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 modern discovery of Babylonia and Assyria begins with excavations in Nineveh in 1845, which revealed the Library of Ashurbanipal.

The known history of Mauritius begins with its discovery by Europeans and its appearance on maps in the early 16th century.

As discussed in Wolk v. Olson, the discovery rule does not apply to mass-media publications such as newspapers and the Internet ; the statute of limitations begins to run at the date of publication.

The recorded history of Cape Verde begins with Portuguese discovery in 1456, but possible early references go back around 2000 years.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale begins with the discovery of a footlocker full of cassette tapes in the ruins of what was once Bangor, a prominent way-station on " The Underground Femaleroad " in the dystopic Republic of Gilead.

Ptolemy explains Hipparchus ' discovery of the precession of the equinoxes and begins explaining the theory of epicycles.

Christine begins to notice that Rhoda is acting strangely after one of her classmates mysteriously drowns, and eventually makes a horrible discovery: Rhoda killed the boy, and will almost certainly kill again.

An idealistic young physicist, Lamont, while writing a history of the Pump, comes into conflict with Hallam and begins to question the official history of its discovery.

The Deep Blue Sea begins with the discovery by her neighbours of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide.

Porto Velho's modern history begins with the discovery of cassiterite around the city, and of gold on the Madeira River, at the end of the 1950s.

With this discovery, geologists finally pinpointed the southern terminus of this ancient river system whose southerly flow begins near Georgian Bay.

The novel begins about one month after the discovery in the cluster as Streaker arrives on the planet Kithrup in an attempt to hide and make repairs.

It begins with the child's grade of discovery, followed by extensive training and service.

In contrast to traditional methods of drug discovery, which rely on trial-and-error testing of chemical substances on cultured cells or animals, and matching the apparent effects to treatments, rational drug design begins with a hypothesis that modulation of a specific biological target may have therapeutic value.

Marcia Moore and Mark Douglas promoted the view that, although no one knows when the Aquarian Age begins, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the discovery of electricity are all attributable to the Aquarian Age.

The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.

After that, the main discovery process begins which includes: initial disclosures, depositions, interrogatories, request for admissions ( RFA ) and request for production of documents ( RFP ).

The " Caramuru " of Santa Rita Durão begins with the discovery of Bahia and contains, in a succession of pictures, the early history of Brazil.

The plot begins with the discovery of an intelligent alien species on a planet orbiting an anomalous star, dubbed On / Off because for 215 of every 250 years it is dormant, releasing almost no energy.

When Pandora's body is discovered walled up in the cathedral the Banshi begins killing all those involved in the discovery to hide its shame.

X-23 begins her journey towards self discovery.

Initially frightened by the discovery, he begins to assist rebuilding and reprogramming the Sentinel.

A police detective, pondering a rash of unexplained suicides and murder-suicides occurring since the discovery of travel to parallel universes, begins to realize that if all possible choices that might be made are actually made in parallel universes, people will see their freedom of choice as meaningless.

Following the adventures of " The Great Rumble Hunt " in the first volume of the trilogy, the second volume begins with the surviving adventurers ' discovery that Sam the horse is still alive.