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.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

The story begins through the eyes of Larry ’ s friends and acquaintances as they witness his personality change after the War.

The story of Shenmue begins on November 29, 1986, in the perspective of the protagonist Ryo Hazuki ( 芭月 涼 Hazuki Ryō ) returning home to his family dojo to witness his father, Iwao Hazuki, battling with a tall, ominous man dressed in a green silk Kung-Fu suit known as Lan Di.

* BBC's Making History programme, portion on the Battle Of Cable Street begins at the 11: 18 mark, and includes interview with a witness

** Testatum-a command to witness which acknowledges the payment and receipt of the consideration and signals the beginning of the operative part ; usually begins with " Now this Deed witnesseth "

Power Rangers Zeo begins immediately after the events of Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers where Tommy Oliver and the other Rangers witness the destruction of the Command Center.

The lollipop made its debut in the Season 1 episode " Dark Sunday ", broadcast on December 12, 1973: Kojak lights a cigarette as he begins questioning a witness, but thinks better of it and sticks a lollipop ( specifically, a Tootsie Pop ) in his mouth instead.

The poem begins with a mock-epic opening ( as had Pope's Rape of the Lock and as had Dryden's MacFlecknoe ), calling all the muses to witness the glory of Philips's prosodic reform:

He then overpowers Scully ( who is again frozen by claustrophobia ) and begins to bury him as he confesses his scheme, which was to set Scully up as a witness when Gloria is murdered by the " Indian ," thereby giving Sam an alibi.

The game is notable as gameplay begins before the actual murder occurs, which the player can witness in different ways due to their actions.

After Asia and Panthea are overwhelmed by their surroundings and witness the acts of nature around the mountains, a Song of Spirits begins, calling them " To the deep, to the deep ,/ Down, down!

Soon after, Sachiko is witness to a gang war between cyborgs and is in danger when something unseen begins attacking the cyborgs and disabling them via removal of their cybernetic limbs.

Blood Fever begins with a prologue during which a young girl named Amy Goodenough is aboard her father's yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean when she becomes witness to a band of pirates under the command of Zoltan the Magyar who board the yacht.

Two passing Draags witness the exodus, and one begins crushing the Oms underfoot.

* Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ( 2011 film ) is a film where a man, his girlfriend, and his daughter, respectively, moving into a 19th century Rhode Island mansion, where his withdrawn daughter begins to witness malevolent creatures that emerge from a sealed ash pit in the basement of the house.

The oath of office of the President of the United States is an oath or affirmation required by the United States Constitution before the President begins the execution of the office.

In tone and approach, this section is reminiscent of the Augsburg Confession, a 1530 document written primarily by Philip Melanchthon throughout which he had maintained a strong emphasis that the reforming movement was no new sect or cult and had added no new or heretical doctrines: “ Our churches dissent in no article of the faith from the Church Catholic, but only omit some abuses which are new, and which have been erroneously accepted by the corruption of the times .” In this spirit, the Apology begins its statement of doctrine in its second section with an exposition and affirmation of the Nicene Creed.

Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.

He stays inactive for half the summer in front of Oczakov, a quite second-rate spot, begins to besiege it formally only during the autumn rains, and finally carries it by assault in the heart of winter.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

Rangoni begins by describing the sad state of the Church ; ;

Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.

Once the grains are ground, vitamin E begins to deteriorate immediately and half of it is lost by oxidation and exposure to the air within one week.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

In reincarnation, spiritual development continues after death as the deceased begins another earthly life in the physical world, acquiring a superior grade of consciousness and altruism by means of successive reincarnations.

* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

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.

* 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U. S. history, begins.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.

The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.

* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

* 1901 – The U. S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.

The rite begins with a greeting by the priest, followed by sprinkling of all present with holy water, if deemed desirable, and a short instruction.

The rite begins with reading Psalm 50 ( the great penitential psalm ), followed by the chanting of a special canon.

Thus, in Steiner's view, we can overcome the subject-object divide through inner activity, even though all human experience begins by being conditioned by it.