Approaching free agency, Martínez was traded to the Boston Red Sox in November 1997 for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas, Jr., and was soon signed to a six-year, $ 75, 000, 000 contract ( with an option for a seventh at $ 17 million ) by Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, at the time the largest ever awarded to a pitcher.

Dawson featured thirty seventh in the top fifty comedians of all time, as voted for by fellow comedians and business insiders, rather than the general public.

On the seventh day ( August 11 ), a Malian Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks.

This “ seventh month message ” “ spread with a rapidity unparalleled in the Millerite experience ” amongst the general population.

The festival gained widespread popularity amongst the general public by the early Edo period, when it became mixed with various Obon or Bon traditions ( because Bon was held on 15th of the seventh month then ), and developed into the modern Tanabata festival.

Hanja use within general Korean literature has declined significantly since the 1980s because formal hanja education in South Korea does not begin until the seventh year of schooling, due changes in government policy during the time.

Its use as a punishment was general in the seventh century in all monasteries of the severe Columban rule.

The seventh, eighth and tenth installments are compounded with RPG aspects, allowing the player to play as a lord, an adviser, a governor, a general or a vassal of another lord, whereas the player controls an entire force in the other editions.

Resigning after the Swedish general election, 1968, his seventh and most successful election in which the Social Democrats surpassed all four opposition parties in terms of seats, Erlander was succeeded, in the midst of constitutional reforms, by his long-time novice and friend Olof Palme.

By Newfoundland's seventh general election, in 1971, Smallwood's government had become tired and complacent.

* Andrew Jackson, American general and politician, seventh President of the United States

Allison did not live to see the 1908 general election or a seventh term.

The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 — the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was true Sabbath.

* June 18: Alberta general election, 1959: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a seventh consecutive majority

Winning the general election, Johnston was inaugurated as the seventh Governor of Oklahoma.

However, it has held no seats since 1982, and finished a distant seventh in the 2012 general election.

In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.

Hoekstra faced no significant opposition in the Republican primary or in the general election ( as in his previous five reelection campaigns ) and went on to secure his seventh term.

In the seventh general elections held in 1980, the Janata ( Secular ) ministry failed to maintain a majority in the Lok Sabha, and Congress once again became the ruling party.

The first interactive version was made available to general users in June 1964 ; the second in October, 1964 ; the third in 1966 ; the fourth in 1969 ; the fifth in 1970 ; the sixth in 1971 ; and the seventh in 1979.

He won the seat in the 1979 general election, the seventh consecutive generation of his family to sit in the Commons, and in his first speech urged Ian Smith to stand aside in favour of Abel Muzorewa.

Rhoads was the grandfather of the seventh Clerk of the House of Representatives, Walter S. Franklin, and the great-grandfather of American Civil War general William B. Franklin.

Each army would have an Air Service attack wing ( one attack and two pursuit groups ) and an observation group, each corps and division would have an observation squadron, and a seventh attack wing-observation group would be reserved for the Expeditionary Force's general headquarters.

The veneration of icons had been abolished by the energetic measures of Constantine V and the Council of Hieria which had described itself as the seventh ecumenical council, but is not recognised as such by either Catholic or Orthodox churches, since none of the five major patriarchs were represented.

And during the seventh session of the council, the bishops had Vigilius stricken from the diptychs for his refusal to appear at the council and approve its proceedings, effectively excommunicating him personally but not the rest of the Western Church.

The mayor is the seventh council member, elected at large.

Eastern Orthodox argue that the seventh canon of the Council of Ephesus explicitly prohibited modification of the Nicene Creed by any man ( not by Ecumenical church council ) drawn up by the first Ecumenical Council in 325.

Perth took a while to recover from this caning and finished seventh, sixth and sixth in the following three seasons, but aided by a vigorous junior football council and strong support from local businesses, the Demons soon returned as a force despite twice failing in the finals in 1963 and 1964 and dropping to fifth in 1965 with ten wins from twenty-one games.

In 1973, as a relatively unknown new city council member, he finished a distant seventh in a crowded primary election in which Tom Bradley eventually won his first Los Angeles mayoral election.

-- Gaining her second straight victory, Norman B., Small, Jr.'s Garden Fresh, a 3-year-old filly, downed promising colts in the $4,500 St. Patrick's Day Purse, featured seventh race here today, and paid $7.20 straight.

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.

The point of articulation between the cervical and thoracic vertebrae of giraffes is shifted to lie between the first and second thoracic vertebrae ( T1 and T2 ), unlike most other ruminants where the articulation is between the seventh cervical vertebra ( C7 ) and T1.

However, when the seventh trial was grouped with the second block ( and was therefore perceived as not being part of a streak ), the gambler's fallacy did not occur.

By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput.

And he expected the millennial kingdom to begin with the second coming of Christ to destroy the wicked and inaugurate, for the righteous, the reign of the kingdom of God during the seventh thousand years, the millennial Sabbath, as signified by the Sabbath of creation week.

While it had long been thought that Manichaeism arrived in China only at the end of the seventh century, a recent archaeological discovery demonstrated that it was already known there in the second half of the sixth century.

The seventh game was tied 0 – 0 after the regulation nine innings, and marked only the second time that the seventh game of the World Series had ever gone into extra innings.

The second period covers the end of the seventh century, coinciding with the popularity of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, one of Japan's greatest poets.

The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of flesh, the seventh is the wrathful wisdom.

A seventh inning lead-off double by Seattle's Al Martin was all that prevented Clemens from throwing just the second no-hitter in postseason history ( Yankee Don Larsen threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series ).

After two consecutive close second place finishes, the Giants, under new manager Felipe Alou, recorded 100 victories for the seventh time in franchise history and the third time in San Francisco, winning their division for the third time in seven seasons.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

The second through seventh days of Sukkot ( third through seventh days outside Israel ) are called Chol HaMoed (-lit.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming ( Advent ) of Jesus Christ.

As of March 2007, Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnut, cherry, fig, apricot, quince and pomegranate ; the second largest producer of watermelon, cucumber and chickpea ; the third largest producer of tomato, eggplant, green pepper, lentil and pistachio ; the fourth largest producer of onion and olive ; the fifth largest producer of sugar beet ; the sixth largest producer of tobacco, tea and apple ; the seventh largest producer of cotton and barley ; the eighth largest producer of almond ; the ninth largest producer of wheat, rye and grapefruit, and the tenth largest producer of lemon.

The heart is demarcated by :-A point 9 cm to the left of the midsternal line ( apex of the heart )-The seventh right sternocostal articulation-The upper border of the third right costal cartilage 1 cm from the right Human sternum | sternal line-The lower border of the second left costal cartilage 2. 5 cm from the left lateral sternal line.

Edward the Confessor was the seventh son of Æthelred the Unready, and the first by his second wife Emma, sister of Richard, Duke of Normandy.

Bo usually wears a cream-yellow shirt ; it is a stronger yellow in the first and second season, a lighter cream colour from the third season, and in the sixth and seventh season has more of a grey hue to it.