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In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cricket and rounders, Spalding called for a commission to find out the real source of baseball.
It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.
In games such as poker where players play against each other, the house takes a commission called the rake.
A 1918 commission called for sterner law enforcement, while newspapers published sensationalistic articles about addiction related crime waves.
The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( now called Rijeka ), a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ( modern Croatia ), and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory.
The complex multi-pulse is usually described in terms of three components, and these three components have been defined as such by the international standards commission called the International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ).
He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches – called " Pietro Longo = P2 " – caused the Psdi to ask the RAI commission to remove Grillo from RAI TV ; their request was denied.
A commission from the government called forth the monumental Apotheosis of Homer, which Ingres eagerly finished in a year's time.
A crisis was averted when Rutte called for an ultimatum on his leadership, which Verdonk had reconcile to, by rejecting her proposal for a party commission.
After the First National Conference on Long-Range Financing of Educational Television Stations in December 1964 called for a study of the role of noncommercial education television in society, the Carnegie Corporation agreed to finance the work of a 15-member national commission.
In 1904 a French professional group for child psychology, La Société Libre pour l ' Etude Psychologique de l ' Enfant, was called upon by the French government to appoint a commission on the education of retarded children.
Correggio's first major commission ( February – September 1519 ) was the ceiling decoration of the private dining salon of the mother-superior ( abbess Giovanna Piacenza ) of the convent of St Paul called the Camera di San Paolo at Parma.
Through a contact made while working at Windsor, he became interested in the design of theatre scenery, and in 1831 obtained a commission to design the sets for the production of a new opera called Kenilworth at Covent Garden.
After negotiations completed, Kassar called Howard Scott Warshaw on July 27, 1982 to commission him as developer of the video game.
A joint commission of residents of both municipalities had recommended that the two communities should be consolidated to form what would be called the Township of Sussex-Wantage, which would operate under the Faulkner Act ( Council-Manager ) form of government with a mayor and a six-member township council, and that voters in both municipalities should approve a referendum to be held on November 3, 2009.
The commission specified that the light be built " at the extreme point on Bald-head or some other convenient place near the bar of said river, in order that vessels may be enabled thereby to avoid the great shoal called Frying-Pan.
In 1533, the king appears to have entrusted Leland with a document, " a moste gratius commission " ( or principis diploma as he called it in Latin ), which authorized him to examine and use the libraries of all religious houses in England.
Instead, Rupert moved on, accepting a well-paid commission from Anne of Austria to serve Louis XIV as a mareschal de camp, subject to Rupert being free to leave French service to fight for King Charles, should he be called upon to do so.
James was obliged to entertain the charge, but, mistrusting the Dominican court, called an extraordinary commission, and ordered that the proceedings be conducted in his presence.
A committee ( or " commission ") is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly — which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the " Committee of the Whole ".
Council – manager government form also is used in county governments in the United States and the governing body in a county may be called a council, a commission, freeholders, aldermen, and such.
Under the council – manager form of government for municipalities, the elected governing body ( commonly called a city council, city commission, or board of selectmen ) is responsible for the legislative function of the municipality such as establishing policy, passing local ordinances, voting appropriations, and developing an overall vision.
On 4 March 2008, he appeared alongside Tory leader David Cameron as he announced the formation of a commission to investigate ways to help restore the military covenant, which the Tory leader called ' well and truly broken '.
In 1666 Séguier was placed at the head of a commission called to simplify the police organization, especially that of Paris ; and the consequent ordinances of 1667 and 1670 for the better administration of justice were drawn up by him.

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England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.
The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.
Fishing interest calls for a check of the species found, quantity and size, the season they are available, and the stocking program of the fish commission.
The state's railroad system counted miles of broken bridges and missing rights-of-way: it would obviously remain out of commission for weeks.
He said that the group has no candidates for the charter commission in mind at present, but that it will undoubtedly endorse candidates when the time comes.
He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.
The commission also approved a novel plan that would eliminate traffic hazards for pedestrians in the project.
The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.
she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.
He did it because he knows for each guy he puts out of commission that's one less who might take his job away later on.
He resigned his commission in 1834 to return to Kentucky to care for his dying wife, who succumbed two years later to tuberculosis.
Commercial telescopes are available new and used, but in some places it is also common for amateur astronomers to build ( or commission the building of ) their own custom telescope.
In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.
Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.
Alaric displayed similar wisdom in political affairs by appointing a commission to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees, which would form the authoritative code for his Roman subjects.
Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.
His important public commissions include a 1912 commission for a monument to Cézanne, as well as numerous war memorials commissioned after World War I.
However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

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