Mr. Ball was a house painter.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

" 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.

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.

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.

The end result of his efforts was the formation a much more " ethical " league, which became known as the National Base Ball League.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

Charlton played in all three, though was substituted for Alan Ball in the final game of the group against Czechoslovakia.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

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.

His co-star was his real-life wife, Lucille Ball, who played Ricky's wife, Lucy.

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

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.

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.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

Regular annual parties in this building were also the " Sportlerball " and the " Ball der Jugend ". During the night of 22 – 23 August 1990, the Volkskammer decided in the Palace of the Republic the declaration on the accession of the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) to the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG ) with effect from 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the GDR joined the FRG.

He uses Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Nickel-wound guitar strings, although he does not use the B strings.

Set of Ernie Ball Regular Slinky electric guitar strings

Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60 % of the vote, and he took office on January 3, 1949.

He ran for the Senate for the last time in 1942, and was defeated by Republican Joseph H. Ball in a 4-way race.

It was a result that many political pundits, as Larry J. Sabato noted in his Crystal Ball newsletter, saw as a harbinger of the Republican gains in Congress in the regular election later that year.

Prior to the 2002 midterm elections, where the Republican Party saw gains in both branches of Congress, Sabato's Crystal Ball website accurately predicted the outcome in 433 of the 435 contests for the House of Representatives and 32 of 34 Senate races.

She is a Republican, and during her Miss USA reign she attended the The Commander-in-Chief's Ball at the Second inauguration of George W. Bush.

He was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1924, defeating the incumbent Republican U. S. Senator L. Heisler Ball for the nomination, and going on to defeat Democrat James M. Tunnell, a Georgetown, Delaware lawyer.

In 1918, he lost to Republican L. Heisler Ball, a former U. S. Senator.

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.

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.

Ice-T made an appearance on the comedy television series Chappelle's Show as himself presenting the award for " Player Hater of the Year " at the " Player-Haters Ball ", a parody of his own appearance at the Players Ball.

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 Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy ( Avon, 1962 ), her first short story collection, includes " The Diploids " ( aka " Six Fingers "), " Feedback ", " Pictures Don't Lie ", " Incommunicado ", " The Snow Ball Effect ", " Defense Mechanism " and " And Be Merry " ( aka " The Pyramid in the Desert ").

As a columnist in the Pioneer Press, Ball was critical of President Roosevelt and the Democratic-majority in Congress, but was also an opponent of isolationism.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

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.

Ed Ball, a power in state politics who had broken with Pepper, financed his opponent, U. S. Representative George A. Smathers.

While this genre is far more established in the United States with movies such as Hard Ball ( 2001 ) or The Mighty Ducks ( 1992 ) in which an underdog team is posed to somehow find the spirit to win an important game against a far superior opponent, these kinds of movies are relatively rare in German cinema.

Pigskin has two pass buttons, a punch button, and a button for selecting the team's strategy (" Block ", " Scatter " and " Bad Attitude " when the player's team is in possession of the ball ; " Get Ball ", " Man-to-Man " and " Bad Attitude " when the opponent has it ).

Bonus points are given in special circumstances ( i. e. when a team wipes out the entire other team, if a player " kills " an opponent with the Big Ball by throwing, and killing the Dead Man Walking ).

; Most appearances against a single non-British opponent: Alan Ball, 8 vs. West Germany, 12 May 1965 – 12 March 1975

He has a Rhombic Aura that can protect him from most attacks, and one of his attacks, which he refers to as a " Lavender Ball " can neutralize the central nervous system of any weaker opponent.