Grace achieved his career-best bowling analysis of 10 / 49 when playing for MCC against Oxford University at The Parks in 1886 ; and he scored 104 in his only innings to complete a rare " match double ".

Although Maurice had driven a Spanish army from the field, a rare feat in the 16th century, the battle achieved nothing.

Sweden had achieved a rare war exploit, in Sweden considered to be matched only by the crusade of the Livonian Order led by William of Modena to conquer Saaremaa ( Osel ) in January 1227 and afterwards when two Russian armies crossed the frozen Gulf of Bothnia from Finland to mainland Sweden in March during the Finnish War.

On November 20, 2009, Cobb School achieved a rare and coveted California State Award, " Cobb Mountain Elementary wins Governor ’ s Challenge Competition Award ".

If the challenger was not satisfied, a pistol duel could continue until one man was wounded or killed, but to have more than three exchanges of fire was considered barbaric and, on the rare occasion that no hits were achieved, somewhat ridiculous.

Upon its publication, Unaccustomed Earth achieved the rare distinction of debuting at number 1 on The New York Times best seller list.

However, a similar color could be achieved with colorants costing only a minute fraction of what praseodymium cost in the late 1920s, such that the color was not popular, few pieces were made, and examples are now extremely rare.

In 1961, he achieved a rare " double " by scoring 1008 runs and taking 144 wickets, his performances being instrumental in Radcliffe winning both the league's championship title and its supplementary Wood Cup competition.

Sobers spent three seasons with South Australia and in two he achieved the rare double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets.

At Amsterdam 1899, an amateur tournament that was Atkins ' first international appearance, he achieved a rare perfect score, winning all 15 games and finishing 4 points ahead of the second-place finisher.

While sampled sound could be achieved on the PC speaker using pulse width modulation, doing so required a significant proportion of the available processor power, rendering its use in games rare.

Many also note that the rare cases in which terrorism has achieved its revolutionary aims are mostly in the context of national liberation struggles, while the urban guerrilla movements have all failed ( Gérard Chaliand ).

On the subsequent trip to the West Indies, he achieved the rare feat of scoring a thousand runs on a Caribbean tour, which included 106 in the Test at Bridgetown, Barbados.

McAvoy has achieved the rare feat among whips of remaining popular with Labour MPs.

Wilson achieved the extremely rare feat of being both born on 29 February ( making him a leapling ) and dying on the same date.

During the regular season, he had achieved the rare feat of scoring 5 goals in a single game, as he got all of Detroit's goals in a 5 – 4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals the day after Christmas on 26 December 1996.

While The Screaming Jets remained only moderately successful overseas, in Australia they became one of the top-drawing live bands of the 1990s, their singles often charted and they achieved the rare distinction of being embraced by both commercial and indie-music focused radio.

On 21 January 2012, Keane achieved the extremely rare feat of having scored goals in competitions for ten different clubs, when he scored twice for Aston Villa against former club Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.

On the rare occasions when SADF Ratels encountered enemy armour, such as the Soviet-made tanks encountered in Operation Protea ( 1981 ) and Operations Modular, Hooper, and Packer in 1988, they achieved successes through manoeuvrebility and only at very short ranges.

Two of them, Edward, Lord Stanley and Oliver, achieved the rare distinction of sitting in the same Cabinet between May and October 1938 until Edward's death.

) Having begun her operatic career on such a high note, she achieved the rare feat of never falling back on small or comprimario roles.

And with England Test cricket captain Andrew Strauss retiring from all forms of cricket right after this defeat, Graeme Smith achieved a rare feat of toppling three English captains in three tours to England.

During the second Test between Bangladesh and India in May 2007 he achieved the very rare feat of grabbing a king pair as he got out to the bowling of Zaheer Khan in the first ball of both innings of the Test Match.

The success achieved in breeding animals, including some rare species, demonstrates the efficacy of these new methods.

That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Very few players have achieved this feat, but it is being seen increasingly at championship level.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

Constantius had made him magister militum in 353, with the purpose of blocking the German threats, a feat that Silvanus achieved by bribing the German tribes with the money he had collected.

In 1994, Earnhardt achieved a feat that he himself had believed to be impossible – he scored his seventh Winston Cup championship, tying the legendary Richard Petty.

A 5 – 1 victory over Croatia at Wembley ensured the team qualified for the final tournament with two games to spare, a feat that had never been achieved before.

Hurst remains the most recent British-based player to notch a double hat-trick in a top-flight league match: he achieved this remarkable feat in a First Division match against Sunderland at Upton Park on 19 October 1968, which saw the Hammers defeat the Wearsiders 8-0.

He was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman has achieved this feat.

In modern baseball, the feat is typically achieved by hitting the ball over the outfield fence between the foul poles ( or making contact with either foul pole ) without first touching the ground, resulting in an automatic home run.

Only three other players have achieved this feat more than once: Sir Gary Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammad and Jacques Kallis, who have each done it twice.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

Her work never ran because Babbage's machine was never completed to a functioning standard in her time ; the first programmer to successfully run a program on a functioning modern electronically based computer was pioneer computer scientist Konrad Zuse, who achieved this feat in 1941.

This feat would be achieved by exhumation and extraction of DNA, constructing a clone of Fredric and retrieving memories and recollections — from Ray's mind — of his father.

The San Diego Padres achieved the feat in both 2005 and 2006.

It would be a feat not achieved since Jack Brabham's victories in 1959 and 1960.

At one point in 1984, Prince simultaneously had the number one album, single, and film in the U. S .; it was the first time a singer had achieved this feat.

The British made gains across the length of their front, the greatest being in the centre at Flers with an advance of, a feat achieved by the newest British division in France, the 41st Division, in their first action.

Mantle reached base more times than he made outs ( 319 to 312 ), one of two seasons in which he achieved the feat.

He was said to have achieved the feat of lifting the bull by starting in childhood, lifting and carrying a newborn calf and repeating the feat daily as it grew to maturity.

A successful AIDS prevention and treatment program was also established, leading the Catholic Institute for International Relations to state, the " incredible feat of slowing the rate of new infections in Haiti has been achieved despite the lack of international aid to the Haitian government, and despite the notable lack of resources faced by those working in the health field.

Although the Movement 2 June achieved their greatest feat kidnapping Peter Lorenz, the extremist group ’ s most frequent activity was bombing.