Major projects attempted to encode wide bodies of general knowledge ; for example the " Cyc " project ( still ongoing ) went through a large encyclopedia, encoding not the information itself, but the information a reader would need in order to understand the encyclopedia: naive physics ; notions of time, causality, motivation ; commonplace objects and classes of objects.

Luthor even attempted to send a team of heroes after them under the leadership of Captain Atom-the team consisting of Major Force, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, Katana and Green Lantern, but this plan failed when Katana and Power Girl quickly sided with Superman and Batman and Major Force was apparently killed, Power Girl noting that Luthor had assumed in his arrogance that the heroes would obey him simply because he was President.

Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences, characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, were perfected in The Wild Bunch.

King Frederick attempted to replace it with a royal colony by sending Major Claus Paarss and several dozen soldiers and convicts to erect a fortress for the colony in 1728 but this new settlement of Good Hope ( Godthaab ) failed due to mutiny and scurvy and the retinue was recalled in 1730.

Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences ( inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in Seven Samurai ), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would be perfected in The Wild Bunch.

Both of these actions were against British Major General William Phillips, who mentions the property in a dispatch: “ We assaulted the enemy ’ s work across the river and attempted to gain the high ground adjacent to Thomas Shore ’ s house, but were repulsed with heavy losses .” The British casualties were approx.

The Monroe contingent, numbering some thirty-five to forty persons, entered into Major Benjamin F. Stickney ’ s house and drove his two guests, George McKay and N. Goodsell, out of their beds, having first attempted to gouge out McKay ’ s eyes and having throttled Stickney ’ s daughter for sounding the alarm.

Vince Piazza earned a fortune of more than $ 100 million in used cars and real estate, and attempted several times to purchase a Major League Baseball franchise.

Even well-known scientists such as Joseph Sidebotham, Richard Kennett, Major Russell and Frederick Charles Luther Wratten attempted, but never met with good results.

The London bookseller Moses Pitt attempted publication of the Atlas Major in English, but ran out of resources after the fourth volume in 1683.

Howe never attempted a major engagement with the Continental Army, which had come under the command of Major General George Washington.

Major events on Earth included first contact with the Vulcans ( Star Trek: First Contact ), barely averted attacks by the Borg ( in " The Best of Both Worlds " and Star Trek: First Contact ), Founder infiltration (" Homefront "), and numerous attempted coups.

* 21 June 2001: Major Robert Painchaud and his passenger ejected after a mid-air collision between planes # 1 and # 5 as they attempted to rejoin the " Concorde " nine-jet formation for a media shoot over Lake Erie near London, Ontario.

On June 11, 2004, coup plotters led by Major Eric Lenge allegedly attempted to take power and announced on state radio that the transitional government was suspended, but were defeated by loyalist troops.

In October 1779, the Southern army of Major General Benjamin Lincoln, with Pinckney leading one of its brigades, attempted to re-take Savannah in the Siege of Savannah.

Major Henry, though under the nominal direction of Gonse, had become the real head of the Intelligence Office, where he quietly prepared a whole series of forgeries, designed, when the opportunity presented itself, to crush Picquart if he ever attempted to cause trouble.

Cuban has repeatedly expressed interest in owning a Major League Baseball franchise, and has thus far unsuccessfully attempted to purchase three franchises.

Judge Roy Hofheinz was a driving force behind the effort to obtain the Major League Baseball franchise for Houston, along with oilman Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. who had been involved with the failed attempted " Continental League " and who was chairman of the Houston Sports Association executive committee, a syndicate of local businessmen dedicated to bringing a pro baseball team to southeastern Texas.

Having unsuccessfully attempted to establish a film company between the wars, Ridley rejoined the army in 1939 with the rank of Major.

A small group of officers, led probably by Major John Armstrong, Jr., aide to Major General Horatio Gates, attempted to forestall Washington's intervention, viewing him as too moderate ; they would have forcibly installed Gates in his place as Commander-in-Chief.

On 15 January 1966, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and other junior Army officers ( mostly majors and captains ) attempted a coup d ' état.

Although the Cosmos attempted to operate as an independent team in the Major Indoor Soccer League, attendances were so low that the club withdrew without completing a season.

Major opera companies have been better able to weather the funding cutbacks, because they can afford to hire star singers which draw substantial audiences.

The Long Island Ducks, founded in 2000, continue to be a strong draw in the region, averaging 400, 000 fans a season, and have seen the likes of such Major League alumni as Edgardo Alfonzo, Pedro Borbón, Jr., José Offerman, Donovan Osborne, Bill Pulsipher, Armando Ríos, John Rocker, and Mark Whiten.

The franchise was named California Seals in an attempt to appeal to fans from San Francisco, and to address complaints from the other NHL teams that Oakland was not considered a major league city ( notwithstanding the presence of the American Football League's Oakland Raiders and the pending relocation of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Athletics ) and would not be a draw for fans.

The team managers draw on a great variety of sources of information, including tout sheets by various forecasters, who predict the coming season's performance and the likely overall " value " ( often in terms of auction dollars ) of the Major League players.

On June 28, 2007, Biggio became the 27th player in the history of Major League Baseball to join the 3000 hit club, with a single against Colorado Rockies pitcher Aaron Cook, even though he was tagged out on the play as he tried to stretch it into a double to draw a throw and allow a run to score.

It took him 100 Major League at-bats to draw his first walk.

After 11 years in Major League Soccer, Mathis won the MLS Cup with Real Salt Lake, defeating Los Angeles Galaxy in a 1 – 1 draw that was decided in overtime by penalties, with Mathis scoring the first penalty kick goal.

The club failed to qualify for a second successive grand final, however, losing 5 – 2 on aggregate to Brisbane Roar in the Major Semi-Final and 5 – 3 on penalties after a 1 – 1 draw with Perth Glory in the Grand Final Qualifier.

At 1: 00 pm, he sent Major Richard Heath with 250 men and one cannon to draw the British to Stricker's main force.

There are two types of cards: player cards ( current and former Major League players ) and strategy cards ( actions that can add to or subtract from die rolls, change results, draw extra cards, etc.

" I stay in the streets, that ’ s where I draw my inspiration ," Static Major said describing where he gets his inspiration.

There was also hostility from the Major Leagues regarding the Series because it would interfere with late-season pennant races and draw attention away from them in terms of television viewer attendance and, especially, player availability.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

From then on, though of course with some exceptions, Christian art represented angels with wings, as in the cycle of mosaics in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( 432-440 ).

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

; Major archbishop: Major archbishops are the heads of some of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.

There were, of course, some concerti grossi that remained, the most famous of which being Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat Major.

Major parts in the spread ( and thus more durable growth ) of the population were played by monastical ' pioneering ' ( especially by the Benedictine and Commercial orders ) and some feudal lords ' recruiting farmers to settle ( and become tax payers ) by offering relatively good legal and fiscal conditions.

Major cymbal makers produce cymbal extension packs consisting of one splash and one china, or more rarely a second crash, a splash and a china, to match some of their starter packs of ride, crash and hi-hats.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Polls also showed that Major was the most popular prime minister in Britain since Harold Macmillan some 30 years previously.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

For the first time, however, opposition political parties won significant numbers of seats, and despite some irregularities and threats of violence from Major General Lekhanya, Lesotho experienced its first peaceful election.

Major differences between software engineering and other engineering disciplines, according to some researchers, result from the costs of fabrication.

An incident also mentioned was when Major Jenkins had invited Gunners Milligan and Edgington to his bivouac to play some jazz with him, only to discover that the musicianship of the aforementioned gunners was far superior to his own ability to play the military tune ' Whistling Rufus '.

The history of the hour record is replete with exploits by some of the greatest names in cycling from both road and track racing ( including, among others, Major Taylor, Henri Desgrange, Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, Miguel Indurain and Tony Rominger ).

Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.

Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do ; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans ; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.

It has been dismissed by some ( most notably John Major ) and presaged with Edward II's " Creag " ( 1300 ) by others.

After Robinson had spent some years known in baseball as the Director of Discipline, he was chosen by Major League Baseball in 2002 to manage the Expos, which MLB owned at that time.

Other early alternatives such as John Stiles and Richard Miles are now rarely used, and Mary Major has been used in some American federal cases.

Major cities also have an extra tier of local government named Circoscrizione di Decentramento Comunale or, in some cities ( e. g. Rome ) Municipio.

By combining this method with others, like the Peg system and the Major system ( which is used to retain numbers ), we can easily get what some people call a trained memory.