After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot ( 3. 05 m ) elevated track.

After a rough start, which included a brawl between Michael Barrett and Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs overcame the Milwaukee Brewers, who had led the division for most of the season, with winning streaks in June and July, coupled with a pair of dramatic, late-inning wins against the Reds, and ultimately clinched the NL Central with a record of 85 – 77.

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

After another visit to the bathroom, he returned to his bed and, feeling rough and sleepy, switched off his TV set to take a nap, assuming the match was won.

After a rough start Britain under David Lloyd George successfully mobilised its manpower, womanpower, industry, finances, Empire and diplomacy, in league with the French and Americans, to defeat the Germans and Turks.

After entering the host cells, the viral genome is replicated in the rough endoplasmic reticulum ( ER ) and in the so-called vesicle packets.

After a rough battle, Miller defeats Wild Dog, causing him to drop his radio detonator and become engulfed in the destruction.

After suffering from seasickness in 1868, he designed the SS Bessemer ( also called the " Bessemer Saloon "), a passenger steamship with a cabin on gimbals designed to stay level, however rough the sea, to save her passengers from seasickness.

After a rough estimate of the perturbations the comet would sustain from the gravitational attraction of the planets, he predicted its return for 1758.

After a particularly rough crossing of the Yangtze from Zhenjiang, the local prefect realised that a canal dug directly across Guazhou would slash the journey time and so make the crossing safer.

After viewing a rough cut of the film, he was dissatisfied with the result.

After the ship picks up a load of dynamite in Baltimore, the rough seas they encounter become nerve-racking to the crew.

After a rough end to the season, only winning two games in March of that year, the Stars shocked everyone by winning the first two games of the series in Anaheim, and then would go on to finish off the Ducks in six games, their first playoff series win since 2003.

After several rough and tumble years of growth Pacific Junction was incorporated in 1882.

After a master tape of a rough draft of Gaye's In Our Lifetime?

After working out a marketing strategy for their new sound, James visited WLS when the group was in Chicago to play a concert, bringing along a rough cut of " Crimson and Clover " to the station.

After Apollo 12 demonstrated the ability to land at a pre-specified landing zone, mission planners considered landings in rough, but geologically interesting areas of the Moon.

After a rough couple of years, the company posted a CYP 13 million profit in 1994 thanks to cost-cutting and marketing efforts.

After completing three vocal tracks with the label, based upon rough sonic themes created by the production team, Thornton had a falling out with the label, and gave the label recordings he had made two years previously, consisting of Thornton rapping and goofing off, in order to complete his contract.

After demanding the " gift " of a magical staff from a powerful Dragon king, and to quiet the din of his rough antics on Earth, Monkey is approached by Heaven to join their host, first in the lowly position of Master of the Stable ( manure disposal ), and then-after his riotous complaints-as " Keeper of the Peach Garden of Immortality ".

After George Lucas was given an advance screening of the rough cut of the film, he enjoyed it and gave it his " stamp of approval ," and even offered the original Star Wars sound effects for use in the film.

After Hamsho tried to play rough in the early going, Hagler ended things early this time by flooring Hamsho twice in the third round ( the second knockdown produced by a Floyd Patterson-like hook ), thus forcing Hamsho's trainer to jump in and stop the fight.

After James Monroe's first interview with him on 30 May 1804, "... Monroe reported to his Government that Lord Harrowby's manners were designedly unfriendly ; his reception was rough, his comments on the Senate's habit of mutilating treaties were harsh, his conduct throughout the intervuew was calculated to wound and to irritate.

After a rough start, 1993 saw the second group of elections, and the first parliament to serve a full term.

After landing at Lupiae near Brundisium, he learned the contents of Caesar's will, and only then did he decide to become Caesar's political heir as well as heir to two-thirds of his estate.

After selecting the landing site for Apollo 16, sampling the Descartes and Cayley formations, two geologic units of the lunar highlands, were determined by mission planners to be the primary sampling interests of the mission.

After several hours of analysis, however, mission controllers determined that the malfunction could be worked around and Young and Duke could proceed with the landing.

After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power.

After departing the immediate landing site in the lunar rover, Young and Duke arrived at the day's first destination, the Cinco Craters, from the LM.

After returning to the LM to wrap up the second lunar excursion, the two astronauts climbed back inside the landing craft's cabin, sealing and pressurizing the interior after 7 hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had been set on Apollo 15.

After the Allied landings at Normandy, Germany made attempts to overwhelm the landing force with armoured attacks, but these failed for lack of co-ordination and Allied air superiority.

After landing in Nicaragua, he proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua and re-instated slavery.

After landing the wings fold to a width of so the vehicle can drive on public roads.

After landing, it takes only a few minutes to remove the motorcycle, unfold the handlebars and ride away.

After consolidating political and financial support, William crossed the North Sea and English Channel with a large invasion fleet in November 1688, landing at Torbay.

After each of the landing missions, he participated in the examination and evaluation of the returned lunar samples and helped the crews with the scientific aspects of their mission reports.

* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

* 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.

After landing in Cologne, the hijackers demanded the release of Ağca, who at the time was serving a life sentence in Italy for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.

After the initial landing the army was gathered in its entirety again only in the tenth year.

After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.

After the plane penetrated through the tower, part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the tower and crashed through the roof and two of the floors of 45 – 47 Park Place, between West Broadway and Church Street, ( 600 feet ( 180 meters )) north of the former World Trade Center.

After the tragedy, these problems were fixed, and the Apollo program carried on successfully to reach its objective of landing men on the Moon.

After the incident, these problems were fixed, and the Apollo program carried on successfully to reach its objective of landing men on the Moon.

After orbiting Mars for more than a month and returning images used for landing site selection, the orbiters and landers detached ; the landers then entered the Martian atmosphere and soft-landed at the sites that had been chosen.

After separation and landing, the lander had a mass of about and the orbiter The total launch mass was of which were propellant and attitude control gas.

After being waved off for landing twice, his plane's wing struck the porch of a nearby house and the plane crashed into Sunset Memorial Park, killing Lt. Byrne.

After landing, the Lunokhod 2 took TV images of the surrounding area, then rolled down a ramp to the surface at 01: 14 UT on 1973-01-16 and took pictures of the Luna 21 lander and landing site.