The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.

In 1226, the crown was passed to rival Het ' umids through Queen Zabel's second husband, He ' tum I.

Her second round score of 1226 was the best score of any archer in either round and was enough to put her well above the competition as well as set a new world record.

* Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, ( 1211 x 1212 – 1226 x 1233 ), married Isabel, second daughter of David of Scotland

Andrew was the second son of King Béla III and his first wife, Agnes of Antioch.

On 14 May 1234, Andrew, who had lost his second wife in the previous year, married Beatrice D ' Este, who was thirty years younger than himself.

This made Clinton only the second U. S. president to be impeached ( the first being Andrew Johnson ).

The Colts used their number one overall draft pick in 2012 to draft Stanford Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck and would also draft his teammate Coby Fleener in the second round .. Also, the Colts will switch to a 3-4 defensive scheme.

That record remained unbroken until 7 August 2005 when Andrew Flintoff scored five in the first innings and four in the second innings of the second Test at Edgbaston, and again until 12 September 2005, when Kevin Pietersen hit seven sixes in the second innings of the last Test at The Oval.

* 1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew " Sandy " Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.

As of April 2012, Lynch's approval rating was again above 70 % making him the second most popular Governor in the United States, behind New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

While kings might patronise great Saints, such as Saint Peter in the case of Nechtan, and perhaps Saint Andrew in the case of the second Óengus mac Fergusa, many lesser Saints, some now obscure, were important.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

* March 4 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term ; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President.

* February 19 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York, British prince and second son of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh

* March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.

His second wife, Margaret, remarried to Andrew Ker, one of those involved in the murder of David Rizzio.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

The current duke is The Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II.

A second BBC audio version was produced in 1984 and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in February 2009 starring Andrew Sachs as Captain Bluntschli and Gary Bonds as Major Saranoff.

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.

Meanwhile, both Sting's and Summers ' marriages failed ( Sting settled down with new partner Trudie Styler, whom he later married, while Summers, after a brief relationship which produced a son, Andrew Jr., re-married his second wife Kate ).

Salopek won his second Pulitzer for the Tribune in 2001 for international reporting, and that same year an explanatory reporting team — lead writers of which were Louise Kiernan, Jon Hilkevitch, Laurie Cohen, Robert Manor, Andrew Martin, John Schmeltzer, Alex Rodriguez and Andrew Zajac — won the honor for a profile of the chaotic U. S. air traffic system.