She could easily understand why the two men had been startled to find a strange girl in the back seat of their car ( she had figured that out ), but she couldn't understand their subsequent actions.

Most subsequent abeyances ( only a few dozen cases ) were settled after a few years, in favour of the holder of the family properties ; there were two periods in which long-abeyant peerages ( in some cases peerages of doubtful reality ) were brought back: between 1838 and 1841 and between 1909 and 1921.

Beramok is considered to be the more common of the two and is associated with the depression and sadness resulting from a loss and the subsequent brooding process.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

However, Goukouni ’ s January 1981 statement that Chad and Libya had agreed to work for the realization of complete unity between the two countries generated intense international pressure and Goukouni's subsequent call for the complete withdrawal of external forces.

Archeological evidence suggests that, before Columbus ' arrival, the indigenous Guanajatabey, who had inhabited the island for centuries, were driven to the west of Cuba by the arrival of two subsequent waves of migrants, the Taíno and Ciboney.

There were two fruitless attempts at establishing a congress of provinces in the subsequent months.

Young performed better in subsequent games, winning his next two starts.

However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years.

His subsequent scientific work ran in two directions: towards the social sciences and towards statistics.

The result was replicated in two subsequent investigations: " La determinación del lugar de la Mancha como problema estadístico " and " The Kinematics of the Quixote and the Identity of the ' Place in La Mancha '".

This means that two subsequent DTMF tones are enough to transfer whole byte of data or 8-bit ASCII character.

The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

Additionally, features from the improved Kickstart 2 operating system were used in subsequent software, and since these two technologies largely overlap, some users misjudged the significance of ECS.

The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.

By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.

Something similar ( although perhaps not xenoglossia ) took place on at least two subsequent occasions, in Caesarea and Ephesus.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters ( Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846 ) and two novels.

In the early 20th century, numerous examples abound of heroes and heroines of pulp novels, paperbacks and comics depicted wielding two pistols, most notably the pulp hero, the Shadow.

Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

Although only two copies of the collection of poetry were sold, the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first novels, continuing to use their noms de plume when sending manuscripts to potential publishers.

In 2002, the Science Fiction Book Club also published the two novels in one volume.

In his novels, he outlined an England divided into two nations, each living in perfect ignorance of each other.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

Includes two novels by George Griffith, articles and stories by several authors, and game worlds based on flight ( and a war on the supernatural ), automata and calculating engines, space travel, and time travel.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

Within the last two decades there have been an onslaught of novels, documentaries, works of art, and websites devoted to Thompson.

Over the years, there have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, seventeen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

In Louis Cha's novels the dysfunctionality can come in two levels: firstly, law and order broken down locally within China and secondly, the sovereignty of China came to be challenged by invaders.

Sheldon's two novels, produced toward the end of her career, were not as critically well-received as her best-known stories but continued to explore similar themes.

Several Lord Peter Wimsey novels were made into television productions by the BBC, in two separate series.

# Destiny's Road ( 1997, by Niven alone ; not precisely a continuation of the Heorot series: located in the same universe, events from the first two novels are briefly mentioned )

Barnes also sets one of the two Meme Wars novels on Mars: The Sky So Big and Black ( 2002 ).

The married life of Malcolm III and Margaret has been the subject of two historical novels: A Goodly Pearl ( 1905 ) by Mary H. Debenham, and Malcolm Canmore's Pearl ( 1907 ) by Agnes Grant Hay.

Except for two scenes in all the novels, all Nexus inhabitants speak English, though they may know other languages or have a planetary accent.