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.

The first gig of Aerosmith took place at Nipmuc Regional High School in this town on November 6, 1970. History teacher Carl Olson hired the band and allowed them to use the girls ' locker room, which they trashed with beer bottles.

Ten High & the trashed Romeos recorded two albums, the first including all original compositions written by Dickinson and the band.

One year after being trashed in the semifinals by Grêmio, Flamengo, led by Junior, secures its first tournament title after beating Goiás in the finals.

Robilar was also the first to enter Gygax's Temple of Elemental Evil, and trashed it from top to bottom, even freeing the demoness Zuggtmoy from her prison at the centre of the Temple.

This has been familiar territory since Led Zeppelin trashed its first private jet.

Mason missed the Roosters first game of the 2009 season after they were trashed by South Sydney Rabbitohs 52 – 12.

Karpov finished first in his first international tournament in Třinec several months later, ahead of Viktor Kupreichik.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

St. Nestor the Chronicler, the first Russian historians | Russian historiographer ( by Viktor Vasnetsov ).

In September 2000, she shared first place in the Najdorf Chess Festival with Viktor Bologan, ahead of Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

In 1972 Aleksandr Baryshnikov set his first USSR record using a new putting style, the spin (" круговой мах " in Russian ), invented by his coach Viktor Alexeyev.

Meanwhile Captain Viktor Tupolev, a former student of Ramius who now commands a Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine named after Vladimir Konovalov, has been trailing what he at first believes is an Ohio-class submarine.

Spassky finished in a tie for ninth at the 27th Soviet final in Leningrad, with 10 / 19, as fellow Leningrader Viktor Korchnoi scored his first of four Soviet titles.

* The first choice makes Viktor to join the Soviets who give him a task to locate the main resistance base and reveal its position to Soviets.

The term “ defamiliarization ” was first coined in 1917 by Viktor Shklovsky ( also spelled Shklovskij ) in his essay “ Art as Device ” ( alternate translation: “ Art as Technique ”) ( Crawford 209 ).

He abandoned his activities as a critic in 1887 and began composing once more ; perhaps not unexpectedly, the first songs he wrote after his compositional hiatus ( to poems by Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff and Joseph Viktor von Scheffel ) emphasized themes of strength and resolution under adversity.

The field of inverse problems was first discovered and introduced by Soviet-Armenian physicist, Viktor Ambartsumian.

A chess prodigy, Short first attracted significant media attention, as a 10-year-old, by defeating Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibition.

* Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria ( 1831 – 1903 ), daughter of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary ; wife first of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este & second of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria

The existence of ' protostars ' was first proposed and postulated by Soviet-Armenian scientist, Viktor Ambartsumian.

The following year, he tied for first at the same event with Robert Hübner and Viktor Korchnoi, playing several of his games while lying face down on a table, having injured his back.

The telescope was operated by crew member Viktor Patsayev, who became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth ’ s atmosphere.

At first only Dutch people were impersonated, later also foreign celebrities ( including Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, John Kerry and Viktor Yushchenko ) were impersonated.

Her first marriage was to a Jewish Austrian, Viktor von Klarwill ( Ziebel ), who sent her to Africa to find a safe place for the two of them to live out World War II.

In Chancellor Viktor Klima's ( SPÖ ) first government, from 28 January 1997 to 4 February 2000, Schüssel was again Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

With the advent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Military Bands Service, Major General Mikhailov's term as its first Director of Music ended in 1993, and was replaced by Lieutenant General Viktor Afanasbev, who was later replaced by the current Sr. Director of Music, Lt. Gen. Valery Khalilov, who was then a Colonel, in 2002.

Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (, ; 9 April 19383 November 2010 ) was the founder and the first chairman of the Gazprom energy company, the longest serving Prime Minister of Russia ( 1992 – 1998 ) and Acting President of Russia for a day in 1996.

Other sequences also presented challenges, such as the stopped-action table-tennis game for which Hunter and Livesey were trained by champions Alan Brooke and Viktor Barna ; the scene where Carter washes up on the beach, the first scene filmed, where cinematographer Jack Cardiff fogged up the camera lens with his breath to create the look he wanted ; and the long, 25-minute trial sequence, which required a set with a long by high backcloth.

Protostar, an early stage of star formation, postulated for the first time by Viktor Ambartsumian | V. Hambardzumyan