The stolen base remained a popular tactic through the 1980s, perhaps best exemplified by Vince Coleman and the St. Louis Cardinals, but began to decline again in the 1990s as the frequency of home runs reached unprecedented heights and the steal-friendly artificial turf ballparks began to disappear.

Tallard wrote a report to this effect to King Louis that morning, but hardly had he sent the messenger when the Allied army began to appear opposite his camp.

The campaign began well for Louis XIV's generals: in Italy Marshal Vendôme had defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Calcinato in April, while in Alsace Marshal Villars had forced the Margrave of Baden back across the Rhine.

All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

The Red Wings began the 2009 – 10 NHL season in Stockholm, Sweden, falling in both games to the St. Louis Blues by scores of 4-3 and 5-3, respectively.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Louis Lumiere worked with Victor Planchon to adapt the Lumiere " Blue Label " ( Etiquette Bleue ) photographic plate emulsion for use on celluloid roll film, which began in early 1896.

The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.

In 1907, Maroger began to study with Louis Anquetin and worked under his direction until Anquetin's death in 1932.

Tensions between Louis and the English barons began to increase, prompting a wave of desertions, including William Marshal's son William and William Longespée, who both returned to John's faction.

St-Laurent was initially very well received by the Canadian public, but by 1957, " Uncle Louis " and his government began to appear tired, old and out of touch.

Louis, having barely survived and feeling the imminent danger of death, began planning for his succession ; three months later he issued an Ordinatio Imperii, an imperial decree that laid out plans for an orderly succession.

His contemporaries viewed his reign as co-rule between the king and his mother, though historians generally view the year 1234 as the year in which Louis began ruling personally, with his mother assuming a more advisory role.

Although penetration beyond the coast and the Senegal River began in earnest under Louis Faidherbe, governor of Senegal in the mid-19th century, European conquest or " pacification " of the entire country did not begin until 1900.

* 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Louis and Mary began to call it " Dear Boy ".

Louis confiscated Stephen ’ s wealth and began harassing him so that he would cease his reforming activities.

To appease the Pope, Louis began to act as a zealot of Catholicism.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

It began as dance music in the red-light districts of African American communities in St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published as popular sheet music for piano.

His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.

One of the foreign policy issues on which Palmerston and Russell disagreed apparently was the type of relationship that England should have with France and especially France's ruler, Louis Bonaparte.

Given the differences of opinion within the Lord Aberdeen cabinet over the direction of foreign policy with regard to relations between Britain and the French under Napoleon III, it is not surprising that debate raged within the government as Louis Bonaparte, now assuming the title of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

( Ironically, the Protestant William had also enjoyed the support of the Pope and the Catholic Habsburg monarchy against the aggressive foreign policy of Louis XIV of France ).

Due to agreement on the self-help policy that Louis Farrakhan has endorsed in many fora including the Million Man March, Kemp in a sense aligned himself with Farrakhan.

Under Louis XVI, the royal museum idea became policy.

From 1949 to 1951 Trudeau worked briefly in Ottawa, in the Privy Council Office of the Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as an economic policy advisor.

" In short ," writes Louis Fisher in summary, " congressional policy announced in a statute necessarily prevails over inconsistent presidential orders and military actions.

The acquisition of these territories and his restless foreign policy had earned Louis many enemies among the German princes.

Louis repudiated her pro-Habsburg policy in 1617.

As King, Louis focused primarily on religious uniformity and foreign policy.

When this policy failed miserably, Louis dismissed him, and then replaced him in 1783 with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending to " buy " the country's way out of debt.

In 1733, on the advice of his secretary of state for foreign affairs Germain Louis Chauvelin ( 1727 – 1737 ), the king abandoned Fleury's peace policy to intervene in the War of the Polish Succession.

Created by Louis XIV, the council was in charge of state policy regarding religion, diplomacy, and war.

Louis XVIII created another policy in 1805: a declaration that was far more liberal than his former ones.

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The policy of centralization had as model the French State under Louis XIV and was strongly supported by politicians such as Joseph de Solís and the Sardinian-born political philosopher Vicente Bacallar.

Louis was also responsible for a key shift in policy towards the Jews.

An unintended result of Louis ' policy was the development of a profitable smuggling industry that in turn discouraged legal trade with the French crown along the border region ; Louis was also forced to directly requisition food for his forces, resulting in a string of complaints from local lords and the Church.

This arrangement was a considerable success for Philip's policy, although over time Louis ' clear French loyalties and lack of political links within Flanders itself would lead to political upheaval and peasant revolt.

The Department of State seized the opportunity to review U. S. strategic policy and military programs, overcoming opposition from Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and his allies in the Bureau of the Budget.

Richelieu's foreign policy of struggle against the Habsburgs, who surrounded France on two fronts, inevitably created tension between himself and Anne, who remained childless for another sixteen years, while Louis depended ever more on Richelieu, who was his first minister from 1624.