Usually the third to the eighth waves in the series are the biggest.

Although it is the third element in the transuranic series, it was discovered fourth, after the heavier curium.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

In 2003, Cuarón directed the third film in the successful Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.

Watterson opposed the structure publishers imposed on Sunday newspaper cartoons: the standard cartoon starts with a large, wide rectangle featuring the cartoon's logo or a throwaway panel tangential to the main area so that newspapers pressed for space can remove the top third of the cartoon if they wish ; the rest of the strip is presented in a series of rectangles of different widths.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

* In the third UK series, " Big Brother " set live tasks for the housemates on a Saturday night in order to win treats ; this was used until Series 5 of the program.

* In November 2007, it emerged that more than £ 400, 000 had been accepted by the Labour Party from one person through a series of third parties, causing the Electoral Commission to seek an explanation.

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in his Dune universe.

After hiring Buddy Bell as the club's third manager, O ' Dowd proceeded to make a series of offseason deals that would change the face of the franchise.

Clark also developed a method of rapidly spinning into his costume at super speed which became a trademark change, especially during the third and fourth seasons of the series, and extremely popular with the show's fans.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly-developed electronic publishing tools ( especially those that provided input to phototypesetters ) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.

Element 105 is projected to be the third member of the 6d series of transition metals and the heaviest member of group V in the Periodic Table, below vanadium, niobium and tantalum.

: In April 2009, a third series was announced for broadcast later in 2009.

The clip is incorporated into the series ' opening credit sequence from the third season onward.

During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.

They advanced to the third round of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs after defeating the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks both in six games, coming back three straight after the Sharks ' 2 – 1 series lead.

After Disney acquired Saban during the third series, the first three series moved to the cable network ABC Family, while the fourth ( Frontier ) premiered on UPN.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

This third choice was in fact made.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).

In late 1957 the M.P. ( Mouvement Populaire ) appeared and in the spring of 1958 the internal strains of the Istiqlal was revealed when the third Council of Government under Balafrej was formed without support from progressive elements in the party.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

A third wrote that it was `` raining like poring peas on a rawhide ''.

On the third floor one of the two windows was lighted ; ;

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.