The first time a source refers to the superiority of one county is in respect of a match between Edward Stead's XI and Sir William Gage's XI at Penshurst Park in August 1728.

Evidently Mr Stead's Kent team also won two games earlier that season against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representative of Sussex ).

The source states that ( Stead's victory over Sir William Gage's XI ) was the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex.

In 1724, Chingford v Edward Stead's XI ended early because the Chingford team refused to play to a finish when Stead's team had the advantage.

Stead's team had earlier won two games against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representing Sussex ) and their victory over Gage's XI was reported as " the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".

In August 1729, a return match between Stead's Kent XI and Gage's Sussex XI ( which included players from Hampshire and Surrey ) took place at Penshurst Park.

* " The night of which no one speaks ": Christina Stead's art as struggle by Susan Lever, Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Number 37 ( 1993 )

However, many members of Parliament, already infuriated by Stead's tactics, sought to obstruct any alterations to the laws.

Although there were legitimate grounds for doing so, there were other motivations as well: some politicians, who felt that they were forced into passing the Act, wanted to take revenge against Stead's tactics ; rival newspapers, who felt their thunder stolen from them from the publicity gained by the Pall Mall Gazette, in turn wanted to discredit him.

In 1908 the paper was taken over by Stead's brothers-in-law, D. J.

Stead's novel, The Man Who Loved Children was recently heralded as a forgotten 20th Century " masterpiece " by American author Jonathan Franzen in the New York Times, who compared her to James Joyce and William Faulkner.

The Oakland Raiders of the NFL won Super Bowl XI in 1977, Super Bowl XV in 1981, and after the 1983 season ( their second season since the temporary LA move ), they defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII to capture a third championship, while also appearing in Super Bowl II in 1968 and Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.

Whilst at Eton, he won the Eton Fives, was keeper of fives and in the shooting XI, as well as being a member of the Wall and Field football XIs.

In 2004, the Tide won their first AAA District XI Title over Jim Thorpe.

The cricket side, Meltham CC, has won the 1st XI Byrom Shield on 7 occasions and the Sykes Cup 8 times.

As of 2010, the 1st XI play in the York League Premier Division, having won the League title in the 2009 / 10 season.

* Super Bowl XI – Oakland Raiders won 32-14 over the Minnesota Vikings

In 1997, the Rattlers won ArenaBowl XI at America West Arena.

During that period, Minnesota won the 1969 NFL championship and NFC titles in 1973, 1974 and 1976, and played in Super Bowls IV, VIII, IX and XI where Yary was one of 10 Players to have played in all four games for the Vikings.

In 2007 the 3rd XI won the 3rd XI First Division championship, and plays in the 3rd XI Premier Division.

In 2007, its 1st XI became Ten-17 Herts & Essex League champions, having won the title following three consecutive promotions.

Another notable success in the club's history occurred in April 2000, when the 1st XI won their way through to the EHA Knockout Cup Final down in Milton Keynes and played Birmingham University.

Since joining the LCL the club have won the Walkden Cup ( 2008 ), the Hulme Trophy ( 2009 ), the 2nd XI Last Six Competition ( 2010 ) and the 3rd XI League, the Bryden Trophy ( 2006, 2007, 2008 ).

Following the Ashes defeat, Australia were expected to struggle against the World XI, but bounced back to whitewash them 3 – 0 in the ODIs ; they also won the only Test easily, Ponting scoring 46 and 54.

Knockharley Cricket Club were founded in 1982 and are the only cricket club in County Meath competing in the Leinster Cricket Union, the clubs most recent success came in 2006 when the 1st XI won the Middle 2 Leinster Cup defeating Mullingar at North Kildare.

The oval is home to the " Lynbrook Lakers " cricket team which fields a number of adult and children's cricket teams in the local DDCA league, where the 1st XI has won the premiership for the last 3 years straight ( 2006 / 07, 2007 / 08, 2008 / 09 ).

Preston's First XI last won a Premiership in Season 2002 / 2003.

The 1st XI play in the Premier Division having won the Division 1 championship in 2010 with the 2nd XI in Division 3.

Two winters later, in 1901 – 02, the Hampshire wicketkeeper Richard Bennett's XI went to the West Indies, and played three games against teams styled as the " West Indies ", which the hosts won 2 – 1.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

He was canonized and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on December 16, 1931 by Pope Pius XI and patron saint of the sciences.

Category: Saints canonized by Pope Pius XI

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.

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He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

In Book XI of " The Golden Ass " by Apuleius, we find evidence that the worship of this god was maintained in Rome at least up to the 2nd century.

The Saint-Esprit church was part of a bigger complex built by Louis XI to care for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

( As a result of the setting of the age limit at the start of 1971, twenty-five living cardinals, including the last three surviving cardinals elevated by Pope Pius XI, lost the right to participate in a conclave.

* Carlo Colonna ( 1665-1739 ), created cardinal by Clement XI in 1706.

After the death of the founder the order was favoured and privileged by Benedict XI, and rapidly spread through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and France, where they were received by Philip the Fair in 1300.

Hedwig the younger was legitimated by Pope Gregory XI on 11 October 1371.

This decree was clarified somewhat by Pope Pius XI on June 2, 1927, who allowed that the Comma Johanneum was open to dispute, and it was further explicated by Pope Pius XII's Divino Afflante Spiritu.

Pope Pius XI, in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: " Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.

* Quadragesimo Anno ( 1931 ) papal encyclical by Pope Pius XI

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

; In Preparation-Forgotten Futures XII: Empire of Earth: Announced with the release of FF XI, FF XII will be a setting based on Victorian stories of interplanetary and interstellar travel and warfare, primarily " The Struggle For Empire " by Robert W. Cole

: King Alfonso XI of Castile attempted to retake Gibraltar aided by the fleet of the Castilian Admiral Alonso Jofre Tenorio.

* 1349-Gibraltar was unsuccessfully besieged by the Castilian forces led by the king Alfonso XI.