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.

The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to the sidelines of the field, its ends marking each team's line of scrimmage in American football ; in Canadian football line of scrimmage of the team without the ball is 1 yard past their side of the ball.

* August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence ( back to England from France whilst on campaign ), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.

* The Mauryan king Ashoka the Great is dedicated to the propagation of Buddhism and begins establishing monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.

Director Basil Colemen initially felt that the play should be filmed over the course of a year, with the change in seasons from winter to summer marking the ideological change in characters, but he was forced to shoot entirely in May, even though the play begins in winter.

As he learns to relate to the crew, he stops licking them and marking his territory, and even begins to show genuine concern for others on several occasions.

* The Irish potato famine begins, marking a change in the composition of Irish immigrating to Canada from mostly rich, well-connected, respectable Protestants to vastly poor, ill-equipped, poorly-treated Catholics.

The act of marking livestock with fire-heated marks to identify ownership begins in ancient times, with use dating back to the ancient Egyptians.

An earthquake's hypocenter is the position where the strain energy stored in the rock is first released, marking the point where the fault begins to rupture.

** Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484.

At the exit for Route 34, I-195 ends and Route 138 begins, but the highway and exit numbering continue onto Route 138, marking the interchange with the Garden State Parkway as Exit 36.

Such a celebration begins with attendance at the divine services marking that day ( in the Russian tradition, the All-Night Vigil and Divine Liturgy ), and usually with a festive party thereafter.

* April 21, a Holy year begins marking the centenary of the death of Bahá ' u ' lláh.

While the Turin Canon gives Sekhemkhet a reign of 6 years, Toby Wilkinson's reconstruction of the Palermo Stone ( 5th dynasty ) annal document assigns a reign of 7 years to this king based on the number of year register preserved for him in Cairo Fragment I, register V. Wilkinson states that " this figure is fairly certain, since the titulary begins immediately after the dividing line marking the change of reign.

The gardening team begins constructing Floriade from the ground up, marking out garden beds and installing the important

* 1010: Korea begins carving its own woodblock print edition of the Buddhist canon.

If he begins to run too soon, the pitcher may throw to a base rather than to home — in this case, the runner is picked off, and will most likely be tagged out.

*" Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Jesus travels to Jerusalem, and the opposition intensifies: he is tested by Pharisees immediately he begins to move towards the city, and when he arrives he is soon in conflict with the Temple and other religious leaders.

Heather Duke soon steps into Heather Chandler's former role as clique leader and begins wearing a red scrunchie that had belonged to Chandler.

* 64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control.

Actinidin also makes raw kiwifruit unsuitable for use in desserts containing milk or any other dairy products which are not going to be served within hours, because the enzyme soon begins to digest milk proteins.

As soon as the person has died the priest begins The Office After the Departure of the Soul From the Body ( also known as The First Pannikhida ).

The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.

The narrator takes it home, but soon begins to loathe, even fear the creature.

Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon thereafter begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system.

* July 19 – Great fire of Rome: A fire begins in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control, while emperor Nero allegedly plays his lyre and sings as he watches the blaze from a safe distance.

* Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena ( the Parthenon ) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.

* August 31 – Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall ; his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.

* The church in the French city of Reims burns down ; soon after, construction begins on the Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral.

The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins ( and only begins ) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again.

The nanoscale civilization they construct soon begins to transform Ulam, then others.

Leto has decided otherwise, and soon begins the long transformation into a sandworm.

* Nero Claudius Drusus begins a campaign against the Marcomanni, but died soon after a fall from his horse.

He struggles through the early rounds but he soon begins to win again as his relationship with Katkov becomes closer and intimate.

After the cessation of this first round of persecution ( fitna ) they return home, but soon a second round begins.

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Tereus does so, but he soon begins to lust after Philomela.

A bagworm begins to build its case as soon as it hatches.