She ends up hitting every batter at the plate ( or " beaning " them ) and goes down as the worst pitcher in history.

The history of Comoros goes back some 1, 500 years.

The Djiboutian history recorded in poetry and songs of its nomadic people, goes back thousands of years to a time when Djiboutians traded hides and skins for the perfumes and spices of ancient Egypt, India, and China.

The history of epiphenomenalism goes back to the post-Cartesian attempt to solve the riddle of Cartesian dualism, i. e., of how mind and body could interact.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

The history of the Falkland Islands () goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

Nevertheless, the experience deepened his love for natural history, and locals referred to him as " that crazy Englishman who goes about picking up bugs.

The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of childcare, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused.

The myth of silver's mystical properties goes deep into human history.

Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.

Its history goes back to the Roman harbour ( named " Portus Luguidonis "-presumably located in the little bay in front of the ancient church of St. John ), from where the Romans entered inner Sardinia.

The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.

Permanently settled for around 7000 years, the history of Zurich goes back to its founding by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it Turicum.

The magazine goes on to become the longest continually published comic book in American history ; it is still published.

* Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.

* According to history, Joseph of Arimathea goes to Glastonbury on the first Christian mission to Britain.

The history of the prayer rope goes back to the origins of Christian monasticism itself.

The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance.

Although vulcanization is a 19th century invention, the history of rubber cured by other means goes back to prehistoric times.

The Burakumin are a group that is socially discriminated against in Japanese society, whose recorded history goes back to the Heian Period in the 11th century.

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

1600 BC, with a history as a tribe that may have gone back to the prehistoric Hellenic immigration in the late 3rd millennium BC.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Arrangements and transcriptions of classical and serious music go back to the early history of this genre.

Its early history reveals that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

It dates back at least as far as recorded history.

Now today Andersonville welcomes tourists from all over the world who come for the history, museums, and to step back in time.

The history of the city dates back to Roman times.

Beadwork in Europe has a history dating back millennia, to when shells and animal bones were used as beads in necklaces.

The Herald < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > history can be traced back through two lineages, the Daily Advertiser and the old Boston Herald, and two media moguls, William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch.

The disease has a history of use in biological warfare dating back many centuries, and is considered a threat due to its ease of culture and ability to remain in circulation among local rodents for a long period of time.

The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures ( and history ) for modifying living organisms according to human purposes — going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and " improvements " to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.

The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada.

Of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, thirty can be shown to have a much longer history, reaching back into at least the Late Bronze Age.

The known history of the Central African Republic dates back to the 7th century AD.

Much of Spain was under Muslim rulers during the Middle Ages, and castration had a history going back to the ancient near east.

The history of Chinese cuisine stretches back for many centuries and produced both change from period to period and variety in what could be called traditional Chinese food, leading Chinese to pride themselves on eating a wide range of foods.

This also has a long history in China, with production believed to date back to the Song Dynasty.

' Craven Cottage ' was originally a royal hunting lodge and has history dating back over 300 years.

Record of Chinese history dated back to the Shang Dynasty.

In Russian legal history, for instance, comparative method dates back to the sixteenth century.