With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

The term " object-oriented database system " first appeared around 1985. Notable research projects included Encore-Ob / Server ( Brown University ), EXODUS ( University of Wisconsin – Madison ), IRIS ( Hewlett-Packard ), ODE ( Bell Labs ), ORION ( Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation or MCC ), Vodak ( GMD-IPSI ), and Zeitgeist ( Texas Instruments ).

In an early tour match Benaud took his best first class innings haul of 18-10-18-7 for New South Wales against the MCC, which lost by an innings and 80 runs, the state's biggest win against the English team.

Ten Thousand Villages, an NGO within the Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) and SERRV International were the first, in 1946 and 1949 respectively, to develop fair trade supply chains in developing countries.

The world's first cricket club was formed in Hambledon in the 1760s and the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) was founded in 1787.

In 1788, the MCC published its first revision of the laws, which prohibited charging down an opponent and also provided for mowing and covering the wicket in order to standardise conditions.

The first 3 digits are the Mobile Country Code ( MCC ), and is followed by the Mobile Network Code ( MNC ), either 2 digits ( European standard ) or 3 digits ( North American standard ).

Cowdrey's highest first class score was 307 against South Australia in 1962-63, a record for the MCC and for any tourist in Australia.

There the MCC Lords saw for the first time that the " fast leg theory " involved in bodyline bowling was not the same as the tactic known by that innocuous name in English County Cricket.

* James Grundy becomes the first player known to be given out handled the ball when playing for MCC v. Kent at Lord's.

To allow him to recover from his illness upon arrival in Australia, Hobbs missed the first two games of the tour, but once recovered, he played in only two of the remaining four fixtures before the Test series began, possibly because the MCC captain, Arthur Jones did not rate Hobbs a good player.

Hobbs was chosen for the first Test against South Africa ; the MCC captain, Leveson-Gower, selected Wilfred Rhodes to open the batting with him.

The denomination continues to grow: In 2010, El Mundo reported that the first MCC congregation in Spain would be established in Madrid in October.

Already in its first year it was supported by members of the Michigan Council of Churches ( MCC ) under the motto " Youth for Understanding ".

One of Enkhbayar ’ s first initiatives, when he became the Prime Minister in 2000, was to bring the Millennium Challenge Compact ( MCC ) to Mongolia.

They include President George W. Bush's visit in February 2008 ( the first ever official visit by a sitting U. S. president and the longest visit by a U. S. president in a single African nation ), Tanzania ’ s hosting of Sullivan Summit VIII ( the first Sullivan Summit in East Africa ), President Kikwete ’ s White House visit in August 2008, and the signing of the largest Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ) Compact in history.

MCC was founded in Chicago, Illinois, and held its first meeting on September 27, 1920.

Fittingly he made his only first class century against the MCC at Lords in July 1959, in his penultimate game for Cambridge.

Three years later, in June 1965, MCC became the first college in the nation to receive accreditation within three years of its founding.

He became the first professional to captain the MCC for an entire game, Jack Hobbs having taken over from the injured Arthur Carr in 1924-25.

Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being presented to the MCC by Bligh's widow upon his death.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal to award to the winning team of each series from 1998 – 99.

However, the urn itself was never a trophy and remains in the MCC Cricket Museum at Lord's Cricket Ground.

The urn is not used as the trophy for the Ashes series, and, whichever side " holds " the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's.

However, Botham subsequently accepted the honour of Honorary Life membership of MCC and his portrait ( depicting him enjoying a cigar ) now hangs prominently in the Long Room Bar at Lord's.

The pavilion is primarily for members of MCC who may use its amenities including seats for viewing the cricket, the Long Room and other facilities such as the Long Room Bar, the Bowlers Bar, a members shop etc.

Angry MCC members scuffled with Constant as he and the team captains returned to the Long Room after their fifth pitch inspection.

As its condition is fragile and it is a prized exhibit at the MCC Cricket Museum, the MCC were reluctant to agree.

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

For the remainder of his cricket-playing career, Botham refused to acknowledge MCC members in the pavilion when playing at Lord's.

Fender showed these letters to Jardine when it became clear that he was to captain the MCC in Australia during the 1932-33 tour, and he also discussed Bradman's discomfort at the Oval.

In 1928 – 29, Harry Alexander bowled an early form of bodyline at the MCC tourists.

The situation escalated into a diplomatic incident between the countries as the MCC — supported by the British public and still of the opinion that their fast leg theory tactic was harmless — took serious offence at being branded " unsportsmanlike " and demanded a retraction.

Founded in November 1838 the Melbourne Cricket Club ( MCC ) selected the current MCG site in 1853 after previously playing at several grounds around Melbourne.

Governor La Trobe offered the MCC a choice of three sites ; an area adjacent to the existing ground, a site at the junction of Flinders and Spring Streets or a ten-acre ( about 4 hectares ) section of the Government Paddock at Richmond next to Richmond Park.

On Boxing Day 1866 an Indigenous Australian cricket team played at the MCG with 11, 000 spectators against an MCC team.

The match was the idea of former Australian bowler and MCC committee member Hans Ebeling who had been responsible for developing the cricket museum at the MCG.

The existence of the Multi-Consignment Contraband ( MCC ) smuggling method ( smuggling two or more different types of contraband such as drugs and illegal immigrants or drugs and guns at the same time ) was verified following the completion of a study that found 16 documented cases of smugglers transporting more than one type of contraband in the same shipment.

The third match, against Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) was Grace's debut at Lord's and he was joined by E. M. who had just disembarked from his voyage.

This was in the MCC v Nottinghamshire match at Lord's in June.

One of the most outstanding phases of Grace's career occurred in the 1876 season, beginning with his career highest score of 344 for MCC v Kent at Canterbury in August.

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 ".

Soon after this action was to be employed more in matches, however, the roundarm method was quickly banned and determined to be illegal by the MCC stating " the ball must be delivered underhand, not thrown or jerked, with the hand underneath the elbow at the time of delivering the ball ".

The questions of whether smuggling groups or syndics would smuggle two different types of contraband at the same time Multiple Consignment Contraband ( MCC ) has been debated within and between law enforcement and intelligence analysists.