Considered the club's third best player before Nodoka joined them, she had forgotten about mahjong until she stumbled upon Nodoka's national individual middle school victory.

Following that game, which sapped the team's bullpen strength, the Padres stumbled, dropping games at home, where they struggled to score runs, and on the road, where they committed uncharacteristic errors and failed to hold leads.

On September 6 two grouse hunters stumbled across the skeletal remains of Ott and Naslund near a service road in Issaquah, east of Lake Sammamish State Park.

I submit to you ladies and gentlemen that is why these people came to testify for Dorothea Puente ... " I think you can only truly understand why so many people testified and asked you to spare Dorthea's life only if you have ever fallen down and stumbled on the road of life and had someone pick you up, give you comfort, give you love, show you the way.

In 1892, workers carrying out improvements to the Bělá nad Svitavou road stumbled upon the remnants of prehistoric clay jars in the vicinity of the Nová Amerika (" New America ") inn, one kilometre west of Brněnec.

The team stumbled on the road and after seven games was 3 – 3 – 1.

They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years.

In round two, the referee gave Aerts a standing eight count but he contested this as he simply stumbled after throwing a kick.

Eventually, control of Hell was handed over to two Angels, Duma ( the angel of silence ) and Remiel (" who stumbled rather than fell "), while Lucifer simply retired to Earth.

Walker, a great fighter who would win the middleweight title the following year, stumbled upon Greb at a nightclub after their fight, and, according to the legend, fought an impromptu rematch there.

On 1 June 1679 he stumbled upon a field Conventicle, " little to our advantage ; for, when we came in sight of them, we found them drawn up in batell, upon a most advantagious ground, to which there was no coming but through mosses and lakes.

They stumbled upon an island and decided to settle there, burning their ships to permanently sever their link to their now Muslim-dominated former homeland.

António Galvão ( 1563 ) reports that a 1447 Portuguese ship stumbled on the island, and met its ( Portuguese-speaking ) inhabitants, who reported they had fled there in the " time of Roderic " and asked whether the Moors still dominated Hispania.

* Matty: A rogue from Messenger, Matty came to the village when was younger because he had run away from his village. He stumbled upon village and was welcome there with open arms.

Curtis insists there has been a largely illusory fear of terrorism in the west since the September 11 attacks and that politicians such as George W Bush and Tony Blair had stumbled on a new force to restore their power and authority ; using the fear of an organised " web of evil " from which they could protect their people.

Roberts careened backward, his back arched, fought for balance and, failing, stumbled against the newel post at the foot of the stairs.

This classical interpretation stumbled at any statistical problem that has no natural symmetry for reasoning.

By the 9th century Taoist monks or alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality had serendipitously stumbled upon gunpowder.

The original cyanoacrylates ( the chemical name for the glue ) were discovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for the war, when a team of scientists headed by Harry Wesley Coover Jr stumbled upon a formulation that stuck to everything that it came in contact with.

In 1862, a newspaper reporter looking for a game between two white teams stumbled upon a game between black teams and covered it for his paper.

Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.

His willingness to experiment with the Moog led to unexpected results, such as the time he stumbled into the signature sound for Hoedown, one of ELP's most popular tunes.

However, they stumbled through the first half of the season and couldn't quite recover, finishing 35 – 47, good for 3rd in the Atlantic Division, and 9th in the Eastern Conference ( tied with Indiana ).

While being readied for demolition in 2004, former Trustee Richard Derosier, while cleaning the attic of the once old church stumbled over an old relic cross that once hung in the old St. James Church.

The mechanism of time travel is most likely not that stumbled across in Pebble In The Sky, considering Harlan's words about the energy requirement for the Temporal Field.

Harris is also the author of various children's books, a side career he stumbled into the mid-1980s: he returned to journalism because he could not find funding for a documentary he wanted to make.

On June 12, 1853, they stumbled upon the long, sloping mountain while hunting for provisions.

Leon stumbled upon the remains of Tiwanaku in 1549 while searching for the Inca capital Qullasuyu.

In an episode of Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries set in Australia, Sylvester stumbled into a group of baby kangaroos, who all resembled Hippety Hopper, and commented that this was the first time he had seen the " giant mice " for years.

Arriving into the play – off places for the first time in the season with just two games remaining, they stumbled at the finish to end up in a respectable tenth place.

At the close of the conflict, during the winter of 1945 – 46, Hersey was in Japan, reporting for The New Yorker on the reconstruction of the devastated country, when he stumbled across a document written by a Jesuit missionary who had survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

With regard to the origin of the idea, Oken narrates in his Isis that, walking one autumn day in 1806 in the Harz forest, he stumbled on the blanched skull of a deer, picked up the partially dislocated bones, and contemplated them for a while, when it suddenly occurred to him, " It is a vertebral column!

Leading scorer Katie Smith was dealt to Detroit in July and the team stumbled down the stretch, missing the playoffs for the first time in three years.

Paris was in the turmoil of the Commune, and Paris was not safe for Saionji-indeed his tutor was shot when they stumbled upon a street battle.

In 1785, an official by the name of Diego Ruiz stumbled upon the Pyramid of the Niches, whilst looking for clandestine tobacco plantings breaching the royal monopoly in this isolated area rarely visited by the authorities.

Even strange names seemed to make them feel closer to some kind of civilization when stumbled across out here in this wilderness.

That same year the University of California's Dr. Laurance Kinsell, timing oxidation rates of blood fats, stumbled onto the discovery that many vegetable fats cause blood cholesterol levels to drop radically, while animal fats cause them to rise.

However Burgess abandoned the idea and Monotype shelved the sketches, until decades later when Canadian printer Gerald Giampa stumbled upon them in 1987, after he had purchased Lanston Monotype.

Spencer Milligan's absence was explained by having Rick Marshall disappear after he was trying to use one of the pylons to get home, and that Jack had stumbled upon his niece and nephew after he embarked on a search of his own to find them.

It is believed that women who touched anteater masks or men who stumbled while wearing them would die or receive some sort of physical disorder.

Troops under command of William Douglas stumbled upon them in the morning mist during a raid south of Durham.

Previously, the only Alderson Point accessible to them was positioned in the photosphere of the supergiant red star, " Murcheson's Eye ", making a human blockade practical since the Moties had not stumbled onto the secret of the Langston Field.

Erving again was among the league's best players in the 1980 – 1981 and 1981 – 1982 seasons, although more disappointment came as the Sixers stumbled twice in the playoffs: in 1981, the Celtics eliminated them in 7 games in the 1981 Eastern Finals after Philadelphia had a 3 – 1 series lead, but lost both Game 5 and Game 6 by 2 points and the deciding Game 7 by 1 ) and in 1982, the Sixers managed to beat the defending champion Celtics in 7 games in the 1982 Eastern Finals but lost the NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers in 6 games.

Strongbow never forgot what forced his tribe to a massive flight, and when humans stumbled upon the Sun Village, he opposed leaving them alive to relate the elves ' existence to others of their kind.

A runaway named Rain Harper stumbled upon the House of Secrets and took up a position as an unwilling witness to the Juris trials, validating the judgments and either condemning the tried souls to imprisonment in the basement, or setting them free to live their life purged of their secret.

Just like any other culture exposed to snow and ice, some people living in the Indian Subcontinent, especially those living high in the Himalayas, would have stumbled upon the technique of freezing various sweetened liquids, thus turning them into frozen desserts.

Inside the rotting room, the two realize they just stumbled upon the evil core of the house that Prichett warned them about all along.

During that same year, although leading the league for most of the year, Lokomotiv, under Estrekhov stumbled in the last games and eventually let CSKA to overtake them and claim the title.

Anyone who tries to harm them severely is nothing more than a threat in Splinter's eyes, proved when he pounced on and attacked Casey when he stumbled into their home, not knowing he was a friend, of course.

The ship's cannon were already loaded so Lieutenant Gamble stumbled from one gun to another, firing them as fast as he could.

It has come to them during a walk down the street, they ’ ve stumbled upon it.

He claimed for a number of years that he had stumbled across Matthews busking in Cardiff and offered her a guitar string she was missing, which led to them playing together, but actually they were in a long term relationship busking and co-habiting when they formed the band.

Hawkeye and the Orb stumbled upon Plantman's mobile plant-growing factory, and he expelled them.

In 1956, while following the group of explorers called the Monster Hunters, he stumbled upon Monster Island, which was at the time a base of the Deviant Warlord Kro ( at the time, Monster Island was located near Japan, although other stories place it in the Bermuda Triangle ; some issues of X-Men have portrayed them as two distinct separate locations ).

He also began capturing humans that stumbled upon his lair, and intentionally exposing them to the FEV.