A. Panitz, and S. Brooks McLane.

Shortly thereafter, McMullen ( who also owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils ) sold the team to Texas businessman Drayton McLane in 1993, who committed to keeping the team in Houston.

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.

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 November 2010, Drayton McLane announced that the Astros were being put up for sale.

McLane stated that because the Astros was one of the few franchises in Major League Baseball with only one family as the owners, he was trying to move forward with estate planning.

McLane is 75 years of age as of November 2011.

McLane and Crane had a previous handshake agreement for the franchise in 2008, but Crane abruptly changed his mind and broke off discussions.

* 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U. S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

* June 10 – United States expedition to Korea: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 members of the United States Marine Corps in a naval attack on the Han River forts on Ganghwa Island in Korea.

* May 27 – Taiping Rebellion: United States diplomatic minister Robert McLane arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the American warship USS Susquehanna.

Due to the efforts of Governor McLane, the State of New Hampshire along with Portsmouth and its citizens became the unlikely host for the first international treaty to be signed in the United States.

Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998 ) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.

Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut ; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise Stoughton Spock.

The international jurist John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, as were politicians Louis McLane and James Williams.

By 1914, the community needed a large central school to house all of the area's students, so the Brandon Grade School ( now McLane Middle School ) was built on Knights Avenue to house grades 1 through 12.

McKean Township is served by the General McLane School District.

Temple is home to many regional distribution centers andis headquarters to two large, multi-national companies, Wilsonart International and McLane Company, as well as the internationally known McLane Group.

* 2009 – Queen V – Death or Glory – guests on " Wasted "

; 1861: Death of Prince Albert ; Queen Victoria refuses to go out in public for many years, and when she did she wore a widow's bonnet instead of the crown.

After the Black Death and internal power struggles in Sweden, Queen Margaret I of Denmark united the Nordic countries in the Union of Kalmar in 1397, with the approval of the Swedish nobility.

* 563 BC — Death of Queen Maya, mother of Siddhartha Gautama

Tony Rennell's book Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid ( in lieu of Brown himself, who had died in 1883: the Queen's wish had been for him to attend to her ).

In 1348, a new woe struck France: the Black Death, which in the next few years killed one-third of the population, including Queen Joan.

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

* In the SNES video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, the Death Tarot card depicts a black-winged Grim Reaper skeleton wearing a tattered orange robe, holding a huge scythe and stepping forward.

), 1694 and 1700 ; odes, and the like, for the celebration of St Cecilia's Day for 1684, 1691, 1695 and 1700 ; for the coronation of James II, two anthems, Behold, O God, our Defender and God spake sometimes in visions ; some harpsichord pieces for the second part of Henry Playford's Musick's handmaid ( 1689 ); Epicedium for Queen Mary ( 1695 ) and Ode on the Death of Purcell ( 1696 ).

A number of video games are also set in the Dragonlance world: including Heroes of the Lance ( 1988 ), Dragons of Flame ( 1989 ), War of the Lance ( 1989 ), Dragonstrike ( 1990 ), Shadow Sorcerer ( 1991 ), Champions of Krynn ( 1990 ), Death Knights of Krynn ( 1991 ), and The Dark Queen of Krynn ( 1992 ).

The track " When Death Calls " has a guitar solo by Queen guitarist Brian May.

* Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.

* Colley Cibber-A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary

* John Banks ' historical play The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland is banned from the stage ; it is produced as The Albion Queens twenty years later ( 1704 ).

It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day ( 1713 ), dedicated to Queen Anne ; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love ( 1714 ), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury ; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne ( 1714 ), in which he rushed to praise the new king.

" The Deploratioun of the Death of Queen Magdalene is in the extravagant style of commemoration illustrated in Dunbar's Elegy on the Lord Aubigny.

The album's title is a possible reference to the Queen song, " Death On Two Legs ".

* Inês de Castro: The Queen Who Was Crowned After Death

In Sin, Death, and the Devil ( 1792 ), James Gillray caricatured the political battle between William Pitt the Younger | Pitt ( Death ) and Thurlow ( Satan ), with Queen Charlotte ( Sin ) in the middle, protecting Pitt.

* 7 May: Death of Mary of Modena at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye ; she was Queen consort of the exiled James II of England ;

Caroline originated the Death Contract, and she has become " Queen " of those who Death Jockey for sport.

* Death: The Twisted Nekron and Arachna, the Spider Queen