However, after a 14-year stretch of consecutive losing seasons, the Orioles posted a winning record in 2012 and qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1997.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

In 1880, a stretch of Broadway between Union Square and Madison Square was illuminated by Brush arc lamps, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States.

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

* 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time.

flexor hallucis longus arises on the back of the fibula ( i. e. on the lateral side ), and its relatively thick muscle belly extends distally down to the flexor retinaculum where it passes over to the medial side to stretch across the sole to the distal phalanx of the first digit.

New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.

As rice was prohibitively expensive when it first came to Korea, the grain likely was mixed with other grains to " stretch " the rice ; this is still done in dishes such as boribap ( rice with barley ) and kongbap ( rice with beans ).

In 1987, Angel Delgadillo and a group of fifteen businesspeople established the first Route 66 association in Seligman, Arizona, obtaining the first " Historic Route 66 " designation for a stretch of Arizona State Route 66 from Kingman to Seligman.

The latter was hardly a punk song by any stretch, but it was perhaps the first song about punk rock.

They played. 500 ball through the first two months, but then slumped through a 9 – 19 stretch in June where they ended up at the bottom of the NL East by midseason.

Despite being shut out four times in ten games, the Giants recorded an 18 – 8 September to move into first by three games as the pitching staff achieved a team ERA of 1. 78, the lowest in the National League in a September stretch run since the 1965 Dodgers.

The playing of the song two years later during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series, and thereafter during each game of the series is often noted as the first instance that the anthem was played at a baseball game, though evidence shows that the " Star-Spangled Banner " was performed as early as 1897 at opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia and then more regularly at the Polo Grounds in New York City beginning in 1898.

The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes.

For example, officers in the first world war would sometimes blow whistles to signal all troops along a broad stretch of trench to attack at the same time.

In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.

The first priority was a highway designated as A1, a stretch reaching from the capital of Lisbon north to Porto, Portugal's second-largest city.

John Harris first described the rotifers ( in particular the Bdelloid Rotifer ) in 1696 as " an animal like a large maggot which could contract itself into a spherical figure and then stretch itself out again ; the end of its tail appeared with a forceps like that of an earwig ".

By, the Rangers reached the Stanley Cup Finals despite losing high-scoring center Jean Ratelle ( who had been on pace over Bruin Phil Esposito to become the first Ranger since Bryan Hextall in 1942 to lead the NHL in scoring ) to injury during the stretch drive of the regular season.

The 76ers valiantly competed, but because of the 1-5 stretch, the Sixers had to face the heavily-favored Miami Heat in the first round, and ultimately fell to them in five games.

The only playoff appearance earned during this stretch was during the 1984 – 85 season under George Karl losing to the Boston Celtics in the first round in four games ( 3 – 1 ).

In 1965, the first known experiments with variable speed limit signs took place on a 30 km stretch of German motorway A8 between Munich and the border city of Salzburg, Austria.

In 1944 the club was promoted into First Division for the first time, and played thereafter in both the first and second divisions, achieving greatest success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, competing for league and national cup titles and laying the groundwork for a 21-year continuous stretch in La Liga.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

He did not think himself to be firing the first shot of an intellectual revolution.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

He replied, `` My first choice would be Mark Howe ''.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

But, in departing, Lewis begged Breasted that there be no liquor in the apartment at the Grosvenor on his return, and he took with him the first thirty galleys of Elmer Gantry.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.