On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

With the initial encouragement of Russian agents, a series of agreements was concluded between Serbia and Bulgaria in March 1912.

A thermodynamic cycle occurs when a system is taken through a series of different states, and finally returned to its initial state.

Inspired by the initial COBE results of an extremely isotropic and homogeneous background, a series of ground-and balloon-based experiments quantified CMB anisotropies on smaller angular scales over the next decade.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

A series of skirmishes then followed as the British and Indians recovered from their initial surprise.

Chapman and Douglas Adams wrote a pilot for a TV series in 1975, Out of the Trees, but it never went beyond the initial episode.

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U. S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55, 000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985.

The initial story arc of the Superman / Batman ongoing series depicts the fall of Luthor's reign as U. S. President.

The series was revived, reformatted and reimagined after its initial 1955 – 1959 run on ABC, first in 1977 for syndication, and again, from 1989 to 1995 on the Disney Channel.

After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the early years of the 21st century as a judge on the television series, American Idol, for eight years, before departing from the show.

After initial poor ratings, the show became a huge success and has been one of the most highly rated series on the network.

In the initial draft of the screenplay, the original series cast appeared in a prologue, and Guinan served as the bridge between the two generations.

Dawson's initial reaction to the script of the first-season episode " Faces " was one of doubt ; she felt that it occurred too early in the series and that she didn't know the character well enough to play her as two separate people.

The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices.

All the Sontarans depicted in the television series have monosyllabic names, many beginning with an initial ' st ' sound ( e. g. Styre ( The Sontaran Experiment ), Stor ( The Invasion of Time ), Stike ( The Two Doctors ), Staal ( The Sontaran Stratagem ), and Strax ( A Good Man Goes To War ); exceptions are Linx ( The Time Warrior ), Varl ( The Two Doctors ) Skorr ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) and Kaagh ( The Sarah Jane Adventures )).

After several failed attempts to attack government strongholds and little initial support from the local population, the National Guard nearly annihilated the Sandinistas in a series of attacks in 1963.

His initial work involved filming shorts for Pittsburgh public broadcaster WQED's children's series Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

Any finite number of initial terms of the Taylor series of a function is called a Taylor polynomial.

Publishers Kay and Ward created a series of books from each of the Noggin the Nog episodes, which were then extended into the series called Noggin First Reader, a series aimed at aiding initial reading skills.

A film version of the series was in its initial planning stages by late 1963 after series three was completed.

By 2003, the number of known Local Group members has increased from his initial twelve to thirty-six, by way of the discovery of almost two dozen low-luminosity galaxies.

From an initial twelve acres, Al-Fayed has since built the estate up to sixty five thousand acres.

The initial projected figure was twelve million

An asymptomatic incubation period occurs nine to twelve days from initial exposure and infectivity lasts from two to four days prior, until two to five days following the onset of the rash ( i. e. four to nine days infectivity in total ).

Ten of the initial Justices of the Supreme Court were ten of the twelve then existing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( Law Lords ).

During the initial interview on May 30th 2011, Burke explained on Liveline that she had " a tape somewhere around but I cant find it, its twelve years old and I don't know whether it would be viable now ".

The initial scale of thirteen classes ( zero to twelve ) did not reference wind speed numbers but related qualitative wind conditions to effects on the sails of a man-of-war, then the main ship of the Royal Navy, from " just sufficient to give steerage " to " that which no canvas sails could withstand ".

July 30, 1970: A large-scale dogfight occurs between Israeli and Soviet aircraft, codenamed Rimon 20, involving twelve to twenty-four Soviet MiG-21s ( besides the initial twelve, other MiGs are " scrambled ", but it is unclear if they reach the battle in time ), and twelve Israeli Dassault Mirage IIIs and four F-4 Phantom II jets.

The initial release included a twelve inch single containing four Fad Gadget tracks.

In 1957 the Sisters of Mercy created the Maricourt Catholic High School with all students initially taught in Quarry Brook House with an initial intake of only twelve girls.

An initial dose provides protection starting two to four weeks after vaccination ; the second booster dose, given six to twelve months later, provides protection for over twenty years.

46 trains were built-the initial twelve in France by Alstom, the remainder in South Korea by Rotem.

The twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into English regularly since even before its initial publication in Spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by Hoffman Reynolds Hays in The Tiger's Eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of New York from 1947 – 1949, and followed closely by a translation by Waldeen in 1950 in a pamphlet called Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems for a Marxist publishing house in New York.

At full extension of the twelve suspension lines, the drogue deployment bag is stripped away from the canopy, and the diameter conical ribbon drogue parachute inflates to its initial reefed condition.

Despite the initial hype and critical praise, total sales for Elbow Beach were weaker than the previous two productions, and the album peaked at number twelve.

The Air Force carried out more than twelve sorties against Pakistani targets and was quite successful during the initial stages of the Indian attack in early December.

The initial release featured fifteen tracks ; twelve in total had previously been recorded by Wednesday 13 with Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 and one from an earlier band Maniac Spider Trash, 13 did however write all of the aforementioned tracks himself.

There were twelve initial volumes released by Bantam, those being published between 1987 and 1993, before the series switched publishers, going to Baen, which released three new volumes between 1993 and 1995 ; then it was on to a third, iBooks, which published two new volumes and also reprinted the first six, all between 2002 and 2006 ; then it was on to its fourth and current publisher, Tor in 2008, that continues the series and has issued four new volumes, with a new one likely forthcoming in late 2012.

It initially came with twelve missions, but later Steam updates added six additional missions that were cut from the initial release.

None of the poems has a title or divisions of chapters, but the breaks are marked by large initial letters of blue, and there are twelve illustrations ( or illuminations ) contained within the manuscript, depicting scenes from the four poems.

The initial castle was probably a large motte and bailey design, copying the design of the castle that D ' Oyly had already built twelve miles away at Wallingford.

The initial twelve chapters deals with topics related to mathematical astronomy and covers the topics that Indian mathematicians of that period had already worked on.

The Commissioning the twelve Apostles relates the initial selection of the twelve Apostles among the disciples of Jesus.