Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty minute press conference during the second half of the day.

Cambridge, where Peirce was born and raised, New York City, where he often visited and sometimes lived, and Milford, where he spent the later years of his life with his second wife Juliette.

That same year he received a second round of funding from the Rosenwald Fund to travel South, and he spent extended time at Atlanta University.

His family's second home was in a completely different geological and ecological area: he spent much of his childhood at Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England.

On April 30, 1494, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night.

After playing his rookie season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman.

From 1975 until his death in 1996, he and his wife spent their winters at a second home in Palm Springs, California, USA.

He was the second son of Sheriar Mundegar Irani, a Persian Zoroastrian who had spent years wandering in search of spiritual experience before settling in Poona ( now Pune ), and Sheriar's young wife, Shireen.

The second through fourth postgraduate years are spent in a devoted neurology residency, after which time the successful graduate can apply for licensure.

Thus, Septimius Severus spent the remainder of his second term as quaestor on the island.

One of the significant players on the 1992 Packers team was second year quarterback Brett Favre, who spent his rookie season playing for the Atlanta Falcons.

Magneto and Professor X spent much of the show's second season trapped in the Savage Land ( Xavier's legs having fortunately been restored as a result of the loss of his powers ) until Sinister used them as bait to lure the X-Men into a trap in the season finale, Sinister's forces subsequently being defeated when Wolverine escaped capture and teamed up with Ka-Zar to infiltrate the base and defeat Sinister.

In his second year he neglected his medical studies for natural history and spent four months assisting Robert Grant's research into marine invertebrates.

In 2009, José Mujica, a former left-wing militant who spent almost 15 years in prison during the country's military rule, emerged as the new President as the Broad Front won the election for a second time.

Following the court case The Stone Roses separated themselves from Manchester's club culture and spent much of 1992 and 1993 travelling in Europe before starting work on their second album in mid-1993.

Over the next four years, Stravinsky and his family lived in Russia during the summer months and spent each winter in Switzerland, which became a second home to them.

During the last few years of his life Boole worked on a second edition of his Differential Equations, and part of his last vacation was spent in the libraries of the Royal Society and the British Museum ; but it was left incomplete.

As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward.

Though Hitler rejected Raeder's advice, Raeder spent the entire second half of 1941 persistently pressing for Germany to go to war with the United States.

Commissioned a second lieutenant in a provincial artillery regiment, he spent the summer at Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George in New York as part of an abortive plan for the capture of Fort St. Frédéric.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Altria spent around $ 101 million on lobbying the United States government between 1998 and 2004, making it the second most active organization in the nation.

Many family members complained that Bonanno was almost never in New York and spent his time at his second home in Tucson.

Yoritomo's second son and third shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo spent most of his life staying out of politics and writing good poetry, but was nonetheless assassinated in February 1219 by his nephew Kugyō under the giant ginkgo tree that still stands at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.

Twenty-five public sessions were held, but nearly half of them were spent in solemn formalities.

Stilwell estimated that at least half of the $ 100 million spent on construction of airbases was embezzled by Nationalist party officials.

Reitell gave him half a grain of phenobarbitone to help him sleep and spent the night at the hotel with him.

Pei spent two and a half years with the NDRC, but has revealed few details.

Although about half of that money was spent on CPUs used in desktop or laptop personal computers, those count for only about 2 % of all CPUs sold.

During the half year he spent in Florence, he worked on two small statues, a child St. John the Baptist and a sleeping Cupid.

On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours exploring, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module.

At the ceremony Weber told Smith, " You spent half of your career up in the air.

That day, Clemente noted that it was hard to play in a different field, saying, " I spent half my life there ".

It was estimated that over two-thirds of South Korea's manufacturers spent over half of the funds available for facility investments on automation.

He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with possibilities of disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds.

On June 7, 1890, it " successfully spent an hour submerged at a depth of 10 meters, following a set course of three and a half miles ".

The schedule called for two days to be spent filming the crash, but only half a day was available.

During his childhood, Henry spent almost four and a half years as a hostage in Spain, an ordeal that marked him for life, leaving him introverted and gloomy.

He then went to the United States where he spent about one and a half years at Columbia University performing experiments on the decay and the nuclear capture of muons.

" US Law, which requires buying food at home rather than where the hungry live, is inefficient because approximately half of what is spent goes for transport.

Altogether, DiCaprio reportedly spent more than a year and a half in preparation for the film which was not necessarily shot in continuity because of actors and locations schedules.

The original school consisted of only seventy scholars, half of whom had previously been educated at Winchester College, and all of these boys were educated at the king's expense. The only foreign student that received the King's Scholarship is from Turkey and spent a short time in Eton before going back to his homeland.

He visited the United States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

In 1927 Lavrentiev spent half a year in France, collaborating with French mathematicians, and upon returned took up a position with Moscow University.

Gyda and Olaf married, and spent half their time in England and the other half in Ireland.