After receiving their initial two cards, players have the option of getting a " hit " ( taking additional cards ) to bring their total value of cards to 21 points, or as close as possible without exceeding 21 ( called " busting ").

After receiving an initial two cards, the player has up to four standard options: " hit ," " stand ," " double down ," or " split ".

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

After experimenting with several techniques he hit upon filtering the rum through charcoal, which removed impurities.

After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.

After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year old Norm Cash from the White Sox for Minnie Miñoso and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians ; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers.

After the trade, however, Colavito hit over 30 home runs four times and made three All-Star teams for Detroit and Kansas City before returning to Cleveland in.

After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

After an intentional walk to Helton, the Padres pitched to utility infielder Jamey Carroll, who then hit a sacrifice fly, allowing Holliday to score from third base.

After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single " Starman " and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

After her 1976 album, I've Got You, Gaynor shifted from her hit production team, to work with other productions.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

After 1973, Germany was hard hit by a worldwide economic crisis, soaring oil prices, and stubbornly high unemployment, which jumped from 300, 000 in 1973 to 1. 1 million in 1975.

After these recitations, he would most often be hit over the head with a rubber chicken, or in later years be given a bomb or something that would eventually explode.

After working with Owen, Aaron was better able to hit the ball effectively all over the field, whereas previously, Aaron was only able to hit for power when he hit the ball to left or center field.

After a strong GDP growth in 1945-1990, the last two decades's average annual growth rates lagged well below the EU average ; moreover, Italy was hit particularly hard by the late-2000s recession.

After approximately 40 failed attempts, in early 1605 he at last hit upon the idea of an ellipse, which he had previously assumed to be too simple a solution for earlier astronomers to have overlooked.

After the year's previous success, King had Brown sign a new recording contract and in June 1965, released " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag ", which became his breakthrough hit single, becoming his first # 1 single on the R & B chart since " Try Me " and his first Top 10 pop single winning Brown his first Grammy.

After this marriage to Alderman, Grammer had a daughter, Kandace Greer ( who is currently a cast member on MTV's hit show Awkward.

After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.

After his death, The Sound of Music was made into the hit 1965 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

After working with a hitting instructor during the offseason, Smith failed to record a base hit in his first 32 at bats of the 1979 season.

After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series.

After the Padres ' defeat at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers on September 29, the Diamondbacks secured both the NL West title and home field advantage throughout the NL playoffs.

After Bahá ' u ' lláh died on 29 May 1892, the Will and Testament of Bahá ' u ' lláh named ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as Centre of the Covenant, successor and interpreter of Bahá ' u ' lláh's writings.

After having consistently described Birka as an existing city, Scholia 138 of IV 29 describes Birka's sudden demise.

After a poor start ( 19 – 28 ) to the 2009 season, Clint Hurdle was fired on May 29.

After the recount, President Chen was confirmed the winner of the election by a smaller margin ( 25, 563 as opposed to 29, 518 originally ).

After a largely unsuccessful year in 2010 at Essendon, Knights was dismissed as coach on 29 August 2010, just 12 hours after Essendon's final round defeat to the Western Bulldogs.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

After the military coup, in 1980 PAIGC admitted in its official newspaper " Nó Pintcha " ( dated November 29, 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

After agreeing to the deal, Mayflower Transit trucks were dispatched to the team's Maryland training complex on March 29, 1984 in the early morning, where workers loaded all of the team's belongings and the trucks left for Indianapolis with the Colts completely gone from Baltimore by midday.

After World War II, between 1945 and the 29 November 1947 Partition vote, British soldiers and policemen were targeted by Irgun and Lehi.

After midnight on 29 April, with the Soviets advancing ever closer to the bunker complex, Hitler dictated his last will and testament.

After initial hesitation, the Russian foreign minister Pavel Milyukov was forced to demand that Trotsky be released, and the British government freed Trotsky on 29 April.

After serving the nation for 29 years with great pride and a sense of accomplishment, Nepal Telecommunication Corporation was transformed into Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited from Baisakh 1, 2061.

* 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

After three attempts, 29 years of waiting and numerous other applications to enter the VFL, finally North was rewarded for its persistence with admittance to the League in 1925, along with Footscray and Hawthorn.

After the international recognition of the new Turkish parliament headquartered in Ankara, by means of the Treaty of Lausanne signed on 24 July 1923, the Turkish parliament proclaimed on 29 October 1923 the establishment of the Republic of Turkey as the new Turkish State that succeeded and formally ended the defunct Ottoman Empire, in line with the treaty.

After a three-month vacancy, Pantaléon was chosen by the eight cardinals of the Sacred College to succeed him in a papal election that concluded on 29 August 1261.

After gaining their independence, the Texas voters had elected a Congress of 14 senators and 29 representatives in September 1836.

After a trial that lasted a few months, he was convicted and hanged On 29 March 1970 in Freetown.

After going 7 – 5 in his first stint in 2007 with the Giants, he exploded onto the scene this year winning four straight before losing his 1st game of the year on April 29, 2008, to the Colorado Rockies.

After a 9 – 20 first half against division opponents, the Giants won 29 of their remaining 43 division games.

After advancing 15 yards with 2 running plays, Montana completed a pair of passes to tight end Russ Francis to move the ball 29 yards to the Miami 11-yard line.

" After spending a couple of days with John Esslemont, and after some passport difficulties he sailed from England on December 16 and arrived in Haifa on 29 December, and a few days later opened ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, which was addressed to Shoghi Effendi.

* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic ( the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916 ).

* January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina ( established 1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion Warren County ( for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren ) and the southern portion Franklin County ( for Benjamin Franklin ).