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.

Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

Major advances over the years include the addition of one or more fins on the bottom rear of the board to improve directional stability, and numerous improvements in materials and shape.

Major Academy projects now have focused on higher education and research, humanities and cultural studies, scientific and technological advances, politics, population and the environment, and the welfare of children.

Major advances in the subject were Van der Corput's method ( c. 1920 ), related to the principle of stationary phase, and the later Vinogradov method ( c. 1930 ).

The site contains a number of major structures, including Temples A, B, C and D, and areas and buildings designated as the Major Plaza, the Circular Plaza, the Old Temple and New Temple, although the latter two designations are no longer accurate in light of recent research advances.

Major advances in imaging technology have allowed the introduction of hand-held ( pico ) type video projectors.

Major advances in Radar take place at the University of Birmingham during the Second World WarThe magnetron, the core component in the development of radar, and the first microwave power oscillators are developed at the University of Birmingham during World War II ( the microwave oven owes its existence to these developments ).

Major label advances are generally much larger than independent labels can offer.

Major difficulties with the idea being implemented include needed advances in various technological areas.

Major advances in the theory were made in the 1950s, and led to the introduction of quantum electrodynamics ( QED ).

Major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery and unmanned surgery.

In addition there was much contention between author and publisher with Davis, who having no prior experience in literary matters had not signed a particularly generous contract to begin with, claiming that Appleton was withholding his full royalties, with D. Appleton & Co. stating that the advances disbursed Davis during the books writing had consumed most of his royalties for the first few years, and both sides seeming to suspect Major Walthall ( who was out of Davis's employ by the time the book was released ) of financial improprieties with the advances.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

Antonia Major was the elder sister to Antonia Minor, and the first daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony.

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

Major public proof of the Soviet program, called Biopreparat, came when Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, its first deputy director, defected to the U. S. in 1992.

* Ron Blomberg ( born 1948 ), Major League Baseball DH / first baseman / right fielder nicknamed " Boomer "

* George Scott ( first baseman ), Major League Baseball player nicknamed " Boomer "

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Cleveland's struggles over the 30-year span were highlighted in the 1989 film Major League, which comically depicted a hapless Cleveland ball club going from worst to first by the end of the film.

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

Their appearance in three consecutive World Series made the Cubs the first Major League club to play three times in the Fall Classic.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have cheerleaders.

* Hubal, about the last months ( September 1939-April 1940 ) of Poland's first World War II guerilla, Major Henryk Dobrzanski, " Hubal "

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

Major General Stephen Otu was the first native Ghanaian Chief of Defence Staff, being appointed in September 1961.

* Concerto in G Major for Viola and String Orchestra, TWV 51: G9 ; the first known concerto for viola, still regularly performed today

* 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

Regarding the Major Signs, a Companion of the Prophet narrated: " Once we were sitting together and talking amongst ourselves when the Prophet appeared.

Some commentators compared the Major Government's policy to ' amoral equivalency ' because it appeared to judge the Bosnian Government and the Bosnian Serbs equally culpable.

The Mets have appeared in more World Series — four — than any other expansion team in Major League Baseball history.

The Mariners are one of eight Major League Baseball teams without a World Series title, and one of two ( along with the Washington Nationals ) to never have appeared in a World Series.

In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Galloping Major ; in 1956 he had a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film Quatermass 2.

Williams is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in Major League games in four decades.

As the statement " good works are necessary for salvation " appeared in the Leipzig Interim, its Lutheran opponents attacked in 1551 Georg Major, the friend and disciple of Melanchthon, so Melanchthon dropped the formula altogether, seeing how easily it could be misunderstood.

Minnie Miñoso was the last Negro league player to play in a Major League game when he appeared in two games for the Chicago White Sox in 1980.

As an actor in the 1970s he appeared in episodes of popular programmes as different as The Persuaders !, Colditz Episode: The Guests: ( Major Trumpington in a kilt ) and Up Pompeii!

Griffey is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in Major League games in four different calendar decades.

Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in Major League baseball games in four decades.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

He only appeared in " Barbequor " where Major Glory assembles the Justice Friends.

Justice Friends Major Glory and Valhallen also appeared on The Powerpuff Girls episode " Members Only " as members of A. W. S. M.

During the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, Stiles appeared in several commercials for Nike, hanging out in an empty ballpark, doing things such as playing the organ and attempting to do the wave alone.

Major artistes who appeared with the society during this time included Paderewski, Hubert Parry, Nellie Melba, and Clara Butt.

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

An obituary written by long-time associate and friend Major General Laurence B. Keiser appeared in the October, 1950 issue of " The Assembly ," the magazine of the Association of West Point Graduates.

He also appeared in Telugu films such as Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari, Major Chandrakanth, Aditya 369, Kondaveeti Donga, Aswamedham, Aakhari Poratam etc.

He has appeared in films such as Platoon ( 1986 ), The Wraith ( 1986 ), Wall Street ( 1987 ), Major League ( 1989 ), Hot Shots!

Sheen appeared in several comedy roles, including the Major League films, Money Talks, and the spoof Hot Shots!