On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861 – 1901 ISBN 99918-47-99-5

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

* Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, North American Great Plains

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

" Despite the common recurrence of depressions, classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.

* Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain

There is also some co-operation between the Central ( Amended ) and Unamended Fellowships in North America – most recently in the Great Lakes region, where numerous Amended & Unamended ecclesias have opened fellowship to one another despite the failure of wider attempts at re-union under the North American Statement of Understanding ( NASU ) in recent years.

" Unfortunately, the rest of the season did not go as well, and The Great American Race was his only victory that year.

* 1960 – Jack Russell, American singer ( Great White )

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

In 2011, the Gold Coast and Hamburg Historic District was named as a 2011 America's Great Place by the American Planning Association.

Video game developer Mastiff referenced the dog in promoting their video game Remington Great American Bird Hunt, stating that Rockford, a dog in the game, will never laugh at players for missing the ducks.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

James's publisher agreed to distribute two annuals of essays and data-the 1987 and 1988 editions of Bill James Presents The Great American Baseball Statbook ( though only the first of these featured writing by James ).

Although this league would be periodically shut down by the Great Depression and World War II, it continued as a Class B circuit, four levels below Major League Baseball, through.

Great Negro Baseball Stars, and How They Made the Major Leagues, New York: A. S. Barnes, 1953.

* A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti ( ed.

* Cal Cooper, a Major League Baseball pitcher, was born in Great Falls in 1922.

* Dow Diamond, Home of the Great Lakes Loons, the Single-A Affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League in Major League Baseball

The Illinois State Club Baseball team was ranked No. 18 in the country in the spring of 2010 for much of the year, but ultimately finished second in the Great Lakes South Conference behind the University of Illinois.

* The Great Baseball Mystery ( aka Gone With the Wind-Up )

More pointedly, in The Great American Baseball Card Book, the writers included a picture of Doby's baseball card and said that being the second black ballplayer was, in the minds of the press, akin to being the second man to invent the telephone.

* April 4 – Sammy Sosa hits his 500th career home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Scott Sullivan in the seventh inning at Great American Ball Park, becoming only the 18th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 or more home runs, as well as the first Hispanic to do so.

* Baseball Hall of Fame: Hodges Powered Great Dodgers Teams of Yore

The club ran away with the first championship after the National Baseball League of Great Britain and Ireland was established in 1890.

* Nemec, David ( 2004 ) Great Baseball Feats, Facts, & Firsts ( 2004 ), Signet Books, New York.

The late Wilmer ( The Great ) Fields is a former president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Association ( NLBPA ), while Stanley ( Doc ) Glenn is currently the president of the NLBPA.

* Nankai Baseball Club ( 1938f – May 31, 1944 ) → Kinki Nippon ( June 1, 1944 – December 31, 1944 ) → Great Ring ( 1946 – May 31, 1947 ) → Nankai Hawks ( June 1, 1947 – 1949 ) → To the Pacific League ( Present: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, relocated )

He has authored What Your Astronomy Textbook Won ’ t Tell You ( ISBN 0-913399-04-3 ) and Any Parent ’ s Recipe for Great Baseball He edited and published John Dobson's book How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope ( ISBN 0-913399-63-9 ).

He was involved in the early attempts to establish a baseball league in the United Kingdom, and served as the honorary treasurer of the Baseball Association of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bill James Presents The Great American Baseball Statbook is a book written by baseball sabermetrician Bill James in 1988.

Great achievements in Canadian baseball are recognized by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

In their book, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris, Little Brown & Co, 1973, on p. 77, the authors wrote an essay on Stuart's notoriously poor fielding.

" In its short existence, the Foundation has hosted a Great Spaces Open House at the Stadium that was attended by over a hundred people, two Legends Baseball Camps led by former major leaguers Steve Trout, Rick Honeycutt, Willie Wilson, and Jay Johnstone, and on December 14, 2009, Engel Stadium was approved as a site on the National Register of Historic Places.

Recently, it was announced that FirstEnergy Park is featured in Baseball America's 2009 Great Parks calendar.

The baseball park is owned by the City of Great Falls, MT and leased to the Great Falls Baseball Club, Inc., which is a non-profit organization.