After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

Robinson writes that it is possible the Chaplin experienced a series of minor strokes during his convalescence, which marked the beginning of a slow decline in his health.

This new bodywork was to remain, albeit with minor upgrades through the HX and HZ series.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and has had minor roles in Saved by the Bell, Ally McBeal, McMillan & Wife, and various other series since the 1970s.

* Morpheus ( Percy Jackson ) a minor character who appears in the last book in the series and is the god of dreams.

series Stargate SG-1, a minor Goa ' uld was named " Nerus ".

Due to the series ' popularity, people who constantly complain and are irritated by minor things are often compared to Victor Meldrew by the British media.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

Accordingly, in cases of all but the most minor offences, the court or the prosecution ( depending upon local custom and the presiding judge's preference ) will engage in a plea colloquy wherein they ask the defendant a series of rote questions about the defendant's knowledge of his rights and the voluntariness of the plea.

Gellar appeared in TV series such as Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow, and had minor roles in the films Funny Farm ( 1988 ) and High Stakes ( 1989 ).

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.

During this period, Waits appeared in a series of minor movie roles, including a cameo role in Wolfen ( 1981 ) as an inebriated piano player, and his song " Jitterbug Boy " also appeared on the movie's soundtrack.

The series of naval and colonial conflicts, including a large number of minor naval actions, resembled those of the French Revolutionary Wars and the preceding centuries of European warfare.

Afterward, the original members of X-Factor rejoined the X-Men and several minor characters from various X-Men-related series became founding members of the all-new X-Factor.

The two lines were united at HP-UX 7. x ( with different minor numbers for different series ), so that Series 800 jumped from 3. 1 to 7. 0 and Series 300 from 6. 5 to 7. 01.

* Largo LaGrande, a minor character in the Monkey Island series of adventure games

The unrest in 2004 was sparked by a series of minor events that soon cascaded into large-scale riots.

Typically the frame sync pattern is followed by a counter ( Sub-Frame ID ) which dictates which minor or sub frame in the series is being transmitted.

* Dalton ( Buffyverse ), minor character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series

Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.

For the next decade he occupied a series of relatively minor positions in the Tory governments: Undersecretary for War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and chairman of the Bullion Committee ( charged with stabilizing British finances after the end of the Napoleonic Wars ).

The latter include the Ground in Gamut ( described as ' Mr Byrd's old ground ') by his future pupil Thomas Tomkins, the A minor fantasia and probably the first of Byrd's great series of keyboard pavans and galliards, a composition which was transcribed by Byrd from an original for five-part consort.

When the series was broadcast on US television, several episodes were censored due to minor cursing and the implied sexuality of an overtly effeminate character named " Sir Blaze ".

The fully neutral form ( structure ( 1 ) on the right ) is a very minor species in aqueous solution throughout the pH range ( less than 1 part in 10 < sup > 7 </ sup >).

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

In all Christian canons of the Old Testament ( Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant ), it is divided into two parts, 1 & 2 Chronicles — immediately following 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings — as a summary of them with minor details sometimes added.

The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.

Consequently, the traditional usage of the terms is based on the orbit ’ s semi-major axis, and includes objects situated between the 2: 3 and 1: 2 resonances, that is between 39. 4 and 47. 8 AU ( with exclusion of these resonances and the minor ones in-between ).

Dhrystone 2. 1, released in May of the same year, had some minor changes and remains the current definition of Dhrystone.

The Bacillariodnaviridae infect diatoms and have a unique genome: the major chromosome is circular (~ 6 kilobases in length ): the minor chromosome is linear (~ 1 kilobase in length ) and complementary to part of the major chromosome.

* 1. 3 Mass fire, minor blast or fragment hazard.

The LGPL was revised in minor ways in the 2. 1 point release, published in 1999, when it was renamed the GNU Lesser General Public License to reflect the FSF's position that not all libraries should use it.

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

It is based on XHTML 1. 0 Strict, but includes minor changes, can be customized, is reformulated using modules from Modularization of XHTML, which was published April 10, 2001, as a W3C Recommendation.

In response to the impending release of OS / 2 2. 0, Microsoft developed Windows 3. 1, which included several minor improvements to Windows 3. 0 ( such as display of TrueType scalable fonts, developed jointly with Apple ), but primarily consisted of bugfixes and multimedia support.

* Windows 3. 2 ( a minor update to 3. 1 for Simplified Chinese support )

Usually, the minor currency unit has a value that is 1 / 100 of the major unit, but 1 / 1000 is also used.

In others, the major currency unit has so little value that the minor unit is no longer generally used ( e. g. the Japanese sen, 1 / 100th of a yen ).

This minor fast day marks the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem as outlined in 2 Kings 25: 1

Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

Information about the recording made by Thomas Edison in 1889 of Brahms playing part of his Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor.

This area lies principally along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River, which traverses the state from north to south for a distance of about 600 miles ( 1, 000 km ) and empties into the Gulf of Mexico ; the Red River ; the Ouachita River and its branches ; and other minor streams ( some of which are called bayous ).

In R v Clarke 1972 1 All E R 219 a defendant charged with a minor theft ( shoplifting ) claimed she had no mens rea because she had absent-mindedly walked out of the shop without paying because she suffered from depression.

The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin ( Eudyptula minor ), also known as the Fairy Penguin, which stands around 40 cm tall ( 16 in ) and weighs 1 kg ( 2. 2 lb ).