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    The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked...
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  • In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers...
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  • Two distinct sequences of the film were re-issued under the titles The Boston Tea Party and The Shot Heard 'Round the World. Both were originally combined...
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  • Look up shot heard round the world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shot heard round the world most commonly refers to: The first American volley in...
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    The "shot heard 'round the world" is a term used in reference to one of the most historic goals in U.S. soccer history, which allowed the United States...
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    pennant-winning three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 is popularly known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and is one of the most famous moments in baseball...
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  • second shot at "Firethorn," the par-5 15th hole, then 485 yards (443 m), is referred to in golf as the "shot heard 'round the world." Sarazen won the Monday...
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    Ralph Branca (category Baseball players from the Bronx)
    of the New York Giants; the game-winning hit was known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". Ralph Branca was born in Mount Vernon, New York, as the fifteenth...
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    as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and the defensive feat by Willie Mays during the first game of the 1954 World Series known as "the Catch". The Giants...
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    sparked the American Revolutionary War. The poem was the origin of the phrase "shot heard round the world". In October 1834, Emerson went to live with his...
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  • known as "The Shot", or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn", which was written about the Battle...
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    clinch the pennant for the Giants. This home run, hit at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951, came to be known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". The phrase...
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  • Ralph Branca in the final game of a tie-breaker series won the pennant for the Giants and was immortalized as the Shot Heard 'Round the World. October 10...
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  • First Shot may refer to: First shot or "shot heard round the world", the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord...
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  • Down" – 3:10 "Nasty Reputation" – 4:44 "Fighting Mad" – 3:45 "Shot Heard 'Round the World" – 4:07 "O.F.R." – 5:06 1991: Nitro II: H.W.D.W.S. "I Want U"...
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  • Sonny Corleone (category The Godfather characters)
    Coppola had the car radio play the broadcast of the baseball playoff game won by Bobby Thomson hitting the Shot Heard Round the World. This would place...
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    Emerson describes the first shot fired by the Patriots at the North Bridge in his "Concord Hymn" as the "shot heard round the world". The British Army's...
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  • "Pafko at the Wall", subtitled "The Shot Heard Round the World", is a text by Don DeLillo that was originally published as a folio in the October 1992...
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  • show discussing his picture of Toby, which the interviewer refers to as "the shot heard 'round the world". Steve Buscemi as Les Galantine Michael Pitt...
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  • Hyperbole (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    hyperbole in the lines "Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world." In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, the protagonist...
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    Concord, Massachusetts (category 1635 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    1775. The ensuing conflict, the battles of Lexington and Concord, were the incidents (including the shot heard round the world) that triggered the American...
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    Lexington, Massachusetts (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the site of the first shots of the American Revolutionary War, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, where the "Shot heard 'round the world"...
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  • Underworld (novel) (category The Bronx in fiction)
    photograph the World Trade Center towers taken by André Kertész. The prologue is a fictionalized account of The Shot Heard 'Round the World, a home run...
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  • Heart Heartbreak", "She's Got a Boyfriend Now", "Real Thing", "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", "Chemicals Collide", and "Go" were recorded at Fresh Kills...
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  • Thaddeus Bowman (category Massachusetts militiamen in the American Revolution)
    and get back to warn the militia on the first day of the American Revolution ("the shot heard 'round the world"). In early 1775, the British commander in...
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    Old North Bridge (category Bridges completed in the 18th century)
    to the moment as the "shot heard round the world." There were at least eight iterations of the North Bridge constructed over four centuries. The current...
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  • John Trull (category Massachusetts militiamen in the American Revolution)
    407, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. Parker, Dana T., "Shot heard 'round the world," Orange County Register, Opinion, 7-1-07, Santa Ana, CA (http://www...
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  • The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World is a nonfiction book written by Joshua Prager and...
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  • Parental Guidance (film) (category Films shot in Atlanta)
    shows him the Shot Heard 'Round the World event. Meanwhile, Phil and Alice witness the news broadcast of the skatepark incident and return home. The tension...
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  • Joshua Prager (writer) (category The Wall Street Journal people)
    and the Shot Heard Round the World, is about the Shot Heard 'Round the World, which occurred during a famous 1951 baseball playoff game between the Brooklyn...
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