" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.

The Twins were able to use the play-in game rule to their advantage when they won the AL Central at the end of the regular season and winning a 12-inning tiebreaker on a walk-off hit by Alexi Casilla.

The Gaines Twins could not use their powers on Kraven ( as his senses were too keen for their abilities ).

Twins Manager Ron Gardenhire had to use rookie pitcher Bobby Korecky as a hitter in the 11th inning of the game ; Korecky had only pitched in five major league games prior to this and had never had a major league at-bat.

The LG Twins of the Korean Baseball Organization use the tune of " Hail to the Redskins " in their own fight song.

He is most known for the use of puns to make nicknames for certain players ( e. g. calling former Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Bert Blyleven Bert " Be Home " Blyleven, a pun on the phrase " be home by eleven ").

During this time, Perry and vocalist Steven Tyler became known as the " Toxic Twins " for their notorious hard-partying and drug use.

The Twins were cruel to Eragon, and attempted to use him to further their knowledge of the Ancient Language.

Benefitting from use of the designated hitter in their home ballpark, the Twins then tied it on a mammoth home run by their DH, Don Baylor.

Minnesota has taken advantage of the use of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to play the majority of their games, including hosting a prestigious preseason tournament, and with the 2010 departure of the MLB Minnesota Twins for the new Target Field, hope to use the Metrodome for future Big Ten tournaments and bids on the NCAA tournament.

* British new wave band Thompson Twins use the towers as backdrop in the video for their 1986 single " Nothing in Common ", which is part of the official soundtrack for the film Nothing in Common ( 1986 ).

For several years the Twins attempted to use him as a starter before finally shifting him into the closer role. In, he broke Rick Aguilera ’ s 11-year-old Twins team record for games saved, saving 45 regular-season games.

In their inaugural game, on April 8, 1969, the Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 4 – 3 in 12 innings.

The " TC " remained on the Twins ' caps until 1987, when they adopted their current uniforms.

This same situation was also repeated during their 1970 season, with the Twins winning the Western Division behind the star pitching of Jim Perry ( 24-12 ) and the Orioles winning the Eastern Division Championship behind the star pitching of Jim Palmer.

The Atlanta Braves won all three of their games in Atlanta, and the Twins won all four of their games in Minnesota.

After a mediocre year where the Twins played. 500 baseball for most of the season, the team won 17 of their last 21 games to tie the Detroit Tigers for the lead in the Central Division.

In their inaugural season played at Target Field, the Twins finished the regular season with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses, clinching the AL Central Division title for the 6th time in 9 years under manager Ron Gardenhire.

The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 – 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.

In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

The impetus for league contraction diminished after a court decision forced the Twins to play out their lease on the Metrodome.

However, the Twins continued their efforts to relocate, pursuing litigation against the Metropolitan Stadium Commission and obtaining a state court ruling that they were not obligated to play in the Metrodome after the 2006 season.

Commissioner Bud Selig, who earlier had threatened to disband the team, observed that without the new stadium the Twins could not have committed to sign their star player, catcher Joe Mauer, to an unprecedented 8-year, $ 184 million contract extension.

Clemens made his return on June 22, 2006, against the Minnesota Twins, losing to their rookie phenom, Francisco Liriano, 4 – 2.

* " Amelia ", a song by the Cocteau Twins on their 1984 album Treasure

Twins who had spent their lives apart ( such as those adopted by two different sets of parents at birth ) had the greatest difference.

Since Q ' uq ' umatz acted as a mediator between Tohil and Awilix and their incarnations as the Maya Hero Twins Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the positioning of such ballcourt markers on the east and west sides of north-south oriented ballcourts would represent Q ' uq ' umatz carrying the sun to the zenith with the east marker carrying Hunahpu / Tohil in its jaws, while the west marker would represent the descent of the sun into the underworld and would be carrying Ixbalanque / Awilix in its jaws.

Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the two divine Hero Twins, decided to exact revenge upon Zipacna for the death of the Four Hundred Boys ; they also did so in a continuation of their quest to bring down the arrogant gods.

Xibalba was home of a famous ballcourt in which the heroes of the Popol Vuh succumbed to the trickery of the Xibalbans in the form of a deadly, bladed ball, as well as the site in which the Maya Hero Twins outwitted the Xibalbans and brought about their downfall.

In the Popol Vuh, Camazotz are the bat-like monsters encountered by the Maya Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque during their trials in the underworld of Xibalba.

He batted. 271 with 21 home runs, appearing in 143 games for the Twins, mostly as their designated hitter.

Starting with the Miami season, episodes were given themes such as Best Friends, Twins, Beauty and the Freaks, Double Trouble, Hidden Beauty, Boy Toy, Opposites Attract, Threes a Kind and celebrity guests.

Captain Flack's roll-call was recited in every episode: " Pugh, Pugh, Twins Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub.

He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last.

Morris has spent time as a color analyst for the Minnesota Twins as well as co-hosting Extra Innings along with Kris Atteberry, a show on the Twins radio network that airs after every Sunday day game during the regular season.

After the death of Harmon Killebrew in 2011, the Minnesota Twins decided to wear their cream-colored third jersey – a direct throwback of the uniforms used for most of Killebrew's career – for every home game for the rest of the year.

Once a popular player in Minnesota, his very outspoken request to be traded away from the Twins ensured he would be roundly jeered on every successive trip to the Metrodome.

He started every game in the 1965 World Series but only hit for a. 120 average with 2 RBI and only one extra base hit as the Twins lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a seven-game series.

The 1987 Twins, as a team, were pretty much outnumbered in virtually every major statistical category.

The Twins also won the AL West Division in 1991 with every team in the division having a. 500 or better record, a feat the Braves themselves would achieve when they won the National League East in 2005.

Glass, artist Wellinton Alves and colorist Jean-Francois Beaulieu, these comics follow the heroic journey of the Imperial Twins, separated by war, who encounter adventure and peril at every turn on their quest to reunite their kingdom.

Jamie Suzanne ( pseudonym ) wrote every book in the Sweet Valley Kids series and the Sweet Valley Twins and Friends series.

Twins Days is a festival for biological twins ( and other multiples, e. g. triplets, quads ) which has taken place every summer since 1976 in Twinsburg, Ohio.