* Tanchuma or Yelammedenu ( ninth century ) on the whole Pentateuch ; its homilies often consist of a Halachic introduction, followed by several poems, exposition of the opening verses, and the Messianic conclusion.

This opening reverted back to having the men and women sing two different verses, but they were re-shot.

The 1983 film, " Getting Sam Home ", used those two verses, with an additional two and played them over the opening credits.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

Unlike the studio version – which winds down after the instrumental break with a plaintive rendition of the third verse, accompanied by a banjo – in live performances the opening verses of " Bluebird " served as a springboard for an extended jam session, during which Stills, Young and Furay intertwined guitars for minutes on end.

The opening verses of the Carmen as would be expected, are devoted to honouring Janus and were thus named versus ianuli.

The opening two verses are presented in G-flat major, the solos and the fourth verse in B-flat minor ( the key in which the recitative was originally stated ), and the duet in A-flat major.

Law 1928 ) required that " t least ten verses from the Holy Bible read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day.

This took place during a ceremony in which various Scriptural extracts were quoted, including, most particularly, the opening verses of the Gospel of John.

Using English as an example, we would be hard-pressed to find rhyme or even meter in the opening verses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in Middle English, if we were to pronounce the words of that poem as we pronounce their direct descendants in Modern English.

Apart from enlarged and sometimes slightly elaborated initials opening the Ammonian sections ( the contemporary equivalent of the modern division into verses ), and others in red at the start of chapters, the text has no illumination or decoration, but Sir David Wilson, historian of Anglo-Saxon art and Director of the British Museum, used it as his example in writing " some manuscripts are so beautifully written that illumination would seem only to spoil them ".

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The opening date was celebrated each year with carousals and revels, and Pushkin composed new verses for each of those occasions.

Although less well-known than the opening, the remaining verses depict high-speed youthful fun.

He pinpoints the early spring season of the Canterbury Tales in the opening verses of the prologue by noting that the Sun " hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne ".

The opening section, " Prince Rupert Awakes ", alternates between sincere and ethereal verses ( sung by Jon Anderson of Yes ), and a folksy Refrain accompanied by handclaps.

The opening date was celebrated each year with carousals and revels, and Pushkin composed new verses for each of those occasions.

Tantum ergo are the opening words of the last two verses of Pange Lingua, a Mediaeval Latin hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas.

Also influenced by Stoic philosophical concepts, he used the Greek term logos, " word ," for the role and function of Wisdom, a concept later adapted by the author of the Gospel of John in the opening verses and applied to Jesus Christ as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God the Father.

As the previous verses contained nothing but a summary of Jesus ' genealogy, this verse is the beginning of the narrative of Matthew, and has often been considered the true opening verse of the gospel.

The melody is established in the opening verse, and the second and third verses revisit the cradling motifs of the second movement.

In the Japanese version, the opening credits and ending were accompanied by a Rock & Roll theme song, " Gappa, The Colossal Beast " ( the first and second verses, respectively ), and the touching reunion scene near the end had a ballad called " Keep Trying, Baby Gappa !".

Little is known about him except from what he tells us about himself in the opening verses of his book.

The following melodic excerpt is taken from the opening verses of “ Que vengan los rumberos ” by Machito and his Afro-Cubans.

Spiegel's realization of Johannes Kepler's " Harmonices Mundi " was chosen for the opening track on the " Sounds of Earth " section of the golden record placed on board the Voyager spacecraft in 1977.

The group recruited drummer Billy Mundi and bass guitar player Jim Fielder for live performances, opening for The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield during spring 1966.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

This type of borrowing can be reduced to a minimum if quarterly installment payment of taxes is instituted and the first payment placed near the opening of the fiscal year.

In the orchestra we hear first a hushed, hesitant pizzicato figure, then the insistent `` police '' motif as it appeared in the opening scene.

In his opening address Wednesday the Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, urged the delegates to consider a 10-year expansion program, with `` Breakthrough '' the theme for the first two years.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 Michigan Av., a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the stand after opening statements had been made.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.

He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A high enough opening bid could signal a player's determination to be first ranked in that attribute, thereby dissuading others from competing.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.

For the educational market a version of the first model was produced with a new plastic enclosure ( the First Asters had an all-metal enclosure ) that also had an opening on the top in which a cassette recorder could be placed.

2003 also saw the opening of the Gaydon factory, the first purpose-built factory in Aston Martin's history.

Aston Martin has also boosted its worldwide appeal by opening more dealers in Europe, as well as branches in China for the first time in its 93 year history in Beijing and Shanghai.

* 1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

England drew the opening game of the tournament 0 – 0 with Uruguay, and Charlton scored the first goal in the 2 – 0 win over Mexico.

Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

Barclays ushered in the age of formalised commerce by opening the first commercial bank.

This enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the West, along the Silk Road.

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

The first voice heard on Channel 4's opening day of Tuesday 2 November 1982 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, " Good afternoon.

Additionally, Hester set a Super Bowl record by becoming the first person to return an opening kick of a Super Bowl for a touchdown.

In the opening crawl of the film, they are first said to be the next generation in robotics.