In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of + 3 = 5 in the first Candidates ' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semifinal round.

Fischer insisted that the match be the first to ten wins ( draws not counting ), but that the champion would retain the crown if the score was tied 9 – 9.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

* 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

The first match of the Bill MacLagan undefeated tour of South Africa

At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

Some competitions use a " set " scoring system, with the first to seven points awarded a set in a best-or-three or best-of-five set match.

That same year Lara amassed 688 runs in the three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three centuries, and one fifty – including the double century and a century in the first and second innings of the 3rd Test Match at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, equating to 42 % of the team's runs in that series.

Lara was reappointed as captain against the touring Australians in 2003, and struck 110 in his first Test match back in charge, showing a return to stellar performance.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

Nowadays Boxing Day is popular in Australia as the first day of a Test cricket match held at the MCG.

In dovetailing fashion, all programs of all lengths are run, until enough have halted to jointly contribute enough probability to match these first N bits.

In their first match up of the 2011 season, Cam Newton set an NFL record for most rushing touchdowns in a season for QB with 13.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

Charlton's first Football League match was against Exeter City in August 1921, which they won 1 – 0.

The first match at this site, now known as the club's current ground The Valley, was in September 1919.

The first 1541 drives produced in 1982 had a label on the front reading VIC-1541 and had a white case to match the VIC-20.

The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

However, the Australians fought back and Bradman won his first series in charge 3 – 2.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

The first Batavi commander we know of is named Chariovalda, who led a charge across the Visurgin ( Weser ) against the Cherusci led by Arminius during the campaigns of Germanicus in Germania Transrhenana.

The first phase of the battle was started by a charge of Polish heavy cavalry under Paweł Jasieński.

The Ministry also created the National Institute of Transit ( from the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Tránsito ), ( INTRA ) under the Transport and tariffs Directorate and was in charge of designing the first National roads plan with the support of many foreign multinational construction companies.

In the first type, a nucleophile, an atom or molecule with an excess of electrons and thus a negative charge or partial charge, replaces another atom or part of the " substrate " molecule.

The team was unable to make another serious charge, and finished at 88 – 74, five games behind both Houston and St. Louis, who tied for first.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

The knights and other similarly equipped mounted men-at-arms charged in close formation, exchanging flexibility for a massive, irresistible first charge.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

In late 1917 while in charge of training at Ft. Oglethorpe in Georgia, Mamie had their first son.

Also during this time Almagro established a friendship with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who during the time was in charge of Acla, with the intent of making a ship with the materials of the Espinosa expedition and later finish it in the " Great South Sea " as the Pacific Ocean first became known to the Spanish.

The first 30 minutes of use is free, but after that a service charge depending on the extra length of use applies.

If a similar ball is charged by the same glass rod, it is found to repel the first: the charge acts to force the two balls apart.

Michael Faraday, in his electrolysis experiments, was the first to note the discrete nature of electric charge.

Sven-Göran Eriksson took charge of the team between 2001 and 2006 and was the first non-English manager of England.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

In this passage Jesus says that an offended Christian should draw the offender's fault to his attention at first privately ; then, if the offender refuses to listen, to bring one or two others, that there may be more than a single witness to the charge ; next, if the offender still refuses to listen, to bring the matter before the church, and if the offender refuses to listen to the church, to treat him as " a Gentile and a tax collector ".

In July 2008, a conspiracy charge was used to convict graffiti artists for the first time.