Following the tale of D ' Sparil's defeat in Heretic, Hexen takes place in another realm, Cronos, which is besieged by the second of the Serpent Riders, Korax.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

* In Boccaccio's Decameron, Boniface VIII is satirically depicted granting a highwayman ( Ghino di Tacco ) a priorate ( Day 10, second tale ).

In the last tale of the second day Dioneo begins his pattern of telling the last tale of the day, which he will continue until the end of the Decameron.

Pampinea tells the second tale of the day, which is a very ancient tale.

Several writers have attempted to add a thousand and second tale, including Théophile Gautier ( La mille deuxième nuit, 1842 ) and Joseph Roth ( Die Geschichte von der 1002.

Welsh's third book ( and second novel ), Marabou Stork Nightmares, alternates between a typically grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

Because Scrooge officially meets Glomgold for the first time in ' The second richest Duck ' in 1956, Don Rosa makes sure Glomgold's name is never mentioned in his tale.

In his tale of a man who is given a second chance to live a good life, he was demonstrating to his readers that they, too, could achieve a similar salvation in a selfish world that had blunted their generosity and compassion.

Efnysien fab Euroswydd ( also spelled Efnissien or Efnisien ) is a sadistic anti-hero in Welsh mythology, appearing prominently in the tale of Branwen ferch Llŷr, the second branch of the Mabinogi.

The Völsung tale was also the inspiration for much of Richard Wagner's second and third operas of the Ring cycle.

" The second miniseries, Vertigo Pop: London, told the tale of " Rocky Lamont, lead singer in 1960s rock band " who " ather than burning out the way he'd hoped ... into a slow and dull decline with a trophy wife and a series of dreary albums.

He also appeared in the second season Babylon 5 episode " Gropos " as General Richard Franklin, the father of regular character Dr. Stephen Franklin and on the fairy tale sitcom The Charmings as The Evil Queen's wise-cracking Magic Mirror.

* Dit de l ' Alérion aka Dit des quatre oiseaux (" Story of the 4 Birds ") ( before 1349 ) – A symbolic tale of love: the narrator raises four different birds, but each one flees him ; one day the second ( and preferred ) bird comes back to him.

His best known work is without doubt the short novel The Black Spider ( Die schwarze Spinne ), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community ; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.

This began with the heroine married and the mother of two children, as in the second part of Perrault's tale, and her mother-in-law attempted to eat first the children and then the heroine.

Scribe wisely omitted the violence of the second part of Perrault's tale for the ballet, which was set by Hérold and first staged at the Académie Royale in Paris on 27 April 1829.

The Big Bad Wolf is a card used by Leonhard Wilson, whose deck is mostly composed of fairy tale monsters, in the second series Yu-Gi-Oh!

It is based on the second version of the tale.

The second episode, ' Private Enterprise ', was the tale of a music business rip off, where Peter Richardson steals a studio recording session tape and passes the results off as his own work.

The second, Fairy offering Posy of Harebells to Elsie, shows a fairy either hovering or tiptoeing on a branch, and offering Elsie a flower.

" In the New Testament, a thorough concordance search shows that the second most frequent use of " head " ( kephalē ), after " the structure that connects to our neck and sits atop our bodies ," is the metaphorical sense of " source.

The first of these shows the importance of women ’ s past contributions to society, and the second strives to teach women of all estates how to cultivate useful qualities in order to counteract the growth of misogyny.

This is illustrated in the figure above, where the first pattern is the diffraction pattern of a single slit, given by the function in this equation, and the second figure shows the combined intensity of the light diffracted from the two slits, where the function represent the fine structure, and the coarser structure represents diffraction by the individual slits as described by the function.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

Research shows that association football players that take less than 200ms after the referee blows their whistle for a penalty kick are significantly more likely to miss scoring than those that take over a second.

The diagram on the right shows the second forcing sequence.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

The first step, which carried him to the outbreak of the schism, involves moderate recognition of the papal primacy ; the second, which carried him to 1381, is marked by an estrangement from the papacy ; and the third shows him in sharp contest.

An early description of the system shows how these questions were answered in the task at hand, supplying the second layer of commitment:

Neo-Druidism forms the second largest pagan religion after Wicca, and like Wicca in turn shows significant heterogeneity.

Gödel's second incompleteness theorem ( 1931 ) shows that no formal system extending basic arithmetic can be used to prove its own consistency.

The second diagram shows how this fragment size variation would look on a Southern blot, and how each allele ( two per individual ) might be inherited in members of a family.

Although the site shows signs of continuous occupation from before 3000 BC, its power grew and reached its apogee in the second half of the following millennium.

Analysis shows the optimum staging velocity ( the speed at which the first stage is dropped ) is very high — possibly 3. 65 km / s ( 12, 000 feet per second ).

There was some crossover between the two shows, and Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly in both programs, becoming the second actor in American television to star as the same character in two separate series.

The second shows the much more variable high and low tides that form a " mixed tide ".

This type of multiple texturing enhances the surfaces of objects with a second texture that shows material detail.

The second layer of the wheel shows two-half circles:

Shortly after this comes to pass, the carnival workers run the man down, beat him, and look at the second area, which shows an illustration of the same beating they are doing.

In essence, the theorem shows that a bandlimited analog signal can be perfectly reconstructed from an infinite sequence of samples if the sampling rate exceeds 2B samples per second, where B is the highest frequency of the original signal.

Some shows, such as Making the Band and Project Greenlight, devote the first part of the season to selecting a winner, and the second part to showing that person or group of people working on a project.

If mass is used, specific impulse is an impulse per unit mass, which dimensional analysis shows to be a unit of speed, and so specific impulses are often measured in meters per second and are often termed effective exhaust velocity.

The second column shows the Unicode codepoint.