Maris ran the 100-yard dash in ten seconds in high school and once won a race against Luis Aparicio, the swift, base-stealing shortstop of the White Sox.

Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs.

Greenberg sometimes retaliated against the ethnic attacks, once going into the Chicago White Sox clubhouse to challenge manager Jimmy Dykes and at another time calling out the entire Yankee team.

St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square, north of the White House, and built in 1815 – 1816, is the church nearest to the White House, and its services have been attended at least once by nearly every president since James Madison ( 1809 – 1817 ).

Some appear only once or twice in a ballad: Will Stutely in Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly and Robin Hood and Little John ; David of Doncaster in Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow ; Gilbert with the White Hand in A Gest of Robyn Hode ; and Arthur a Bland in Robin Hood and the Tanner.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

White recorded 163 total yards, catching 5 passes for 77 yards and a touchdown, rushing once for 7 yards, and returned 4 kickoffs for 79 yards.

However, in the 1998 History Channel documentary entitled Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, the speculation that Harding may have joined the group is highlighted by the fact that William J. Simmons, the founder of the modern Klan, once visited the President at the White House.

White once said, " Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Yamamoto, when once asked his opinion on the war, pessimistically said that the only way for Japan to win the war was to dictate terms in the White House ( which would have required them to eventually invade the United States and march across the country, fighting their way to Washington — i. e. Japan would have had to conquer the whole of the United States ).

Shortly afterwards, Vytautas was crowned as a king by local nobles ; but the following year his forces and those of his ally, Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde, were crushed by the Timurids at the Battle of the Vorskla River, ending his imperial ambitions in the east and obliging him to submit to Władysław's protection once more.

" Also seen in seasons five and six was Dr. Doug Robert, played by Sam Elliott ( according to White, the character was introduced as a replacement for Willy, but the idea was dropped once the producers realized how popular Willy was with viewers ).

The new Swamp Thing ( a resurrected Alec Holland ) has not only been given the full Elemental powers his predecessor once had, but also a White Lantern Power Ring with full control over its power.

In Carr's opinion, Churchill's support of the White Russian movement was folly as Russia was likely to be a great power once more under the leadership of the Bolsheviks.

There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.

In the central area of the county, a private tract of land known as White Oak Plantation was once owned by a wealthy family who ran the area as a private zoo, complete with exotic animals such as giraffes and large albino cats.

Roger Staubach's backup and successor, Danny White, once caught such a pass for a touchdown.

Jacksonport was once an important steamboat stop on the White River.

On January 26, 1998, Clinton claimed " I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky " in a nationally televised White House news conference.

Millions became White émigrés, and the Povolzhye famine of 1921 claimed up to 5 million victims.

The White Chamber in the Jeita Grotto's upper cavern in Lebanon contains an stalactite which is accessible to visitors and is claimed to be the longest stalactite in the world.

ISBN 0-312-27283-9 </ ref > White law enforcement officials later claimed the planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect whites against what they described as a " Negro uprising.

K. Paul Johnson suggests in his book The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White Brotherhood that the Masters that Madam Blavatsky claimed she had personally met are idealizations of certain people she had met during her lifetime.

Some claimed that it was the successor to White Dwarf amongst the UK role-playing community with numerous contributors from across the hobby, including Phil Masters and Marcus Rowland.

Although criticized by Prohibitionist advocate Wayne B. Wheeler over Washington, D. C. rumors of these " wild parties ", Harding claimed his personal drinking inside the White House was his own business.

Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár, who was visiting the White House on the same day, claimed to have found a rabbit's foot in Washington's coat pocket when he mistakenly put on the coat ; The Washington Post elaborately described it as " the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, killed in the dark of the moon ".

In an interview in 1984, Jason claimed to have changed his name as a homage to his childhood fictional hero Jason, in Jason and the Argonauts, because when he decided to enter into a career in acting, he was told that there was already an actor called David White.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

According to Canadian historian Michael H. Kater, Orff claimed at the end of the war to his Allied interrogators that he was a founding member of the White Rose and was released.

Following World War II, during his denazification process in Bad Homburg, Orff claimed to Newell Jenkins, an officer in the U. S. Army, and later an orchestra conductor, that he had helped establish the " White Rose " resistance movement in Germany.

Many recognized specialists in the knowledge areas where Korzybski claimed to have anchored general semantics — biology, epistemology, mathematics, neurology, physics, psychiatry, etc .— supported his work in his lifetime, including Cassius J. Keyser, C. B. Bridges, W. E. Ritter, P. W. Bridgman, G. E. Coghill, William Alanson White, Clarence B. Farrar, David Fairchild, and Erich Kähler.

Although they claimed the list was short and their role was minor, the Tribune, in particular, revealed emails through a FOIA finding that White had received a recommendation for a relative of convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko to be admitted.

It was later blamed on the actions of a researcher, who resigned yet claimed that the comment had been approved by White.

According to Neapope's erroneous report, Wabokieshiek (" White Cloud "), a shaman known to Americans as the " Winnebago Prophet ", had claimed that other tribes were ready to support Black Hawk.

Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to play to stereotypes were not a neutral force, but rather were willing agents of black oppression.

A pub sign that claimed that he drank in the White Horse on Shoreditch High Street has recently been removed.

The first White settlers arrived in the region during the latter half of the 1790s and claimed rich land in Bois Brule Bottom.

Several individuals claimed personal responsibility for the killing, including White Bull of the Miniconjous, Rain-in-the-Face, Flat Lip and Brave Bear.

In the 1980s, Conyers became known for " White Road ", where resident Nancy Fowler claimed to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

White business owners complained that they were being punished for grievances that they had not caused, while many black community members claimed that the shooting was part of a broader marginalization of blacks.

83. 7 % of individuals identified themselves as White, 11. 6 % claimed " Some Other Race ", 3. 6 % identified two or more races, while the remainder were American Indian, Black or Asian.

Several people in the town have claimed to have seen local legendary monsters such as the Mothman, the Flatwoods, WV Green Monster, and the White Tiger.