The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* Kundakunda ( 2nd Century CE ), exponent of Jain mysticism and Jain nayas dealing with the nature of the soul and its contamination by matter, author of Pañcāstikāyasāra ( Essence of the Five Existents ), the Pravacanasāra ( Essence of the Scripture ) and the Samayasāra ( Essence of the Doctrine )

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.

Five of these societies became joint stock banks ( Plc ), one merged with another and the other four were taken over by Plc ’ s ( in two cases after the mutual had previously converted to a Plc ).

Confucian ethics is characterized by the promotion of virtues, encompassed by the Five Constants, or the Wuchang ( 五常 ), extrapolated by Confucian scholars during the Han Dynasty.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) is based on Yinyangism ( i. e., the combination of Five Phases theory with Yin-yang theory ), which was later absorbed by Daoism.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

The title Daodejing is an honorific given by posterity, other titles include the amalgam Lǎozǐ Dàodéjīng ( 老子道德經 ), the honorific Daode Zhen Jing ( 道德真經 " True Classic of the Way and the Power "), and the Wuqian wen ( " Five thousand character ").

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

* Five elements ( Japanese philosophy ), the basis of the universe according to Japanese philosophy

Five years later ( 1937 ), the firm financed the work of Ernst Ruska and Bodo von Borries, and employed Helmut Ruska ( Ernst ’ s brother ) to develop applications for the microscope, especially with biologic specimens.

Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

The parliament consisted of two houses: the Conseil des Cinq-Cents ( Council of the Five Hundred ), with 500 representatives, and the Conseil des Anciens ( Council of Elders ), with 250 senators.

In the Dark Times ( occasionally mentioned in the televised serials such as The Five Doctors ), Gallifrey was at the centre of an empire covering dozens of worlds and continually being extended by heroes such as Prydonius ( whom the Time Lord chapter is named after ).

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

* Five NCAA National Championships ( 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987 ), placing them in a tie for third most all-time

The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.

Most Aster CT-80's ( about 10 thousand of them ) were sold to schools for computer education, in a project first known as the " honderd scholen project " ( one hundred schools project ), but which later involved many more than just one hundred schools.

** 1, 000, 000, 000 ( number ), one thousand million, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, in the short scale

According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively ( consistent with SI ), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte,

He obtains Ahasuerus ' permission to execute this plan, against payment of ten thousand talents of silver ( which the King declines to accept and rather allows him to execute his plan on principle ), and he casts lots to choose the date on which to do this — the thirteenth of the month of Adar.

* Some curves that seem simple, such as the circle, cannot be described exactly by a Bézier or piecewise Bézier curve ; though a four-piece cubic Bézier curve can approximate a circle ( see Bézier spline ), with a maximum radial error of less than one part in a thousand, when each inner control point ( or offline point ) is the distance horizontally or vertically from an outer control point on a unit circle.

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Trailing zeros after the decimal point are not necessary, although in science, engineering and statistics they can be retained to indicate a required precision or to show a level of confidence in the accuracy of the number: Although 0. 080 and 0. 08 are numerically equal, in engineering 0. 080 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one part in two thousand (± 0. 0005 ), while 0. 08 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one in two hundred ( see significant figures ).

Like the above description of the ineffable Tao as " the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures ", the Tao Te Ching advocates " female " ( or Yin ) values, emphasizing the passive, solid, and quiescent qualities of nature ( which is opposed to the active and energetic ), and " having without possessing ".

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

* Eridanos ( geology ), a large river that flowed between forty million and seven hundred thousand years ago from Lapland to the North Sea through where the Baltic Sea is now

If the species concerned were short-lived ( in geological terms, lasting a few hundred thousand years ), then it is certain that the sediments in question were deposited within that narrow time period.

Zhifang waiji, with translation ( Italian ), Introduction and commentary by Paolo De Troia, Brescia, Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana / Centro Giulio Aleni, 2009, with a full Map of ten thousand countries ( Wangguo quantu )

For instance, its largest car manufacturer, Magomobil ( maker of the Magosix ), produced a total of a few thousand units.

: R. Katina said, “ Six thousand years the world will exist and one the seventh, it shall be desolate ( haruv ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.

2: 11 )... R. Katina also taught, “ Just as the seventh year is the Shmita year, so too does the world have one thousand years out of seven that are fallow ( mushmat ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.

Salim was made a Mansabdar of ten thousand ( Das-Hazari ), the highest military rank of the empire, after the emperor.

The kilo prefix is derived from the Greek word χίλιοι ( chilioi ), meaning " thousand ".

When Napoleon began his blockade of the British Empire ( see Continental System ), British steel became unavailable, and Napoleon offered a prize of four thousand francs to anyone who could replicate the British process.

The prefix kilo ( symbol k ) is defined in the International System of Units ( SI ) as a multiplier of 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > ( 1 thousand ), and therefore,

The archive consists of about nineteen thousand drawings and prints, one thousand of which are by the designer and architect Lilly Reich ( 1885 – 1947 ), Mies van der Rohe's close collaborator from 1927 to 1937 ; of written documents ( primarily, the business correspondence ) covering nearly the entire career of the architect ; of photographs of buildings, models, and furniture ; and of audiotapes, books, and periodicals.

The Mediterranean-like climate, combined with the soil ( containing volcanic rock ), has made the region notable for its production of wines since the Roman period two thousand years ago.