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After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.
A second attempt took place in 437 BC on the same site under the guidance of Hagnon, son of Nicias.
His attempt was at first unsuccessful ; but, after the deposition of Demaratus, he visited the island a second time, accompanied by his new colleague Leotychides, seized ten of the leading citizens and deposited them at Athens as hostages.
Wilson's was the second attempt at nationalisation, Clement Attlee's Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain having been largely privatised by the Conservative governments of the 1950s.
Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.
During the execution, the hangman's rope broke and Kidd was hanged on the second attempt.
A couple of days later, Galois made his second and last attempt to enter the Polytechnique, and failed yet again.
" This second case usually involves the town bully and mischief maker Bugs Meany, leader of a gang who call themselves the Tigers, who, after being foiled, will attempt revenge in the third mystery.
Two days later, the same three guilds made a second attempt and after almost 4 hours, successfully killed the sleeper.
This second attempt would again be abandoned following Amerindian attacks.
Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.
Crick described what he saw as the failure of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin to cooperate and work towards finding a molecular model of DNA as a major reason why he and Watson eventually made a second attempt to do so.
A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
On 10 October 1935, a few months after he suppressed the second attempt in March 1935, Georgios Kondylis, the former Venizelist stalwart, abolished the Republic in another coup, and declared the monarchy restored.
This second attempt was followed by a third under Cleodaeus and a fourth under Aristomachus, both unsuccessful.
His second attempt, however, fit Roberts ' vision perfectly: a spaced-out series of clustered buildings, joined by lower structures and complemented by two underground levels.
* 1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew " Sandy " Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.
After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime.
Ambivalent about the removal of Gorbachev, Nazarbayev did not condemn the coup attempt until its second day.
King Arthur does attempt to fulfil this quest in the second act until the Lady of the Lake tells him that he is already in a musical.
In September 1929 Hubbard was enrolled at the Swavely Preparatory School in Manassas, Virginia, to prepare him for a second attempt at the examination.
In 1974, he came in second on his first attempt at the Mr. Olympia competition.
These theories attempt to answer the second of the above questions: " What is the nature of moral judgments?
On September 21, 1529, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón commanded the Spanish ship Florida, on his second attempt to recross the Pacific from the Moluccas.
In 1664, a second attempt was made, but this one also ended badly as the men chosen for the job abandoned their sick commander, Van Niewland, without proper treatment, and the latter eventually died.

second and reach
The second walk through the heart of Rome should be taken after lunch, so that you will reach the Pincian Hill when the soft light of the late afternoon is at its best.
The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as " Cinco Craters ".
Courts generally interpret statutes that create new causes of action narrowly – that is, limited to their precise terms — because the courts generally recognize the legislature as being supreme in deciding the reach of judge-made law unless such statute should violate some " second order " constitutional law provision ( cf.
In theory, this is due to an earlier expression of aggression, and the fact that coyotes reach their full growth in their first year, unlike wolves, which reach it in their second.
The second single, " Fall at Your Feet ", was less successful in Australia and New Zealand but did at least reach the US Hot 100.
His theory substantially comprised two statements: first, that animal organs and behaviour can change according to the way they are used ; and second, that those characteristics can transmit from one generation to the next ( the example of the giraffe whose neck becomes longer while trying to reach the upper leaves of a tree is well-known ).
The second statement is that every living organism, humans included, tends to reach a greater level of perfection.
In 1983, the Bombers moved upwards following a slow start to be second after thirteen rounds, but then suffered a five-match slump before recovering to reach their first grand final for 15 years from fourth place on the ladder.
It was his second son, Henry V, who managed to reach an agreement with both the Pope and the bishops in the 1122 Concordat of Worms.
In 1934, his second major-league season, he hit. 339 and helped the Tigers reach their first World Series in 25 years.
The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts.
The inability of the messengers to reach communities outside Israel before mid-month High Holy Days ( Succot and Passover ) led outlying communities to celebrate scriptural festivals for two days rather than one, observing the second feast-day of the Jewish diaspora because of uncertainty of whether the previous month ended after 29 or 30 days.
On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.
Between these two shelves lie Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara ( also known as the Lesser Sunda Islands ), and the Maluku Islands ( or the Moluccas ), which form a second island group where the surrounding seas in some places reach in depth.
" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".
A 50 MHz 80486 executed around 40 million instructions per second on average and was able to reach 50 MIPS peak performance.
The two were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a second wager before Simon died.
This second inequality appears to be due to light taking some time to reach us from the satellite ; light seems to take about ten to eleven minutes cross a distance equal to the half-diameter of the terrestrial orbit.
Assume the Earth is in L, at the second quadrature with Jupiter ( i. e. ALB is 90 °), and Io emerges from D. After several orbits of Io, at 42. 5 hours per orbit, the Earth is in K. Rømer reasoned that if light is not propagated instantaneously, the additional time it takes to reach K, that he reckoned about 3½ minutes, would explain the observed delay.
The rate of protein synthesis is higher in prokaryotes than eukaryotes and can reach up to 20 amino acids per second.
The Pentium was designed to execute over 100 million instructions per second ( MIPS ), and the 75 MHz model was able to reach 126. 5 MIPS in certain benchmarks.
The second main technology of phonecards is remote memory, which uses a toll or toll-free access number to reach the database and check for balance on product.
Modern systems ( for smaller, i. e. " normal " tube diameters as used in the transport of small capsules ) reach speeds of around per second, though some historical systems already achieved speeds of per second.

0.352 seconds.