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.

An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear.

He studied under John Major, one of the greatest scholars of the time.

* Major essays by scholars

Major liturgical scholars such as Louis Bouyer and Alexander Schmemann concur with Jeremias ' essential position and one has only to examine the Christian liturgical texts for Paschal Vigil to see evidence of this.

Major Muslim scholars vastly disagree on whether extramarital pregnancy should be considered evidence for zina.

The Sinagoga Major is on the left. Hasdai Crescas came from a family of scholars ; he was a disciple of the Talmudist and philosopher Nissim ben Reuben, known as The RaN.

From the twelfth to the sixteenth century, various scholars used to distinguish between Ireland and Scotland by using Scotia Vetus or Scotia Major meaning Old Scotia or the Greater Scotia for Ireland, and Scotia Minor or Lesser Scotia for Scotland.

The Four Great Classical Novels, or the Four Major Classical Novels () of Chinese literature, are the four novels commonly regarded by scholars to be the greatest and most influential of pre-modern Chinese fiction.

The earliest biographical dictionaries initially focused on the lives of the prophets of Islam and the their companions, with one of the earliest examples being The Book of The Major Classes by Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, and then began documenting the lives of many other historical figures ( from rulers to scholars ) who lived in the medieval Islamic world.

* Major, John-scolasticon. fr-a database on Medieval scholars

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.

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.

Selig had by this time become chairman of the Executive Council of Major League Baseball, and as such became de facto acting commissioner.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

These cards are closely based on the " Major Arcana " of tarot divination such as " The Fool ," but including original cards such as " Drowning in Armor " and " Law.

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.

Major life events, such as births, marriages, and deaths, were often documented with a license, permit, or report.

Major construction projects, such as the dockyard in the late 1890s and early 20th century brought large numbers of workers from Great Britain.

The Sagittarius Dwarf and Canis Major Dwarf galaxies appear to be in the process of donating their associated globular clusters ( such as Palomar 12 ) to the Milky Way.

During this interregnum, the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia ( such as the prefects of congregations ) cease immediately to hold office, the only exceptions being the Major Penitentiary, who continues his important role regarding absolutions and dispensations, and the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who administers the temporalities ( i. e., properties and finances ) of the See of St. Peter during this period.

Major figures in the Communist Party such as Trotsky and Red Army leaders, were killed, convicted of participating in plots to overthrow the Soviet government and Stalin.

At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the " Back to Basics " campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many ( including Conservative cabinet ministers ) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

The magazine still runs one-off specials of this diary ( with the age updated ) on occasions when Major is in the news, such as on the breaking of the Edwina Currie story or the publication of his autobiography.

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.

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

Major foreign-owned banks, such as Barclays, Standard Chartered and Grindlays Bank, successfully resisted takeover.

", on such occasions Bunter would take care of Wimsey and tenderly put him to bed, and they would revert to being " Major Wimsey " and " Sergeant Bunter ".

Major European cities, such as Rome, London, and Munich, are home to mosques that feature traditional domes and minarets.

Major cities, such as Ur and Uruk, took root on tributaries of the Euphrates, while others, notably Lagash, were built on branches of the Tigris.

Major towns such as Epsom, Watford, and Loughton are within the M25.

Major search engine robots are more likely to quantify such extant factors as the volume of incoming links from related websites, quantity and quality of content, technical precision of source code, spelling, functional v. broken hyperlinks, volume and consistency of searches and / or viewer traffic, time within website, page views, revisits, click-throughs, technical user-features, uniqueness, redundancy, relevance, advertising revenue yield, freshness, geography, language and other intrinsic characteristics.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

Dobell's Eastern Force consisted of two infantry divisions the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division commanded by Major General W. Douglas, and the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division commanded by Major General W. E. B. Smith, the Anzac Mounted Division, a mounted infantry division, commanded by Chauvel, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade commanded by Brigadier General E. A. Wiggin and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith.

The Continental Army, under General George Washington, Major General Nathanael Greene, and Major General Israel Putnam, totaling around 1, 800 men, held a series of high ground positions in upper Manhattan against an attacking British division totaling around 5, 000 men under the command of Major General Alexander Leslie.

The commands then went to two CMF soldiers, Major Generals Gordon Bennett and Leslie Morshead.

The 9th Division fought in the North African campaign under Major General Leslie Morshead and distinguished itself first at the Battle of Tobruk, where it became the first Allied unit to resist German Blitzkrieg tactics.

Major General Holborne later arrived at Ardvreck Castle, Sutherland, as escort for James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, who was held captive by Neil Macleod after his defeat at Carbisdale, to be led to Edinburgh by a troop of horse by order of General David Leslie to meet his judges and his death on May 4, 1650.

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The event was devised by Major Leslie Petch, a former Clerk of the Course at York.

Leslie Ferdinand " Buster " Narum ( November 16, 1940 – May 17, 2004 ) was a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles () and Washington Senators (-).

Major Martin carried a snapshot of " Pam ", who was actually a clerk in MI5 named Nancy Jean Leslie and later known as Jean Gerard Leigh ( 20 November 1923 – 3 April 2012 ), two love letters, and a jeweller's bill, dated 19 April 1943, from the exclusive S J Phillips Ltd of 113 New Bond Street, for a diamond engagement ring costing £ 53, 10s 6d, a ring that would cost £ today.

The issue of The Times that recorded Major William Martin's " demise " was also the same that announced that of film star Leslie Howard, shot down by Luftwaffe aircraft on the Bay of Biscay.

General Leslie, who was then at Tain, had sent Major General James Holborne with a troop of horse to fetch Montrose to meet his judges.

* Major General Leslie Morshead ( February 1941 – March 1943 )

The original theme tune to Match of the Day was written by Major Leslie Statham, the band leader of the Welsh Guards, and was entitled " Drum Majorette ".

Major Leslie James ( Les ) Hiddins AM ( born 13 August 1946 in Brisbane, Queensland ), aka " The Bush Tucker Man " is a retired Australian Army soldier and war veteran, who is best known for his love and knowledge of the Australian bush.

The initial on-air staff consisted of Steven Craig ( mornings ), Steve Seaver middays ( now at The Loop ), former " Fire " morning guy Brian Kelly in afternoons, music director Kevin Lewis and Leslie Harris at night, as well as several WFYR holders and some new folks including Jimmy Novak, Brad Jeffries, " Major Tom " Johnson, Scott Childers, and Ryan Cherry ( Meyers ).

His original company commander, Major Leslie Payne, noted McGee's " sterling qualities as a leader " and stated: " His ability in the carrying out of certain important tasks early in the year was most marked and ... there is in my opinion, and the opinion of many others, no more gallant and capable non-commissioned officer in the battalion.

The men put in charge of organizing the group were a British Army officer, Major Leslie H. Mitchell and his assistant, Lieutenant David Howarth.

Eugene Leslie Ahern ( 1895 – March 6, 1960 ) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel Our Boarding House.

The new organisation went into effect in September 1944, with Lieutenant General Walter Krueger's Sixth United States Army, Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger's Eighth United States Army, Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee's First Australian Army, Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead's I Australian Corps and Major General Oscar Griswold's XIV Corps reporting directly to GHQ.

* Tucker, Leslie R. Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a Baltimore Confederate.