Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.

As an undergraduate, Parkinson developed an interest in naval history, which he pursued when the Pellew family gave him access to family papers at the recently established National Maritime Museum.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Perhaps not surprisingly given the injury to Walker and the trading of two of the team's most popular players, the Rockies finished third in the National League in attendance in 2000, marking the first time in club history that it did not lead the league in attendance.

However, perhaps because of the trade of Walker and several consecutive losing seasons, the team fell all the way to fourteenth in the National League in attendance ; for the first time in team history, the Rockies drew under 2 million fans for the season.

The NLCS sweep earned the Rockies their first National League pennant in franchise history.

Demonstrators entered the National Assembly building and declared, in a move that resembled the coups d ' état endemic to Ecuadorean history, a three-person junta in charge of the country.

* " Eugenics " – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature

The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.

The Beginnings of Electric Sound Generation – an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music, National Association of Music Merchants, Carlsbad, CA – some of the earliest electric guitars and their history, from the collection of Lynn Wheelwright and others

According to National Football League history, it legalized the forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage on February 25, 1933.

Fuerteventura also has a centre linked with the National University of Distance Education, offering courses in many subjects including economics, business studies, law, history and tourism.

* National Technological University, Argentina, has a complete history program on its offered careers.

* Listen to Dr Bob Parkinson discuss the HOTOL in an oral history interview recorded for the National Life Stories project Oral History of British Science at the British Library

With their only men's National Championship coming in the days before the NCAA Tournament, the Purdue Boilermakers have a strong basketball history:

Located near the center of the Iowa State campus, the Farm House Museum sits as a monument to early Iowa State history and culture as well as a National Historic Landmark.

) The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of " America's Hardest-Working River ', the Blackstone.

A September 2009 article in The National, titled " A noble side to Ig Nobels ," says that although the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research sometimes leads to important breakthroughs.

* 1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

Although the only announced candidate for the presidency of the republic, the National Assembly elected him by the second narrowest margin in Lebanese history ( 57 votes out of 92 ) on August 23, 1982 ; most Muslim members of the Assembly boycotted the vote.

Diego Rivera's mural depicting Mexico's history at the National Palace ( Mexico ) | National Palace in Mexico City

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

National conservatism is a political term used primarily in Europe to describe a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests than standard conservatism as well as upholding cultural and ethnic identity, while not being outspokenly nationalist or supporting a far-right approach.

Prominent Latino cultural attractions found here include Humboldt Park's Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Puerto Rican Day Parade, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art and St. Adalbert's Church in Pilsen.

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

The Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League and the cultural revival under W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the new political thinking of Arthur Griffith expressed in his newspaper Sinn Féin and the organisations the National Council and the Sinn Féin League led to the identification of Irish people with the concept of a Gaelic nation and culture, completely independent of Britain.

Signs of guild behavior in real estate brokerage include: standard pricing ( 6 % of the home price ), strong affiliation among all practitioners, self-regulation ( see National Association of Realtors ), strong cultural identity ( see Realtor ), little price variation with quality differences, and traditional methods in use by all practitioners.

Many educated Lithuanians came back from studies abroad and the Grand Duchy was boiling with active cultural life, sometimes referred to as Lithuanian Renaissance ( not to be confused with Lithuanian National Revival in the 19th century ).

During the period of Bulgarian National Revival many Bulgarians from Vardar Macedonia supported the struggle for creation of Bulgarian cultural educational and religious institutions, including Bulgarian Exarchate.

The word " Maecenas ", in the sense of cultural benefactor, was the penultimate word used in the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee, on May 28, 2009.

He also serves on the Library of Congress National Recorded Sound Preservation Board and is known for reissues and other recordings with historical and cultural value.

The National Geographic Society's historical mission is " to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural, historical, and natural resources.

The decision to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for " distinguished contribution " to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life.

The government made many efforts for cultural development: the National Museum of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art were all constructed during this time.

Between 1848 and 1918, numerous institutions ( including theatres and publishing houses, as well as political, financial and cultural organisations ) were founded in the so-called Slovene National Awakening.

The National Research Council divides Thailand into six geographical regions, based on natural features including landforms and drainage, as well as human cultural patterns.

The main cultural institutions of Tirana are the National Theater, the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, and the National Arts Gallery ( Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve ).

Tirana is home to five well-preserved traditional houses ( museum-houses ), 56 cultural monuments, eight public libraries, and the National Library of Albania ( Biblioteka Kombëtare ).

" Recipes from Tristan da Cunha: Simple Food for all to Enjoy ", a book by Dawn Repetto published in 2010, details the unique cuisine and rich cultural heritage of Tristan da Cunha ( National Library of New Zealand Catalogue ).

Other cultural venues include the National Museum of Art of Romania, Museum of Natural History " Grigore Antipa ", Museum of the Romanian Peasant ( Muzeul Ţăranului Român ), National History Museum, and the Military Museum.

In the cultural arena, the oakleaf is the symbol of the National Trust ( UK ) and The Royal Oak Foundation.

Tongariro National Park, in particular, is one of 27 World Heritage Sites that is of both cultural and natural significance, while four of the South Island national parks form Te Wahipounamu, another World Heritage Site.