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It had just suffered a calamity, the final crisis in a long series of calamities.
Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.
However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.
Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.
* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.
England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.
As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.
The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.
The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.
After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.
Hopes that the 2005 Ashes series would be closely fought proved well-founded, as the series was more competitive than anyone had predicted and was still undecided as the closing session of the final Test began.
A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.
The 2009 series began with a tense draw in the First Test at SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, with final pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar surviving 69 balls.
The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.
Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.
The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.
This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.
According to the book, the prophet, exiled in Babylon, experienced a series of seven visions during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, a period which spans the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586.
* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.
He also worked on the show with his friend, movie actress Mariette Hartley, who would later star with Bixby in his final series, Goodnight, Beantown in 1983.

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Any irregularity on the piston heads will make it impossible, with normal means, to determine the final combustion chamber volume because the volume displaced by the piston heads cannot be readily computed.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.
The auction is a bidding process undertaken within strict procedural and ethical protocols to determine the declaring side and the final contract.
For the first time since 1897 there was no ultimate match — either “ challenge final ” or “ grand final ” — to determine the premiers.
Some mystery caches provide a false set of coordinates with a puzzle that must be solved to determine the final cache location.
In cases where the geometric mean is being used to determine the average growth rate of some quantity, and the initial and final values and of that quantity are known, the product of the measured growth rate at every step need not be taken.
During this period IALA continued to develop models and conducted polling to determine the optimal form of the final language.
Implementation of the settlement plan, which calls for a popular referendum among the Sahrawi natives of the territory to determine its final status ( integration into Morocco or independence ), has been repeatedly postponed because of differences between the parties.
The market supply and demand for each factor of production is derived analogously to those for market final output to determine equilibrium income and the income distribution.
In one common variant, exactly thirteen hands are played — the final hand, in which each player is dealt 13 cards, is played without a trump suit ( or by cutting the deck to determine trump ).
Their viscoelastic properties determine the mechanical performance of the final products of these industries, and also the success of processing methods at intermediate stages of production.
Typically there are three preliminary rounds to determine qualification for the final, and then three more rounds in the final.
International negotiations to determine the final status of Kosovo were unsuccessful.
Kosovo independence is disputed and supervised by the international community following the conclusion of the political process to determine Kosovo's final status envisaged in UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
At the end, the final and small final rounds determine 1st to 4th and 5th to 8th places, respectively.
The interval between the 50 % points of the final amplitude is usually used to determine or define pulse duration, and this is understood to be the case unless otherwise specified.
The conflict was ended by an " almost-imposed " negotiated agreement that requested the UN to take over the administration and political process, including local institutional building and determine the final status of the region.
While optimal aperture can be determined mechanically, how much sharpness is required depends on how the image will be used – if the final image is viewed under normal conditions ( e. g., an 8 ″× 10 ″ image viewed at 10 ″), it may suffice to determine the < var > f </ var >- number using criteria for minimum required sharpness, and there may be no practical benefit from further reducing the size of the blur spot.
One of the main purposes of the survey was to determine who held what and what taxes had been liable under Edward the Confessor ; the judgment of the Domesday assessors was final — whatever the book said about who held the material wealth or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal.
In women who have a uterus, perimenopause describes the years before and after the final period ( although it is only possible to determine in retrospect which episode of flow was indeed the final period ).
Both random and points-based methods for determining stat totals exist, but the final result will be a number on a percentile scale ( 1-100 ), which is then used to determine the character's skill bonus at actions which employ that stat.

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