From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

One of the leaders of the revolt, John Ball famously argued that people were born equal saying, " When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

It was at this venue were he famously came 9th in the 8 Ball Masters and from here he went on to become first reserve for the ( SBBB ) South Belfast Billiards Boys.

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

The video game Crüe Ball features some of Mötley Crüe's songs including their biggest hit " Dr. Feelgood ".

" in imitation of In 1992, Phish introduced collaboration between audience and band called the " Big Ball Jam " in which each band member would throw a large beach ball into the audience and play a note each time his ball was hit.

During this period in London he also collaborated on a number of songs with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, including " I Wish You Could Be Here ", " Cloudy ", and " Red Rubber Ball ", which would be a U. S. No. 1 hit for the Cyrkle in 1966.

Ball Band made rubber garments and was hit by a major strike in 1931, but flourished in the 1940s, finally closing in 1997 in the face of cheaper imports.

In December of that same year, All Ball escaped from Koko's cage and was hit and killed by a car.

Crystal Ball ( 1976 ) was moderately successful and also included Shaw's " Mademoiselle " ( which was another minor hit, reaching No. 36 ) and DeYoung's " This Old Man ".

It featured the major Headbangers Ball and rock radio hit " You Can't Bring Me Down ", a thrash epic which challenged the PMRC, as well as the televangelist bashing funk-metal track " Send Me Your Money ", and the melodic thrash song " Alone " – all released as singles and music videos.

He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, " Take Me Out To The Ball Game ".

He made a cameo appearance in the 1941 film, Ball of Fire, in which he and his band performed an extended version of the hit " Drum Boogie ", sung by Barbara Stanwyck, which he had composed with trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

* April 4 – Sammy Sosa hits his 500th career home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Scott Sullivan in the seventh inning at Great American Ball Park, becoming only the 18th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 or more home runs, as well as the first Hispanic to do so.

" After two and a half years on the label, the band had its first hit, " Woodchopper's Ball " recorded in 1939.

Desilu Productions, co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, was best known for its hit productions such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.

The company also purchased Desilu Productions from Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in 1967, which included most of Ball's television product, as well as such properties as Star Trek and Mission: Impossible ( it and its successor companies would make millions on both series over the following decades with such projects as Star Treks various hit follow-up TV projects and films, beginning in the late 1970s ).

The production became a hit and spawned a 1974 film with Lucille Ball in the title role and Arthur reprising her supporting role, as well as a London production, a Broadway revival, and a 40th anniversary revival at the Kennedy Center in 2006.

In January 1973 they scored their first Top 10 hit with " Ball Park Incident ".

Despite their previous band's status as gothic rock icons, Love and Rockets moved towards a slightly brighter and more pop-influenced sound, as demonstrated by their first minor hit being a cover of the Motown classic " Ball of Confusion ".

with Lucille Ball, although as Bologna's other best-known film roles are that of temperamental 1950s television star Stan " King " Kaiser in the 1982 comedy hit My Favorite Year, starring Peter O ' Toole and of Lenny Koufax, the frustrated father of Sonny Koufax, who was played by Adam Sandler in the 1999 comedy Big Daddy.

" The duo scored a critical hit with A Ball at the Anjo House in 1947.

In most cases in Australia, If the bowler bowls a No-Ball, Wide, Dead Ball, etc., the person Batting would hit either of the cones for a " free shot ".

Similar to Great American Ball Park and its river border with Kentucky, Waterfront Park also holds the possibility of having someone " hit one out of the state " since the middle of the Delaware River is the border with Pennsylvania.

There is also a minigame " Tekken Ball ", similar to beach volleyball, where one has to hit the ball with a powerful attack to hurt the opponent or try to hit the ball in such a way that it hits the ground in the opponent's area, thus causing damage.

Much larger than a golf tee, the Tee Ball tee is a rubber stand attached to the home plate which supports the baseball at a suitable height for the batter to hit.

From October 2007 – July 2009, Ball made his West End return starring as Edna Turnblad in the hit musical Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London.

Brazil still won the game 1 – 0 – Jairzinho guided a shot past Banks in the second half – but England missed chances to get something, with Jeff Astle putting the ball wide of an open goal and Alan Ball striking the crossbar.

* Ball Over – the ball rebounds off a defending player, the crossbar or goalposts and crosses back over the centre line.

the Catholic Saint Mary's Church, with an even taller steeple and a cross on top, stood on Ball Street.

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The group said that Settle was influenced by the episode titled " Ball Breakers ," in which Beavis and Butt-Head loaded a bowling ball with explosives and dropped it from a rooftop.

His parents were graduate students paid by GE to live with and take care of the man Ball called " Uncle Steinie ".

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

* Android 17 and Android 18, along with Android 20 from the anime-manga series Dragon Ball Z.

Upper panel: Ball on a banked circular track moving with constant speed v ; Lower panel: Forces on the ball.

In 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, and Hans Richter, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

with Lucille Ball in Los Angeles, 1953.

Arnaz's marriage with Ball began to collapse under the strain of his growing problems with alcohol and womanizing.

Family home movies later aired on television showed Ball and Arnaz playing together with their grandson Simon shortly before Arnaz's death.

There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day routine.

In the first period, Ball flicked a pass inside to Hurst in the penalty box who struck a strong shot towards goal with his right foot, falling backwards as he did so.

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

Later that year Hawks re-teamed with Cooper for Ball of Fire, also starring Barbara Stanwyck.

Team co-owner Bing Crosby recorded a song, " Goodbye, Mr. Ball, Goodbye " with Groucho Marx and Greenberg to celebrate Greenberg's arrival.