He was killed while serving as a pilot during the First World War, an event that inspired Yeats's poems " An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ," " In Memory of Major Robert Gregory ," and " Shepherd and Goatherd.

Major examples of poetry surviving from this dynamic era include the works of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the poems of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, the Midnight Songs poetry of the four seasons, the great " fields and garden " poet " Tao Yuanming ", the Yongming epoch poets, and the poems collected in the anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace, compiled by Xu Ling ( 507-83 ).

Major collections of Classical Chinese poetry include the Shijing, the Chuci, the Collected Tang Poems, the New Songs from the Jade Terrace, the Three Hundred Tang Poems, the Tang era Wangchuan ji, and the poems collected from the Orchid Pavilion Gathering and the Midnight Songs poems from the Six Dynasties period.

Other holdings include material from ancient Egypt and medieval liturgical objects ( including Coptic literature examples ), Emile Zola, William Blake's original drawings for his edition of the Book of Job ; concept drawings for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; a Percy Bysshe Shelley notebook ; originals of poems by Robert Burns ; a Charles Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol ; a journal by Henry David Thoreau ; an extraordinary collection of autographed and annotated libretti and scores from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mahler and Verdi, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony in D Major ; and manuscripts of George Sand, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and nine of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe.

He subsequently guided through legislation abolishing the closed shop, and campaigned vigorously for Thatcher in the first ballot of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership contest, although he told her a day before she resigned that he felt she wasn't going to win and that John Major was better placed to defeat Michael Heseltine.

Major industries include Twinings the tea and coffee firm, Ducal Pine Furniture ( until they closed in 2003 ), Thompson International Publishers, who produce the Pitkin Guides to be found in many churches and other notable buildings, financial institutions such as Simplyhealth and Lloyds Banking Group, and the Stannah Group, whose HQ is also in the town.

Major USAF use of Burtonwood ended in April 1959 when the flightline was closed although some use of the runway was made by gliders of the RAF Air Training Corps.

Ent Air Force Base ( named for Major General Uzal Girard Ent, commander of the Ninth Air Force during World War II ) was a United States Air Force facility opened in 1951 on the site of a closed sanatorium in conjunction with the move of the United States Air Force's Air Defense Command, later Aerospace Defense Command ( ADC ), to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Maj. Gen. Neville ’ s sudden death on July 8, 1930 at Edgewater Beach, Maryland, while in office as Major General Commandant, closed one of the most brilliant military careers of his day.

Other places similar to Discovery Zone include Chuck E. Cheese's, Major Magic's, The Jungle, Planet Play, and Wonder Camp ( a chain that closed in 1997 ).

Major ( large-scale ) closed ecological systems include Biosphere 2, MELiSSA, and the BIOS-1, BIOS-2, and BIOS-3 projects.

At 13: 00 a German dive bomber wing, I ./ StG 2 led by Major Oskar Dinort via Nieder-Ellguth, were directed against this unit, followed a few hours later by Schwarzkopff with sixty Ju 87 Stukas of I ./ Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 Weather conditions were unfavourable during the day, with a visibility of only one kilometre and a practically closed layer of fog at 50 metres altitude.

He closed out his American Major League career by joining the Boston Red Sox during the stretch run of the 1988 season, in which the team won the American League Eastern Division championship.

As a result, this World Series held the distinction of being the most recent World Series to host the final World Series game of its two venues, a distinction it lost to the 1959 World Series after the original Comiskey Park closed down at the end of the 1990 Major League Baseball season and Dodger Stadium opened in.

Major residential development came in the 1920s as Long Island Rail Road service was expanded to the area at the Springfield Gardens station ( closed in 1979 ).

Ford closed his career with a 27 – 7 win over West Virginia ( and their All-America quarterback Major Harris ) in the Gator Bowl.

Meanwhile the pursuing forces had closed up and Major Johnston with Trooper Anlezark came again to parley, calling down the leaders Cunningham and Johnston from the hill.

A year later the magazine was closed ( after almost 25 years ), and the final strip saw Chuck being swept away from his boat, presumed dead but washing up on a tribal island and being revered as a God-as an inexplicable comic touch, mourners at his ' funeral ' included then-Prime-Minister John Major.

Major floods occurred in 1853, 1854 and, much later, in 1955, all of which briefly closed the line.

Major arterial streets are spaced one mile ( 1. 6 km ) apart ( until you are north of roughly Pinnacle Peak Road ).

The allied commander, Major Miles, was last heard on the radio reporting, " They are tearing my tanks apart.

On his return to Norfolk Island, King found the population of nearly one thousand torn apart by discontent after the strict regime of Major Robert Ross.

Major releases occur about six months to one year apart, based mostly on Warren's availability to produce the next version.

Major poets of the Kokin Wakashū include Ariwara Narihira, Ono no Komachi, Henjō and Fujiwara no Okikaze, apart from the compilers themselves.

Astronomers believe that the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is in the process of being pulled apart by the gravitational field of the more massive Milky Way galaxy.

There is a long-standing bitter rivalry between the sports fans from New York City and Philadelphia, which are approximately two hours apart by car, also seen in the Mets – Phillies rivalry in Major League Baseball and the Eagles – Giants rivalry in the National Football League.

As of 2007, the best estimates of Mizar and Alcor's respective distances place them 1. 1 light-years and 4 minutes of arc apart, and though their proper motions show they move together ( they are both members of the Ursa Major Moving Group ), it was long believed that they did not form a true binary star system, but simply a double star.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

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.

Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics.

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

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.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

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 ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

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 ).

Many statistics are also available from outside of Major League Baseball, from leagues such as the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players and the Negro Leagues.

* MLB Official Rules: 10. 00 The Official Scorer, from the Major League Baseball website

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 ).

In Major League Baseball, the American League Division Series ( ALDS ) determines which two teams from the American League will advance to the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Division Series ( NLDS ) determines which two teams from the National League will advance to the National League Championship Series.

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche ’ s disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus.

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

Despite a cease-fire order from the army HQ, over 100 rounds were fired directly into the fleeing crowds by troops under the command of Major Ted Loden.