When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

Eventually responsibility for demographic inquiries in the Congo was transferred to the demographic division of the Central Statistical Office.

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

In March there was a division of the slaves, and Giffen carried out his instructions as nearly as possible.

Bobbie had been head of the alloy division, while John was just another good salesman in the regular branch.

He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

( Personal initiative was required since his division commander, Brig.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.

At Chancellorsville in May 1863, the division was kept in reserve.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.

The division of labour was initially discussed by Adam Smith, regarding the manufacture of pins, in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

Robert Ashcroft, a leading member, wrote an article which challenged Christadelphian belief in plenary inspiration and which, although he himself left, led to a division in the main body.

This division — as much cultural as geographical — was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.

While the Brewers were still holding on to the Wild Card lead, the division was never seriously challenged for the remainder of the year.

Once again, the Spurs would get challenged within their own division by the Dallas Mavericks as they held the two best records in the Western Conference all season, battling for first place.

Instead of going up in weight, like most boxers throughout history have done after losing the title in their original division, Ortiz went down in weight, and challenged world champion Joe Brown ( also a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame ).

After the fourth bout with Arizmendi was a bout with Fritzie Zivic's brother, Eddie Zivic, resulting in another Armstrong knockout win and after one more bout, Armstrong, the 126 pound division world champion, challenged a fellow member of the three division champions ' club, Barney Ross, then World Welterweight Champion, for the title.

This law has been challenged as a bill of attainder by the shipping division of ExxonMobil.

But in 1930, Mandell was knocked out in the first round by Al Singer and lost his title and Canzoneri, who had already beaten Singer by a ten round decision before, challenged Singer for the title on November 14, 1930, knocking him out in the first round to become a two division world champion.

The subspecies division has been challenged, given a lack of clear geographic breaks in the bobcat range and the minor differences between subspecies.

After beating Ricardo Estupinan by a decision in 15 to win the Central American title in his division, he challenged Vorasingh ( who had beaten Castillo ) for the world title.

The division of the Myrtaceae into the Leptospermoideae and Myrtoideae was challenged by a number of authors, including Johnson and Briggs ( 1984 ), who identified 14 tribes or clades within the Myrtaceae, and found the Myrtoideae to be polyphyletic.

If his opinion is not challenged, then the question is decided without a division.

A division of Uneeda, a company that made millions of dollars various times by manufacturing troll dolls in the U. S., challenged the restoration of that copyright in court.

The bells are rung at the beginning of a sitting, because a member has challenged a vote ( called a division ), or because there are not enough members in the chamber to constitute quorum.

Barrett did not run for re-election in Wellington, but instead challenged popular Liberal incumbent Kevin Lamoureux in the neighbouring division of Inkster.

They re-appeared in the first division after a single season absence, but no longer seriously challenged for the title.

It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.

In common usage, it refers to the simpler properties when using the traditional operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with smaller values of numbers.

This would only be a prelude to 1969, when the Orioles won 109 games and easily won the newly-created American League East division title.

Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

(: see ) In effect, the 1662 Prayer Book marked the end of a period of just over 100 years, when a common form of liturgy served for almost all Reformed public worship in England ; and the start of the continuing division between Anglicans and Nonconformists.

However, when Fulham were relegated in 1969, Trinder decided not to change the flags as " Fulham won't be in this division next season ".

This division lasted until 350, when Constans was assassinated by forces loyal to the usurper Magnentius.

binding microtubules and signalling to the cell cycle machinery when all chromosomes have adopted correct attachments to the spindle, so that it is safe for cell division to proceed to completion ( i. e. for cells to enter anaphase ).

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

For the first time in franchise history, Dallas posted back-to-back shutouts when they beat division rivals Washington ( 17 – 0 ) and Philadelphia ( 24 – 0 ) to end the season.

In 1988 they won their first division title in 23 years ( since 1964 – 65, when they finished first in a one-division league ).

* Diaeresis ( prosody ), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word

Ferrari, who wanted to remain the sole operator of his company's motor sports division, was angered when he was told that he would not be allowed to race at the Indianapolis 500 if the deal went through since Ford fielded Indy cars using the company's engine, and didn't want competition from Ferrari.

If R is a Euclidean domain in which euclidean division is given algorithmically ( as is the case for instance when R = F where F is a field, or when R is the ring of Gaussian integers ), then greatest common divisors can be computed using a form of the Euclidean algorithm based on the division procedure.

The division of theocratic power can be disputed, as happened between the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor in the Investiture conflict when the temporal power sought to control key clergy nominations in order to guarantee popular support, and thereby his own legitamcy, by incorporating the formal ceremony of unction during coronation.

The lowest division represents a period when the heavens hung low over the earth, which was inhabited by animals that were not known to the islanders.

The last meaningful matchup between the two franchises would be in the 2000 season, when Miami edged out Indianapolis with an 11 – 5 record for the division championship.