of where this unique giant chair came from.
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There are important lessons in the unlikely story of how the world came to mitigate the effects of a ticking time bomb under modern civilization.
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The presence of the Jamaicans revived memories of their men's bobsleigh team in Calgary in 1988, an unlikely story which inspired the 1993 film "Cool Runnings".
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But against that backdrop is why the unlikely story of Sheehy-Guiseppi, a young man pursuing his American dream and overcoming countless obstacles, is so welcome.
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Still others may really believe their own unlikely story about how if Planned Parenthood went out of business, women could just go somewhere else for care.
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I recently sat down with him in his bustling bakery, located in the graffiti-splattered section of Miami called Wynwood, where he told me his unlikely story.
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The unlikely story begins with KT Corporation (KT), a South Korean telecoms giant, which started helping to form the backbone to Rwanda's communications infrastructure a decade ago.
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The rest of us won't have as much patience for the show's excessively convoluted, repetitive and unlikely story, or for the narrative gimmick reflected in its title.
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In 2015, he was released with the help of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, and The Sun Does Shine is the unlikely story of his transformation in prison.
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After telling the team Smeltzer's unlikely story, Utley and the pitching prospect had a chance to reunite, more than a decade after taking their picture together in Philadelphia.
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He tries to feed her the same unlikely story he and Claire have been serving up to everyone, but doesn't count on one small detail: Jenny knows Claire.
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In a period in which Anglo-British relations are under renewed strain, Kettering's triumph over Lohan's Hollywood PR machine is an unlikely story of British pluck and stoicism.
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This attempted fusion with Melville parallels an unlikely story Dylan tells early in the lecture about going to one of Buddy Holly's last concerts and making a personal connection.
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The incredibly unlikely story of Genie Bouchard's popular fling with a 20-year-old fan is heading to the silver screen with a movie adaptation ... the Canadian pro confirmed Tuesday.
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It's an unlikely story based on a real one: the remarkable life of Margaret Fishback, an outspoken protofeminist who also met the demands of her era by being a wife and mother.
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Nestled in the historic Falk's Market, the indie bookstore and café An Unlikely Story is owned by Jeff Kinney (author of the children's series Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and his wife Julie.
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Years later, and with Hollywood recreating their unlikely story of triumph in the face of adversity, Fliehler says Caroline's "will to live" is one of the things she remembers most about her best friend.
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Kaz, who has ambitions of running for office, is drawn to Noni's off-stage persona, and Beyond the Lights is the unlikely story of two people from different worlds figuring out how to live as one.
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The unlikely story of a former grade school teacher launching a hip and trendy, millennial and Gen Z-focused sunscreen company begins with as earnest a mission as you can imagine: She just wanted people to wear more sunscreen.
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If you wanted to pitch Questioning Minds to Hollywood, it would undoubtedly be as a buddy comedy: the unlikely story of how a randy bisexual utopian teamed up with a crusty right-wing Roman Catholic to solve the mysteries of modernism.
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And during an interview with CNN on Thursday, as his team of staffers planned his first trip to Iowa on 2019, Hickenlooper appeared more resolute to make his unlikely story of geologist-turned-brewer-turned-politician include a run at the White House.
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Washington (CNN)When police Officer Ryan Holets shared the riveting and unlikely story of how his family last year adopted a baby born to a homeless woman addicted to heroin, he could not imagine that his story also captured the eyes of the White House.
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The unlikely story of how Mr. Dawkins, a recovering addict and confessed killer, landed a major book deal is a strange inversion of the usual prison-writing trajectory: Mr. Dawkins began as writer, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree before he committed his crime.
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ARCHDUKE This world premiere by the Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph ("Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo") is about three strangers in 1914 Belgrade who learn they have tuberculosis, and the unlikely story that leads to them inciting World War I. Giovanna Sardelli will direct the Center Theatre Group commission.
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Nonetheless, this fascinating 2013 book by the best-selling author of acclaimed biographies of Charles Lindbergh and Katharine Hepburn tells the tumultuous and unlikely story of the rise and terrible fall of our 28th president, who catapulted from the presidency of Princeton University to the governorship of New Jersey and into the Oval Office, with shockingly little government experience.
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Here's a Tumblr post celebrating the musical theater characters and hip-hop legends that Miranda combined in order to create the characters from Hamilton, according to Miranda's descriptions of them in his now-famous original casting notices: In fandom terms, these amalgams are known as a "crossover," the union of unlikely story elements or character traits that work surprisingly well together.
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"Making Sales from an Unlikely Story", Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
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Amir D. Aczel (2001), Entanglement: the unlikely story of how scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers proved Einstein's spookiest theory. Penguin: paperback, 284 pages, index.
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According to TV Guide, "Formby's comic talents give the unlikely story a few fun moments, though the film is for the most part a hit-and-miss effort".
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Guitar Days - An Unlikely Story of Brazilian Music is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film directed by Caio Augusto Braga. Released in 2019 at Festival In-Edit Brasil, the film depicts the story of Brazilian indie rock predecessors, the guitar bands, and the current alternative rock scenario in the country.
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He was crowned with the throne name Innocent VI on 30 December 1352.J. P. Adams, Sede Vacante 1352. Retrieved: 2016-06-30. There is a myth that another person was first considered for the position, Dom Jean Birel, the twenty-second Superior General of the Carthusians, but this unlikely story has been successfully refuted.
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With Bernie Mojzes she co-edited the e-magazine Unlikely Story from 2011 to 2015 and the anthology Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix (2016). She writes several review columns; "Women to Read" (originally appearing in SF Signal) and "non-Binary Authors to Read" for The Book Smugglers blog, and "Words for Thought" for Apex Magazine.
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They decide to split the money, abandon Mary Celeste, and seek new lives in Spain, which they reach by using the steamer's lifeboats. Hastings finds it astonishing that such an unlikely story was widely believed for a time; readers, he says, "were fooled by the magic of print." Chambers's Journal of September 17, 1904 suggests that the entire complement of Mary Celeste was plucked off one by one by a giant octopus or squid.Fay, p.
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On Christmas Day, 2012, Lokos and his wife Susanna Weiss boarded Air Bagan Flight 11 which crashed while landing in Myanmar. Doctors in four countries said that he could not possibly survive his injuries. Yet he did and has gone on to thrive in his teaching and writing. This is considered to be an unlikely story, as only one passenger died in the crash, so fatal injuries are very unlikely to have been sustained.
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The Vita Calvini of Jean Papire Masson was often incorrectly attributed to Gillot in the 17th century. The Traictez des droicts et libertez de L'Eglise gallicane (1609) is traditionally attributed to Gillot, but on unclear grounds. Gillot was a correspondent of Paolo Sarpi, and was one of the anti-Jesuit circle that circulated the unlikely story of Pierre Coton and the questions he had supposedly prepared to ask an exorcised spirit. Others in his correspondence network were Isaac Casaubon and Joseph Scaliger.
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Daniel's Mill, a well known watermill is situated a short distance along the River Severn from Bridgnorth. The remains an old hermitage can be seen from the high town, they are commonly called The Queens Parlor by locals. One local legend tells of its occupation in AD 925 by a hermit called Ethelred or Ethelwald, a grandson to Alfred the Great. This may not be such an unlikely story as Bridgnorth was founded in 912 by Alfred the Greats Daughter Ethelfleda.
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Akikan (”Empty Can”) is the unlikely story of high school boy Kakeru Daichi, whose can of melon soda magically transforms into a human girl. More "akikan" girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from their respective drink types to survive. The akikans were created as part of the 'Akikan Elect' to determine whether steel cans or aluminium cans are superior. The akikans must battle each other until only the strongest type is left standing.
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Countess Hodierna is said to have come down from her castle on hearing the news, and Rudel died in her arms. This romantic but unlikely story seems to have been derived from the enigmatic nature of Rudel's verse and his presumed death on the Crusade. Seven of Rudel's poems have survived to the present day, four of them with music. His composition Lanquan li jorn is thought to be the model for the Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide's crusade song Allerest lebe ich mir werde (Palästinalied).
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115 One of his daughters, Helen, married John Macdonell, 12th chief of Glengarry; another daughter Isabel married Donald Macdonell of Lochgarry, colonel of Glengarry's regiment in 1745. His long service as a Jacobite rebel meant that "Old Glenbucket" was a central figure in the romanticised popular history of Jacobitism; a popular though unlikely story is that he used to give King George II nightmares.Barclay, W. Cambridge County Geographies: Banffshire, Cambridge UP, p.80 A more balanced assessment of his career reveals "a very brave man but perhaps [...] a little too 'canny'".
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Joseph had decided to produce a film on the unlikely story of a young man who confuses his love with a ghost. He was convinced that it would make a great story, but his partners did not like the idea, so they parted ways. ‘Yakshi’, based on a story written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, turned out to be a big hit, and established the new banner, Manjilas after the family name, as a new household name in Kerala. The film was noted for its excellent cinematography, by Melli Irani.
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Aunt T. gives Earl a picture of Willa Mae which he keeps near. Earl begins to accept his new family with pride, and he convinces Ray to return to their Arkansas hometown to find their mother's grave. As they share a drink, standing over her grave marker, Earl decides to take Ray to meet his southern family and tell them the unlikely story, ending the movie by joking with Ray that when Earl's white nephew finds out he is part black, he will likely want to fight the both of them.
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In 2003, two baby girls were found in a cardboard box in a southern Chinese village. They were taken to an orphanage in Changsha, Hunan Province, China "From California to Norway, twins have an unmistakable bond : Documentary chronicles the unlikely story of 11-year-old adopted girls, who were separated by the system in China.", The Sacramento Bee newspaper, October 15, 2014 and were individually adopted by two families. One of them (Alexandra Hauglum) went to live in the small village of Freskvik, Norway, surrounded by high mountains and deep fjords.
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Valerii stated that it was absurd for the mafia to attempt to take over a company that was at a loss and read about a car engine that would work for less fuel was being tested on and suggested Kumada to make a story about that. Valerii stated that "it was an unlikely story, but it worked well in Japan." Beatrice Ring was cast in the film, but was not the first choice for the role. She had the interview with Tonino Valerii right after finishing work on Lamberto Bava's film Graveyard Disturbance.
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This unlikely story seems credible as it was reported in "The Near East, Volume 16" in early 1919 that "Major Norman Coates, M.C., of Newton Manor, Swanage, who arrived in England early in December, has left London for Egypt". After the end of the war he continued in the Army as Assistant Adjutant-General at the headquarters of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1919, and then Military Secretary to Lord Allenby. Leaving the army in September 1919, he held a special appointment at the War Office from 1920 to 1928, a form of volunteer reserve.
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The Zimbabwe Rowing team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was the first rowing team to represent their country at a Paralympic Games. The team entered the para mixed coxed four finishing last in their event. The team consisted of rowers Margret Bangajena, Michelle Garnett, Takudzwa Gwariro and Previous Wiri and their cox Jessica Davis. Managed by Davis' mother, Rachel Davies, the team captured the imagination of the press due to the unlikely story of the crew's formation and the hardships they faced on reaching the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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According to the legendary Vida of the troubadour Jaufré Rudel of Blaye, the legend of her beauty, brought back to France by pilgrims, inspired Rudel's songs of amor de lonh -- "distant love". The story claims that he took part in the Second Crusade in order to see her, but fell sick and was brought ashore dying. Hodierna is said to have come down from her castle on hearing the news, and Rudel died in her arms. This romantic but unlikely story seems to have been derived from the enigmatic nature of Rudel's verse and his presumed death on the Crusade.
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Based on a biography by Northern Virginia Community College history professor Terry Alford, Prince Among Slaves chronicles Abdul-Rahman's real life African- Muslim-prince-turned-American-slave drama cycle with historic and scholastic commentary along the way. The story begins with Prince's capture at the age of 26 during a military campaign against non-Muslims in Guinea in 1788, and follows his sale to British slave traders, transport to America on the slave ship Africa to New Orleans, arrival into bondage at Thomas Foster's tobacco plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, the ensuing 40 years of enslavement and his eventual liberation. The unlikely story of his liberation began with a chance meeting with Dr. John Cox, who Abdul-Rahman's father helped in Africa. Cox offered to buy Abdul-Rahman from Foster, but he refused.
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Yoachim started writing speculative fiction in 2005 and attended the 2006 Clarion West Writers' Workshop. She has been active as an author since 2007 when her first published short story, "Time to Say Goodnight", appeared in the December issue of Fantasy Magazine. She has collaborated on a few pieces with Tina Connolly. Yoachim's work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex Magazine, Artemis Rising, Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Drabblecast, Electric Velocipede, Escape Pod, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside, Flash Fiction Online, Gigantosaurus, Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Humanity 2.0, Infinity Wars, Interzone, Kazka, Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mechanical Animals, Nature, Nebula Awards Showcase 2018, Oceans: The Anthology, Sum of Us, PoC Destroy Science Fiction, Selfies From the End of the World, Shimmer, Talebones, Uncanny, Unidentified Funny Objects and Unlikely Story.
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Prosperous now, but deeply dissatisfied with a life of material comfort, her marriage in ruins, de Hueck began to feel the promptings of a deeper call through a passage that leaped to her eyes every time she opened the Bible: "Arise — go... sell all you possess... take up your cross and follow Me." Consulting with various priests and the bishop of the diocese, she began her lay apostolate among the poor. In 1932, she gave up all her possessions, lived among the multitude of poor people in downtown Toronto and established Friendship House with its soup kitchen. She gave food to them when she had none for herself – and offered Catholic education and fellowship, too. She was tagged as a communist sympathizer and, beleaguered by her own organization,Jacobs, Donna,"The Unlikely Story of Catherine de Hueck", The Ottawa Citizen; July 9, 2007 Friendship House was forced to close in 1936.
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