This group is best known for their ballads, such as " Easy " and " Three Times a Lady ", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include " Brick House ", " The Bump ", " Fancy Dancer ", and " Too Hot ta Trot ".

Although they fell to the " Hitless Wonders " White Sox in the 1906 World Series, the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (. 763 ) in Major League history.

The competitor's best throw from the allocated number of throws, typically three to six, is recorded, and the competitor who legally throws the discus the farthest is declared the winner.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

In his second season Dalglish recorded a personal best of 21 league goals for the club, and he was also named Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year.

The earliest recorded mention of Merlot was in the notes of a local Bordeaux official who in 1784 labeled wine made from the grape in the Libournais region as one of the area's best.

Measuring which technique can provide the most potential is difficult, as many of the best throws recorded with each technique have been completed by athletes under doping suspicions, or with a record of drug violations.

Buffalo then recorded a 24-3 win on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the AFC Central champions with the AFC's best regular season record at 11-5.

Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

With Hawkins, they recorded a few singles in this period and became well known as the best rock group in the thriving Toronto music scene.

Bowdler was a strong chess player and once played eight recorded games against the best chess player of the time, François-André Danican Philidor, who was so confident of his superiority that he played with handicaps.

Although Aaron ( age 21-26 ) recorded only one of his five best seasons, their averages are not too far from the career averages of the two baseball players.

Hagelin proposed that all candidates should have their brain waves recorded by EEG and the resulting " mental profiles " should be publicly disclosed, so that the voters could see which candidates had the best " brain-wave stability ".

In its best known form as the " eight words " couplet, the Rede was first publicly recorded in a 1964 speech by Doreen Valiente.

As with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of Araminta's birth was recorded, and historians differ as to the best estimate.

For instance, on February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra recorded " Trumbology ", " Clarinet Marmalade ", and " Singin ' the Blues ", all three of which featured some of Beiderbecke's best work.

When the required sound effect is of a small subject, such as scissors cutting, cloth ripping, or footsteps, the sound effect is best recorded in a studio, under controlled conditions.

The events of her reign are best recorded in the Abingdon version of the Chronicle.

Several embassies from the Abbaside Caliphs to the Chinese Court are recorded in the T ' ang Annals, the most important of these being those of ( A-bo-lo-ba ) Abul Abbas, the founder of the new dynasty, that of ( A-p ' u-ch ' a-fo ) Abu Jafar, the builder of Bagdad, of whom more must be said immediately ; and that of ( A-lun ) Harun al-Rashid, best known, perhaps, in modern days through the popular work, Arabian Nights.

Ella in London recorded live in 1974 with pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Bobby Durham, was considered by many to be some of her best work.

And thus he was more dangerous to the morals, than to the libertys of his country, to which I am persuaded that he meaned no ill in his heart ... His Name will not be recorded in History among the best men, or the best Ministers, but much much less ought it to be ranked among the worst.

Simon recorded Hearts and Bones, a polished and confessional album that was eventually viewed as one of his best works, but that marked a lull in his commercial popularity ; both the album and the lead single, " Allergies ", missed the American Top 40.

Horowitz, who recorded four of Clementi's Sonatas along with shorter pieces, compared some of them to the best works of Beethoven.

Miles Davis recorded one of the best selling jazz albums of all time in this modal framework.

After it has reached terminal velocity, the time for the tape to travel a known distance is recorded.

No such person as Darius the Mede < sup ></ sup > is recorded in known history.

Here he recorded the series of acoustic songs, including " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and " What to Do ," known as the " Apartment Tapes ," which were released after his death.

The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague.

It was during this cruise with Hornigold that the earliest known report of Teach was made, in which he is recorded as a pirate in his own right, in command of a large crew.

British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.

Noam Chomsky, linguist and scholar, contrasts conspiracy theory as more or less the opposite of institutional analysis, which focuses mostly on the public, long-term behaviour of publicly known institutions, as recorded in, for example, scholarly documents or mainstream media reports, rather than secretive coalitions of individuals.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

There is not much known of Confucius ' disciples and a little over half of them had their surnames recorded in the Zuo Zhuan.

He is recorded in various sources as having two sons, Cutha and Cuthwine, but the genealogies in which this information is found are known to be unreliable.

This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.

Dice have been used throughout Asia since before recorded history ; the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a 5000-year-old backgammon set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

One other member of Æthelberht ’ s family is known: his sister, Ricole, who is recorded by both Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the mother of Sæberht, king of the East Saxons.

A possible reason for the willingness of the Franks to connect themselves with the Kentish court is the fact that a Frankish king, Chilperic I, is recorded as having conquered a people known as the Euthiones during the mid-sixth century.

From the time he was a boy, Fermi meticulously recorded his calculations in notebooks, and later used them to solve many new problems that he encountered based on these earlier known problems.

) show that Apollos was known to Paul and the church at the time of writing, which would preclude the first recorded visit to Ephesus ( See Acts 18: 24-28 ).

Although Drake's birth is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in force.

Classics writer Simone Weil ranked the conduct of the Gracchi second out of all the known cases of good hearted conduct recorded by history for classical Rome, ahead of the Scipios and Virgil.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

2700 – 2200 BC ) are the earliest known recorded testimony of the Berber migration and also the earliest written documentation of Libyan history.