It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

* Sigismund Bell, the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel Cathedral in the Polish city of Kraków

* Workers ' United Center of Chile trade unionists from Chile's five largest labor confederations.

It is the second largest of Connacht ’ s five counties in both size and population.

* Ceres ( dwarf planet ), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid

Together they are ranked by many scientists as the second largest of the five major extinctions in Earth's history in terms of percentage of genera that went extinct.

On 10 July 1721 Telemann was invited to work in Hamburg as Kantor of the Johanneum Lateinschule and musical director of the city's five largest churches, succeeding Joachim Gerstenbüttel.

Roatán, the largest of the three islands, is fifty kilometers long by five kilometers wide.

High-density lipoprotein ( HDL ) is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins, which, in order of sizes, largest to smallest, are chylomicrons, VLDL, IDL, LDL, and HDL, which enable lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides to be transported within the water-based bloodstream.

The largest harpsichords have a range of just over five octaves and the smallest have under four.

The world's five largest IKEA stores are:

Karachi especially after the 1970s has emerged as one of the largest Pashtun cities in the world with its Pashtun population estimated to be around five to seven million which is more than Peshawar, Kabul or Kandahar easily.

In May 1975, Led Zeppelin played five sold-out nights at the Earls Court Arena in London, at the time the largest arena in Britain.

Lake Erie (; ) is the fourth largest lake ( by surface area ) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally.

The banking sector is highly concentrated with the five largest banks accounting for over 70 % of lending in 2002.

* 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history.

* Jamrich Hall contains five large lecture halls, the largest holding up to 500 students, and numerous smaller classrooms.

The largest Polybian work was, of course, his Histories, of which only the first five books survive entirely intact, along with a large portion of the sixth book and fragments of the rest.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

It is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

According to statute, Qing society was divided into relatively closed estates, of which in most general terms there were five.

When it was a Danish possession, the islands were divided into " quarters " ( five quarters on St. John and nine on St. Croix ) which were further divided into many dozens of " estates ".

Between 1844 and 1848, five estates were purchased, subdivided, and built on, and then settled by lucky shareholders, who were chosen by lot.

Jan. 29, 1837 — An association of five including Jacques Picquet, Joseph Picquet, Joseph Schifferstein, Charles Hoffman and Joseph Picquet was formed with the intent of the organization to be the acquisition and development of land in the United States so that they could build their own estates, free of oppression.

Whatever the reason, Odo spent the next five years in prison, and his English estates were taken back by the king, as was his office as Earl of Kent: Odo was not however deposed as Bishop of Bayeux.

Of the five million Hungarians, 40, 000 were nobles, of whom 4, 000 were magnates who owned and ruled the land ; most of the remainder were serfs legally tied to particular estates.

Provision was made for small shopping areas of four or five stores to be located in the centre of the estates.

Yarm has five estates and the peninsular area where the town centre is situated.

As he had no male issue, his estates passed to the Tolstoy family ( one of his five daughters, Praskovia, had married Matvei Feodorovich Tolstoy ).

On the death of Maurice in 1625 without legitimate issue, Frederick Henry succeeded him in his paternal dignities and estates, and also in the stadtholderates of the five provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Overijssel and Guelders, and in the important posts of captain and admiral-general of the Union ( commander-in-chief of the Dutch States Army and of the Dutch navy ).

The Congregation has its origin in the successful mission to the common people conducted by Saint Vincent de Paul and five other priests on the estates of the Gondi family.

The John Lewis Partnership has a very extensive programme of social activities for its partners, including two large country estates with parklands, playing fields and tennis courts ; a golf club ; a sailing club with five cruising yachts and two country hotels offering holiday accommodation for the partners.

Society is organized into five " estates " or social groups: captains, recorders ( scribes ), commons ( by far the most numerous ), servants, and magicians or poets ( the least numerous ), which are analogized to the five fingers of a hand.

In the neighborhood are five large sugar estates, a milk condensary and a large textile mill.

New housing estates have developed in the last five years, including the Peninsula Sands Estate in Rosebud South, which is home to many young families.

A superficial change is that since 1855, when only five of the estates were styled with the word " château " in their name, most Bordeaux wine estates now use this nomenclature.

He developed the mineral resources of these estates, building ( probably ) five blast furnaces on them.

There is only one major and five mini industrial estates in the district.

By the time of the survey of the Bishop ’ s estates in 1298 about five hundred people lived in the village, mainly craftsmen or engaged in agriculture.

Matthew married Christina Nicol in 1817 and had three daughters and five sons, one of whom took over the German farmland estates in Schleswig-Holstein.

Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 Willoughby consisted of five small estates.

New estates were built to the east of Broseley centre, whilst many older properties were developed or renovated, but the town is still less populated now than it would have been two hundred years ago, when population figures were over five thousand.