When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

Eventually responsibility for demographic inquiries in the Congo was transferred to the demographic division of the Central Statistical Office.

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

In March there was a division of the slaves, and Giffen carried out his instructions as nearly as possible.

Bobbie had been head of the alloy division, while John was just another good salesman in the regular branch.

He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

( Personal initiative was required since his division commander, Brig.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.

At Chancellorsville in May 1863, the division was kept in reserve.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.

The division of labour was initially discussed by Adam Smith, regarding the manufacture of pins, in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

Constans managed to extract the prefecture of Illyricum and the diocese of Thrace, provinces that were originally part of what was meant to be ruled by his cousin Dalmatius as per Constantine I ’ s proposed division of the Empire after his death.

The subject of music within the quadrivium was originally the classical subject of harmonics, in particular the study of the proportions between the music intervals created by the division of a monochord.

These were originally four in number, reduced to two in 1860, the eastern division being administered from Ipswich and the western from Bury St Edmunds.

The number of SCA kingdoms has continued to grow by the expansion and division of existing kingdoms ; for example, the Outlands, Artemisia, Ansteorra, Gleann Abhann, Meridies, and Trimaris all originally belonged to the fourth kingdom, Atenveldt, which began as a branch of the West.

Further complicating the matter, the Foundation series was originally eight short stories and novelettes written for science fiction magazines ; its division into three books is more or less incidental.

Upwords, recently renamed " Scrabble Upwords " by Hasbro, is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and originally published by the Milton Bradley Company ( which is now a division of Hasbro ).

The RQ-5 Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) was originally intended to serve as the United States Army's Short Range UAV system for division and corps commanders.

In 1942 Revolite, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, originally developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing.

The last large group was known as Kwahadis ( Quohada or Kwaarʉ Nʉʉ / Kwahare — ‘ Antelope-Eaters ’), originally Kotsoteka-residential local groups that moved south out of the Cimarron Vally onto the desert plains of the Llano Estacado, they emerged as a new division in the nineteenth century.

Traditionally they are included in the division Pteridophyta, the ferns, originally as a family and later as the order Ophioglossales.

It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally.

On February 17, 2009, GM originally proposed the elimination of its Saturn division, the sale of Saab, and either the sale or elimination of Hummer, depending on whether a buyer could be found quickly.

The first of these new executives was Robert Tillson, who left Service Bureau Corporation ( then a subsidiary of Control Data, but originally formed as a division of IBM ) to become CompuServe's Executive Vice President of Marketing.

Dense wavelength division multiplexing ( DWDM ) refers originally to optical signals multiplexed within the 1550 nm band so as to leverage the capabilities ( and cost ) of erbium doped fiber amplifiers ( EDFAs ), which are effective for wavelengths between approximately 1525 – 1565 nm ( C band ), or 1570 – 1610 nm ( L band ).

The U. S. branch of Hilton hotels was reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton Hotels Corporation purchased the hotels division of United Kingdom-based Hilton Group plc, which had acquired Hilton's International operations in 1987 ( the companies had been separated originally in 1964 ).

The site was used originally for the British No. 4 Maintenance Unit, together with the RAF Records division.

The chapter naming convention is composed of the top level subnational division of that chapter's host institution, and a Greek letter in alphabetical order from when the charter was originally issued.

Millville was first settled in 1662, and officially incorporated in 1916 by division from Blackstone, Massachusetts ( which had itself originally been part of Mendon ).

Also sold — to Honeywell — was Sperry Flight Systems, while Sperry Defense Products Group was sold to Martin Marietta ; those two units whose functions were originally at the heart of the venerable Sperry Gyroscope division.

The township was originally a part of adjacent Nockamixon Township, but a division was arranged and signed on 1890.

Its site was originally on the acreage of the Tule Ranch division of the JA Ranch.

Commissioned in 1875 by the Pickett Division Association, a group of veterans from his division, it was originally intended to be placed at Gettysburg National Military Park at the " High Water Mark " of Pickett's Charge, but was built in Richmond when the U. S. War Department refused permission for the battlefield placement.

The turnpike was originally planned to stretch for as a route in and out of New York City as far as Riverhead, the county seat of Suffolk County, and point of division for the north and south forks of Long Island.

Reille's men originally formed a third line, but Sarrut's division was sent north of the river to guard the Bilbao road while Lamartinière's division and the Spanish Royal Guard units held the river bank.