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A bridge, a short distance from the village and built c. 1800, is known as the 'Three Counties Bridge'. [3] The little settlement at Bilboa was originally based around coal and coal mining. [citation needed] Of the original mining village, only the church remains. [2] Bilboá's Church of Ireland church is a detached three-bay Tudor Revival ...
The Three Counties System is a set of inter-connected limestone solutional cave systems spanning the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire in the north of England. The possibility of connecting a number of discrete cave systems in the area to create a single super-system that spans the county borders was first proposed by Dave ...
The Baron Three Clubs is an alternative to the responder using Stayman over a 2NT opening bid. The responder will have five points or more and an unbalanced hand. The responder bids 3 ♣, which asks opener to bid his four-card suits in ascending order. If clubs are the only four-card suit, the opener bids 3NT.
The British Bridge League (BBL) was formed in 1931, and many local associations and clubs affiliated with it. In Yorkshire, for example, Halifax, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and East Yorkshire all affiliated with the BBL. At national level the Scottish Bridge Union was formed in 1933 and the Welsh Contract Bridge Association the following year.
BBC Three Counties Radio, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire shares this name as a result. Three Counties System, a set of caves spanning Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire; Three Counties Asylum, a former psychiatric hospital serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire Three Counties railway station ...
The Strong Club System is a set of bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge and is based upon an opening bid of 1 ♣ as being an artificial forcing bid promising a strong hand. [1] The strong 1 ♣ opening is assigned a minimum strength promising 16 or more high card points. All other bids would therefore be ...
Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine ...
The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body for contract bridge.. Emulating the organizational concepts of the Olympic movement and its signature five rings, the World Bridge Federation encompasses the five continents (America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) represented by eight geographic Zonal Conferences.