The Importance of History to Baseball Baseball seems always to have lived more in myth than in history. ... I believe it is this very rich history that unites us all and keeps us interested in the game of baseball. We feel as if we can go out and be a part of this culture, and perhaps make history ourselves. ... Despite the outrage with which baseball officials and writers treat baseball's occasional betting scandals (most famously in the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal and the 1989 banishment of Pete Rose), the game has never been completely free of the sporting underworld of gambling and lo...

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The film concludes with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. ... Though Von Trotta's subordinates the history of the German divide it still plays a huge part in the film. ... I always think people are not living up history like historians but very fragmentary, in an individual and personal way. In this case the love story is conditioned by the wall and by great history. ... In the final scene as thousands of east and west Germans meet in the streets on that November night in 1989, Konrad and Sophie at last meet in a unified country. ...

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In 1989, commissioner Bart Giamatti suspended Rose from baseball for life for gambling. ... In 1989, the eligibility rules were changed to forbid entry in to the Hall of Fame by players banned from Major League Baseball. ... Rose was the only player in Major League history to play more than 500 games at five different positions; He was a Rookie of the Year, a Most Valuable Player, and a three-time World Series Champion. ... For Pete the most prolific hitter in all of baseball history, the question remains. ... He played more, won more, and hit more than anyone else in the history of the g...

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And in 1989, registered same-sex partners obtained almost the same legal status as married heterosexuals (Bech, H. 1998). ... The sexual revolution was a groundbreaking chapter in Danish history goes without saying. ... In May 1989, the Danish Parliament passed a pioneer bill on registered partnership between same-sexed persons, and on October 1, 1989, Axel and Eigil Axgil were married at the City Hall of Copenhagen as the first homosexual couple in the world. From 1989 to 1997, just over 5,000 individuals were officially registered as partners (Frisch 2003). While religion has influenced the...

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The events of September 11th, 2001 were the worst tragedies to have ever occurred in American history. ... These traits make him one of the greatest leaders in American history. ... Seeking greater ambitions, he later ran for the New York City mayor in 1989 but was defeated by Democratic rival, David N. ...

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Throughout world history there have been events that caused America to cheer and events that caused America to cry and take action. ... On November 9, 1989, the East German government ended its restrictions on emigration and travel to the West by its citizens. ... Giacona remembers, she was home on June 4, 1989, watching the news. ... The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 made Mrs. ...

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As a young adult in 1989, I remember the joyous displays of people crossing the border from East Germany to West Germany. I was unknowledgeable about the significance of the "fall of the Berlin Wall", but I understood through the media that it was an important historical event of the twentieth century and would surely become a significant part of world history. ... In August of 1989, Hungary removed border restrictions with Austria, resulting in more than 13,000 East Germans escaping to West Germany through Hungary (Duke). ... The new East German government removed travel restrictions for t...

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As a result, the situation emerging from 1945 and so on, was laying the foundations of a new chapter in history that would stamp European biography and global politics once and for all. ... On 9th November 1989, the gates were open and thousands of people flooded the roads of Berlin. ...

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A company called NCI partnered with an ITT Corporation in 1989 to develop the first caption-decoding microchip, which could be put into new television sets when being built. ... Recently, the teachers have begun to concentrate more in Signed Language Studies rather than ASL, deaf history and culture. ...

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The world today is a less violent, less aggressive place than at any time in history, as proven by the decreasing number of undesirable events taking place today. ... Since war is most of the time a condition for genocide, the incidence of mass slaughter has declined by 90% between 1989 and 2005. ... Overall, there has been a decline in violence against civilians since 1989. ... Today a far greater percentage of the world's population lives in peace than at any time before in history. ...

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Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have been developed causing a change in the course of history for nations and people. The Cold War was a major turning point in history. ... In response to the growing pressure, the wall was torn down in 1989. ... Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. ...

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Loma Prieta Earthquake On the evening of October 17, 1989, people across the United States were watching TV waiting for the third game of baseball's World Series to begin at Candlestick Park (Donaghy 80). ... Close to seven billion dollars worth of damage was caused by Loma Prieta, making it the biggest dollar loss natural disaster in United States history. ... He said, "Just walking through here and seeing the loss of property, knowing of the loss of life, it hurts you right here in the heart, and that's the reason I"m here" (Billington "1989 Disaster"). ... Safety procedures of th...

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Alder Copyright date: 1989 The setting begins in 1919, when Jackie Robinson was born near Cairo, Georgia. ... I would recommend this book to a friend because you might think you know enough about black history. ...

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Kennedy Memorial Award 1965, Ministerial Interfaith Association Award 1969, Ladies Home Journal Women of the Year 1974, and the Citizens Medal Award in 1989. ... Team #4 believes she is a woman who has courage to struggle through many difficult times in our country's history for the equality of human rights for all people. ...

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The Dalai Lama may not have set out to be a leader, but because of the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent, he has become one of the greatest leaders in history. ... His reputation as a scholar and as a man of peace earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. ...

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The history of the internet is a brief one, of course. It's brief because the internet (in one form or another) has only been around for about 30 years. The first instance of the Internet was launched in 1971 with a public showing in early 1972. This first network, known as ARPANET (Advanced Researc...

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Abstract The Soviet-Afghan war, in my opinion, is a very important and forgotten part of history. ... The Soviet-Afghan war was a very complex war, lasting from 1979 to 1989. ... By 1989, with their supplies cut and limited air power, the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan. ...

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Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1989). ... In late 1989, Mukherjee told the Los Angeles Times "I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. ... If that is the case, is it good to forget your history (especially if it hurts you more than it helps you)? ...

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Rose, who holds the record for most hits in MLB history with 4,256 was banned from baseball for allegedly gambling thousands of dollars on games as a player and a manager for the Cincinnati Reds. ... Commissioner Giamatti died of a heart attack on Sep. 1, 1989 and was replaced by Fay Vincent who said he had no intention of lifting Roses ban from baseball. On November 8th, 1989 Rose admitted that he had gambled. ...

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After the 1989 revolution he temporarily changed to the pharmaceutical industry but soon he returned to engineering. ... After 1989 she worked at the Financial Office for a short period, today she is a civil servant at the Czech bureau of investigation. ... I admire this language as well as the French culture and history. In fact, I'm very much interested in history prior to the First World War, starting with ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and France and the great Czech and Moravian history above all. ...

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The story, written by J.D Salinger, has been commonly challenged in history because the story itself involves a lot of profane language and sexual content. Although that a lot of people in history have accepted the censorship of this book, I think that The Catcher in the Rye should not be banned. ... Referring to the article that we read before in the class, "Board Bans ˜Catcher in the Rye' From High School English Class ", posted by Los Angeles Times in September 12, 1989, it seems like the main and biggest problem is the complaints of parents. ...

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His attempts to save Soviet communism became more difficult as all the former Soviet Eastern Bloc countries broke away from the USSR by 1989. ... The first and mightiest society based on the ideas of Karl Marx had passed into history.?...

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There are many times throughout western civilization that History has repeated itself. ... Beginning in 1989, Milosevic began systematic efforts to stir up hostilities toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and revoked that region's autonomous status. ... Another example of history repeating itself would be how discrimination has continued in this country. ... This is just another example of how the United States society is prone to racism and discrimination, and how history continuously repeats itself in this area. History has repeated itself solely in the modern time as well. ...

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Her first novel was published in 1989, known as The Joy Luck Club, was her first work of fiction, and it was on the New York times bestseller list for longer than any other book in that year. ... Times Book Award in 1989. ... Second book is about exploring the history of the mother in more detail and depth; and it is ultimately about bridging the culture-generation gap between mother and daughter. ... I n order to write a "true" story in a novel, she would take lots of time to explore Chinese history in China, especially around the time her mother would have lived as a young women. ...

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Hurley, the president of the stockyards, for $133,333.33 (Stockyards Museum Fort Worth, 2014) which was a tremendous amount of money at that time; so much that it was compose as the biggest deal in Fort Worth's history (Atkinson & Wood, 2010). ... In 1989, Charlie and Sue McCafferty founded the North Fort Worth Historical Society and opened the Stockyards Museum instead for the legacy of livestock and meat packing industries in the country (Stockyards Museum, 2014). ... Fort Worth Stockyard is an amazing achievement which its history reveals. ... I believe that many people probably do not...

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