* Marchant-John Omally's bicycle, whose anthropomorphic qualities may be a reference to Flann O ' Brien's novel The Third Policeman.

1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International ’ s The Secret Policeman ’ s Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars.

* Flann O ' Brien – The Third Policeman ( written 1939 – 40 ; published posthumously )

He was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the nom de plume Flann O ' Brien.

* Flann O ' Brien's The Third Policeman utilizes extensive and lengthy footnotes for the discussion of a fictional philosopher, de Selby.

* The Third Policeman

These traits are especially evident in At Swim-Two-Birds ( 1939 ), which was highly praised by Joyce, in An Béal Bocht ( 1941 ), written in Gaelic, and in The Third Policeman, published in 1967, after his death.

Irish novelist Flann O ' Brien completed The Third Policeman in 1939.

Notwithstanding its dilatory appearance, the literary theorist Keith Hopper regards The Third Policeman as one of the first of that genre they call the postmodern novel.

Many prominent elements of the book, particularly De Selby himself, the eccentric policemen, and the atomic theory of the bicycle, were taken from O ' Brien's much earlier novel The Third Policeman, because he had not been able to find a publisher for it.

* Flann O ' Brien's novel The Third Policeman embodies an instance of eternal recurrence, with the protagonist being entrapped in a circular hell.

* Literary Encyclopedia: The Third Policeman

* The Third Policeman by Flann O ' Brien, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( Postmodern Mystery )

* First publication of Flann O ' Brien's novel The Third Policeman ( written 1939 – 40 ), posthumously in London.

De Selby is a fictional character originally invented by Flann O ' Brien for his novel The Third Policeman.

* Flann O ' Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman

O ' Neill lists as his favourite books: Ulysses, by James Joyce, The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault, Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe ( Frederick Baron Corvo ), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, The Third Policeman, by Flann O ' Brien, The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst, and The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt.

* 1999, USA, Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 1-56478-211-5, March 1999, Third paperback edition ( with afterword )

** Third Edition ( 1888 ): Google Book Search or Internet Archive

* Third edition ( 1921 ) at Internet Archive

A Grammar of the Hebrew Language by William Henry Green, 1872 Third Edition ; PDF available on Internet Archive

* GHETTO RAGA — The Third Ear Band's Official Archive by Luca Ferrari

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus ' acclamation as emperor by the famed Third Gallic Legion.

* Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800 between Spain and France, by which Spain returned Louisiana to France.

Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Other groups, influenced by the Third Position, are also classifiable as anti-globalization.

Some, like Hernando De Soto, argue that much of the poverty in the Third World countries is caused by the lack of Western systems of laws and well-defined and universally recognized property rights.

On the other hand, there have been notable protests against certain globalization policies by Third World workers as in the cause of Indian farmers protesting against patenting seeds.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

According to the plans, the Third Army, under general Radko Dimitriev, was deployed east of and behind the First, and was covered by the cavalry division hiding it from the Turkish view.

The initial Bulgarian attack by First and Third Army defeated the Turkish forces, numbering some 130, 000, and reached the Sea of Marmara.

Third base is a shorter throw for the catcher, and thus more difficult to steal, though a right-handed batter can sometimes help by serving as an obstacle that the catcher must throw around.

The 89th compagnie de travailleurs étrangers ( Company of Foreign Workers ), consisting of foreigners judged as undesirable by the Third Republic and the Vichy regime and committed to forced labour, was established in Barcelonnette.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

Among the consequences of the Third Reform Act ( 1884 – 85 ) was the giving of the vote to the Catholic peasants in Ireland, and the consequent creation of an Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

The party was reformed in 2006 by the political think tank the Third Way under the name ' National Liberal Party '.

Another relatively early use of the term in a German-language work was in a book by Fritz Sternberg, a Jewish Marxist political economist who was a refugee from the Third Reich.