However, it had been built to Major League specifications and also located in a natural bowl, meaning only minor excavations would be necessary to expand the park to accommodate Major League crowds.

Major excavations beginning with C. A. Ralegh Radford's work in the 1930s on and around the site of the 12th century castle have revealed that Tintagel headland was the site of a high status Celtic monastery ( according to Ralegh Radford ) or a princely fortress / trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries ( according to later excavators ), in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain.

Major discoveries on the site during these excavations included the pillared hall of the temple of Ptah, the pylon of Rameses II, the great alabaster sphinx, and the great wall north of the palace of Apries.

Major archaeological excavations and further restorations were done in a project from the 1940s through the 1960s by Eduardo Noguera and César Saenz.

Major excavations have recently revealed occupation going back to Neolithic times.

Major non-London projects have included the discovery of a Saxon princely burial at Prittlewell in Southend-on-Sea, and large excavations in Kent, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and Bath.

Major excavations will resume when funding for more artifact processing, analyses and storage is acquired.

* Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.

The first modern and scientific excavations took place under the guidance of retired army chief of staff of the Württemberg army, General Eduard von Kallee and by Major Heinrich Steimle in the years 1886 to 1888, i. e. before the Empire-Limes-Commission ( Reichslimeskommision ) had been set up.

Major excavations were conducted for 4 seasons from 1955-1958 by a Hebrew University team led by Yigael Yadin.

Major excavations in Colonial Williamsburg included work at the original site of Eastern State Hospital, conducted in 1972 — which was the largest site work since the excavation of the Governor's Palace in 1930 — the James Geddy House and shop, Weatherburn's Tavern and outbuildings and the cabinetmakers shop.

In March 1995, two new franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays — were awarded by Major League Baseball, to begin play in 1998.

* July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the Thirteen Colonies as slaves.

In March 1995, two new franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays — were awarded by Major League Baseball, to begin play in 1998.

Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion ( the better to pacify their slaves ), the Americans set up a church of their own and begin acting as " Priests of Mota " ( Mota is atom spelled backwards ) in order to build a resistance movement — which Major Ardmore, the protagonist of the book, refers to as the Sixth Column ( as opposed to a traitorous fifth column ).

Major campus development continues, including the construction of further Arts facilities which are due to begin in 2013.

The next day Major Fraser ordered his men to begin digging a trench towards the pā but this was ambushed and a dozen of his men killed or wounded.

Magistrates in Patea County advised Grey that Māori had 10 days to stop " molesting property " or they would be " shot down ", while MP Major Harry Atkinson encouraged farms to enrol as specials and begin drilling.

During a period in which various methods of temperament were used by keyboards, strings and even singers, Tosi laments that “ except in some few Professors, that modern Intonation is very bad .” He speaks of a differing “ Semitone Major and Minor ” ( or a larger and a smaller semitone ) whose “ ifference cannot be known by an Organ or Harpsichord, if the Keys of the Instrument are not split .” Consequentially, he warns that “ if a Soprano was to sing D sharp, like E flat, a nice Ear will find he is out of Tune, because this last rises .” Tosi ’ s remedy to poor intonation is to begin the singer young on solfege, using the traditional gamut created by Guido.

In 941 ( 329 AH ), the fourth deputy announced an order by al-Mahdi, that the deputy would soon die and that the deputyship would end and the period of the Major Occultation would begin.

On May 7, 2010, Impact owner Joey Saputo was granted a Major League Soccer expansion franchise set to begin play in Saputo Stadium in 2012.

When Major League Baseball awarded an expansion team ( the Arizona Diamondbacks ) to Phoenix, Arizona, that would begin playing in 1998, the Phoenix Firebirds of the Pacific Coast League ( the San Francisco Giants ' Triple-A affiliate ) were forced to move.

In the Eastern Theater, the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George B. McClellan, was transported to Fort Monroe in April to begin an offensive against Richmond, Virginia.

Major construction will not begin until most of the infrastructure work is complete.

Rex Barney, who began his career at age 19 pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers, later recounted that his coach told him he had to begin chewing tobacco if he ever wanted to be a Major League pitcher.

Major League Soccer had originally intended to begin competitive action in 1995.

In January 2007, he left the club again and agreed to move to New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer, where he immediately established himself with three shutouts and another scoreless half to set the record for longest shutout streak to begin an MLS career.

Major development did not begin until the early 1990s, based around Ghazeepore Road.

These actions, and possibly the influence of his second wife, Peggy Shippen, the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia Loyalist, led Arnold to begin negotiations to change sides with British Major John André in 1779.

Martin had remained optimistic that a negotiated settlement could be reached whereby the US would not have to pull out of South Vietnam and, in an effort to avert defeatism and panic he specifically instructed Major James Kean, Commanding Officer of the Marine Security Guard Battalion and Ground Support Force Commander United States Embassy Compound, that he could not begin to remove the tamarind tree and other trees and shrubbery which prevented the use of the Embassy parking lot as a helicopter landing zone.

Major Stadium expansion and renovations are set to begin immediately following the 2012 season.

He did not face sanctions from Major League Baseball, because they did not begin testing for or penalizing steroid use until the season.

Finally on 18 July Major J. A. Clark was appointed as the commander of the 72nd Battalion CEF Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and ordered to begin training for overseas service.

While the " Fall Classic " as we know it didn't begin until 1903, Major League Baseball had several versions of a post-season championship series before that.

Major activity at Providence in 1961 will involve the scheduled completion of tooling for production of the Uniconer automatic coning machine.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

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.

Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.

Using full-season statistics available at the Official Site of Major League Baseball for the 2004 through 2011 seasons, the following tables show top ranges in various statistics, in alphabetical order.

Section 10. 02. a. 1 of the official rules of Major League Baseball defines an at bat as:

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

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

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

This guideline was later amended to 90 at bats, 45 innings pitched, or 45 days on a Major League roster before September 1 of the previous year.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.

Major League Baseball elected not to retrofit the records to the modern rules, and Ruth's total stayed at 714.

During its lone Major League season, the team played at Lloyd Street Grounds, between 16th and 18th Streets in Milwaukee.

Austria-Hungary asserted its right to extradite him, but Montenegrin authorities instead allowed the assassin to " escape " to Serbia where he joined Major Tankosić's unit ; Major Tankosić died in November 1915 covering the Serbian retreat, but not before confessing his role in the assassination to historians at Azania.

The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

Demobilized as a Major in 1945, he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool from 1946 to 1949.

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

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.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Magnentius was defeated at the battles of Mursa Major and Mons Seleucus, committing suicide after the latter.