In December, 1950, when CBS agreed to produce a TV pilot starring Lucille Ball and her first husband, Desi Arnaz, Sr., Lucy insisted on Oppenheimer to head up the project.

However, because of the relatively lower sales of his previous albums, Prince's manager Steve Fargnoli and Warner Bros. president Mo Ostin both doubted the commercial viability of releasing a 3-LP set, and after previewing Crystal Ball Ostin insisted that Prince pare it down to two records.

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

The guy with most on the Ball.

Holly's profound influence on Vee's singing style can be heard in such songs as " Rubber Ball " and " Run to Him.

Captain Alexander Ball then joined the attack on Orient.

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.

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.

The Cabaret closed its doors in early July and then at the first public soiree at Waag Hall on July 14, 1916, Ball recited the first manifesto.

Van Doesburg mainly focused on poetry, and included poems from many well-known Dada writers in De Stijl such as Hugo Ball, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters.

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.

Arnaz and Ball married on November 30, 1940.

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.

Arnaz and Ball decided that the show would maintain what Arnaz termed " basic good taste ", and were therefore determined to avoid ethnic jokes as well as humor based on handicaps, mental disabilities, and so on.

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

* 1994: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz By Coyne Stephen Sanders and Tom Gilbert ( author ) ( Whole life, and focuses prominently on the Business affairs of Desilu Productions )( PNT )

He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive, a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

While awaiting their food at The Brown Derby, a Hollywood restaurant, Lucy ( Lucille Ball ) and Ethel ( Vivian Vance ) argue over whether a certain portrait on a nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday.

Many guitars feature other layouts as well, including six-in-line ( featured on Fender Stratocasters ) tuners or even " 4 + 2 " ( Ernie Ball Music Man ).

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.

Arnaz also pushed the network to allow them to show Lucille Ball while she was pregnant.

The network finally relented and let Arnaz and Ball weave the pregnancy into the story line, but remained adamant about eschewing use of pregnant, so Arnaz substituted expecting, pronouncing it ' spectin ' in his Cuban accent.

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 ).

This material includes Here's Lucy and the aforementioned The Mothers-In-Law, as well as many programs and specials Ball and Arnaz made independently of each other.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

He and Ball are the parents of actress Lucie Arnaz ( born 1951 ) and actor Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( born 1953 ).

When Ball returned to weekly television, she and Arnaz worked out an agreement regarding Desilu, wherein she bought him out.

Although both Arnaz and Ball remarried to other spouses after their divorce in 1960, they remained friends, and grew closer in his final decade.

There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Jamestown, New York ( birthplace of Lucille Ball ) and a Desi Arnaz Bandshell in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, New York ( childhood home of Lucille Ball ).

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

In the very first Dada publication, Hugo Ball describes a " balalaika orchestra playing delightful folk-songs.

Mickey Hart ( in background, playing drums ) and Bob Weir ( playing guitar ) performing at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball during the Inauguration of Barack Obama | presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

A Persian miniature from the poem Guy-o Chawgân (" the Ball and the Polo-mallet ") during Safavid dynasty of Persia, which shows Persian people | Persian courtiers on horseback playing a game of polo, 1546 AD

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich had previously praised The Datsuns on the revival debut of Headbangers Ball before playing their video for " In Love.

Ball playing in Mayer has a history that goes back nearly 100 years, and has always been strongly supported by the community.

Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television, however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on Burns and Allen, and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

* Ball the Wall – a live album of solo piano playing

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

Ball playing was a popular sport and ancient Romans had several ball games, which included Handball ( Expulsim Ludere ), field hockey, catch, and some form of Soccer.

Another Los Angeles area group, Mammoth ( featuring Alex Van Halen on drums and Edward Van Halen singing and playing lead guitar ), occasionally rented the Red Ball Jets ' PA system.

Musial is noted for his harmonica playing, including his rendition of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

He became a prominent composer and arranger while playing trumpet for Woody Herman ; while working for Herman he provided new arrangements for " Woodchopper's Ball " and " Blowin ' Up a Storm ," and composed " The Good Earth " and " Wild Root.

In the first bio-mechanical versions, comparative GSR inputs monitored each player's relaxation response and moved the Will Ball across a playing field appropriately using stepper motors.

" Hunt would later say the name was likely in his head because his children had been playing with a Super Ball toy.

Shilton duly left Forest and, despite interest from Arsenal, opted to join Southampton, where his former international team-mates Keegan and Alan Ball were both playing.

Born into a musical family, Ball began playing piano at age 5, and showed an early interest in New Orleans style piano playing, as exemplified by Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and James Booker.

At first he was unsure about playing a vampire, but when he learned that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under and Academy Award winning screenwriter of American Beauty, was behind the project, he sent in an audition tape.

He was a good friend of Lucille Ball, and his specialty in playing scowling, beady-eyed, short tempered, no-nonsense professionals provided the perfect comic foil for Lucy's scatterbrained TV character.

Chautauqua Lake is mentioned in at least one episode of I Love Lucy, in which Lucille Ball ( a native of nearby Jamestown, New York ), playing the role of Lucy Ricardo, finds a small fish, stuffed and mounted, in a trunk in her attic and recalls that Ricky caught it at Chautauqua Lake, and was so thrilled that he mounted it.

The movie includes a cappella performance of the Chaplin song " Smile " by Angeline Ball playing Vada's mother.