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:

The five largest estates are Blawan ( also spelled Belawan or Blauan ), Jampit ( or Djampit ), Pancoer ( or Pancur ), Kayumas and Tugosari, and they cover more than 4, 000 hectares < noinclude ></ noinclude >

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.

James L. Richardson identified five central themes in Locke's writing: individualism, consent, the concepts of the rule of law and government as trustee, the significance of property, and religious toleration.

He was imprisoned in Lancaster for five months, during which he wrote to the king offering advice on governance: Charles should refrain from war and domestic religious persecution, and discourage oath-taking, plays, and maypole games.

Parliament enacted laws which forbade non-Anglican religious meetings of more than five people, essentially making Quaker meetings illegal.

Historic sites of religious importance which have been destroyed by the Saudis include five of the renowned " Seven Mosques " initially built by Muhammad's daughter and four of his " greatest Companions ": Masjid Abu Bakr, Masjid Salman al-Farsi, Masjid Umar ibn al-Khattab, Masjid Sayyida Fatima bint Rasulullah and Masjid Ali ibn Abu Talib.

The five classical planets, being visible to the naked eye, have been known since ancient times, and have had a significant impact on mythology, religious cosmology, and ancient astronomy.

On 10 October – five days after the inauguration of the Republic – the new government decreed that all convents, monasteries and all religious orders were to be suppressed.

Vivekananda travelled extensively in India for five years, visiting centres of learning, acquainting himself with the diverse religious traditions and different patterns of social life.

The Corporation Act 1661 required municipal officeholders to swear allegiance ; the Act of Uniformity 1662 made the use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer compulsory ; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except under the auspices of the Church of England ; and the Five Mile Act 1665 prohibited clergymen from coming within five miles ( 8 km ) of a parish from which they had been banished.

The Buddhists pushed for a five point agreement: freedom to fly religious flags, an end to arbitrary arrests, compensation for the Huế victims, punishment for the officials responsible and religious equality.

The Chinese government protects five " patriotic ", Communist Party-sanctioned religious groups.

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

He may also be the deacon John to whom Boethius dedicated three of his five religious tractates written between 512 and 520.

The sanguineous religious / political conflict known as " The Troubles " had been raging across Northern Ireland for over five years by this stage, and many young men such as Wright would be swept up in the maelstrom of violence as the Provisional IRA ramped up its bombing campaign and sectarian killings continued to escalate.

Cranach first made an engraving of Luther in 1520, when Luther was an Augustinian friar ; five years later, Luther renounced his religious vows, and Cranach was present as a witness at the betrothal festival of Luther and Katharina von Bora.

He was a plump, bald, ebullient southerner who had once served five years in a prison on a charge of exposing himself before a group of children and was now the head of a religious diploma mill in Florida and of a seedy, flat-roofed stucco church called the Church of Holy Love, Incorporated.

In April 1989, Jeffrey Lundgren, a religious extremist, coerced some in his cult into murdering a family of five and hiding their bodies in a pit dug inside a barn, on Chardon Road ( U. S. 6 ).

* kosher – Yinglish, not in its religious or Yiddish meanings, but only in five slang senses: authentic, trustworthy, legitimate, fair, and approved by a higher source.

The real marvels are inside the building: the statue of Christ on the main altar, made from corn dough by the Tarasco Mexican Indians, brought here before 1550, the Flemish Gothic main altar, which dates back to before 1516, and the triptych of the Virgin Mary, brought from Flanders, also in the 16th century, depicting five religious scenes.

The handling of the operation, damage to the Akal Takht ( which is one of the five seats of temporal physical religious authority of the Sikhs ) and loss of life on both sides, led to widespread criticism of the Indian Government.

She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana ( Foote ), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old.

In 57 – 55 BCE, Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Samaria, and Judea, with five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin ( Greek: συνέδριον, " synedrion "): " And when he had ordained five councils ( συνέδρια ), he distributed the nation into the same number of parts.