This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

* A Clockwork Orange last chapter

The first section of the last chapter is organized as an outline of various skeptical arguments.

Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

), with an appendix, the last connected prophecy of any length, in chapter 35, treating of the fidelity of the Rechabites and of the unfaithfulness of Judah.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

He is among the first writing prophets, and the last chapter of Hosea has a format similar to wisdom literature.

Ironically, the relentless God demonstrated in the first chapter becomes the merciful God in the last two chapters ( see 3: 10 ).

* coco – In the last chapter, the epitaph of Don Quijote identifies him as " el coco "

This story was reprinted in the last chapter of the manga Book 6.

This opened the last chapter of Flores's long career and marked the entrance to power of García Moreno.

" And, " Mr. Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding from experience, that there are several new productions in nature, and concluding that there must somewhere be a power capable of producing them, we arrive at last by this reasoning at the idea of power.

In the last chapter of the Social Contract, Rousseau would ask " What is to be done?

" This name actually refers to a special " ceremony ": the last weekly Torah portion is read from Deuteronomy, completing the annual cycle, and is followed immediately by the reading of the first chapter of Genesis.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.

Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years ( excluding any period of imprisonment ) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.

However, in the last chapters of Benjamin Major, written later than the Minor, Richard almost abandons his topic and the discussion of the teaching of mystical theology takes up a good portion of every remaining chapter.

In the last chapter the novel's hero Oskar Matzerath and his friend Gottfried von Vittlar steal a tram late at night from outside Unterrath depot on the northern edge of Düsseldorf.

In the last chapter of The Dispossessed, we learn that the Hainish people arrived at Tau Ceti 60 years ago, which is more than 150 years after the secession of the Odonians from Urras and their exodus to Anarres.

The only exceptions are the first and the last chapter which include both worlds and are, thematically, chapters of transition.

In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.

This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin's evolution theory ; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.

A postscript at the end of the published volume of transactions containing Darwin's paper states that " Whilst the last pages of this volume were in the press, Dr Withering of Birmingham ... published a numerous collection of cases in which foxglove has been given, and frequently with good success ".

* 2009, " Darwin's last laugh ", Essay, Nature 460, 175 ( 9 July 2009 )

Born into the wealthy Darwin-Wedgwood family, he was the last of Darwin's immediate offspring to die.

Lyell and Hooker had decided on a joint publication at the Linnean Society of London of Wallace's paper together with an extract from Darwin's essay and his letter to Asa Gray, The last meeting of the society before the summer recess had been postponed following the death of former president the botanist Robert Brown on 10 June 1858, and was to be held on 1 July.

In the last decade of his life ( 1873 – 1882 ), Darwin's health was generally much improved.

Charles gained much useful information from his relatives during the inception of Darwin's theory, and it was at Maer Hall that he first became interested in the effects of earthworms which were the subject of an early paper presented to the Geological Society as well as of his last book.

During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.

The last is a picturesque trip starting in the south of the Black Forest going north and includes numerous old wineries and tiny villages.

He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive, a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.

The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

* 1947 – Elizabeth " Betty " Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.

After coming to an agreement with Sigismund II Augustus and his representatives ( especially Mikołaj " the Black " Radziwiłł ), the last Livonian Master, Gotthard Kettler, secularized the Order and converted to Lutheranism.

While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.

* 1883 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the poet " gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.

In 1847 the privy council ordered all arrivals with clean bills from the Black Sea and the Levant to be admitted to free pratique, provided there had been no case of plague during the voyage ; and therewith the last remnant of the once formidable quarantine practice against plague may be said to have disappeared.

* November 3 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the Po-8 " makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.

* August 12, 1814 – In England, the last hanging under the Black Act is carried out, of William Potter for cutting down an orchard ( even the judge petitioned for reprieve ).

* July 26 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself " Black Bart " makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

* August 12 – In England, the last hanging under the Black Act is carried out, of William Potter for cutting down an orchard ( although the judge petitioned for reprieve ).

This episode is considered one of the last outbreaks of the centuries-long pandemic of plague that began with the Black Death.

The Portland GMB also hosts many social and educational events, notably Music for the Working Class, a free event that occurs on the last Wednesday of every month at the Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th St. Acts that have appeared include Brendan Phillips and Fast Rattler, David Rovics, and the unofficial band of the Portland branch, I Wobble Wobble.

One of the last projects of his life, Jakten på Odin, ' The Search for Odin ', was a sudden revision of his Odin hypothesis, in furtherance of which he initiated 2001 – 2002 excavations in Azov, Russia, near the Sea of Azov at the northeast of the Black Sea.

As Simeon the Great during the first empire, Ivan Asen II expanded the territory to the coasts of three seas ( Adriatic, Aegean and Black ), annexed Medea-the last fortress before the walls of Constantinople, unsuccessfully besieged the city in 1235 and restored the destroyed since 1018 Bulgarian Patriarchate.

His last display of explosive energy occurred on November 8, 1960 in his polemical lecture, " The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States ", delivered to students and members of the American Church in Paris.

In his last address to the General Assembly on January 9, 1963, ahead of the peaceful admission of the first Black student Harvey Gantt to Clemson University, Hollings declared: " As we meet, South Carolina is running out of courts ... this General Assembly must make clear South Carolina's choice, a government of laws rather than a government of men ... This should be done with dignity.

* Mistahi-maskwa ( recorded as Mistihui ' muskwa or as Mistahimusqua ; better known as Big Bear in English and as Gros Ours in French ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1825, son of the Ojibwa-Chief Mukitou (‘ Black Powder ’), mastered his native language, the Cree language, as well as Ojibwe language, led the last resistance to the dispersal of the Cree on many reservations and asked for a big total reserve, a revolt of the young warriors under the leadership of one of his sons in 1885 destroyed these plans, died 17 January 1888 on the Poundmaker reservation in North Battleford in Saskatchewan.

The death of the Black Prince on 8 June 1376 and the onset of Edward III's last illness at the closing of Parliament on 10 July, left Gaunt with all the reins of power.