article_title stringlengths 1 167 | section_title stringlengths 1 438 ⌀ | passage_text stringlengths 1 2.09k |
|---|---|---|
Billy Pierce | End of peak | left-hander pitched a perfect game since Lee Richmond in 1880, but only one AL left-hander (Mel Parnell in 1956) pitched even a no-hitter between 1931 and 1962. Although disappointed by the near miss, Pierce praised his teammates for their defensive work, saying, "Give Luis plenty of credit. And Sherm really mixed 'em ... |
Battle of Port Midi | The main battle & Insurgency | January 2016, the loyalists captured Port Midi after reported heavy fighting, but despite losing Port Midi, the Houthis, along with a battalion of troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, still maintain control over a long stretch of the coastline. Insurgency After the recapturing of Midi by the Hadi loyali... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | the cavalry crashed into their flank. Recovering rapidly though, they returned a heavy volume of machine-gun fire, covering their casualties as they were dragged to the rear. Platoon Sergeant Frank Alcorta had been travelling on top of the overcrowded carrier and was forced to jump clear to avoid being hit. Dinham orde... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Military situation | an innovative assault attempt by Col. Emory Upton against the Mule Shoe showed promise.
Grant used Upton's assault technique on a much larger scale on May 12 when he ordered the 15,000 men of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's corps to assault the Mule Shoe. Hancock was initially successful, but the Confederate leadership... |
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Background and formation | of Columbia University. By that point, ASEER had already created a corporation named 'American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. (AAASS)'. They did so, in 1948, so as to have an "owner" (but was merely a “legal umbrella”) so that they would be permitted to print their journal in the State of New Y... |
Bello, Antioquia | Communication | television, the three local channels – Telemedellín, Channel U and Televida, (which cover the Valle de Aburrá), a regional channel Teleantioquia, and five national channels: two private – Caracol and RCN, and three public – Canal Uno, Señal Institucional and Señal Colombia. In addition the TVN Channel of the Cable Bell... |
Assyrian folk/pop music | Modern Assyrian Music | the conservatory in Baghdad. There were church hymns and folklore songs with a musical company on the records. Albert Rouel Tamras releases his first records in Baghdad in 1966 on Bashirphone label owned by Jameil Bashir an Assyrian Iraqi oud and violin soloist. Singing in the background with Albert are Biba and Sargon... |
Andromache (play) | Background & Plot synopsis | life and the life of her child, Andromache hides the child and seeks refuge in the temple of Thetis (who was the mother of Achilles). Plot synopsis Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the play's prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction of Troy, the dea... |
Avenida Corrientes | Villa Crespo & Chacarita | 1948 Leopoldo Marechal novel, Adán Buenosayres, takes place; Marechal also wrote Historia de la Calle Corrientes in 1937. The neighborhood is home to the Atlanta football club.
The barrio was home to tango great Osvaldo Pugliese. Chacarita Corrientes ends at the Estación Federico Lacroze train station next to Parque Lo... |
Belle Mont | History & Architecture | house museum. Architecture Considered by architectural scholars to be a clear example of Thomas Jefferson's influence upon the architecture of the early United States, Belle Mont is one of only a few surviving examples of Jeffersonian architecture in the Deep South. Built in red brick, it features a raised, two story ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Lessons learned and subsequent operations | delayed because no prepacked ammunition was available. This also changed, while rounds would also be supplied loaded in magazines for quick use. The VC had also used 60 mm mortars, but they were no longer standard equipment for Australian rifle companies, and although battalions were issued 81 mm mortars they were cont... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | null | War I, soldiers of the Kingdom of Serbia developed the custom of laying a badnjak on a fire in their barracks. In the succeeding Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the military badnjak ceremony was further elaborated and standardized in army service regulations, but the tradition ended at the outbreak of World War II. Since the ea... |
Betsy Bloomingdale | Lifestyle | of the place setting, the menu, the seating arrangement, and her outfit, so that guests would never dine on the same dishes or see her in the same gown twice. Bloomingdale published a book on entertaining and hosting, Entertaining With Betsy Bloomingdale: A Collection of Culinary Tips and Treasures From the World’s Bes... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Interpretation | to warm themselves when they came to worship Thee, the divine infant, and thereby prefigured Thy salvation-bearing cross."
Scholars regard the badnjak customs as practises inherited from the old Slavic religion. In the pre-Christian religion of the Serbs, as shown by Serbian scholar Veselin Čajkanović, there were trees... |
Battle of Long Tan | 12 Platoon attempts to link up with Buick | considered impossible. Instead, Townsend informed him an infantry company mounted in APCs would be dispatched as a relief force. Yet Jackson was reluctant to reduce the defences at Nui Dat, considering the attack a possible feint. Consequently, although Smith repeatedly pressed Townsend, there had been a delay of more ... |
Birth of the Cool | Davis's nonet | ideals of the nonet.
Davis was able to secure a two-week engagement in September 1948 for the nonet opening for Count Basie at the Royal Roost in New York. For the band's book, Mulligan contributed six arrangements, Lewis three, Evans two, and composer John Carisi arranged his own composition, "Israel", for the band. O... |
Belarusian ruble | Monetary integration with Russia | presidency in 1994, Alyaksandr Lukashenka began to suggest the idea of integration with the Russian Federation and to undertake steps in this direction. From the beginning, there was also an idea of introducing a united currency for the Union of Russia and Belarus. Art. 13 of the 1999 "Treaty of Creation of the Union S... |
Billy Pierce | Peak years | a steal attempt); he staked the AL to a 4–0 lead, but the National League came back for a 6–5 win in 10 innings after scoring five runs off Whitey Ford in the seventh and eighth innings. Pierce ended the season with the league lead in ERA (although his record was just 15–10), with his mark of 1.97 being the lowest by a... |
Be My Guest (short story) | Plot summary | and the voices stop. |
Billy Felton | Sheffield Wednesday & Manchester City | England's opening goal, England finished with nine men, but managed to hang on to win the game 3–2.
Once in the First Division, Felton lost his regular place to Tommy Walker who had been signed from Bradford City in March 1926. Although Felton remained at Hillsborough for three First Division seasons, his appearances w... |
Bimal Minj | International | Bimal Minj International Minj was part of the India U20 team in 2005-06. |
Bernhard Harms | Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Expulsion and death | University of Kiel). Over the years, Harms worked to build the university's name, attracting well established economists such as Jacob Marschak, Wassily Leontief, Adolph Löwe, Gerhard Colm, and Hans Philipp Neisser. The original mission of the Institute was to challenge the traditional scholar of nationally oriented po... |
Achiemore, Durness | History | north of Daill is a more likely location of a promontory fort or monastery. The site has been heavily damaged by shelling and dating is difficult as a result. |
Barbara Thoman Curtis | Career | While in Washington, she helped over 20 states establish their own political action committees and served as a lobbyist in addition to being a consultant and volunteer in several political races at the local and state level.
Curtis returned to Illinois in 1976 and became active in her local community and the State Nurs... |
Anatole Fistoulari | Biography | to England and found himself in London for the rest of World War II. In 1943, he was appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period, he had a contract for 120 concerts, a great responsibility for the youthful conductor. His repertoire widened to include items like his father-in-l... |
Belarusian ruble | Third ruble, 2016–present & Commemorative issues | coins for general circulation for the first time. Seven denominations of banknotes (5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 rubles) and eight denominations of coins (1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 copecks, and 1 and 2 rubles) are in circulation on July 1, 2016. The banknotes have security threads and show 2009 as an issue date (the da... |
Airey Neave | World War II | captain and to the permanent rank of captain on 11 April 1945. A temporary major at the war's end, he was appointed an MBE (Military Division) on 30 August 1945, and awarded the DSO on 18 October. As a result, the earlier award of the MBE was cancelled on 25 October.
After his escape from the Germans, Neave was recruit... |
Battle of Fort Anne | Aftermath & Battlefield preservation | remote location render the story implausible, and the flags known to have been recovered bear no resemblance whatsoever to the United States flag. Battlefield preservation The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 160 acres (0.65 km²) of the battlefield. |
A. Maharajan | null | A. Maharajan Andipatti Maharajan is an Indian politician and is Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Andipatti (State Assembly Constituency) in the by-election in 2019. |
Birmingham Municipal Bank headquarters | Universe of Sound | Ligeti and Stanley Kubrick, with two concerts, a free digital installation and family activity day.
The exhibition took place over three weeks, showing what it is like to be part of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and provided a chance for people of any ability to have a go at conducting The Planets through an interactive ... |
Birth of the Cool | Davis's nonet | horn, and tuba. The two men looked to create pairings within the ensemble, Mulligan stating: "We picked instruments [with matching timbres] ... and one of each. We had a high section with a trumpet and the alto, we had a middle section with the trombone and the French horn, and a low section with the baritone and tuba.... |
Big Apple (TV series) | Plot & Broadcast | Big Apple (TV series) Plot The story centers on two New York City Police Department detectives Mooney and Trout working with the FBI to solve a murder with ties to organized crime. A subplot involves Mooney's sister who is receiving hospice care for Lou Gehrig's Disease. Broadcast Big Apple was originally slated to com... |
Bartolino da Padova | Life | wearing the garb of that order. Most likely he was in the employ of the Carrara family, since references to them appear in his music. There is a possibility he spent some time in Florence around 1389–1390. References to the Visconti family in his music have been variously interpreted: some scholars have suggested that ... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Big Three era | and John Smoltz capped it off with a scoreless 9th inning to lead the Braves to a 1-0 win over the Astros in Game 2 to take a 2-0 series lead heading home. The Braves went on to win Game 3 6-2 to advance to the NLCS. Greg Maddux pitched seven strong innings in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, only s... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | June 4–12 | pulled Breckinridge's division from Cold Harbor and sent it toward Lynchburg to parry Hunter. By June 12 he followed this by assigning Jubal Early permanent command of the Second Corps and sending them to the Valley as well. And he sent two of his three cavalry divisions in pursuit of Sheridan, leading to the Battle of... |
Billy Beane | Early life & Playing career | gave up football to avoid an injury that could prematurely end his baseball career. Despite this, Stanford University tried to recruit Beane on a joint baseball–football scholarship as the quarterback who would replace then-sophomore John Elway for the Stanford Cardinal football team. Playing career The New York Mets, ... |
Battle of Antietam | Cornfield | Gen. Truman Seymour, began advancing through the East Woods and exchanged fire with Colonel James Walker's brigade of Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina troops. As Walker's men forced Seymour's back, aided by Lee's artillery fire, Ricketts's division entered the Cornfield, also to be torn up by artillery. Brig. Gen. ... |
Black Jack, Missouri | Geography & 2010 census | Black Jack, Missouri Geography Black Jack is located at 38°47′27″N 90°15′43″W (38.790799, −90.261885).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.60 square miles (6.73 km²), of which 2.59 square miles (6.71 km²) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km²) is water. 2010 census As of the c... |
Bernard N. Fields | null | Bernard N. Fields Bernard Nathan Fields (March 24, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York — January 31, 1995, West Newtown, Mass.) was an American microbiologist and virologist. Fields was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fields was the Adele Lehman Professor and chairman of the department of microbiology and molecula... |
Bispebjerg Hospital | A modern city hospital & A green oasis in the city | same time, has to provide special services for an even larger population. Among other things, that means that the hospital will have a larger catchment area, will be managing the shared emergency services, and is expected to be extended through extensive new building. See map over the future catchment area. A green oas... |
Battle of Rossbach | Trap | range, they came within range of Prince Henry's infantry; disciplined Prussian volleys shredded the orderly Allied columns. Then Moller's artillery, reinforced by siege guns from Leipzig, tore some additional gaps. The leading ranks faltered; the following ranks crowded into them, goaded on by their officers. Prince ... |
Automotive X Prize | Vehicle requirements | in less than 9 seconds. They must be able to brake from 60 to 0 mph in less than 170 feet (52 m), meet existing noise standards and use tires that meet automotive or motorcycle (alternative class only and only if the vehicle is otherwise eligible to be classified as a motorcycle) standards. Both must meet the same se... |
Batagor | Varieties | most batagor sellers also offer a variant served in clear broth, batagor kuah ("batagor soup"). The soup can be made by boiling chicken broth and adding various ingredients such as pepper, sugar, salt, leek, and celery. Chili sauce, tomato sauce, and lime can also be added to bring more flavor into the soup.
Batagor is... |
Battle for Jerusalem | Blockade at Latrun and Bab al-Wad & Operation Nachshon | a meeting of Arab military leaders in Damascus had announced that Jerusalem would be "strangled" by a blockade.
One estimate of the size of the opposing forces at the beginning of March 1948 gives the Arabs 5,300 men in Jerusalem and surrounding district, including 300 Iraqi irregulars and 60 Yugoslav Moslems. Jewish f... |
Alexis Candelario Santana | Arrest and trial | and trial Candelario Santana went into hiding immediately and the Puerto Rican police initially had difficulty finding him. He had gone to St. Thomas island in the United States Virgin Islands, where he was arrested on the night of November 16 and then flown back to Puerto Rico.
On March 8, 2013, Candelario Santana and... |
Belgrade Cooperative | Reconstruction | plastics, style consistency, construction quality, new construction methods used for the first time, new materials and other architectural features put this building among the most representative palaces in Belgrade architecture. Belgrade Cooperative building is one of the few buildings that represent the beginning of ... |
Battle of Port Midi | Insurgency | with some Humanitarian organisations claiming that 129 civilians were killed in the airstrikes and more than 100 wounded.
On 10 July, a local pro-Hadi commander was killed by a missile strike launched by pro-Houthi army forces.
On 3 September, Houthi forces launched an offensive in the region, killing at least 11 soldi... |
Badnjak (Serbian) | Interpretation | A trace of sacrifice to the fire is the coin thrown into it by the polaznik after the ritual of making sparks fly from the badnjak.
Fire from the domestic hearth was under no circumstances given out of the house on Christmas Eve, not even to a neighbor whose fire had gone out. The reason for this prohibition, according... |
Billy Pierce | Yankees rivalry | beat, Mantle would hit a home run." New York outfielder Hank Bauer noted, "The guy who gave me the most problem – I know he gave 'em to me, and I think he gave 'em to most of us – was Billy Pierce." Tommy Byrne, who pitched for the Yankees for most of his career from 1943 to 1957 but played for Chicago for the first ha... |
Billy Beane | Playing career | Falls Mets of the Class A New York–Penn League, with players drafted out of college. Beane struggled in his first season, batting .210. He was unable to make the adjustments necessary when playing tougher competition. The Mets promoted Beane to the Lynchburg Mets of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League in 1981. After a... |
Battle of Landshut (1809) | Prelude & The battle | Isar river was spanned by two bridges with a small island in the center. Hiller had positioned cavalry outposts to the north of the town. His main force was deployed in Landshut and to the south on higher ground. Early in the morning Hiller was informed that a French force (57,000 men) had crossed the Isar upstream at ... |
Armstrong Siddeley | Motor cars | for export. The Utility Coupé was a conventional coupe utility style vehicle, while the Station Coupé was effectively a dual cab vehicle, although it still retained only two doors. However, it did have two rows of seating to accommodate up to four adults and the doors were larger to allow better access to the rear. Fro... |
Anon Pairot | Business management | manufacturer to Phillip Morris, Smirnoff and Fendi. In a statement with AXIS magazine, Pairot explains, "I'll work with any client who seeks unconventional ideas for anything from a toothpick to a yacht."
The Anon Pairot Design Studio has created interior designs for Bankok's Hard Rock Cafe outlet and Christmas trees d... |
Battle of Long Tan | Clearing the battlefield, 19–21 August 1966 | found up to 500 metres (550 yd) south-east of the position reached by 11 Platoon. A large bunker complex was uncovered consisting of 200 pits with overhead protection sufficient for a battalion; however, its layout suggested it had been constructed as a defensive position rather than for an ambush. A further position o... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Pre-Big 3 & Big Three era | the Minnesota Twins in 7 games. Smoltz and Glavine's success continued into 1992, with Glavine finishing second in the Cy Young voting, and Smoltz being named to the National League All-Star team. Big Three era Prior to the 1993 MLB season, the Atlanta Braves signed 1992 NL Cy Young Award Winner Greg Maddux from the Ch... |
Apracaraja Indravarman's Silver Reliquary | Kharayosta or Kharaosta king vs Apraca dynasty | Apraca kings with Yagu-raja Kharaosta has raised chronological questions which call into doubt previously established norms about him and also seem to require a considerably earlier date for the Mathura Lion Capital Inscriptions (in which he is twice mentioned as Yuvaraja Kharaosta), than is usually attributed to him. ... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through | as the fighting continued it further delayed the advance of the relief force, and with Roberts concerned the presence of the infantry forward of the carriers would prevent them employing their heavy weapons, he called to Mollison to order their return. After re-embarking the infantry, 3 Troop resumed the advance, break... |
Aquascogoc | Legacy | was commissioned in 1585 to "draw to life" the inhabitants of the New World and their surroundings. During White's time at Roanoke Island, he completed numerous watercolor drawings of the surrounding landscape and native peoples. These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native Ame... |
Arthur Augustus Tilley | Early life & Career | born in 1869.
The young Tilley was educated at Eton, where he was celebrated as "Scholar of the Year" for 1871, winning both the Newcastle scholarship for Classics and the Tomline scholarship for Mathematics. He went on to King's College, Cambridge, where in 1875 he came second in the Classical Tripos. He was then adm... |
Bill Zito | Early life and education & Sports agent | Bill Zito William Francis Zito, Jr. (born September 16, 1964) is an American attorney and professional sports agent. Early life and education Zito grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Yale University and played on the varsity ice hockey team from 1984 to 1987. After graduating from Yale, he completed law school... |
Annuit cœptis | On the Great Seal & Change from Deo Favente to Annuit Cœptis | In western art, God is traditionally represented by the Eye of Providence, which principally symbolizes God's omniscience.
When designing the final version of the Great Seal, Charles Thomson (a former Latin teacher) kept the pyramid and eye for the reverse side but replaced the two mottos, using Annuit Cœptis instead ... |
American automobile industry in the 1950s | Enduring models | Starliner hardtop was introduced in 1953 and is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful American-made automobiles of the 1950s. It was designed by a team led by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy and is sometimes called the "Loewy Coupe".
The Chevrolet Corvette was first introduced in 1953, and as of t... |
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Soviet reusable space shuttle & SR-72 (Son of Blackbird) Revealing | Kampiles sold the KH-11 manual to a Soviet spy. SR-72 (Son of Blackbird) Revealing The SR-72 is the proposed successor to the SR-71 Blackbird. There were unconfirmed rumors about the SR-72 dating back to 2007, when various sources disclosed that Lockheed Martin was developing a Mach 6 plane for the US Air Force. Such a... |
Black Jack, Missouri | 2010 census & 2000 census | size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.13.
The median age in the city was 40.9 years. 23.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22% were from 25 to 44; 29.1% were from 45 to 64; and 16.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 44.9% male and... |
Birr RFC | 2010 - 2020's & Club honours | Aaron Browne represented Ireland at U-19 level.
Michael Milne played for Ireland U-18, U19 and in the 2019 U20 World Cup. He is current in the Leinster academy and has made his first cap for the provinces senior team. Club honours Provincial Towns (J2) Plate: 2011-12; 2018-19
Midland League: 1963-64 |
Anti-ballistic missile | Defense against MIRVs | ranges, an ABM missile would be needed to counter an ICBM wherever it might be aimed. That implies that dozens of interceptors are needed for every ICBM. This led to intense debates about the "cost-exchange ratio" between interceptors and warheads.
Conditions changed dramatically in 1970 with the introduction of multip... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | the insurgency and bringing the village under government influence, with an ARVN Ranger company later stationed there to maintain control. Achieved at little cost, it was believed a significant success. Warr in particular considered such operations vital to the pacification of Phước Tuy, arguing they were the only way ... |
ASHK Sadek | Early life & Career | ASHK Sadek Early life Abu Sharaf Hijbul Kader Sadek was born on April 30, 1934 in Barenga, Keshabpur, Howrah district. His father was the joint commissioner of the Government of Bengal. In 1951, he graduated from secondary school and in 1955 he completed his Masters. Sadek joined the civil service of Pakistan in 1956. ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Preliminary operations | or ambushes during routine patrolling, or an attempt to interdict a resupply convoy from Vũng Tàu.
By the end of July, a large VC force had been detected by SAS patrols east of Nui Dat, near the abandoned village of Long Tân. In response, 6 RAR launched a battalion search and destroy operation. During a series of fire-... |
Battle of Long Tan | Assessment | into D Company, resulting in an encounter battle. The evidence suggested they intended an attack on Nui Dat in some form, while the lack of prepared positions from which to mount an ambush made this unlikely. McNeill argues though that too many facts may be missing to make a conclusive assessment of VC intentions as to... |
Bibrod Tirth | Temple Trust | India. |
Barbara Bush | Political life | U.S. to serve as Director of Central Intelligence during a crucial time of legal uncertainty for the agency. He was not allowed to share classified aspects of his job with Barbara; the ensuing sense of isolation, coupled with her perception that she was not achieving her goals while other women of her time were, plunge... |
Battle of Goose Green | Prisoners and casualties | the same locality on West Falkland during a naval bombardment on 9 May. In all, the 8IR lost 5 killed during the Falklands War.
The remainder of the Argentine force were taken prisoner. Argentine dead were buried in a cemetery to the north of Darwin, and 140
wounded were evacuated to hospital ships via the medical post... |
Bassae | Re-discovery and removal by the British | came upon it quite by accident; he recognized it from its site, but when he returned for a second look, he was murdered by bandits. Charles Robert Cockerell and Carl Haller von Hallerstein, having secured sculptures at Aegina, hoped for more successes at Bassae in 1811; all Haller's careful drawings of the site were lo... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | DES daughters | daughters are at an increased risk of abnormalities of the reproductive tract, including vaginal epithelial changes such as vaginal adenosis (which means a type of cell normally found in the uterus, columnar cells, are also present in the vagina), an increased cervical transformation zone, and uterine abnormalities, su... |
Arthur Abraham | Life outside of boxing | Dance on RTL with partner Nina Uszkureit, but left after the first episode of the show in order to concentrate fully on his boxing career.
In the film Max Schmeling (2010), he played a supporting role of boxer Richard Vogt, Schmeling´s last opponent. Just as in real life, Ulli Wegner was in his corner.
German actor and... |
Birth of the Cool | Music and style | was the use of paired instrumentation. An example of this can be heard on the John Lewis arrangement "Move". In "Move", Lewis gives the melody to the pairing of trumpet and alto saxophone, baritone saxophone and tuba supply counterpoint, and trombone and French horn provide harmonies. Gerry Mulligan's "Jeru" demonstrat... |
Beattie Casely-Hayford | Career & Ghana Arts Council | Poultry Farm, Nungua; Director of the Arts Council of Ghana; Director of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation's Television division (GBC TV); Technical Director of Modern Signs; and then finally settled into private business.
He owned and operated Caselyco Sound Studio, Signals and Controllers, Intek Engineering, and finally... |
Billy Pierce | Detroit Tigers (1945, 1948) | for the 1946 season, now with Gabby Hartnett as his manager (Harris having moved to the team's front office), but missed most of the year with a back injury which was attributed to overwork. After the 1947 season in Buffalo, where Richards was now his manager, he returned to Detroit in 1948, spending most of the season... |
Battle of Long Tan | A Company and 3 Troop fight through & D Company reinforced | one of the infantry platoons with it. Still uncertain of the location of D Company, Roberts was forced to closely control the fire of the troop due to the concern any survivors might be hit by overshoots from the armoured vehicle's heavy machine-guns. At the same time, the infantry continued to engage from the rear of ... |
Billy Beane | Front office career | assistant GM of the Athletics, tasked with scouting minor-league players.
Under the ownership of Walter A. Haas, Jr., the Athletics appeared in three consecutive World Series from 1988 through 1990, and had the highest payroll in baseball in 1991. Haas died in 1995, and new owners Stephen Schott and Ken Hofmann ordered... |
Bevier House | Property | beams wity a pulley for the butter churn once there. The attic's mortise and tenon framing is set at a wide angle and pegged without a ridge beam, a common practice in the middle of the 19th century. The two-story kitchen wing on the east has an early 20th-century kitchen on its second floor, with dry sink, hand pump a... |
Bingfield Park | null | Bingfield Park Bingfield Park is a small park area located in the Caledonian Ward and parish of St. Michaels area of the London Borough of Islington. The Park has existed since about 1970 when the Beaconsfield Buildings (built by the Victoria Dwellings Association — Patron Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister, the... |
Big Splash, Singapore | History | Big Splash, Singapore History Big Splash was built in 1977 by Singapore Aquatic Sports Pte Ltd (owned by Goldhill Properties) on a 2.8-hectare site of the reclaimed land in the new East Coast Park. It was a project of the Parks and Recreation Department of the Ministry of National Development, and built at the cost of ... |
Battle of Long Tan | Reaction at Nui Dat & Fighting continues | believed Nui Dat's defences sufficient to deter such an attack, even if they remained incomplete, while the strategic reserve held by US II FFV could also be enacted if required. Ultimately Jackson gave in-principle support to the plan, but would not release the relief force until he thought it warranted. Fighting cont... |
Beth Brant | Life | working as a salesclerk, waitress, and cleaner. Her writing came later in her life at the age of forty when she had a monumental experience on a trip through the Mohawk reservation with Dorsz. An eagle flew in front of their car window while she was driving. The eagle landed on a nearby tree and Brant stopped the car t... |
Barbara Bush | Post–White House years | month.
Bush campaigned for her son George W. Bush after he announced his presidential campaign in June 1999. Throughout the country, she met with women who supported his campaign, but she remained doubtful of his chances of winning. The resentment toward the campaign continued with her rejection of any criticism of her... |
Battle of Goose Green | Prisoners and casualties | 13 from Company C RI 25, five killed in the Platoon from RI R8, 4 Air Force staff and one Navy servicemen) and about 86 wounded.
The claim in various British books that the 8th Regiment lost five killed defending Boca House is disputed, with other sources claiming that Corporal Juan Waudrik (supposedly killed at Boca H... |
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol | DES daughters & DES sons | to DES may also have an increased risk of uterine fibroids, and incompetent cervix in adulthood.
Studies of DES daughters have not found a link between in utero exposure to DES and autoimmune diseases.
In an animal model designed to study environmental estrogens, DES turned out to be an obesogen capable of causing adul... |
Archie Montgomery | null | Archie Montgomery Archibald Montgomery (born 27 January 1873 – 5 January 1922) was a Scottish footballer. His regular position was as a goalkeeper. He was born in Chryston, Lanarkshire. He played for Manchester United, Rangers, and Bury. He would also manage Albion Rovers at the end of his career. |
Ben Wallers | The Company & The Black Poodle | recording project involving Amir Shoat and Ben Wallers. Between Autumn 2001 and Spring 2002 they recorded a 99-song album which was then distilled into a twelve-track 12" LP in 2007 and released as Side Three of The Moon on Difficult Time In Mental Jail Records The Black Poodle At the turn of the century Ben Wallers wa... |
Arab–Khazar wars | Connection with the Arab–Byzantine conflict | commanders seeking to exploit opportunities, haphazardly and without any overall planning. The expansion may even have been in direct contravention to caliphal orders, repeating a frequent pattern during this period. From a strategic perspective, it is far more probable that it was the Byzantines who encouraged the Kha... |
Black Lives Matter | Earlier movements & Online campaign | older charismatic leadership model that characterized civil rights organizations like Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Sharpton's National Action Network. Online campaign In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag #Bl... |
Binnie Roberts | Storylines & Character creation and development | between them. Despite this, Binnie usually has Della's best interests at heart and the two genuinely love each other.
In 1995 Binnie and Della decide that they have had enough of Walford and they decide to make a new start of things in Ibiza. They both depart in May 1995. Character creation and development Binnie and h... |
Alexis Loizidis | Career | Alexis Loizidis Career Loizidis began playing football with Atromitos Piraeus, where he played 42 matches and scored 10 goals in the Delta Ethniki. In January 2005, he joined Ionikos F.C. and made one substitute's appearance in the Alpha Ethniki. In August 2005, he was loaned to Keratsini FC where he played 10 matches ... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Big Three era | runs in seven innings in Game 4 and the Braves were swept in the World Series, losing Game 4 4-1.
The 2000 season was a rough one for the Braves, as John Smoltz missed the entire season due to undergoing Tommy John surgery. However, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine still did what they had to do to lead the Braves to their n... |
Black Lives Matter | 2015 | was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer. In Newark, New Jersey, over a thousand BLM activists marched against police brutality, racial injustice, and economic inequality. Also in July, BLM protested the death of Jonathan Sanders who died while being arrested by police in Mississippi.
In August,... |
Big Three (Atlanta Braves) | Post-"Big 3" | help the Braves beat the Astros 4-2. After the Braves lost Game 3 8-5, John Smoltz pitched two scoreless innings in relief to lead the Braves to a 6-5 win over the Astros and force a Game 5 in Atlanta. The Braves lost Game 5 12-3 and were then eliminated in the NLDS for the third consecutive year.
John Smoltz returned ... |
Bhimanjaneya Yuddham | Plot | to have stolen the flowers. Anjaneya gives flowers to Soudamini and asks her to return to her world. While he fights Bhima. Soudamini reaches Gandharva world and is cursed by Kubera to be deformed into ugly one. Ghatotkacha comes to rescue Bhima and a massive war occurs between Bhima and Anjaneya. Rest of the story is ... |
Black Lives Matter | 2016 | putting his hands back up, the officer shot him in the arm four or five times." She live-streamed a video on Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Following the fatal shooting of Castile, BLM protested throughout Minnesota and the United States.
On July 7, a BLM protest was held in Dallas, Texas that was... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.