When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

Because motion which begins and ends at discrete places would ( e.g. for Aristotle ) be incomplete.

A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??

As the South begins another school year, national and even world attention is directed at the region's slow progress toward racial equality in the public schools.

As the child addresses the shepherd in a dream, light -- in the form of the major mode -- begins to appear, and at the moment of the miracle we hear a clear and shining D major.

-- A series of high school assemblies to acquaint junior and senior students with the Junior Achievement program begins at St. Thomas Aquinas Monday.

* In the neopagan wheel of the year August begins at or near Lughnasadh ( also known as Lammas ) in the northern hemisphere and Imbolc ( also known as Candlemas ) in the southern hemisphere.

* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

The temperature at which melting begins is called the solidus, and the temperature when melting is just complete is called the liquidus.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

* Ridván begins at sunset ( Bahá ' í Faith )

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

Victorious, Carl-Magnus begins to romance Charlotte, granting her wish at last.

Act three begins with Cora at her house with her council.

The commands are executed sequentially, except as noted below ; an instruction pointer begins at the first command, and each command it points to is executed, after which it normally moves forward to the next command.

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

The conquest begins in Canaan with Jericho, followed by Ai ( central Canaan ), after which Joshua builds an altar to Yahweh at Mt Ebal ( northern Canaan ) and renews the Covenant.

Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among them in the sanctuary.

The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.

The distribution begins as a Dirac delta function, indicating that all the particles are located at the origin at time t = 0, and for increasing times they become flatter and flatter until the distribution becomes uniform in the asymptotic time limit.

Highway 17 begins at the border between Ontario and Manitoba, where a large installation greets drivers in both directions.

The process of finding qualified individuals begins with submissions from the public to the Secretary of the Order of Manitoba Advisory Council, which consists of the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench ; the Clerk of the Executive Council ; the presidents of the University of Manitoba, Brandon University, and the University of Winnipeg, each serving for rotating two year terms ; and no more than four Members of the Order of Manitoba, one of whom serves as the chairperson of the council.

Unlike in the United States, a primetime newscast in the 10: 00 p. m. timeslot is uncommon ( Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, CKND-DT, CFSK-DT and CFRE-DT, are the only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast ); conversely, pre-5 a. m. local newscasts are also uncommon in Canada, Hamilton, Ontario independent station CHCH-DT, whose weekdaily programming consists largely of local news, is currently the only station in the country that starts its weekday morning newscasts before 5: 30 a. m. ( the station's morning news block begins at 4 a. m. on weekdays ).

It begins at the western provincial border with Saskatchewan, connecting with Saskatchewan's Highway 1 to become Manitoba Trans-Canada 1.

* 1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

As a result of the dam's construction, the Nile actually begins its flow into Egypt as Lake Nasser, which extends southwards from the dam for 320 km to the border and for an additional 158 km within Sudan.

The River Jordan begins here and flows southward through Lake Hula into the Sea of Galilee in Israel, then continues south through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea on the Israeli-Jordanian border.

In hyperthyroid stare ( Dalrymple sign ) the eyelids are retracted upward more than normal ( the normal position is at the superior corneoscleral limbus, where the " white " of the eye begins at the upper border of the iris ).

* 1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

* 1989 – Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.

The Terai or Madhesh region begins at the Indian border and includes the southernmost part of the flat, intensively farmed Gangetic Plain called the Outer Terai.

Conversely, the cultural divergence at the border became sharper: in theory, a uniform French identity extends from the Atlantic coast to the Rhine, and on the other bank of the Rhine, a uniform German identity begins.

* June 15 – The so-called Pig War border dispute between the Americans and the British on the San Juan Islands begins by the death of the namesake pig.

* October 10-The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations ( India and the People's Republic of China ), begins.

* Copper extraction and casting begins in the mines of Kansanshi in southernmost Africa, at the border of Zaire and Zambia.

* April 25 – Mexican-American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas ' boundaries.

* Frontinus begins his conquest of Wales, Legio II Augusta is moved to the border of the River Usk.

* Battle of Ngasaunggyan: Burma's Pagan Empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by Kublai Khan at Yunnan near the Chinese border.

* July 25 – The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.

* 1277 – Burma's Pagan empire begins to disintegrate after being defeated by Kublai Khan at the Battle of Ngasaunggyan, at Yunnan near the Chinese border.

The border of the troposphere and stratosphere, the tropopause, is marked by where this inversion begins, which in terms of atmospheric thermodynamics is the equilibrium level.

The Walk begins at the Maine / Canada border and travels the east coast of the United States until the winner is determined.

Finnish highway 13 begins from Kokkola and runs through Finland into the Nuijamaa border crossing via Jyväskylä and Mikkeli.

Nasir-i Khusrou visited Tiberias in 1047, and describes a city with a " strong wall " which begins at the border of the lake and goes all around the town except on the water-side.

The river begins on the northern border of Liberty County, forming the San Jacinto-Polk County line through the Liberty County line.

As one travels south and gets closer to the southern border, one begins to notice limestone outcroppings become more numerous and much closer to the surface.

The city of Russell is the junction of Interstate 70, a major east-west highway through the Midwestern United States, and U. S. Route 281, which begins at the United States-Canadian border in North Dakota and ends at the U. S .- Mexican border in Texas.

Route 20 begins at an interchange with U. S. Route 46 and County Route 630 ( Crooks Avenue ) just north of the Garden State Parkway on the border of Clifton and Paterson.