Dwarf-like and a drunk he nonetheless built up three hugely successful menageries from a starting point of two snakes bought at a bargain price.

In the first half of the thirteenth century, Emperor Frederick II had three permanent menageries in Italy, at Melfi in Basilicata, at Lucera in Apulia and at Palermo in Sicily.

Over the years, Wombwell expanded to a total of three menageries that traveled all around the country.

A glimpse of three of four vague figures, at the most.

`` Dead center at three hundred yards, that coroner said ''!!

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

The man is right, and at this time, indications are that these three are ready for better seasons.

`` At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time ''.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

Factory stocks in recent months have been the highest they have been in three years, while those at retail are below 1959.

The Santa Cruz mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads twist through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed columns ripple streams of rain, even when heat bakes the Santa Clara valley below at the left.

Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

I laid three layers of glass cloth on the inside of the stem, also installing a bow eye at this time.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.

It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.

The cells were washed three times with saline, anti-human serum was added, the cells were resuspended, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min and examined for agglutination.

Otto II's three-year-old son Otto III was crowned as King of Germany in Aachen on Christmas Day in 983, three weeks after his father's death.

The Vaalserberg is located in the province of Limburg, at the south-easternmost edge of the country in the municipality of Vaals, near the eponymous town, some three kilometres west of Aachen.

The German princes, supported by Innocent III, again elected Frederick king of Germany in 1215, and he was crowned king in Aachen on 23 July 1215 by one of the three German archbishops.

In 2007, in the line of the excellence initiative, RWTH Aachen was chosen by DFG as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges and additionally won funding for one graduate school and three clusters of excellence.

Having won funds in all three lines of funding, the process brought RWTH Aachen University an additional total funding of € 180 million from 2007-2011.

The other two lines of funding were graduate schools, where the Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science received funding and so-called " clusters of excellence ", where RWTH Aachen managed to win funding for the three clusters Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication ( UMIC ), Integrative Production Technology for High-wage Countries and Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass ( TMFB ).

After Aix-la-Chapelle ( now Aachen ), the Alliance powers met three more times: in 1820 at the Congress of Troppau ( Opava ), in 1821 at the Congress of Laibach ( Ljubljana ); and in 1822 at the Congress of Verona.

There are also three so-called, a fusion of a district and a district-free town: Besides the Regionalverband Saarbrücken ( 1974 – 2007: Stadtverband Saarbrücken ), there is the Region Hannover since 2001 and the Städteregion Aachen since 2009.

In November 816, the Wali of Zaragoza travelled to Aachen and negotiated a new three year truce, which was finally concluded in February 817.

Going directly on to study at the University of Marburg for three semesters, he then transferred to the technical universities in Aachen and Berlin / Charlottenburg where he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer.

Montgomery's plan involved dropping the U. S. 101st Airborne Division to capture key bridges around Eindhoven, the 82nd Airborne Division to secure key crossings around Nijmegen, and the British 1st Airborne Division, with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade attached, to capture three bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem.

By forcibly taking the Imperial city the French now controlled two of the three bridgeheads over the Rhine ( the others being, Breisach which was already in French hands, and Philippsburg, which Louis XIV had lost by the Treaty of Nijmegen ).

In April 1945 the battalion was involved in the breakout from the Nijmegen salient and by 7 May it was in Utrecht disarming three German divisions, the day before the war in the European theatre was finished.

On 17 September the group supplied 87 C-47s and three C-53s to carry 1, 453 paratroops and 540 parapacks to the Nijmegen area.

He played three games for Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 2004 / 2005 season with the first team, making his debut in the away match against NEC Nijmegen on May 8, 2005 ( 2 – 0 defeat ).

Before Ingelheim became a town in 1939, the first three centres bore the names Nieder-Ingelheim, Frei-Weinheim and Ober-Ingelheim.

The three petals ( or inner tepals ), also showy, are located alternately between the sepals, two at the side and one usually at the bottom of the flower.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum is located at 216 Emory Street, a Baltimore row house in which Ruth was born and which is three blocks west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Even the authorized history of BJU notes that both Bob Jones, Sr. and Bob Jones, Jr. “ played political hardball ” when dealing with the three municipalities in which the school was successively located.

Because Berlin was located within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and the other occupying powers had previously relied on Soviet good will for access to Berlin, the only available methods of supplying the city were three limited air corridors.

One galaxy group located in Capricornus is HCG 87, a group of at least three galaxies located 400 million light-years from Earth ( redshift 0. 0296 ).

The land on which Cairo was established in 969 ( present-day Islamic Cairo ) was located underwater just over three hundred years earlier, when Fustat was first built.

The Cretaquarium and the Aquaworld Aquarium, are two of only three aquariums in Greece, they are located in Heraklion and Hersonissos respectively, and examples of the local sealife can be seen there.

There are three small islands located in the pass.

Similarly, if the house was located in an undesirable neighborhood and the Federal Reserve Bank was about to raise interest rates by five percentage points, then the risk factor would be a lot higher than 5 %: it might not be possible for him to predict a profit in discounted terms even if he thinks he could sell the house for $ 200, 000 in three years.

In chapter 34, High describes Loki, and says that Loki had three children with a female jötunn named Angrboða located in the land of Jötunheimr ; Fenrisúlfr, the serpent Jörmungandr, and the female being Hel.

The show follows the misadventures of three Roman Catholic priests who live in a parish on the fictional Craggy Island, located off the west coast of Ireland.

It is uncertain where their skins are located today, however, but according to Errol Fuller, three are suspected due to their connection to a specific dealer in Copenhagen ; the specimens in Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and the one in Übersee-Museum Bremen.

These G proteins are made from three subunits, with the G domain located on the largest one ( the α unit ); together with the two smaller subunits ( β and γ units ), they form a tightly associated protein complex.

* Harwich is also known for its three beautiful harbors called Allen Harbor, Wychmere Harbor and Saquatucket Harbor all located in Harwichport.

In addition, the IAEA has three laboratories located in Vienna and Seibersdorf, Austria, and in Monaco.

All three branches are operated and coordinated by LAF Command, which is located in Yarzeh, east of Lebanon's capital, Beirut.

Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, making it one of only three countries in the world that are enclaves within another country ; the other two are San Marino and Vatican City, both located within Italy.

The Faculty of Fine and Perforning Arts ' three academies: Malmö Art Academy, Malmö Academy of Music and Malmö Theatre Academy, are all located in Malmö.

Nevertheless, the bombing target marker was located at the south point of the island and three thermonuclear devices were detonated at high altitude a short distance offshore in 1957.

The three service areas are located in the central north ( Junction 23 South Mimms ), south east ( Clacket Lane ) and central east ( Thurrock ).

The MPS ships are assigned to three Maritime Prepositioning Ship squadrons located in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia and the Western Pacific Ocean at Guam and Saipan.

The Skrull Empire is located in the Andromeda galaxy, the Kree Empire in the Magellan clouds which are satellites of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth of course is found, while the Shi ´ ar Empire is located somewhere between them in one of the smaller galaxies ( perhaps Triangulum ); frequently, these three empires are quoted as the main political powers " in the universe ".