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* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

* Armigerous American Presidents Series article from the American Heraldry Society.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

The first World Series was won by Boston of the American League.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five postseason round, known as the American League Division Series ( ALDS ).

: See: League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award # American League winners

In Major League Baseball, the American League Division Series ( ALDS ) determines which two teams from the American League will advance to the American League Championship Series.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

* Precision Monolithics, an American company that produced linear semiconductors

In North America, Precision is less commonly played than Standard American or 2 / 1 game forcing, especially at the club level.

Advocates of Precision say that it is generally more efficient ( and precise, as the name would suggest ) than systems such as Standard American.

* Gano, Geneva M. " At the Frontier of Precision and Persuasion: The Convergence of Natural Philosophy and National Philosophy in John C. Fremont's ' 1842, 1843 – 44 Report and Map ,'" ATQ (" The American Transcendental Quarterly "), Sept 2004, Vol.

* Waterford Precision Cycles, American bicycle manufacturer

* American Tool and Die, Precision Manufacturing

* American Precision Museum — A museum that preserves historically important machine tools and helps to educate on the history of machine tools

Prestia's primary instruments are his Fender Precision basses ( a purple transparent American Deluxe and a natural ash-bodied short-lived signature model with a reverse split pickup and a 2-band EQ ).

Precision artists considered themselves strictly American and tried to avoid European artistic influences.

A model of Keely's engine is in the collection of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and an " Etheric Force Machine " of his dating from 1878 is in the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont.

*" Etheric Force Machine " at the American Precision Museum

Most contemporary sarod players use German or American made strings, such as Roslau ( Germany ), Pyramid ( Germany ) and Precision ( USA ).

Also located at MacDill are a division of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ), the Joint Communications Support Element ( JCSE ), the Air Force Reserve Command's 622nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron ( 622 AES ), the Florida Air National Guard's 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron ( 290 JCSS ), the Navy Reserve Forces Command's Navy Operational Support Center Tampa ( NOSC Tampa ), the US Army's 297th Military Intelligence Battalion, the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory, activities of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, elements of the American Red Cross, the anti-medfly operation of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Detachment 1 of the 23d Wing from Moody Air Force Base, GA, among numerous other organizations, activities and agencies.

As of April 19, 2012, the American Standard Precision Basses are loaded with the Custom Shop ' 60s Precision Bass Split Single-Coil Pickups, a 20-fret Graphite Reinforced Maple neck with compound rosewood or maple fingerboard with white or black pearloid dot markers and a high-mass vintage bridge.

The American Standard Precision bass can also be bought as a 4 or 5 string bass. American Deluxe " Ash Body " Precisions were offered from 1995 to 2006, and are currently available as of 2011 ; the 2004 color chart listed Aged Cherry Sunburst, Butterscotch Blonde and Tobacco Sunburst as available finishes during that period.

As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe Precision Basses came with a N3 stacked-coil Jazz Bass pickup in the bridge position, a 21-fret tinted maple neck with compound rosewood or maple fingerboard with white or black pearloid dot markers, an active / passive toggle switch, a high-mass vintage bridge, Hipshot lightweight vintage tuners, a stealth retainer bar for the A string and a bold CBS-era headstock decal.

As of March 23, 2012, the American Standard Precision Bass ( except the 5-string version ) comes with a Custom Shop 60's P-Bass split-coil humbucking pickup.

American Standard Jazz Basses produced between 1989 and 1994 featured a larger body shape, a ' curved ' neck plate set into a chamfered pocket for greater sustain and a 22-fret neck, similar to that of a Precision Bass Plus, with a standard vintage-style top-load bridge, two separate volumes and a master TBX tone circuit.

Known as Jazz Bass Deluxe since introduced as part of a major reworking of Fender's Electric Bass lineup in 1995, they have been renamed the American Deluxe Jazz Bass to the public as of August 2000 in a Bass Player magazine review of the new " Fender American Deluxe Precision V " five-string counterpart model to the American Deluxe Jazz Bass.

) He then bought a white American Fender Precision with a white pickguard ( later switched to a black to make it look more like Dee Dee's bass guitars ).

Bass music ( often known in the UK as UK Bass ) is a collection of various styles of urban dance music that draw influences from American club hip-hop, UK garage and a variety of world ghettofunk genres.

* 1940 – Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter

* 1982 – Brian Bass, American baseball player

* 1851 – Sam Bass, American criminal ( d. 1878 )

* 1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker ( d. 1996 )

* 1912 – Perkins Bass, American politician and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire ( d. 2011 )

* 1935 – Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author

* March 20-Michael Keith Smith, American Bass Player / Builder

* October 6 – Perkins Bass, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* April 25 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer ( b. 1920 )

* September 5 – With US $ 2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States ' largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.

* May 8 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer ( d. 1996 )

** Lance Bass, American singer (' N Sync )

Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members: John Wozniak ( Lead Vocals, Guitar ), Dylan Keefe ( Bass ), and Shlomi Lavie ( Drums ).

During 1968, Cash recorded the Perkins-written " Daddy Sang Bass " ( which incorporates parts of the American standard " Will the Circle Be Unbroken ") and scored No. 1 on the country music charts for six weeks.

Bass fishing is the activity of angling for the North American gamefish known colloquially as the black bass.

This is clearly an effective method of thinning the bass population providing recreation at the same time-which is more important to American Bass anglers.

Black bass should not be confused with a multitude of unrelated fish species found around the world and called " bass ", such as the butterfly Peacock Bass ( Cichla ocellaris ), speckled Peacock bass ( Cichla temensis ), Papuan Black Bass ( Lutjanus goldiei ) ( also called Niugini bass ), Australian bass, Rock bass ( Ambloplites rupestris ), American Striped Bass, and British sea bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ).

In 1985, American Randy Bass, playing for the Hanshin Tigers, came into the last game of the season against the Oh-managed Giants with 54 home runs, one short of manager Sadaharu Oh's single-season record of 55.

After the game, Oh denied ordering his pitchers to walk Bass, but Keith Comstock, an American pitcher for the Giants, later stated that an unnamed Giants coach had threatened a fine of $ 1, 000 for every strike that any Giants pitcher threw to Bass.

In 1985, American Randy Bass, playing for the Hanshin Tigers, came into the last game of the season against the Oh-managed Giants with 54 home runs.