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.

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 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.

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

Sixteenth notes are played between the two notes, and the same note is played two octaves or two octaves and a second higher with no rest.

In the American Civil War, he enlisted on July 3, 1861, in Company C, Sixteenth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served until July 16, 1865, with the rank of second lieutenant.

The first set includes the volumes “ The Middle Ages ,” “ The Sixteenth Century and The Early Seventeenth Century ,” and “ Restoration and the Eighteenth Century ;” the second set includes “ The Romantic Period ,” “ The Victorian Age ,” and “ The Twentieth Century and After .” The writings are arranged by author, with each author presented chronologically by date of birth.

Because it consists of the views developed by a number of scientists and philosophers during the second quarter of the 20th Century, there is no definitive statement of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Stages were very important in the 19th and early 20th century as they were the major tool available for dating rock beds until the development of seismology and radioactive dating in the second half of the 20th Century.

As archaeological discoveries revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom in the second half of the 19th Century, Archibald Henry Sayce postulated, rather than to be compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization " worthy of comparison to the divided Kingdom of Egypt ", and was " infinitely more powerful than that of Judah ".

* 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century.

Unitarian churches were formally established in Transylvania and Poland ( by the Socinians ) in the second half of the 16th Century.

The museum's director general, Dr Michael Fopp, stated the goal was " people will leave feeling better informed about what happened in the second half of the 20th Century.

* February 9 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.

Crossover Poetics or the combining of traditional and avant-garde in creating the play is the main subject in the second edition " New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century " ( Routledge 2012 ).

Though European mariners, such as John Cabot and Alonso Sanchez in the 15th Century and the Norse 500 years still earlier, explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence the first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, during his second trip to Canada in 1535, with the help of Iroquoian chief Donnacona's two sons.

By the second half of the 16th Century, the political voice of citizens was nearly totally suppressed.

By the second half of the 17th Century, the government was run by a small group of patricians.

The Forrest family had migrated to Tennessee from Virginia, via North Carolina, during the second half of the 18th Century, while the Beck family had moved from South Carolina to Tennessee around the same time.

He began writing what would become his second novel in 1893, using various contemporary and written accounts ( such as those published previously by Century Magazine ) as inspiration.

He is considered to be one of the greatest Thoroughbreds of all time, ranking second behind Man o ' War in The Blood-Horse's List of the Top 100 U. S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.

The second plant started operations in 1998 and is operated by Norðurál, a wholly owned subsidiary of U. S .- based Century Aluminium Company.

Principal outdoor photography for The Day the Earth Stood Still was shot on the 20th Century Fox sound stages and on its studio back lot ( now located in Century City, California ), with a second unit shooting background plates and other scenes in Washington.

The Modern Library named it the second best English-language novel of the 20th Century.

The second was a 20th Century Fox movie filmed in 1966 as the pilot for an unsold television series.

Owyhee County's history is inextricably linked to the mining boom that dominated Idaho Territory in the second half of the 19th Century.

This economic activity peaked during World War II and declined through the second half of the Twentieth Century.

Cornelius appears in the second part of Alan Moore's three-part comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.

The Ottoman Empire embarked on a systematic land reform programme in the second half of the 19th Century.

It was won by Argentina ( their second title, after also winning in 1978 ), led by Diego Maradona who scored the infamous " Hand of God goal ", and also a goal voted as " Goal of the Century ", in the same quarter-final against England.