These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

The writer, journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, distilled four years of evidence into two hours of stage performance by Tricycle Theatre.

The four teams in each group played each other in the round-robin group stage, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals.

The top four teams from the " Super 6 " stage progressed to the semi-finals, with winners playing in the final.

The top four teams from each group will proceed to the knock out stage playing quarter-finals.

The flagellate stage is slightly smaller, with two or four anterior flagella anterior to the feeding groove.

After graduating, both Orton and Halliwell went into regional repertory work: Orton spent four months in Ipswich as an assistant stage manager ; Halliwell in Llandudno, Wales.

These speeches set the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas debates four years later, during which Lincoln was running for Douglas's senate seat.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

In 1872 she permanently retired from the stage with four performances of " Fidalma " in Cimarosa ’ s Il matrimonio segreto, at the Paris Théâtre des Italiens but, in fact, she never gave up singing in private and in benefit concerts.

( Taras Shevchenko is especially notable for the fact all four members of the group have left the stage before the final song (" Temptation ") comes to an end.

At this stage of his conquests Orhan's Ottoman Principality had four provinces:

Facing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the now best-of-seven NLCS, a split of the first four games set the stage for Game 5 at Busch Stadium.

A blastocyst is an early stage embryo — approximately four to five days old in humans and consisting of 50 – 150 cells.

These young mites move about on the skin and molt into a " nymphal " stage, before maturing as adults, which live three to four weeks in the host's skin.

Sonic CD has been praised for its visual style, superior CD sound, and an innovative time-travel mechanic, allowing players to explore four versions of each stage.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

The design is essentially a multi-stage radial turbine ( or pair of ' nested ' turbine rotors ) offering great efficiency, four times as large heat drop per stage as in the reaction ( Parsons ) turbine, extremely compact design and the type met particular success in backpressure power plants.

Bob Dylan appeared on stage on New Year's Eve and performed four songs with the group, including a version of " When I Paint My Masterpiece ".

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

The first stage of the Intifada began following an incident at the Erez checkpoint where four Palestinian residents of the Jabalya refugee camp were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver.

An early Minuteman first stage used a single motor with four gimballed nozzles to provide pitch, yaw, and roll control.

There, a new robe of woven wool ( peplos ) was placed on either the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum ( during a regular Panathenaea ) or on the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon ( during the Great Panathenaea, held every four years ).

Jamauri D. Green holds that the parthenon was the room in which the peplos presented to Athena at the Panathenaic Festival was woven by the arrephoroi, a group of four young girls chosen to serve Athena each year.

His parents, George and Athena Kazanjoglou ( née Shishmanoglou ), emigrated to the United States when he was four years old.

In the Odyssey by Homer, under the instructions of Athena, Telemachus spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant.

It is dedicated at the Panathenaea ( a festival held in honour of Athena every four years on the Acropolis ).

Only four of his works are mentioned: a statue of Zeus and one of Athena Itonia in the temple of that goddess at Athens ; a statue, probably of Cybele, in the temple of the Great Goddess at Athens ; and the Rhamnusian Nemesis.

The gilding project took less than four months and makes the modern statue appear that much more like the Phidias ' Athena Parthenos would have appeared during its time.

The city was arranged into four districts, firstly the political district which consisted of the Bouleterion and the Prytaneion, the cultural district containing the Theatre, the commercial where the Agora was located and finally the religious district which contained sanctuaries dedicated to Zeus and Demeter and most importantly the Temple of Athena.

The most important one was the Panathenaia in honor of the goddess Athena, a ritual procession carried out once a year in May and once every four years in July, in which the town presented a new veil ( peplos ) to the old wooden statue of Athena Poliada.

These include the Athena Parthenos, a magnificent miniature copy of the great image that Phidias created for the Parthenon in Athens ; a copy of Myron's Athena from the group of Athena and Marsyas ; a copy of Polyclitus's magnificent Diadumenos ; and a copy of the four Maenad reliefs by Callimachus.

The AHEPA Family consists of four masonic organizations, the AHEPA ( men ), Daughters of Penelope ( women ), Sons of Pericles ( young men ) and Maids of Athena ( young women ).

Richard B. Riddick ( played by Vin Diesel ), more commonly known simply as Riddick, is the antihero protagonist with a deuteragonist like additude of four films in the Riddick series, namely Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, the animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury and the upcoming Riddick ; as well as the two video games The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

There are four faculties, namely-Apollo, Ares, Athena and Artemis-all named after Greek deities.

The 4th century BC silver tetradrachmon (" four drachma ") coin, depicting a deified Alexander with two horns, replaced the 5th century BC Athenian silver tetradrachmon ( which depicted the goddess Athena ) as the most widely used coin in the Greek world.

During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.

During World War II, Eleven Assyrian companies saw action in Palestine and another four served in Cyprus.

No provision existed for mixing text and graphics, except for the limited " hardware split screen " of the Apple II ( four lines of text at the bottom of the screen ).

Eudoxia gave to Arcadius four children: three daughters, Pulcheria, Arcadia and Marina, and one son, Theodosius, the future Emperor Theodosius II.

Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952 ; Bruno, born 953 ; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954 ; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1575 and 1596.

There, with the active aid of the Russian government, he at length got access to the remainder of the precious Sinaitic codex, and persuaded the monks to present it to Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at whose cost it was published in 1862 ( in four folio volumes ).

Of the 232 cardinals that Pope John Paul II elevated, four were named in pectore.

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U. S. military establishment after World War II, big corporate money financing election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance away from workers.

Civil wars since the end of World War II have lasted on average just over four years, a dramatic rise from the one-and-a-half year average of the 1900-1944 period.

However, the rate of new civil wars had not increased appreciably ; the drastic rise in the number of ongoing wars after World War II was a result of the tripling of the average duration of civil wars to over four years.

The 32 bit Berkeley RISC I and RISC II architecture and the first chips were mostly designed by a series of students as part of a four quarter sequence of graduate courses.

John and Barbara had four children: Dwight David II " David ", Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean.

Isca Dumnoniorum originated with a settlement that developed around the Roman fortress of the Legio II Augusta and is one of the four poleis ( cities ) attributed to the tribe by Ptolemy.

On 21 March, the four archbishops, with the approval of Pope Eugenius, granted an annulment due to consanguinity within the fourth degree ( Eleanor and Louis were fourth cousins, once removed, and shared common ancestry with Robert II of France ).

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

Wilhelm II initially supported the Nazi Party, and his four sons of the exiled German royal family, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Prince Oskar, became members of the Nazi Party, in hopes that in exchange for their support, the Nazis would permit the restoration of the monarchy.

During the next four years of World War II, he directed or co-directed eleven documentary war information films.

Rhenish Franconia was the heartland of the Salian dynasty, which provided four emperors in the 11th and 12th centuries: Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V. Rhenish Franconia contained the ancient cities of Mainz, Speyer, and Worms, the latter two being countships within the hands of the descendants of Conrad the Red ( the Salians ).

Francis II married four times:

The Ford GT40 is a high performance British-American sports car and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans four consecutive times, from 1966 to 1969 ( 1966 being the Mk II, 1967 the Mk IV, and 1968-1969 the oldest chassis design, the Mk I ).

The Mk IV, a newer design with a Mk II engine but a different chassis and a different body, won the following year at Le Mans ( when four Mark IVs, three Mark IIs and three Mark Is raced ).

It was later upgraded to Mk II specifications with a 7. 0 liter ( 427ci ) engine and a standard four ratio Kar Kraft gearbox, however the car kept specific features such as its open roof and lightweight chassis.