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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : New York Yankees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At the end of the 1900 season, the American League re-organized and, with its president Ban Johnson as the driving force, decided to assert itself as a new major league.
The intention of Johnson and the American League had been to place a team in New York City, but their efforts had been stymied by the political connections that owners of the National League New York Giants had with Tammany Hall.
In the 2004 American League Championship Series against the Red Sox, the Yankees became the first team in professional baseball history, and only the third team in North American pro sports history (It happened in the NHL twice), to lose a best of 7 series after taking a 3-0 series lead.
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 New York Yankees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yankees are one of two major league franchises to operate in the City of New York; the other team is the New York Mets of the National League, who operate in the borough of Queens.
The Yankees are the most recent major league team to repeat as World Series champions and after the 2000 season they joined the 1936-1939 Yankees, the 1949-1953 Yankees, and the 1972-1974 Oakland Athletics as the only teams to win at least three consecutive World Series.
In the 2005 American League Division Series, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim defeated the Yankees in five games in the first round of the postseason, marking the second time in four years that the Angels gave the Yankees a first-round playoff exit.
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 SIL | Press Room | Featured Items
Crouch is senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and in 2002, he received the Smithsonian Distinguished Lecturer Award.
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America opened its five-day annual Connoisseur's Fair on Wednesday, November 16 at the Gramercy Armory on Lexington Avenue and 26th Street in New York.
This lecture was the last in the series related to the Libraries' exhibition, "Chasing Venus: Observing the Transits of Venus, 1631-2004," which ended its run September 5 at the Libraries' Exhibition Gallery in the American History Museum.
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Jane Addams was one of the vice presidents of the Chicago Liberty Meeting that led to the formation of the Central Anti-Imperialist League in Chicago.
She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Price.
On the Division of Labor - From: Emile Durkheim [1947] The Division of Labor in Society (Translated by George Simpson).
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 Mariner Musings: January 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He led the league in batting, on-base percentage, on-base plus slugging (1.107), games played (believe it or not, 145 in the strike-shortened season), runs scored (121), doubles (52), adjusted OPS (183, despite playing in the Kingdome) and times on base (307).
With their stream of revenue, recent reputation of a winning ballclub and highly competitive division, there is no reason why the Mariners should not be the movers and shakers of the division.
There are more than a number of teams that either won their division last year or just missed the playoffs that seem to be lost this off-season, patching holes they don't have or simply paralyzed altogether.
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Call this the Frame Fallacy, after the mistake of inferring from the fact that a movie is made up of discrete frames, to the conclusion that the experience of watching a movie is the experience of a series of discrete frames.
First, efficient administration with respect to programming might be put to the service of organizations that are devoted to human rights and opposed to technocratic manipulation of citizens.
Leaving one subscription list and joining another, for example, is trivial, and the newcomer's added presence brings with it no burdens, especially if he is ``lurking,'' or at most the nuisance that the others on the list must delete the newcomer's unwanted contributions to the discussion.
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 Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
An estimated two-thirds of Americans got most of their news about the World from TV, and nearly half got all of their news from TV.
Having decided to adopt a higher-definition 625-line system for monochrome transmissions, with a lower frame rate but with a higher overall bandwidth, Europeans could not directly adopt the US Color standard, which was widely perceived as wanting anyway, because of its tint control problems.
A February 23 2002 article in Scientific American suggested that compulsive Television watching was no different from any other addiction, a finding backed up by reports of withdrawal symptoms among families forced by circumstance to cease watching.
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