Thanks to the big stadium, that " Junior World Series " easily outdrew the major league World Series which, coincidentally, included the team that would move to Baltimore ten years later and take up occupancy in the rebuilt version of the big stadium.

Thanks to CITES, this number has decreased substantially in recent years, but poaching continues, and red pandas are often sold to private collectors at exorbitant prices.

Thanks largely to the research of John Harley, knowledge of Byrd's biography has expanded in recent years.

Thanks to the success of " Twist Español " and " Florida Twist ", among others, the band had continued success in Mexico and Latin America over the next few years, selling many recordings of Spanish and Spanish-flavored material and simulated live performances ( overdubbed audience over studio recordings ) on the Orfeon label and its subsidiary, Dimsa.

Thanks to the help of the prophecy and witches, Luke recovers old Jedi records left by Yoda about 400 years prior.

Thanks in large part to strong play by Peca, Yashin and Osgood, the new-look Islanders opened the season on a tear, starting 11 – 1-1 – 1 en route to finishing with 96 points, their best point total in 18 years.

Thanks to improvements to the trail system ( including opening new routes that would connect to the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia ), the amount of supplies transported during 1965 almost equalled the combined total for the previous five years.

Thanks to the stability of the Mexican economy and the growth in foreign investment, the Mexican peso is now among the 15 more traded currency units in recent years.

Thanks largely to the success of the Sign of the Cross, he left £ 57, 000, even after periods of relative failure, mainly during his later years managing the Old Court Theatre.

Thanks to his natural caution and reserve, Condillac's relations with unorthodox philosophers did not injure his career ; and he justified abundantly the choice of the French court in sending him to Parma to educate the orphan duke, then a child of seven years.

Thanks to Engels ' assistance, he again contacted the French workers ' movement from London, after it had started to regain ground lost with the reactionary repression under Adolphe Thiers during the first years of the Third Republic.

Thanks to the backing from BAT, British American Racing benefitted from significant funding and a lavish budget in their opening season but it was reported that by half way through the season they had already overspent that budget by enough to keep Formula 1 minnows Minardi racing for several years.

Thanks to the award, Hanson lived in Italy for three years.

Thanks to its position near the South Coast, sunshine levels are high relative to the majority of the rest of Britain, and severe frost unusual, with temperature the coldest recorded temperature in 43 years of records no lower than ( Set in January 1963 ).

Thanks to almost 500 years of Ottoman rule, Bosnian food is closely related to Turkish, Greek, and other former Ottoman and Mediterranean cuisines.

Thanks Dan for many years of fine artistic promotion.

Thanks to over twenty years ' worth of nightly instalments of Countdown as well as his work on the Yorkshire magazine programme Calendar and various other television projects, at the time of his death Whiteley was believed to have clocked more hours on British television screens — and more than 10, 000 appearances — than anyone else alive, apart from Carole Hersee, the young girl who appeared on the BBC's iconic Test Card F.

Thanks to Belzoni's hydraulics and his skill as an engineer ( Napoleon's men had failed in the same endeavour a decade or so earlier ), the 7-ton stone head arrived in London in 1818, where it was dubbed " The Younger Memnon " and, some years later, given pride of place in the British Museum.

Thanks in part to the research of toy collectors, many photos of these unreleased toys and prototypes have shown up on the Web in recent years.

Thanks for all your support over the past 11 years ".

Thanks to Azorín's designation of his fellow writers as a “ generation ,” contemporary critics and later literary historians were to catalogue and then interpret the arrival of new batches of authors in such generational terms for nearly the next one hundred years.

Thanks to his clutch play, the Flames not only proved critics wrong by making the postseason and earning a Finals berth for the first time in 15 years, but also earning the unofficial moniker, " The Eliminator ".

In his introduction for the second volume collection Howard Chaykin wrote " Thanks are overdue to both these guys for producing the most exciting comic book in years ".

Thanks to the generosity of Bayard and Hugh Sharp ( members of the Du Pont family who had been winter residents for many years ), the community purchased the old railroad bed from CSX Corp. ( the successor corporation to the old Chessie System ) and transformed it into a new use — Boca Grande's popular Bike Path.

Thanks so much for all the support throughout the years.

Thanks to both the increased reliability as well as the dramatically increased speed of the switching elements ( which were almost exclusively transistors by this time ), CPU clock rates in the tens of megahertz were obtained during this period.

Thanks to the consistent position of Austria during the meeting of EU foreign ministers, a long period of instability and the questioning of the determination of the Croatian government to surrender war criminals has ended successfully.

The candle is raised three times during the procession, accompanied by the chant " The light of Christ " to which the assembly responds " Thanks be to God ".

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).

Thanks to the railroads, the city enjoyed great prosperity during the Gilded Age.

Thanks to the discovery of papyrus trial transcripts ( dated to Ramesses III ), it is now known that there was a plot against his life as a result of a royal harem conspiracy during a celebration at Medinet Habu.

Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO and mighty MGM to become the third most profitable studio.

Thanks to his powerful protector, the discoverer managed, during a voyage to France in 1674 – 75, to secure for himself the grant of Fort Cataracoui and acquired letters of nobility for himself and his descendants.

Thanks to the lagoon ’ s salt marshes, the salines became Torcello ’ s economic backbone and its harbour developed quickly into an important re-export market in the profitable east-west-trade, which was largely controlled by Byzantium during that period.

Thanks to the presence of the massive plant, power remained on in over half of Welland during the 2003 North America blackout until rolling blackouts began the next day in an effort to provide power to areas that hadn't had it for nearly 24 hours.

Thanks to great efforts to decorate the park using loads of pine trees and thousands of Christmas lights in winter, " Winter Efteling " is growing more popular every year, reaching a climax during the holidays when thousands of people visit the park.

Thanks to Władysław, Silesia was saved during the wars of 1133 – 1135 with Bohemia: he stopped the destruction of the major areas of his district after the Bohemian forces crossed the Oder river.

Thanks to donations by the public and the regaining of books that had been kept during the War, the library's collection grew rapidly.

Thanks to his considerable family wealth and personal connections, he succeeded Morris K. Jesup as the president of the museum's Board of Trustees in 1908, serving until 1933, during which time he accumulated one of the finest fossil collections in the world.

Thanks to its scenic location, the village developed during the 19th century into a resort.

She receives the Monarch's Thanks on several occasions, including her role in search and rescue efforts during an avalanche on Gryphon and her handling of an accident on HMS Manticore.

Thanks to the Drakh's random attacks on alien shipping, almost every other race fought the Centauri during the war, leaving them almost completely isolated, which was the Drakh's intention.

Thanks to Muller's radio mentors, Kevin T. Muller, Marion Woods and Kendra Utterback, Mancow's radio career began at KOKO-AM ( a one-kilowatt AM radio station ), in Warrensburg, Missouri, playing commercials during the Larry King satellite feed.

" Brees responded by tweeting, " Thanks to @ DanMarino for his class and support during this run.

Thanks to the lack of driving laws in the Alaska Territory during the 1920s, Egan learned to drive at an early age, shuttling tourists around during summer months.

Thanks to its long runway, ( built during the Second World War along with RAF Woodbridge's, to allow returning damaged bombers a longer than usual runway to land on ) Manston was designated as one of the UK's MEDAs ( Master Emergency Diversion Airfield ) for emergency military and civilian landings.