It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background.

* Ithaca, the penultimate episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

Hints were therefore dropped about the " true " nature of the Seventh Doctor, which culminated in the penultimate novel in the Virgin series, Lungbarrow, written by Marc Platt.

The penultimate chapter of the novel implies that the entities that created the orbs and the Discontinuity are similar or perhaps identical to those entities mentioned in Clarke ’ s earlier book 2001: A Space Odyssey, but does not explain why this happened.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series by British author J. K. Rowling.

After an initial period of mixed results, Dolby steadied the ship and brought in Mike Rutherford as assistant coach before keeping the Angels in the title battle until the penultimate game of the season.

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.

She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa.

* Mastalus I of Amalfi, penultimate patricius of Amalfi

This penultimate scene of the Admonitions Scroll shows a palace lady sitting in quiet contemplation, presumably following the admonitions in the accompanying lines: " Therefore I say: Be cautious and circumspect in all you do, and from this good fortune will arise.

In another interview during the winter of 2000, which took place in the UK on the penultimate night of the Prayer Under Pressure Tour, when asked what her inspiration for the title of the record was, Tairrie said ; “ The title comes from a couple of different prayer books I ’ ve been reading, in different parts.

Jogaila's new baptismal name Wladislaus was chosen in honor of Jadwiga's great-grandfather king Władysław I the Elbow-high, the penultimate Piast.

The title is often mistakenly given as " The Road Less Traveled ", from the penultimate line: " I took the one less traveled by ".

It therefore has been suggested that KV20 extended originally, only to its present penultimate chamber in which Thutmose I first was interred, and that the tomb was re-cut and refurbished during the reign of Hatshepsut to accommodate the burial of both her and her father.

Her penultimate role before her death from cancer was as Larry Hagman's mother on I Dream of Jeannie in 1967.

His other Twilight Zone appearance, twenty episodes later, was as one of the most memorable personalities in the history of the show — the dismayed Martian who is one-upped by the diner-counterman-turned-Venusian in the rival-Earth-invasions surprise ending of the season's penultimate episode, " Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

In the penultimate episode Institutional Memory, Will considers taking a job as the Chief Executive of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, but becomes preoccupied with the task of finding a candidate to challenge incumbent Republican Congressman John Heffinger in the Oregon 4th in 2008.

* July 28 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his penultimate symphony, now called the Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.

The words omitted in the penultimate place were repealed by the Statute Law Revision ( No. 2 ) Act 1893.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and is the penultimate book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

The Epistle of Jude, often shortened to Jude, is the penultimate book of the New Testament and is attributed to Jude, the brother of James the Just.

In this form, its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable.

This is called penultimate hop popping ( PHP ).

Among Christians who hold this belief, this is not the " end of the world ", but rather the penultimate age, the age just prior to the end of Satan's worldwide system in anticipation of a New Heavens and a New Earth under Jehovah's kingdom reign ( Rev.

In the Episcopal and many other Anglican churches and in Lutheran churches, as well, the day is nowadays officially called " The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday "; in practice, though, it is usually termed " Palm Sunday " as in the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer and in earlier Lutheran liturgies and calendars, to avoid undue confusion with the penultimate Sunday of Lent in the traditional calendar, which was " Passion Sunday ".

The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate ; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.

In Arabic, " W " is transliterated using the penultimate letter of the alphabet, و ( waw ).

It is the fourteenth and penultimate element in the lanthanide series, or last element in the f-block, which is the basis of the relative stability of the + 2 oxidation state.

It is the penultimate animated film personally supervised by Disney.

They are longer, on average, than the Peripatopsidae and also have more leg pairs, numbering between 22 and 43 — the gonopore is always between the penultimate pair.

The situation is similar with the boys in their penultimate year, who have a similar room known as Debate.

The film's penultimate scene ( shown here ) is set amidst the ruins of " The Great Stone Church.

Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film.

In a private audience with the emperor on the penultimate eve of the tournament, when confronted with the seeming absurdity of the possibility that a novice with a mere two years of experience at the game could systematically defeat players ' whose whole lives were devoted to its mastery, the protagonist comes to understand that his proficiency is merely a reflection of his experience with strategic games of all sorts.

Paroxytone () is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the syllable before the last syllable, e. g, the English word potato.

The closest there was to a main villain was Mogdred ( portrayed by John Woodnutt ), but his main duty was, according to Merlin ( a wizard, and Mogdred's ' alter ego ' in the first series ) in the penultimate episode of Series 2, to " scare you into making a mistake ", though he did kill two dungeoneers, one in Series 2 and another early in Series 4.

It is named after Abu l-Hasan Ali, or Muley Hacén as he is known in Spanish, the penultimate Muslim King of Granada in the 15th century who, according to legend, was buried on the summit of the mountain.

Vincent Canby, film critic for The New York Times, had mixed feelings about the film but did like the acting and the screenplay, and wrote, " At Play in the Fields of the Lord doesn't play smoothly, but it often plays well ... Mr. Lithgow and Miss Hannah, who grows more secure as an actress with every film, are fine in complex roles that are exceptionally well written ... Though the film features a spectacular penultimate sequence, it seems not to know how to end.

James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL ( 12 February 1923 – 17 May 2002 ) was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971.

On November 29, 2000, just prior to the Pumpkins ' penultimate show at the United Center in Chicago, Corgan debuted the song by presenting it to Q101 DJ James VanOsdol, saying that it was a " sort of special see-ya-later song ".