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The modern gentlemen's club, sometimes proprietary, i. e. owned by an individual or private syndicate, but more frequently owned by the members who delegate to a committee the management of its affairs, first reached its highest development in London, where the district of St. James's has long been known as " Clubland ".
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In Britain and particularly London, there is a continuum between the original gentlemen's clubs and the more modern but otherwise similar private members ' clubs such the Groucho Club, Soho House and Home House.
Roosevelt accepted this " gentlemen's agreement " because it met his interest in accommodating the modern industrial order while maintaining his public image as slayer of the trusts.
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Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.
In the early 1980s, NYC disco DJ Larry Levan, known for his eclectic mixes, gained a cult following, and the Paradise Garage, the nightclub at which he spun, became the prototype for the modern dance club where the music and the DJ were showcased.
The first club was in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version played by Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport.
The former Grand Hotel has been converted into apartments and the long derelict yacht club site has now been filled by a modern block of flats.
* The Avengers episode " A Touch of Brimstone " had Steed and Peel infiltrate a modern incarnation of the club whose pranks were expanding to destroy the government.
Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.
The modern circular badge is regularly used on club merchandise and by the media ; it has never featured prominently on the club strip.
Guildford's model railway club, the Astolat Model Railway Circle, and a local pub, the Astolat, are just a couple of the modern day reminders of the legend to be found in the town.
The normal interpretation of the god's attribute as a club has led to the identification, by modern scholars, of Smertrius and Hercules.
The members joined something like a modern sports club with facilities for physical exercise, games, workshops and socialising with no mandatory programme.
Continuing that tradition, most modern stand-up comedians use television or motion pictures to reach a level of success and recognition unattainable in the comedy club circuit alone.
Writing in A. R. Orage's magazine The New Age, the poet and critic F. S. Flint ( a champion of free verse and modern French poetry ) was highly critical of the club and its publications.
The fairgrounds also contains a modern rodeo arena that hosts the Olla Rodeo, sponsored by the local Kiwanis International club, annually.
Modern day Clifton Springs offers an excellent school system, modern hospital, YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and numerous other organizations, country club / golf course, national bank, library, senior citizen community, volunteer fire department, a park area, tennis courts, a skate park, shaded streets, a large manufacturing firm, and an active business section.
Disapproving of such modern marketing techniques, Sir Eustace is about to throw away the chocolates in disgust but changes his mind when he learns that Graham Bendix, another member of the club whom he hardly knows, has lost a bet with his wife Joan and now owes her a box of chocolates.
The modern library, which includes the Nettlefold Hall, was host to a popular local cinema club " Film on Thursday ".
The newly founded club played its inaugural match against an Upton Cricket Club XI on one of Farmer John Wright's fields, which was situated at the top of Penny's Hill, on Teignmouth Road on the site of modern Parkhurst Road.
Following this breakthrough for the club, the club merged with local rivals Ellacombe in 1910, adopted the name Torquay Town and finally moved into Plainmoor where they would remain to the modern day, during this period the ground was shared with the team's remaining local rival Babbacombe.
The club assured safety with two games to spare, eventually finishing 15th, their best league finish since 1979 – 80, and their first ever survival in the modern Premier League.
In the United Kingdom the jungle scene, though underground, is still thriving with club nights specifically tributed to the oldschool jungle sound as well as more modern drum and bass.
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The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results.
In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.
The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.
" The Pali term has sometimes been translated as " wisdom-being ," although in modern publications, and especially in tantric works, this is more commonly reserved for the term jñānasattva (" awareness-being "; Tib.
Jonah's passive character then is contrasted with the other main character: Yahweh ( sometimes explained as " I shall be what I shall be ", considered the Explicit Name and according to modern scholarly criticism a name of a local deity ).
On modern keyboards, the key is usually labeled Pause with Break below, sometimes separated by a line, or Pause on the top of the keycap and Break on the front.
Martin Luther taught that baptism was necessary for salvation, but modern Lutherans and other Protestants tend to teach that salvation is a gift that comes to an individual by God's grace, sometimes defined as " unmerited favor ", even apart from baptism.
Collectively these modern interpretations of Celtic music are sometimes referred to as Celtic fusion.
The candela is sometimes still called by the old name candle, such as in foot-candle and the modern definition of candlepower.
On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.
This description does not apply to some human languages, such as the Salishan languages, in which stops sometimes occur without vowels ( see Nuxálk ), and the modern conception of consonant does not require cooccurrence with vowels.
The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.
In modern times, collectivism is sometimes thought to be synonymous with socialism or specifically Leninism for its emphasis on a hierarchical Vanguard party organization, though collectivism more accurately simply means " group oriented " or " group orientation ".
American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.
Although these works were not actually composed with a computer in the modern sense, it uses a rudimentary form of the random combinatorial techniques sometimes used in computer-generated composition.
In a number of modern states, circumcision is presumed to be legal, but under certain circumstances, more general laws, such as laws about assault or child custody, may sometimes be interpreted as applying to situations involving circumcision.
Christians embracing aspects of Judaism are sometimes criticized as Biblical Judaizers by Christians when they pressure Gentile Christians to observe Old Testament teachings rejected by many modern Christians.
A different dimension on which dictionaries ( usually just general-purpose ones ) are sometimes distinguished is whether they are prescriptive or descriptive, the latter being in theory largely based on linguistic corpus studies — this is the case of most modern dictionaries.
Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.
However, Darwinism is also used neutrally within the scientific community to distinguish modern evolutionary theories, sometimes called " NeoDarwinism ", from those first proposed by Darwin.
Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein, anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin, and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I ); ( 812 – 13 April 862 ) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862.
Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.
The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.
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