The Sprinter has done duty for numerous Portugal matches in Europe over the years.
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And the Vette had done duty as an Indy 500 pace car on more than one occasion.
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This ridiculous machine has done duty at Burning Man (where else?) for the past five years, but apparently, it's time for the current owners to move on.
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In 1899 Sivell married William Sivell. They lived initially in Winnipeg and then moved a ranch near Medicine Hat, Alberta for most of their married life. They moved to a cottage nearer Medicine Hat in retirement. Sivell had done duty as a cowboy when her husband was ill.
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In 1800, Atkinson produced at the Cork Street Theatre a comic opera called Love in a Blaze, borrowed from a French play, which had done duty in an English form as Gallic Gratitude at Covent Garden in 1779. The music to Love in a Blaze was composed by John Andrew Stevenson, to whose assistance the production is said to have been indebted for the success it obtained.
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There is little left of the old buildings today. Turnberry Castle is surrounded on three sides by the sea, and the landward side is occupied by a golf resort. The ruin has been affected by the actions of centuries of severe weather and erosion by the sea, leaving little more than its lower vaults and cellars intact. There are some vestiges of a drawbridge as well as an old portcullis which may have done duty as a gate.
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Special operation units fall under Canadian Special Operations Command. In January 1999, the one metre of accumulated snow was deemed beyond the capabilities of Toronto's removal crews and Mayor Mel Lastman "called in the cavalry". The Army had done duty before then with at least two natural disasters: from sandbagging floods in Winnipeg to cleaning up after ice storms in Operation Recuperation. More recently, in 2019 New Brunswick was overcome with floods and the Army served the call.
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" In September 1891, 4,000 tickets were sold for "a grand benefit picnic" held in Orr's honor at Euler's Washington Park, the home of the Brooklyn baseball club. Former teammates, including John Montgomery Ward attended, and the park was lit with Chinese lanterns, a marching band led a parade, and a dance platform was "festooned with flags." A newspaper account stated that "Dave's big right hand finally grew tired of wagging. His left was there, too, but it has not done duty for almost a year and this is why he was given a picnic.
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After the breakup of the Teen Idols, Heather, Matt Yonker, and Kevin joined forces with Geis and Gui from Rehasher and have toured and recorded as the band Bullets to Broadway. The band released one album, Drink Positive, and supported Lagwagon and Lawrence Arms on US legs as well as Less Than Jake on their 2006 European tour. Matt has gone on to play with The Queers, Ben Weasel, The Methadones and now owns Drastic Sounds Recording Studio in Nashville. Phillip has done duty with many bands including The Queers, Screeching Weasel, and Even in Blackouts.
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He played for Morecambe F.C. before joining Sunderland, but moved on to fellow First Division club Birmingham in July 1927 without having played for Sunderland's first team, even though he had been highly impressive in training. The Derby Daily Telegraph reported in 1926: > It will be rather surprising if Sunderland overlook the claims of Billy > Ellis and George Death for their outside left position, but the prospects > are that a newcomer in Wilfred Threlfall will have done duty this afternoon. > Wilf is a youngster who did extremely well with the Morecambe club last > season, and was signed up by the Roker Park club as a soon as the old > campaign ended. His form in trial matches has been startling.
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