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On this occasion, it hosts two teams that have been at it for a combined 245 years, a pair of clubs that have faced each other on three previous occasions in the Fall Classic.

For more than 40 years, a pair of famous friends have shared a home, a bedroom and even bath time - as well as proximity to a certain rubber duck.

Dully considering the mystery of twins, of twinness, he remembered for the first time in years a pair of boys he'd grown up with, Jerry and Terry — or Jerry and Larry — then he lost his thread and was content to let it go and be afloat, carried along by the pickpocket's snores until he could almost hear them as his own.

For two years a pair of rogue traders, Enron Oil President Louis Borget and his treasurer, Thomas Mastroeni, routinely violated the company's risk parameters and set up sham oil contracts with phony companies they created.

Over the last several years, a pair of critical incidences revealed the global interconnection of firms: the financial turmoil triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the disruption of worldwide supply chains caused by the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

For eight years a pair of skate shoes belonging to schoolboy Daniel Morcombe lay buried on the banks of small pond on rural farmland outside Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

And then, at the end of my freshman year, a pair of lightning bolts hit.

With few first-run alternatives in an Independence Day week that traditionally has the lowest television viewing of the year, a pair of talent shows broadcast against each other were the week's two most-watched programs.

Just days after a Washington naval installation became the site of the fourth mass shooting in the span of a year, a pair of new studies asks a shop-worn but timely question: Do more guns make us safer?

This happens in a pattern that repeats every 243 years: there's a gap of 122 years, then a pair of transits spaced eight years apart, then a gap of 105 years, then another pair.

TWO years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.