Having met Bill Oakshott ( the nominal owner of Ashenden Manor, but under the thumb of his uncle Sir Aylmer ) on the train, he contrives to get invited to the house — under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank.

The only obstacles in his way are the real Major Brabazon-Plank and the irresistible opportunity to judge the Bonnie Babies competition at the Ashenden Oakshott Fête.

Major Brabazon-Plank is a famed explorer who led at least one expedition up the Amazon River in Brazil.

In Uncle Dynamite, as Major Brabazon-Plank, he is back from leading an expedition up the Amazon with Bill Oakshott.

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He has also masqueraded as Major Brabazon-Plank, the famed explorer, and as his older brother, a mining engineer.

( In the argot of the English public school, the miner is Brabazon-Plank Major and the major is Brabazon-Plank Minor.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

In 2000, Major League Baseball reversed its decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect.

This guideline was later amended to 90 at bats, 45 innings pitched, or 45 days on a Major League roster before September 1 of the previous year.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

This combatant squadron was commanded by an air force Major PQ Mehdi ( later four-star general ).

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

However, Edward Heath, John Major and Tony Blair did not accept peerages of any kind, although Mr. Heath and Mr. Major were later appointed as Knights of the Garter.

However, in the last chapters of Benjamin Major, written later than the Minor, Richard almost abandons his topic and the discussion of the teaching of mystical theology takes up a good portion of every remaining chapter.

After the assassination of Park Chung-hee, prime minister Choi Kyu-hah took the president's role only to be usurped 6 days later by Major General Chun Doo-hwan's 1979 Coup d ' état of December Twelfth.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

In the later years of the series many Goon Show ' grams ' were produced for the series by members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the famous " Major Bloodnok's Stomach " effect, realised by Dick Mills.

In 1988, Thailand became more democratic after General Prem Tinsulanonda decided to step down and was succeeded by Major General ( later, General ) Chatichai Choonhavan, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand since 1976.

The words were set to music by Albert Von Tilzer, ( Norworth and Von Tilzer finally saw their first Major League Baseball games 32 and 20 years later, respectively ).

* March 27 – East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major ( later President of Bangladesh ) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

The later String Quintet in F Major of 1879, contemporaneous with the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, has been frequently performed.

He later became a Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and he is most famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada.

The later story synopsis established her as Leia Antilles, the daughter of Bail Antilles from the peaceful world of Organa Major.

Edward Stewart Plank ( August 31, 1875 – February 24, 1926 ), nicknamed " Gettysburg Eddie ", was a Major League Baseball pitcher.

Unfortunately, the local Constable, Harold Potter, happens to have grown up with Major Plank ( and also happens to remember arresting Uncle Fred and Pongo at the dog races under the names of Edwin Smith of Nasturtium Road, East Dulwich ).

While in Peru, Major Plank judged a bonny baby competition, for which he was wounded in the leg.

( Major Plank had to trade a case of gin and two strings of beads to a native chief to get the false teeth back.

) In the Malay States, Major Plank knew a fellow ..

Uncle Fred and Major Plank were acquaintance in their young school days.

In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, now retired as Major Plank, he sells an important amber statuette to Sir Watkyn Bassett, and wants to call the police on Bertie Wooster trying to sell it back to him.

In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, as Major Plank, he is a visitor haunting Bertie Wooster, the Major trying to remember where they had met before.

Major Noble ’ s house on the East side of Elston just south of Montrose doubled as the Buckthorn Tavern, serving travelers coming to and from the city of Chicago along the North West Plank Road ( Elston ).

Concerning the events of that day, Henry Shaver, one of forty white men chosen at Fort Plank by Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willett to accompany a band of Oneida Indians under the command of Colonel Lewis Cook in pursuit of Major John Ross forces after the Battle of Johnstown, stated.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

Epsilon Ursae Majoris ( Epsilon UMa, ε Ursae Majoris, ε UMa ) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major ( despite its Bayer designation being merely " epsilon "), and at magnitude 1. 76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky.

It is also a member of the large and diffuse Ursa Major moving group.

Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.

The technique is rarely seen at the Major League level but is used effectively by multiple college programs.

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

Barry Lamar Bonds ( born July 24, 1964 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.