and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first half of the story.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.

Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.

In 1880, a stretch of Broadway between Union Square and Madison Square was illuminated by Brush arc lamps, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

* In the first story arc of Dynamite Entertainment's revamp of Vampirella, a villainous vampire named Le Fanu inhabits the basement of a Seattle nightclub named Carmilla.

The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century.

One of the first electronic oscillators was an oscillating arc built by Elihu Thomson in 1892.

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

Among its results were determinations of the lunar and of the solar parallax ( Mars serving as an intermediary ), the first measurement of a South African arc of the meridian, and the observation of 10, 000 southern stars.

King wrote the background history of the very first American vampire, Skinner Sweet, in the first five-issues story arc.

The episodes ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved very unpopular among the show's viewers during the first three seasons.

Other possible plans for the season included: an episode showing the construction of the first starbase ; a Borg Queen origins story with Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who makes contact with the Borg from Season 2's " Regeneration " and becomes the Borg Queen, and a Mirror Universe arc spanning four or five episodes.

In Ultimate X-Men, the Sentinels, created by the Ultimate Marvel version of Bolivar Trask, were already in action at the beginning of the first story arc, hunting down and killing mutants on the streets, in a program apparently openly and publicly acknowledged by the U. S. government.

When it was destroyed in the first arc of Ultimate X-Men, the computer controlling the base gained self-awareness, and hijacked the genetic experiment project to create an army of nanotech-enhanced, zombie-like thralls.

The Limpopo River flows in a great arc, first zigzagging north and then northeast, then turning east and finally southeast.

The first quantity indicates the direction of the proper motion on the celestial sphere ( with 0 degrees meaning the motion is due north, 90 degrees meaning the motion is due east, and so on ), and the second quantity gives the motion's magnitude, in seconds of arc per year.

These parallels end after the first few books, when the stories of the books begin to be structured along a loose plot arc involving the struggles of the city-state of Ar and the island of Cos to control the Vosk river area, as well as the struggles at a higher level between non-human Priest-Kings and Kurii ( another alien race ) to control the solar system.

* 1800-1803 Humphry Davy remarks first carbon arc when using Voltaic piles ( Batteriey ) for his electrolse experiments.

* 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris.

* 1893 GE introduces first commercial fully enclosed carbon arc lamp.

* 1809 — Humphry Davy first publicly demonstrates the electric arc light.

In the first definition, the curvature of a circle is equal to the ratio of the angle of an arc to its length.

The concept of carbon-arc lighting was first demonstrated by Sir Humphry Davy in the early 19th century ( 1802, 1805, 1807 and 1809 are all mentioned ), using charcoal sticks and a 2000-cell battery to create an arc across a gap.

Historically, elliptic functions were first discovered by Carl Gustav Jacobi as inverse functions of elliptic integrals ; these in turn were studied in connection with the problem of the arc length of an ellipse, whence the name derives.