Major contributions by 20th century Soviet composers as well as various forms of popular music are also part of the make-up of Russian music.

Major French composers that worked on the Poetic Realism cinemas were Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Josef Kosma, and Maurice Jaubert.

Other characters include wealthy Drone Freddie Rooke and writer Wally Mason, her childhood friends ; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby ; her fiancee at the beginning of the book, the M. P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill ; Jill's unpleasant relatives, Elmer and Julia Mariner ; more Drones Club members, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the American League and National League, now part of Major League Baseball.

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

A number of ministers were then revealed to have committed sexual indiscretions, and Major was forced by media pressure to dismiss them.

This was criticised more harshly than may otherwise have been the case as Major had frequently pushed his Back To Basics agenda ( see above ), which was taken by the media as a form of moral absolutism.

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.

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

Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.

Major cities in Australia have suburban railway systems in their metropolitan areas.

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.

This was approved by Major League Baseball and would have enabled the Cubs to host games 1 and 2, along with games 6 and 7 if necessary.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

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

Category: Major League Baseball pitchers who have pitched a perfect game

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

The Prophet's sayings on the subject have been traditionally divided into Major and Minor Signs.

The Red Sox have sold out every home game since May 15, 2003 ; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League Baseball record.

As of July 17, 2012, the Red Sox have had 760 consecutive sellouts, which is the longest such streak in Major League Baseball history ; the club, however, includes all tickets distributed ( paid or free ) when reporting attendance.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

Major metropolitan areas in most European countries are usually served by extensive commuter / suburban rail systems.

Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as " the Major " due to her past rank in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Major national and international music events are usually held at the Derwent Entertainment Centre, or the Casino.

* Major League Baseball, usually abbreviated " MLB ", but sometimes simply " ML "

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

Major relay stations usually transmit messages bearing collective-routing indicators to tributary, minor, and other major relay stations.

Major modern highways that connect cities in populous developed and developing countries usually incorporate features intended to enhance the road's capacity, efficiency, and safety to various degrees.

Major League Baseball usually schedules all Sunday games in the daytime except for the nationally televised Sunday Night Baseball matchup.

, usually known simply as ( born October 22, 1973 ), is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").

The Hierophant is usually Key 5 of the Major Arcana.

In the Colombian Army a division is formed by two or more brigades and is usually commanded by a Major General.

Counter Insurgency Battalions are the exception as they usually have around 300 soldiers, and are commanded by a Major.

A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 80 – 225 soldiers and usually commanded by a Captain, Major or Commandant.

Major CALL development projects are usually managed by a team of people:

In overall command of the RMAS is the Commandant of the Academy, usually an officer of Major General rank.

In India, officers of the rank of Major General and equivalent and above in the sister services who are in command of divisions or of peacetime commands like Area HQ have ADCs who usually belong to their general's parent regiment / battalion.

Major depressive episodes usually, but not always, also occur in the bipolar subtype, however they are not required for DSM-IV diagnosis.

Pipe Major uniform is usually different, to distinguish them from the other members of the band.

Major League Baseball is usually recognized as organizing the first professional league all-star game when it was held as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago.

The game usually occurs on the second Tuesday in July and marks the symbolic halfway point in the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) season ( though not the mathematical halfway point ; in most seasons, that actually takes place one week earlier ).

The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League ( NL ) and the American League ( AL ), as voted by the managers and coaches in each league.

In the United Kingdom, " Garrison " also specifically refers to any of the major military stations such as Aldershot, Catterick, Colchester, Tidworth, Bulford and London, which have more than one barracks or camp and their own military headquarters, usually commanded by a Colonel, Brigadier or Major-General, assisted by a Garrison Sergeant Major.