Why is 87 unlucky

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Why Australians dread the number 87 in cricket? While the rest of the world dreads the number 13, Australian cricket fears number So Nelson, son of a Norfolk parson, was afforded the pomp and ceremony of a full State Funeral: the first non-royal recipient of such an honour.

As was custom, the funeral was arranged by the College of Arms, which oversaw the important heraldic rituals of the ancient ceremony.

The bowels were then removed, as they were in a state of decay. While Dr Beatty was doing this, he found the ball that had killed Nelson. In the great love of her life, Nelson, was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. After her release she fled to Calais with Horatia, where she died in GREG Norman is not the only big-name sportsman to be out of pocket big time this year because of a divorce settlement.

AS RARE as they are for some, golf holes in one happen regularly, so it takes a special one to rate a mention here. Here's a bloke who qualifies and easily so — Doug Reid , who aced the metre par-three fifth at Kingston Heath Golf Club. It was drinks all round in the bar that night — not only is Doug a year-old war veteran, but he is also legally blind. Onya, ol' fella! WORD just in that there was about as much scoring off the field — very little — as there was on the field during soccer's World Cup last year.

Hospitals in Germany anticipated a surge in births early this year, nine months after parties and goodwill associated with the cup, but instead there were fewer births this year than during the first six months of Why 87 is anything but Australian cricket's magic number. Please try again later. The Age.