His father, a professional engraver and an amateur landscape painter, took his sons on numerous hunting expeditions, and imparted to them his knowledge and love of nature.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

An attempt was made to revive the old Northwestern League in 1891, but it also collapsed in mid-season, and Detroit professional baseball took a short hiatus.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

He subsequently took his mother's maiden name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Soon after, he took a position with the rival South Bend Times, the first of many professional switches.

The first professional competition took place on 1975 and from 1993 the rally has been international.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

After rejecting his suggestion, " April Morn ", she took " Vivian Leigh " as her professional name.

This is apart from North v. South which was technically a fixture of higher quality given that the amateur Gentlemen were usually ( until Grace took a hand ) outclassed by the professional Players.

In 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, Jung took part in restructuring of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy ( Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie ), a German-based professional body with an international membership.

He secretly skipped school for a year rather than attend the Jewish lycée formed by displaced teachers and students, and also took part in numerous football competitions ( he dreamed of becoming a professional player ).

Emilio Estévez and his sister Renee chose not to take their father Martin Sheen ’ s professional name and use their birth names ; however, their brother Carlos chose to use their father's professional name, and took the name Charlie Sheen.

While recuperating in England and receiving treatment from Sir William Gull, Muybridge took up the new field of professional photography sometime between 1861 and 1866.

During the following three years, several faculties and professional schools were created, and the construction works on the campus land took place.

He took a summer job with Canadian Press in Toronto, and for a time seriously considered a professional career in journalism.

In June 1976, the ABA-NBA merger took place, moving San Antonio's sole professional sports franchise into a new league.

Despite a busy professional career, throughout her life she continually took an active interest in aspiring young actors by supporting local amateur drama societies, as well as being the president of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company until her death.

Their first performance as a professional group took place in 1992 at the Mayfest Arts Festival in Tulsa.

The town has been best known for being the hometown of NBA great Larry Bird ever since his professional basketball career took off.

A large group of professional studio vocalists named The Mike Sammes Singers, took part in the recording as well, variously singing " Ho-ho-ho, hee-hee-hee, ha-ha-ha ", " oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!

Various writers assert that Halleck took this step because of professional and personal animosity toward Grant.

Here I took my leave of my learned friends to step out on another path, to which we might give the modern name of Pragmatism, or the thing that works.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

The finance company took all their furniture -- and they didn't have a cent to their name.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

The lawyer Thomas Egerton was praised through the anagram gestat honorem ; the physician George Ent took the anagrammatic motto genio surget, which requires his first name as ".

In Byzantine times a new settlement took its place under the name of Arta.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

It is against this background that two religious orders or congregations, one of men and one of women, when founded in the Milan area during the 13th and 15th centuries, took Saint Ambrose as their patron and hence adopted his name.

As a canonically recognized order they took the name " Fratres Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus " and adopted a habit consisting of a brown tunic, scapular, and hood.

The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.

Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.

Upon the death of his mentor, he took the name Adalbert.

The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Since the Angles took a geographic name, they possibly had other names not based on geography.

His name at birth was Ahmed Shah ; he took the name " Massoud " as a nom de guerre when he went into the resistance movement in 1974.

He also trimmed staff and took other cost-cutting measures, and in 1987 he changed Combined's name to Aon.

* Aba ( nymph ), Thracian naiad, mother of Ergiscus ( after whom Çatalca or Ergisce, took its name ) by Poseidon

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.