When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

Midi Garth also believes in subjective continuity that begins with the feeling engendered by an initial movement.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

The 34 arrows, denoting onset age plus completion age deviations, have been arrayed in an Onset sequence which begins with girl 18 who had the earliest Onset of the 34 girls.

And just as domination today often begins with the wife, so the cure generally must lie with the husband.

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

-- A series of high school assemblies to acquaint junior and senior students with the Junior Achievement program begins at St. Thomas Aquinas Monday.

By contrast, a good deal of nuclear pacifism begins with the contingencies and the probabilities, and not with the moral nature of the action to be done ; ;

This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The author begins this volume with a close-up of Mr. Kennedy, his family and his entourage waiting for the returns.

Dr. Bonnor begins with a discussion of the relativistic theories of the universe, based on the general theory of relativity.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

A rigorous treatment of any of these topics begins with a specification of these axioms.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

* The Abensberger events calendar begins in February with the Faschingsgillamoos funfair, which reaches its high point on Mad Thursday.

Throughout the agonized internal monologue, represented through letters to his old tutor, he repeatedly comments on all of the affective ties that he has formed in his domestic life —“ the chains heart forged for itself ” As he begins to recover from the shock, the reader is led to believe that these “ chains ” are not worth the price of possible pain —“ By renouncing my attachments to a single spot, I extended them to the whole earth, and, while I ceased to be a citizen, became truly a man .” While in La Nouvelle Héloïse, the ideal is domestic, rural happiness ( if not bliss ), in Emile and its sequel, the ideal is “ emotional self-sufficiency which was the natural state of primitive, pre-social man, but which for modern man can be attained only by the suppression of his natural inclinations .”

Because of the switch, Emile enters later in the film, and " Some Enchanted Evening " is not heard until nearly 45 minutes into the film, while in the original stage version it is heard about 15 minutes after Act I begins.

Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.

He stays inactive for half the summer in front of Oczakov, a quite second-rate spot, begins to besiege it formally only during the autumn rains, and finally carries it by assault in the heart of winter.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

Rangoni begins by describing the sad state of the Church ; ;

Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.

Once the grains are ground, vitamin E begins to deteriorate immediately and half of it is lost by oxidation and exposure to the air within one week.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

In reincarnation, spiritual development continues after death as the deceased begins another earthly life in the physical world, acquiring a superior grade of consciousness and altruism by means of successive reincarnations.

* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

* 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U. S. history, begins.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.

The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.

* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

* 1901 – The U. S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.

The rite begins with a greeting by the priest, followed by sprinkling of all present with holy water, if deemed desirable, and a short instruction.

The rite begins with reading Psalm 50 ( the great penitential psalm ), followed by the chanting of a special canon.

Thus, in Steiner's view, we can overcome the subject-object divide through inner activity, even though all human experience begins by being conditioned by it.