Sunday, 31 October 2010

Rugby Union - England victories over the All Blacks










In 105 years England have beaten New Zealand just seven times;

1936 - England 13 New Zealand 0
1973 - New Zealand 10 England 16
1983 - England 15 New Zealand 9
1993 - England 15 New Zealand 9
2002 - England 31 New Zealand 28
2003 - New Zealand 10 England 16
2012 - England 38 New Zealand 21

Friday, 15 October 2010

The Ryder Cup - Year / Locations / Winners / Scores / Captains


Year - Venue - Winning Team
Score (Captains)


2012 - Medinah Country Club, Course No.3 (Medinah, Illinois - United States)
(USA Davis Love III - Europe José María Olazábal)

2010 - Celtic Manor Resort, Twenty Ten Course(Newport, Wales) - Europe
Europe 14½ - 13½ USA (USA Corey Pavin - Europe Colin Montgomerie)

2008 - Valhalla Golf Club(Louisville, Kentucky - United States)
USA 16½ - 11½ Europe (USA Paul Azinger - Europe Nick Faldo)

2006 - The K Club, Palmer Course(Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland) - Europe
Europe 18½ - 9½ USA (USA Tom Lehman - Europe Ian Woosnam)

2004 - Oakland Hills Country Club, South Course(Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) - Europe Europe 18½ - 9½ USA (USA Hal Sutton - Europe Bernhard Langer)

2002 - The Belfry, Brabazon Course(Wishaw, Warwickshire, England) - Europe
Europe 15½ - 12½ USA (USA Curtis Strange - Europe Sam Torrance)

1999 - The Country Club, Composite Course (Brookline, Massachusetts) - USA
USA 14½ - 13½ Europe (USA Ben Crenshaw - Europe Mark James)

1997 - Valderrama GC, Sotogrande(Andalusia, Spain) - Europe
Europe 14½ - 13½ USA (USA Tom Kite - Europe Seve Ballesteros)

1995 - Oak Hill CC, East Course (Rochester, New York) - Europe
Europe 14½ - 13½ USA (USA Lanny Wadkins - Europe Bernard Gallacher)

1993 - The Belfry, Brabazon Course (Wishaw, Warwickshire, England)- USA
USA 15 - 13 Europe (USA Tom Watson - Europe Bernard Gallacher)

1991 - Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Ocean Course(Kiawah Island, South Carolina) - USA
USA 14½ - 13½ Europe (USA Dave Stockton - Europe Bernard Gallacher)

1989 - The Belfry, Brabazon Course (Wishaw, Warwickshire, England) - Europe (Tie)
Europe 14 - 14 USA (USA Ray Floyd - Europe Tony Jacklin)

1987 - Muirfield Village(Dublin, Ohio) - Europe
Europe 15 - 13 USA (USA Jack Nicklaus - Europe Tony Jacklin)

1985 - The Belfry, Brabazon Course (Wishaw, Warwickshire, England) - Europe
Europe 16½ - 11½ USA (USA Lee Trevino - Europe Tony Jacklin)

1983 - PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) - USA
USA 14½ - 13½ Europe (USA Jack Nicklaus - Europe Tony Jacklin)

1981 - Walton Heath Golf Club(Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England) - USA
USA 18½ - 9½ Europe (United States Dave Marr - Europe John Jacobs)

1979 - The Greenbrier, The Greenbrier Course(White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia) - USA
USA 17 - 11 Europe (USA Billy Casper - Europe John Jacobs)

1977 - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club (Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England) - USA
USA 12½ - 7½ UK & Ireland (USA Dow Finsterwald - UK & Ireland Brian Huggett)

1975 - Laurel Valley Golf Club (Ligonier, Pennsylvania) - USA
USA 21 - 11 UK & Ireland (USA Arnold Palmer - UK & Ireland Bernard Hunt)

1973 - Muirfield Links(Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland) - USA
USA 19 - 13 UK & Ireland (USAJack Burke, Jr. - UK & Ireland Bernard Hunt)

1971 - Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri) - USA
USA 18½ - 13½ UK (USA Jay Hebert - UK Eric Brown)

1969 - Royal Birkdale Golf Club (Southport, England) - USA (Tie)
USA 16 - 16 UK (USA Sam Snead - UK Eric Brown)

1967 - Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas) - USA
USA 23½ - 8½ UK (USA Ben Hogan - UK Dai Rees)

1965 - Royal Birkdale Golf Club(Southport, Lancashire, England) - USA
USA 19½ - 12½ UK (USA Byron Nelson - UK Harry Weetman)

1963 - Atlanta Athletic Club (Atlanta, Georgia) - USA
USA 23 - 9 UK (USA Arnold Palmer - UK John Fallon)

1961 - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club (Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England) - USA
USA 14½ - 9½ UK (USA Jerry Barber - Dai Rees)

1959 - Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California) - USA
USA 8½ - 3½ UK (USA Sam Snead - UK Dai Rees)

1957 - Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire, England) - UK
UK 7½ - 4½ USA (USA Jack Burke, Jr. - USA Dai Rees)

1955 - Thunderbird Country Club (Rancho Mirage, California) - USA
USA 8 - 4 UK ( USA Chick Harbert - UK Dai Rees)

1953 - Wentworth Club (Virginia Water, Surrey, England) - USA
USA 6½ - 5½ UK (USA Lloyd Mangrum - UK Henry Cotton)

1951 - Pinehurst Resort, Course No. 2 (Pinehurst, North Carolina) - USA
USA 9½ - 2½ UK (USA Sam Snead - UK Arthur Lacey)

1949 - Ganton Golf Club (Scarborough, Yorkshire, England) - USA
USA 7 - 5 UK (USA Ben Hogan - UK Charles Whitcombe)

1947 - Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon) - USA
USA 11 - 1 UK (USA Ben Hogan - UK Henry Cotton)

1937 - Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club(Southport, Lancashire, England) - USA
USA 8 - 4 UK (USA Walter Hagen - UK Charles Whitcombe)

1935 - Ridgewood Country Club(Paramus, New Jersey) - USA
USA 9 - 3 UK (USA Walter Hagen - UK Charles Whitcombe)

1933 - Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club (Southport, Lancashire, England) - UK
UK 6½ - 5½ (USA Walter Hagen - UK John Henry Taylor)

1931 - Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio) - USA
USA 9 - 3 UK (USA Walter Hagen - UK Charles Whitcombe)

1929 - Moortown Golf Club (Leeds, Yorkshire, England) - UK
UK 7 - 5 USA ( USA Walter Hagen - UK George Duncan)

1927 - Worcester Country Club (Worcester, Massachusetts) - USA
USA 9½ - 2½ UK (USA Walter Hagen - UK Ted Ray)

Summary
Team, Wins, Losses, Ties
USA, 25, 11, 2
Europe, 8, 7, 1
UK & Ireland, 0, 3, 0
UK, 3, 15, 1

Thursday, 14 October 2010

The 33 Chilean Miners


Here are the names and photographs of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days after part of the San Jose mine in Chile's Atacama desert collapses.
The names and photographs are in order of rescue (age).

Florencio Avalos (31)
Mario Sepulveda (39)
Juan Illanes (51)
Carlos Mamani (23)
Jimmy Sanchez (19)
Osman Araya (30)
Jose Ojeda (46)
Claudio Yanez (34)
Mario Gomez (63)
Alex Vega (31)
Jorge Galleguillos (56)
Edison Pena (34)
Carlos Barrios (27)
Victor Zamora (33)
Victor Segovia (48)
Daniel Herrera (27)
Omar Reygadas (56)
Esteban Rojas (44)
Pablo Rojas (45)
Dario Segovia (48)
Yonni Barrios (50)
Samuel Avalos (43)
Carlos Bugueno (27)
Jose Henriquez (54)
Renan Avalos (29)
Claudio Acuna (35)
Franklin Lobos (53)
Richard Villarroel (27)
Juan Aguilar (49)
Raul Bustos (40)
Pedro Cortez (24)
Ariel Ticona (29)
Luis Urzua (54)

Friday, 23 July 2010

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom


Sir Robert Walpole 1721 - 1742 Whig Party
The Earl of Wilmington 1742 – 1743 Whig Party
Henry Pelham 1743 – 1754 Whig Party
The Duke of Newcastle 1754 – 1756 Whig Party
The Duke of Devonshire 1756 – 1757 Whig Party
The Duke of Newcastle 1757 – 1762 Whig Party
The Earl of Bute 1762 – 1763 Tory Party
George Grenville 1763 – 1765 Whig Party
The Marquess of Rockingham 1765 – 1766 Whig Party
The Earl of Chatham “William Pitt the Elder” 1766 – 1768 Whig Party
The Duke of Grafton 1768 – 1770 Whig Party
Lord North 1770 – 1782 Tory Party
The Marquess of Rockingham 1782 – 1782 Whig Party
The Earl of Shelburne 1782 – 1783 Whig Party
The Duke of Portland 1783 – 1783 Whig Party
William Pitt The Younger 1783 – 1801 Tory Party
Henry Addington 1801 – 1804 Tory Party
William Pitt The Younger 1804 – 1806 Tory Party
The Lord Grenville 1807 – 1809 Tory Party
The Duke of Portland 1807 – 1809 Tory Party
Spencer Perceval 1809 – 1812 Tory Party
The Earl of Liverpool 1812 – 1827 Tory Party
George Canning 1827 – 1827 Tory Party
The Viscount Goderich 1827 – 1828 Tory Party
The Duke of Wellington 1828 – 1830 Tory Party
The Earl Grey 1830 – 1834 Whig Party
The Viscount Melbourne 1834 – 1834 Whig Party
The Duke of Wellington 1834 – 1834 Tory Party
Sir Robert Peel 1834 – 1835 Tory Party
The Viscount Melbourne 1835 – 1841 Whig Party
Sir Robert Peel 1841 – 1846 Tory Party
The Lord John Russell 1846 – 1852 Whig Party
The Earl of Derby 1852 – 1852 Tory Party
The Earl of Aberdeen 1852 – 1855 Peelite / Whig
The Viscount Palmerston 1855 – 1858 Whig Party
The Earl of Derby 1858 – 1859 Tory Party
The Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865 Liberal Party
The Earl Russell 1865 – 1866 Liberal Party
The Earl of Derby 1866 – 1868 Tory Party
Benjamin Disraeli 1868 – 1868 Tory Party
William Ewart Gladstone 1868 – 1874 Liberal Party
Benjamin Disraeli 1874 – 1880 Tory Party
William Ewart Gladstone 1880 – 1885 Liberal Party
The Marquess of Salisbury 1885 – 1886 Tory Party
William Ewart Gladstone 1886 – 1886 Liberal Party
The Marquess of Salisbury 1886 – 1892 Tory Party
William Ewart Gladstone 1892 – 1894 Liberal Party
The Earl of Rosebery 1894 – 1895 Liberal Party
The Marquess of Salisbury 1895 – 1902 Tory Party
Arthur Balfour 1902 – 1905 Tory Party
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905 – 1908 Liberal Party
H H Asquith 1908 – 1916 Liberal Party
David Lloyds George 1916 – 1922 Liberal Party
Andrew Bonar Law 1922 – 1923 Tory Party
Stanley Baldwin 1923 – 1924 Tory Party
Ramsey MacDonald 1924 – 1924 Labour Party
Stanley Baldwin 1924 – 1929 Tory Party
Ramsey MacDonald 1929 – 1931 Labour Party
Ramsey MacDonald 1931 – 1935 National Labour Party
Stanley Baldwin 1935 – 1937 Tory Party
Neville Chamberlain 1937 – 1940 Tory Party
Winston Churchill 1940 – 1945 Tory Party
Clement Attlee 1945 – 1951 Labour Party
Winston Churchill 1951 – 1955 Tory Party
Sir Anthony Eden 1955 – 1957 Tory Party
Harold Macmillan 1957 – 1963 Tory Party
Alec Douglas-Home 1963 – 1964 Tory Party
Harold Wilson 1964 – 1970 Labour Party
Edward Heath 1970 – 1974 Tory Party
Harold Wilson 1974 – 1976 Labour Party
James Callaghan 1976 – 1979 Labour Party
Margaret Thatcher 1979 – 1990 Tory Party
John Major 1990 – 1997 Tory Party
Tony Blair 1997 – 2007 Labour Party
Gordon Brown 2007 – 2010 Labour Party
David Cameron 2010 - Present Tory Party

A list of all the countries in the world (2010)

1 Afghanistan
2 Akrotiri
3 Albania
4 Algeria
5 American Samoa
6 Andorra
7 Angola
8 Anguilla
9 Antarctica
10 Antigua and Barbuda
11 Argentina
12 Armenia
13 Aruba
14 Ashmore and Cartier Islands
15 Australia
16 Austria
17 Azerbaijan
18 Bahamas, The
19 Bahrain
20 Bangladesh
21 Barbados
22 Bassas da India
23 Belarus
24 Belgium
25 Belize
26 Benin
27 Bermuda
28 Bhutan
29 Bolivia
30 Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 Botswana
32 Bouvet Island
33 Brazil
34 British Indian Ocean Territory
35 British Virgin Islands
36 Brunei
37 Bulgaria
38 Burkina Faso
39 Burma
40 Burundi
41 Cambodia
42 Cameroon
43 Canada
44 Cape Verde
45 Cayman Islands
46 Central African Republic
47 Chad
48 Chile
49 China
50 Christmas Island
51 Clipperton Island
52 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
53 Colombia
54 Comoros
55 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
56 Congo, Republic of the
57 Cook Islands
58 Coral Sea Islands
59 Costa Rica
60 Cote d'Ivoire
61 Croatia
62 Cuba
63 Cyprus
64 Czech Republic
65 Denmark
66 Dhekelia
67 Djibouti
68 Dominica
69 Dominican Republic
70 Ecuador
71 Egypt
72 El Salvador
73 Equatorial Guinea
74 Eritrea
75 Estonia
76 Ethiopia
77 Europa Island
78 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
79 Faroe Islands
80 Fiji
81 Finland
82 France
83 French Guiana
84 French Polynesia
85 French Southern and Antarctic Lands
86 Gabon
87 Gambia, The
88 Gaza Strip
89 Georgia
90 Germany
91 Ghana
92 Gibraltar
93 Glorioso Islands
94 Greece
95 Greenland
96 Grenada
97 Guadeloupe
98 Guam
99 Guatemala
100 Guernsey
101 Guinea
102 Guinea-Bissau
103 Guyana
104 Haiti
105 Heard Island and McDonald Islands
106 Holy See (Vatican City)
107 Honduras
108 Hong Kong
109 Hungary
110 Iceland
111 India
112 Indonesia
113 Iran
114 Iraq
115 Ireland
116 Isle of Man
117 Israel
118 Italy
119 Jamaica
120 Jan Mayen
121 Japan
122 Jersey
123 Jordan
124 Juan de Nova Island
125 Kazakhstan
126 Kenya
127 Kiribati
128 Korea, North
129 Korea, South
130 Kuwait
131 Kyrgyzstan
132 Laos
133 Latvia
134 Lebanon
135 Lesotho
136 Liberia
137 Libya
138 Liechtenstein
139 Lithuania
140 Luxembourg
141 Macau
142 Macedonia
143 Madagascar
144 Malawi
145 Malaysia
146 Maldives
147 Mali
148 Malta
149 Marshall Islands
150 Martinique
151 Mauritania
152 Mauritius
153 Mayotte
154 Mexico
155 Micronesia, Federated States of
156 Moldova
157 Monaco
158 Mongolia
159 Montserrat
160 Morocco
161 Mozambique
162 Namibia
163 Nauru
164 Navassa Island
165 Nepal
166 Netherlands
167 Netherlands Antilles
168 New Caledonia
169 New Zealand
170 Nicaragua
171 Niger
172 Nigeria
173 Niue
174 Norfolk Island
175 Northern Mariana Islands
176 Norway
177 Oman
178 Pakistan
179 Palau
180 Panama
181 Papua New Guinea
182 Paracel Islands
183 Paraguay
184 Peru
185 Philippines
186 Pitcairn Islands
187 Poland
188 Portugal
189 Puerto Rico
190 Qatar
191 Reunion
192 Romania
193 Russia
194 Rwanda
195 Saint Helena
196 Saint Kitts and Nevis
197 Saint Lucia
198 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
199 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
200 Samoa
201 San Marino
202 Sao Tome and Principe
203 Saudi Arabia
204 Senegal
205 Serbia and Montenegro
206 Seychelles
207 Sierra Leone
208 Singapore
209 Slovakia
210 Slovenia
211 Solomon Islands
212 Somalia
213 South Africa
214 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
215 Spain
216 Spratly Islands
217 Sri Lanka
218 Sudan
219 Suriname
220 Svalbard
221 Swaziland
222 Sweden
223 Switzerland
224 Syria
225 Taiwan
226 Tajikistan
227 Tanzania
228 Thailand
229 Timor-Leste
230 Togo
231 Tokelau
232 Tonga
233 Trinidad and Tobago
234 Tromelin Island
235 Tunisia
236 Turkey
237 Turkmenistan
238 Turks and Caicos Islands
239 Tuvalu
240 Uganda
241 Ukraine
242 United Arab Emirates
243 United Kingdom
244 United States
245 Uruguay
246 Uzbekistan
247 Vanuatu
248 Venezuela
249 Vietnam
250 Virgin Islands
251 Wake Island
252 Wallis and Futuna
253 West Bank
254 Western Sahara
255 Yemen
256 Zambia
257 Zimbabwe

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

The Member States of the U.S.A.


Member States of the United States of America, in order of entering the Union

1) Delaware December 7, 1787
2) Pennsylvania December 12, 1787
3) New Jersey December 18, 1787
4) Georgia January 2, 1788
5) Connecticut January 9, 1788
6) Massachusetts February 6, 1788
7) Maryland April 28, 1788
8) South Carolina May 23, 1788
9) New Hampshire June 21, 1788
10) Virginia June 25, 1788
11) New York July 26, 1788
12) North Carolina November 21, 1789
13) Rhode Island May 29, 1790
14) Vermont March 4, 1791
15) Kentucky June 1, 1792
16) Tennessee June 1, 1796
17) Ohio March 1, 1803
18) Louisiana April 30, 1812
19) Indiana December 11, 1816
20) Mississippi December 10, 1817
21) Illinois December 3, 1818
22) Alabama December 14, 1819
23) Maine March 15, 1820
24) Missouri August 10, 1821
25) Arkansas June 15, 1836
26) Michigan January 26, 1837
27) Florida March 3, 1845
28) Texas December 29, 1845
29) Iowa December 28, 1846
30) Wisconsin May 29, 1848
31) California September 9, 1850
32) Minnesota May 11, 1858
33) Oregon February 14, 1859
34) Kansas January 29, 1861
35) West Virginia June 20, 1863
36) Nevada October 31, 1864
37) Nebraska March 1, 1867

District of Colombia February 21, 1871

38) Colorado August 1, 1876
39) North Dakota November 2, 1889
40) South Dakota November 2, 1889
41) Montana November 8, 1889
42) Washington November 11, 1889
43) Idaho July 3, 1890
44) Wyoming July 10, 1890
45) Utah January 4, 1896
46) Oklahoma November 16, 1907
47) New Mexico January 6, 1912
48) Arizona February 14, 1912
49) Alaska January 3, 1959
50) Hawaii August 21, 1959

The Presidents of the U.S.A.


U.S. President Name (Years as President) - Presidential Party
1) George Washington (1789-1797)
2) John Adams (1797-1801) - Federalist
3) Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) - Democratic/Republican
4) James Madison (1809-1817) - Democratic/Republican
5) James Monroe (1817-1825) - Democratic/Republican
6) John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) - Democratic/Republican
7) Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) - Democrat
8) Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) - Democrat
9) William Henry Harrison (1841-1841, died In office) - Whig
10) John Tyler (1841-1845) - Whig
11) James K. Polk (1845-1849) - Democrat
12) Zachary Taylor (1849-1850, died in office) - Whig
13) Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) - Whig
14) Franklen Pierce (1853-1857) - Democrat
15) James Buchanan (1857-1861) - Democrat
16) Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865, died in office) - Republican
17) Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) - Democrat/National Union
18) Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) - Republican
19) Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) - Republican
20) James A. Garfield (1881, died in office) - Republican
21) Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) - Republican
22) Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) - Democrat
23) Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) - Republican
24) Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) - Democrat
25) William McKinley (1897-1901, died in office) - Republican
26) Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) - Republican
27) William Howard Taft (1909-1913) - Republican
28) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) - Democrat
29) Warren G. Harding (1921-1923, died in office) - Republican
30) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) - Republican
31) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) - Republican
32) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945, died in office) - Democrat
33) Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) - Democrat
34) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) - Republican
35) John F. Kennedy (1961-1963, died in office) - Democrat
36) Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) - Democrat
37) Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) - Republican
38) Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977) - Republican
39) Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) - Democrat
40) Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) - Republican
41) George Bush (1989-1993) - Republican
42) Bill Clinton (1993-2001) - Democrat
43) George W. Bush (2001-2009) - Republican
44) Barack H. Obama (2009...) - Democrat