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

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.

In every case, Zeus placed them both in the sky as the constellations Ursa Major, called Arktos ( αρκτος ), the " Bear ", by Greeks, and Ursa Minor.

After Major had to back down on this issue Tony Marlow called openly in the House of Commons for his resignation.

Major managed to survive to the end of the Parliament, but called an election on 17 March 1997 as the five-year limit for its timing approached.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

In 2005, a mock-up of the cover of Minor Threat's first EP ( also used on the First Two 7 " s on a 12 " LP and Complete Discography CD ) was copied by athletic footwear manufacturer Nike for use on a promotional poster for a skateboarding tour called " Major Threat ".

The first modest happening called the " Burning of Tubes " was organized as early as 1985 in Wrocław by Major Waldemar Fydrych accompanied by a small group of artists to which belonged: Krzysztof Skarbek, Piotr Petyszkowski, Andrzej Głuszek and Sławomir Monkiewicz.

Major urban centers were at Dholavira, Kalibangan, Harappa, Lothal, Mohenjo-daro, and Rakhigarhi, as well as an offshoot called the Kulli culture ( 2500 – 2000 BCE ) in southern Balochistan, which had similar settlements, pottery and other artifacts.

This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES ( which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes ).

** Major League Baseball-Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called off games for one day, extending cancellations for three days, then all games through September 16 were postponed.

< p > In December 1919, Major E. H. Armstrong gave publicity to an indirect method of obtaining short-wave amplification, called the super-heterodyne.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

A few other such stars have been identified, and together they are called the Ursa Major Moving Group.

The episode was called ' Major Effects ', and was aired to coincide with the release of Disney's ' The Black Hole ' in 1979.

Major League Baseball expansion in 1961 included the formation of the Los Angeles Angels, the move to Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins by the former Washington Senators and the formation of a new franchise called the Washington Senators.

* August 10 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, now called the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, and nicknamed ( after his death ) The Jupiter.

In 2000, the American and National Leagues were dissolved as legal entities, and Major League Baseball became a single, overall " league " de jure ( albeit with two components called " leagues "), although it had operated as a de facto single entity for many years.

The Major System ( also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or Herigone's mnemonic system ) is a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

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.

Barred from Major League Baseball during his prime, Veeck's signing of the aging star in 1948 was viewed by many as another publicity stunt.

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

However, Collins was having difficulty finding a site for a stadium himself, so Major League owners stepped in and forced McLane to give Houston another chance to grant his stadium wish.

In August 2010, Karzai took control of the taskforce that staged the raid, and another US-advised anti-corruption group, the Major Crimes Task Force.

After Major became prime minister, it was misreported that he had failed to get a job as a bus conductor because of failing a maths test, when in fact he passed all of the tests, but had been passed over for the job to another candidate owing to his height.

During one of these incidents, Major, a detainee at a police station in Łódź, proclaimed, in reference to the Marxist and Hegelian dialectics, yet another artistic manifesto and referred to his graffiti art as " dialectic painting " stating: " The Thesis is the Anti-Regime Slogan.

While the topic of retiring # 21 throughout Major League Baseball like Jackie Robinson's # 42 has been broached, and supported by groups such as Hispanics Across America, Jackie Robinson's daughter disagrees, believing that Major League Baseball should honor him another way.

To counter the French military presence in Ohio, in October 1753 Dinwiddie ordered the 21-year-old Major George Washington ( whose brother was another Ohio Company investor ) of the Virginia Regiment to warn the French to leave Virginia territory.

Major discoveries can be made in one branch of mathematics and be relevant to another, yet the relationship goes undiscovered for lack of social contact between mathematicians.

Major flooding in AD 11 is credited with the downfall of the short-lived Xin dynasty, and another flood in AD 70 returned the river north of Shandong on essentially its present course.

Major League Baseball is another company exempt from the Clayton Antitrust Act due to the national heritage associated with it.

TNT will air Major League Baseball postseason games in the event TBS ' MLB coverage has a scheduling conflict ( e. g. the end of one game overruns into the start time of another game ).

She followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, Major Barbara ( 1941 ) with Rex Harrison and Robert Morley.

With Major League Baseball moving from the four-man pitching rotation of McLain's era to five-man rotations, and with the increased reliance on relief pitchers, some observers opine that there may not be another 30-game winner as the game is played today.

In the late winter and spring of 1864, Major Matthew G. Norman began organizing another regiment of troops.

Major intersections along the route include the Atlantic City Expressway and the southern terminus of Route 168 in Turnersville, another intersection with Route 168 in Blackwood, and Route 41 and Route 55 in Deptford Township.

Then Major Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol.

Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Major Hasan fumbling with his weapon and shot him.

F. The preoccupation is not better accounted for by Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, a Major Depressive Episode, Separation Anxiety, or another Somatoform Disorder.

On April 4, 2006, SportsCenter started showing highlights of Major League Baseball games in progress, which were previously an exclusive to another program, Baseball Tonight.

In March 1984, at Major General Kenneth D. Burn's request, the Government of the Philippines amended this provision to allow another U. S. flag to be flown at the site of the joint US / Philippine Cemetery, near the Main Gate of Clark Air Base.