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.

Midi Garth also believes in subjective continuity that begins with the feeling engendered by an initial movement.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

The 34 arrows, denoting onset age plus completion age deviations, have been arrayed in an Onset sequence which begins with girl 18 who had the earliest Onset of the 34 girls.

And just as domination today often begins with the wife, so the cure generally must lie with the husband.

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

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

By contrast, a good deal of nuclear pacifism begins with the contingencies and the probabilities, and not with the moral nature of the action to be done ; ;

This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The author begins this volume with a close-up of Mr. Kennedy, his family and his entourage waiting for the returns.

Dr. Bonnor begins with a discussion of the relativistic theories of the universe, based on the general theory of relativity.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

A rigorous treatment of any of these topics begins with a specification of these axioms.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

* The Abensberger events calendar begins in February with the Faschingsgillamoos funfair, which reaches its high point on Mad Thursday.

Immediately upon landing on the planet's surface, the General begins his rampage and his droid army turns Dathomir into a battlefield.

The Buzz droid moves over to Anakin's window, and after being removed by Anakin's windshield wipers, the droid lands on the craft's engine and begins to cut into it.

Ross begins dating an English woman named Emily ( Helen Baxendale ), and the season finale features their wedding in London.

The Death of Klinghoffer ( 1991 ): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew.

It is named from the city Motala where it begins.

The Colorado forest, named for the large Colorado tree ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), begins above the tabonuco forest and extends up to about.

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basil's ultimate muse.

Although Damiel and Cassiel are pure observers, visible only to children, and incapable of any physical interaction with our world, Damiel begins to fall in love with a profoundly lonely circus trapeze artist named Marion.

Before the game begins, we are told that Julie has previously killed a tyrant and " would-be God " named Lord Tyler ( during the events of Heavy Metal 2000 ), and brought the remnant of her people to a planet called Eden.

Užgavėnės begins on the night before Ash Wednesday, when an effigy of winter ( usually named Morė ) is burnt.

* Richard FitzNeal is named Treasurer of the Exchequer of England, and begins writing a handbook for the division, his Dialogus de Scaccario.

He begins at first to " sell " some of his clothes, and then to " pawn " his remaining clothes, and then searches for work with a Russian waiter named Boris — work as a porter at Les Halles, work as an English teacher and restaurant work.

The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

The story begins as a Raymond Chandler pastiche, and follows a private investigator named Clyde Umney as he goes about what he thinks is just another morning in 1930s Los Angeles.

As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years.

The race features a nag named Beetlebaum, who begins at long odds, runs the race a distant last — and yet suddenly emerges as the winner.

The family has a dog named Astro, who talks with an initial consonant mutation in which every word begins with an " R ", as if speaking with a growl.

Meanwhile, Larry begins a sojourn through Europe, taking a job at a coal mine in Lens, France, where he befriends a former Polish army officer named Kosti.

But months pass with no sign of a child, and the court begins to know about the affair ; as well the rampant rumors concerning Catherine's past indiscretions with both Dereham and a music teacher named Henry Mannox.

That night, Canton begins recruiting men to kill the named settlers.

Because heliacal rising occurs in the east, and the sun's heat begins there daily, Sopdu was referred to as Lord of the East, and had his greatest cult centre at the easternmost nome of Lower Egypt, which was named Per-Sopdu, meaning place of Sopdu.

Encolpius ' slave, a boy named Giton, is apparently at Encolpius ' lodging when the story begins.

* 542-Julian ( or Julianus ) from Constantinople begins evangelizing Nubia, accompanied by an Egyptian named Theodore

Hermleigh's history begins in 1907 when a townsite was surveyed on land donated by two men named R. C. Herm and Harry W. Harlin near the small community of Wheat.

" Sometime before the series begins, Dawn becomes a giant, which Buffy believes is the result of losing her virginity to a " thricewise demon " named Kenny.

The game begins with a briefing between a bald anonymous executive ( in later games named Dravis ) of the Post Terran Minerals Corporation ( PTMC ) and the player, a " Material Defender " ( revealed as MD1032 in the briefings, also using the callsign " Vertigo-1 ") hired on a mercenary basis to eliminate the threat of an alien computer virus infecting the robots used for off-world mining operations.

* 1748: Building of Sveaborg ( Fortress of Svea / Sweden-Swedish ), later to be named Suomenlinna in 1918 ( Fortress of Finland-Finnish ), begins under command of Augustin Ehrensvärd.