The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.

In fact, earlier in the 1908 season, the identical situation had been brought to the umpires ' attention by Evers ; the umpire that day was the same Hank O ' Day.

* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

The fact that the result came late during the last matchday of the season makes the sudden and unexpected end to the rossoneris title ambitions all the more memorable.

In Sweden, julmust outsells Coca-Cola during the Christmas season ; in fact, the consumption of Coca-Cola drops by as much as 50 % over Christmas.

With Clemente fast becoming a fan favorite, there would seem little not to like about the early progress of his highly touted rookie season, but the transition from Puerto Rico to Pittsburgh was, in fact, anything but smooth.

After his fast start, Clemente finished his rookie season with an average of. 255, owing at least in part to the recurrence, or perhaps persistence, of the counterproductive batting tics noticed three years before by Dodger scout Al Campanis-and, more to the point, the fact that National League pitchers were noticing as well.

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

Some evidence, such as the fact that six out of thirteen allozyme loci are different, that hawthorn flies mature later in the season and take longer to mature than apple flies ; and that there is little evidence of interbreeding ( researchers have documented a 4-6 % hybridization rate ) suggests that sympatric speciation is occurring.

During the second season of Hell's Kitchen, it was speculated that the customers eating meals prepared by the contestants were in fact paid actors.

In fact, the Angels traded him to the Cleveland Indians midway through the 1974 season due to his open campaigning for the manager's job.

The best ratings this version of Match Game saw were in the 1975 – 1976 season when it drew a 12. 5 rating with a 15 share, higher numbers than that of some prime-time series ; this was due in part to the fact that it had been paired with The Price Is Right, a hit in its own right, during this time.

However, despite the fact that he married a Hindu couple, he lists Apu's religion as " Miscellaneous " in the 4th season episode " Homer the Heretic " (" Hindu!

Despite the fact that the Lightning finished first in the conference and the Islanders qualified for the playoffs as the 8th and final seed, a few journalists had picked the Islanders to win based on their strong regular season performance against Tampa Bay.

Pittsburgh coach Lou Angotti later admitted that a conscious decision was made to finish the season as the team with the worst record, stating in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a mid-season lunch prompted the plan, in light of the fact that there was a high chance of the franchise folding if Lemieux was not drafted.

As of the end of the 2011 season only one member of the North American League has, in fact, played in the Northern League-the Edmonton Capitals ( the former Cracker-Cats ).

In fact, during the 1970 – 71 season, the name " Dallas " was dropped in favor of " Texas " and an attempt was made to make the team a regional one, playing games in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Tarrant County Coliseum, as well as Lubbock, Texas, at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, but this proved a failure and the team returned full-time to Dallas in time for the 1971 – 72 season, splitting their games at Moody Coliseum and Dallas Convention Center Arena.

It was an upset in name only, given the fact that the Warriors had swept the Mavericks in the regular season series.

The season was soon after Easter ; the year may be safely deduced from the fact that the first nine canons are intended to repair havoc wreaked in the church by persecution, which ceased after the overthrow of Maximinus in 313.

The show was unable to recreate the flavor and humor of the original and did not survive its first season ; in fact, it did not even last through January 1960.

In the season 13 ( 2009 ) episode " Fishsticks ", Cartman subconsciously believes that he solely created a joke that quickly becomes a nationwide sensation, despite the fact that the character Jimmy Valmer writes the joke without any assistance.

In the show's final season, NBC doubled the number of episodes ordered, despite the fact that they would have to re-sign the entire cast to new contracts in order to film them.

Much of season seven is concerned with Kara's attempts to adjust to life on Earth, especially after learning of Krypton's destruction and the fact that her ' younger ' cousin is now at least the same age as her.

During the first season of The Simpsons, Fox ordered Cartwright not to give interviews, because they did not want to publicize the fact that Bart was voiced by a woman.

The name was given in 1927 and refers to the fact that a detachment of dragoons escorted the Prince Royal of Portugal, Pedro I, at the time when he declared Brazilian independence from Portugal, on September 7, 1822.

* He noted the exceptional fact that PSL ( 2, p ) is simple and acts on p points if and only if p is 5, 7, or 11.

In fact, GDP growth was 3. 3 percent in 1991, 5. 6 percent in 1992, and an estimated 3. 7 percent in 1993.

In July 1860, with European intervention threatening, the Turkish government tried to quiet the strife, but Napoleon III of France sent 7, 000 troops to Beirut and helped impose a partition: The Druze control of the territory was recognized as the fact on the ground, and the Maronites were forced into an enclave, arrangements ratified by the Concert of Europe in 1861.

Despite the fact that the pace of privatization and industrial output has slowed, GDP growth was 7. 3 percent in 2004, consumption continues to grow, and the currency continues to appreciate.

In fact common criteria ( CC ) at the highest assurance level ( Evaluation Assurance Level ( EAL ) 7 ) has an explicit requirement that the target of evaluation be “ simple ”, an acknowledgment of the practical impossibility of establishing true trustworthiness for a complex system.

In fact, spouses ( albeit, in practice, mainly females ) were disciplined if they did not perform their sexual marital duties, in accordance with 1 Corinthians 7 and other biblical passages.

The Australian letter to number mapping was: A = 1, B = 2, F = 3, J = 4, L = 5, M = 6, U = 7, W = 8, X = 9, Y = 0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701.

In both schemes, account has been taken of the fact that — in spite of the many difficulties in establishing the dates of the historical events involved — many scholars attribute a high degree of probability to Friday April 7, 30, as the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, which would make April 9 the date of the Resurrection.

In fact, the speed of aging in Korea is unprecedented in human history, 18 years to double aging population from 7 – 14 % ( least number of years ), overtaking even Japan.

The fact that Elkanah, a Levite, was denominated an Ephraimite is analogous to the designation of a Levite belonging to Judah ( Judges 17: 7, for example ).

The next tour, in Australia in 1886 / 7, was poorly promoted and poorly attended, not helped by the fact that the victorious England team was considered to play unattractive cricket.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The maximum possible range, typically beyond 7, 000 yards, was beyond useful shrapnel combat ranges for normal field guns due to loss of accuracy and the fact that at extreme range the projectiles descended relatively steeply and hence the " cone " of bullets covered a relatively small area.

Confusing the issue of whether or not Anne and Henry had a sexual relationship is the fact that there is no doubt that Anne was pregnant with Elizabeth ( born on 7 September 1533 ) when she and Henry hastily and secretly wed in order to be married when Anne was crowned queen in May, 1533, since any child born before she was queen would not be able to succeed to the throne.

The review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes scores The Abyss a " Certified Fresh " rating of 88 %, with 36 out of the 41 counted reviews being positive and an average rating of 7. 4 out of 10, with the consensus: " The utterly gorgeous special effects frequently overshadow the fact that The Abyss is also a totally gripping, claustrophobic thriller, complete with an interesting crew of characters.

The cheques clearing process normally takes 7 – 10 days and can in fact take up to a month when dealing with foreign banks.

" KRS-101 ( the label's first release ) was in fact a split 7 " spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon ; other " Wordcore " releases followed.

The first production X-ray CT machine ( in fact called the " EMI-Scanner ") was limited to making tomographic sections of the brain, but acquired the image data in about 4 minutes ( scanning two adjacent slices ), and the computation time ( using a Data General Nova minicomputer ) was about 7 minutes per picture.

In fact, 7 congeners have chlorine atoms in the relevant positions which were considered toxic by the World Health Organization toxic equivalent ( WHO-TEQ ) scheme.

The product's name came from the fact that the " dnL " logo is the " 7 Up " logo turned upside-down.

The story told in the opera is quite different from the real one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( Evagrius Scholasticus l. 2. c. 7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l. 1, Paul the Deacon, vi ): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III ; a little later, Olybrius frees Rome and Placidia, and marries her.

In fact, between 2008 and 2010 passenger traffic grew, from 1. 02 million in 2008 to 7. 5 million in 2011.

The fact that world population is edging toward 7 billion people ( up from 2. 5 billion in 1950 ), with almost all of the growth expected to occur in the cities of less developed countries, has profound implications for the development process.

The duty of State to ( equally ) fund is limited to free compulsory education ( presently until the age of sixteen ); Subarticle 7 however states that law will specify the conditions under which non-compulsory education will be funded ; unsurprisingly there is in fact in this field also strict equality.