He was so inspired by the short film The Perfect Human directed by Jørgen Leth that he challenged Leth to redo the short five times in feature film The Five Obstructions.

Taoist documents from as early as the Han Dynasty claimed that Lao Tzu appeared on earth as different persons in different times beginning in the legendary era of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

The Five Ks, or panj kakaar / kakke, are five articles of faith that all baptized Sikhs ( also called Khalsa Sikhs ) are typically obliged to wear at all times, as commanded by the tenth Sikh Guru, who so ordered on the day of Baisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699.

Five times in his career, the first in 1907, Cobb reached first, stole second, stole third, and then stole home.

: Five men ( played by all the Kids ) are sitting around a campfire in a junkyard, drinking toasts to their dead friend Reg and reminiscing about good times shared with him.

Five kings took the name Hormizd and Bahram II created the title of " Ohrmazd-mowbad " which was continued after the fall of the Sassanid Empire and through the Islamic times.

Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing is explicitly based on Dumas ', though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ( according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After ).

From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment ( one of the Five Punishments ) and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service.

Worship is included in the Five Pillars of Islam, primarily that of salat, which is the practise of ritual prayer five times daily.

In historic times, it was primarily the territory of the Creek peoples, who became known to European-American settlers as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast.

Five times, he is said to possess asurya, and once he is said to possess asuratva.

During slave times, Samuel L. Kingsley lived in a house on Ozga Rd near Pullens Corners, what is today known as Five Points.

Five times in the last 50 years, the City of Edmonds has looked at annexing Esperance into the city.

Five jaathis times seven tala groups gives thirty-five basic talas, although use of other angas results in a total of 108 talas.

The Book of Five Rings has been published in English multiple times.

Five songwriters have won this award three times, Beyoncé, Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers and Alicia Keys.

Five French pilots were also on the roster, serving at various times.

Five times in the stadium's history, heavy snows or other weather conditions have significantly damaged the roof and in four instances caused it to deflate.

Five of those times ( 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, and 1990 ), the Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup.

In " The Five Orange Pips ", Holmes mentions that he has been beaten four times, thrice by a man and once by a woman.

It was answered by Gosson in his Playes Confuted in Five Actions ; and Lodge retorted with his Alarum Against Usurers ( 1585 )— a tract for the times which may have resulted from personal experience.

Five times over the past three years Rex has received a postcard directing him to meet the kidnapper at the Cafe Beaux Arts in Nimes.

The name changed over the first few years ( as did the color of the binding ), at times known as the People's Pocket Series, the Appeal Pocket Series, the Ten Cent Pocket Series, the Five Cent Pocket Series, and finally the one that took, Little Blue Books in 1923.

According to the 2nd century BC historical text Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the Qin state traced its origin to Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times.

Emperor Gallienus ( 253-260 ) awarded the legion with the titles V Fidelis V Pia and VI Fidelis VI Pia ( respectively, " Five " and " Six times loyal and faithful ").

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

There was something troubling him though: as yet they hadn't Five days.

Five milliamperes/cell were applied for 18 hr, after which the strips were stained with bromphenol blue and densitometry was carried out using a Spinco Analytrol.

Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.

Five years later, he was awarded the university's degree in law.

Five came up while Owen was listening to The Wrangler and he neglected to play, a loss of ten dollars.

Confucianism was particularly strong during the Han Dynasty, whose greatest thinker was Dong Zhongshu, who integrated Confucianism with the thoughts of the Zhongshu School and the theory of the Five Elements.

The Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 19 ) was called by the States General to consider the Five Articles of Remonstrance.

Part of this publication was the famous Five points of Calvinism in response to the five articles of Remonstrance.

Capone was recruited for Chicago by Johnny Torrio, his Five Points Gang mentor.

In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

He was elected as first consul of France on 10 November 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, and president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud.

The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang ( 陰陽家 / 阴阳家 ; Yīnyángjiā ; Yin-yang-chia ; " School of Yin-Yang ") was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

Confucianism was particularly strong during the Han Dynasty, whose greatest thinker was Dong Zhongshu, who integrated Confucianism with the thoughts of the Zhongshu School and the theory of the Five Elements.

It was also one of the first books in which the cosmological doctrines of Yinyang and the Five Phases were brought to a mature synthesis.

Focusing on drug prescriptions rather than acupuncture, it was the first medical work to combine Yinyang and the Five Phases with drug therapy.

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.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

Five days later on October 22, California-based ticket vendor Paciolan, Inc., the sole contractor authorized by the Colorado Rockies to distribute tickets, was forced to suspend sales after less than an hour due to an overwhelming number of attempts to purchase tickets.

Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

" Han independence " was therefore scrapped in favor of the Five Races Under One Union principle, which later developed into the theory of Zhonghua minzu.

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.