* Charles S. Finch, medical doctor and author: Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden ( 1991 ), Africa and the Birth of Science and Technology ( 1991 ), The Star of Deep Beginnings ( 1998 ), Biblio Africana: An Annotated Reader's Guide to African Cultural History and Related Subjects ( 1999 ), The African Background to Medical Science: Essays on African History, Science & Civilizations ( 2000 ), The Afrikan Origins of the Major World Religions ( with Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Modupe Oduyoye ) ( 1987 )

* Yosef Ben-Jochannan, author: African Origins of Major " Western Religions "; Black Man of the Nile and His Family ; Africa: Mother of Western Civilization ; New Dimensions in African History ; The Myth of Exodus and Genesis and the Exclusion of Their African Origins ; Africa: Mother of Western Civilization ; Abu Simbel to Ghizeh: A Guide Book and Manual

In addition, he has several books due in the coming years, including What God Wants: What the World ’ s Major Religions Teach about Today ’ s Most Controversial Issue, SpiritWise: The Moral Teachings of Native Americans, and Black Op.

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 ".

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.

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

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

Although they fell to the " Hitless Wonders " White Sox in the 1906 World Series, the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (. 763 ) in Major League history.

Their appearance in three consecutive World Series made the Cubs the first Major League club to play three times in the Fall Classic.

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.

* Hubal, about the last months ( September 1939-April 1940 ) of Poland's first World War II guerilla, Major Henryk Dobrzanski, " Hubal "

Major foreign investors in Eritrea include China, South Korea, Italy, South Africa, and Germany, as well as the World Bank.

Major influences on food production include international organizations ( e. g. the World Trade Organization and Common Agricultural Policy ), national government policy ( or law ), and war.

Editing film as Major during World War II

The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions ( 1999 ) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.

A fifth title, Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, developed as part of the Entertainment Computer System series, also supports the Intellivoice if both the ECS and Intellivoice are connected concurrently.

Unlike the Intellivoice-specific games, however, World Series Major League Baseball is also playable without the Intellivoice module ( but not without the ECS.

* 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg " Pappy " Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

* 1940 – World War II: 13, 000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

* 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General ( b. 1907 )

* Major Depression Inventory, a self-report mood inventory developed by the World Health Organization

The Mets have appeared in more World Series — four — than any other expansion team in Major League Baseball history.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

* 2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

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

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

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

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.