The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Cuyp took from van Goyen the straw yellow and light brown tones that are so apparent in his Dunes ( 1629 ) and the broken brush technique also very noticeable in that same work.

The rainy season brought yellow fever and malaria, which took a heavy toll on the invaders.

The steamship John D. Porter took people fleeing Memphis northward in hopes of escaping the disease, but the ship was not allowed to disembark due to concerns of spreading yellow fever.

In the 1990s he took part in the popular TV show Tunnel in which he very formally and " seriously "' recited documents such as utility bills, yellow pages and similar trivial texts, such as washing instructions for a woollen sweater or cookies ingredients.

It took eight hours, and he saw it go from red to orange to fluorescent yellow to white.

In the 20th century, Tex-Mex took on Americanized elements such as yellow cheese, as goods from the United States became cheap and readily available.

In the book The Patchwork Girl of Oz, it is revealed that there are two yellow brick roads from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City: according to the Shaggy Man, Dorothy took the harder one in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

These paints took on the colors of blue, red, sepia, yellow, mauve, purple and green.

Leclerc died of yellow fever, which also took many French troops.

In the south, a yellow fever epidemic in the 1940s took many lives and caused a high degree of social disruption.

Pétion named the general Boyer as his successor ; he took control in 1818 following the death of Pétion from yellow fever.

On the first climb, Benoit Poîlvet, Paolo Bettini and Rolf Aldag attacked, later joined by Richard Virenque, the eventual winner of the polka dot jersey, who dropped the others one by one, and took the stage and the yellow jersey from Peña, who had declared in interviews prior to the race that he was going to start working for Lance to win.

The Central American flag was used in Guatemala until 1851, when a pro-Spanish faction took over and added the Spanish colors of red and yellow to the flag.

SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen took with them the club's traditional colours of red and black, with the gymnasts adopting blue and yellow.

This took him back to Spain in 1804, where he caught yellow fever and died in Castellon de la Plana.

In 1927, he found that when the olefin stilbene was added to an ethyl ether solution of phenylisopropyl potassium, an abrupt color change from red to yellow took place.

In the yellow zone, protesters took over Olympic Plaza and staged a Die-In action.

The Memphis yellow fever epidemic started in 1873 and took a toll on many school personnel.

Although Meo took time to compose himself after the shout, he missed the yellow and Davis cleared the colours to win.

Hamlin took the lead from Ryan Newman under the yellow line, which is prohibited at Daytona and Talladega.

His house is called Alpe D ' Huez, after the French mountain where he took the yellow jersey ( the leader in the Tour de France ) in 1976.

The original implementation took shape as a word-based adventure game but quickly grew to include a wide range of database applications including instant access to news, weather, stock information, movie times, yellow pages listings, and detailed sports data, as well as a variety of tools ( personal assistant, calculators, translator, etc .).

* In the animated film Green Lantern: First Flight, Qward is where Kanjar Ro took the yellow element for the Weaponers to forge into Sinestro's yellow power ring and battery.

Sergei Korolev was very nervous in the lead up to the launch ; he experienced chest pains, and took a pill to calm his heart.

When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow.

After he turned into an old man he found a mirror, then took the body of a crane when touched by a crane feather from the last box, in another he ate a magic pill that gave him the ability to breathe underwater.

Finally on 25 September, to counter the effects of the laxative, he asked for and took a red pill presented by a minor court official named Li Kezhuo, who dabbled in apothecary.

That same afternoon the emperor took a second pill and was found dead the next morning.

In the first part, she took a pill prescribed for catatonia, a condition in which a person ’ s muscles are immobilized and remain in a single position for hours at a time.

Rex and Rick both took Miraclo in pill form, but Rick currently uses a transdermal patch.

* Shinedown's song " Her Name is Alice ", from the compilation album Almost Alice, uses the line ' And the girl that chased the rabbit, drank the wine, and took the pill ...' to reference the White Rabbit ; indeed, most of the song references Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

McCormick had provided almost the entire $ 2 million it took to develop and test the oral contraceptive pill.

He states, " I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some, took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit.

To his surprise, his uncle took the pill not at home but on his first ( and last ) flight, the 12. 30 from Croydon: The family had been alarmed by a report stating that Elsie had had an accident in France, and Crowther had insisted on coming with Elsie's father and their daughter.

One pill was all I ever took — it was all I ever needed.

Cranko choked to death after suffering an allergic reaction to a sleeping pill he took during a transatlantic flight.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

In the course of its inquiry, it took testimony from only seven witnesses.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10-day fast in which she took nothing but water.

He was in his car with his camera and equipment bag in less than two minutes, and it took him only three more to reach the corner, a block from Columbus Avenue.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Nevertheless, he regards the case in " The Chocolate Box ", which took place in 1893, as his only actual failure of detection.

The Chilean Army and Chilean Navy defeated the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru, and Chile took over Bolivia's only province on the Pacific Coast, some land from Peru, also-that was returned to Peru decades later.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

In the United States, only eastern New England speakers took up this modification, although even there it is becoming increasingly rare.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

AZ therefore qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history, but only took four points from six matches and finished bottom of their group.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

He was buried in his own kirkyard, although local legends claim that the fairies took his body away, and the coffin contains only stones.

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

Spanish advocates predicated the term adoptivus of Christ only in respect to his humanity ; once the divine Son " emptied himself " of divinity and " took the form of a servant " ( Philippians 2: 7 ), Christ's human nature was " adopted " as divine.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.