In this adaptation ( based on the 1997 film, not the 1992 book ), the action is moved from London to Boston, the focus of the protagonist's obsession is shifted from football to baseball, and the story centres on the 2004 Boston Red Sox season, which culminated with the team's first Major League Baseball World Series victory in 86 years.

Aronofsky described the astronaut period as a homage to David Bowie's " Space Oddity "; the protagonist's name " Tom " originating from the Major Tom of the popular song.

Major was 19 years old when in 1962 his father died at the age of 83.

His grandfather and father, both named Edward Francis Vereka Ventris, reached the ranks of Major General and Lieutenant Colonel, respectively.

Nero's father Gnaeus was the son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ) and Antonia Major.

Wealthy, newly retired sea captain James McKay ( Gregory Peck ) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia ( Carroll Baker ) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Major Terrill ( Charles Bickford ).

* Major Clanger: The father and head of the family, he is determined to get all things right and this way on their planet, and can be grumpy.

* Bobby Bonds ( 1946 – 2003 ), Major League Baseball player, father of Barry Bonds

In his first Major League at-bat, Pete Jr. paid tribute to his father by imitating Pete Sr .' s famous batting stance.

The US Army regards Major General William C. Lee as the father of the Airborne.

The father of Major League Baseball pitcher Brett Tomko, Jerry Tomko, submitted the winning entry to name the team the " Cavaliers " through a competition sponsored by the The Plain Dealer, supporters preferred it to " Jays ", " Foresters " and " Presidents ".

* Major ( also Marquis ) Bartolomeo Cavalcanti: Old man who plays the role of Prince Andrea Cavalcanti's father.

" His father ( a Major ) appears in two episodes, but his mother, though mentioned throughout the series, never appears.

In the years after his 1980 retirement from the Army with the rank of Major General, Patton turned a Hamilton estate owned by his late father into the Green Meadows Farm, where he named the fields in honor of Vietnam soldiers who died under his command.

His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

His father, Soong Ta ( 宋達 ), was a career military officer staunchly loyal to ROC President Chiang Kai-shek and rose to the rank of Major General in the Nationalist Army from an enlisted sailor.

His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, 1726, graduated from Yale in 1744, served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, 1777.

The town was also the boyhood home of Confederate Major General William Mahone, whose father, Fielding Mahone, ran a tavern.

Claypool recruited LaLonde to reform Primus together with Tim " Herb " Alexander, drummer with the Arizona-based group Major Lingo, and a month later, the trio recorded their first album: Suck On This, a live recording culled from two of their Berkeley concerts, funded by a loan from Claypool's father.

* Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, father of lawn tennis – lived at 33 St George's Square

Remarkably, Lafayette had stayed his first night in America, in 1777, at the home of Huger's father Major Benjamin Huger.

After a coup deposed King Constantine during the First World War, Crown Prince George, by then a Major, followed his father into exile in 1917 ( see National Schism ); his brother Alexander was installed as king by prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos, an avowed Republican.

His father, Major Manning Marius Kimmel ( 1832 – 1916 ), served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British Army officer and professor of psychology.

After his father asked Lasorda to select Piazza as a favor, the Miami-Dade Community College student was drafted by the Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft as the 1, 390th player picked overall in the draft.

** The Major ( Arthur Peterson, Jr .)— The father of Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell.

Major corporations operating regional facilities in the county include Honda of America, Goodyear / Veyance Technologies, Parker Hannifin, United Rotary Brush, and Invensys Climate Control.

* Major ( 2004-ongoing, Chiaki Honda ( Gorō's mother ))

The Honda Center lies northeast across California State Route 57 from Angel Stadium ( where Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim play ) and roughly from Disneyland Park.

* Major ( Goro Honda )

Major focus was being directed to large luxury sedans, and Nissan decided to follow the lead of Honda and Toyota and give the President a long overdue revisement.

Major changes to the Blackbird were introduced in 1999, when Honda switched from carburetors to PGM fuel injection.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

Epsilon Ursae Majoris ( Epsilon UMa, ε Ursae Majoris, ε UMa ) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major ( despite its Bayer designation being merely " epsilon "), and at magnitude 1. 76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky.

It is also a member of the large and diffuse Ursa Major moving group.

Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

The technique is rarely seen at the Major League level but is used effectively by multiple college programs.

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

Barry Lamar Bonds ( born July 24, 1964 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.