`` It's the second time War Ax hands made a play for that money.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

Neither nation would give up their claim on it, yet neither wished to make any move that might lead to a second Apocalyptic War.

The second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, appointed him Secretary of War on December 22, 1838.

* 1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

* 1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.

The second congress ended with the second treaty in 1748, finishing the War of the Austrian Succession.

In his second term, he supported the administration's decisions to fight the Mexican War.

* In the Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War much of the action between William Mandella's first and second deployments occurs in an arcology.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

In the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), Thucydides described an epidemic disease which was said to have begun in Ethiopia, passed through Egypt and Libya, then come to the Greek world.

After the second Anglo-Boer War, a Boer diaspora occurred.

* Korean Air Lines Flight 007 for relation to " second Cold War "

However most of the colleges began in the mid-1960s as a response education and training for the then emerging baby boom generation, and to provide training to the post second World War II European immigrants and newer immigrants from around the world, that were starting to enter the country.

" The second, often treated as Clausewitz's ' bottom line ,' is in fact merely his dialectical antithesis: " War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

The second wave from Britain and Ireland was encouraged to settle in Canada after the War of 1812 by the governors of Canada, who were worried about anti-English sentiment among its citizens.

While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.

This provoked the Second Civil War ( 1648 – 49 ) and a second defeat for Charles, who was subsequently captured, tried, convicted, and executed for high treason.

American service personnel in their teens or early twenties during the Second World War would be in prime car-buying age by 1960, if only to find an economical small second car for their growing family needs.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

In the second half of the 20th century the Labour Party usually won most Scottish seats in the Westminster parliament, losing this dominance briefly to the Unionists in the 1950s.

Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.

In June 2007, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission decided that there may have been a miscarriage of justice and referred Megrahi's case back to Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh for a second appeal.

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife – who was not yet of age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

His reign was the second longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707, ( James VI's was the longest 1567 – 1625 ).

The jig is second in popularity only to the reel in traditional Irish dance ; it is popular but somewhat less common in Scottish country dance music.

Queen Elizabeth's coat of arms was the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom ( in either the English or the Scottish version ) impaled with the arms of her father, the Earl of Strathmore ; the latter being: 1st and 4th quarters, Argent, a lion rampant Azure, armed and langued Gules, within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second ( Lyon ); 2nd and 3rd quarters, Ermine, three bows stringed paleways proper ( Bowes ).

During the journey to Scotland in 1580 and during his second stay there he was organizing transports of Scottish youths to be trained in Polish schools.

Scottish ambassadors had at first concentrated their suit on the oldest daughter, but Frederick betrothed Elizabeth to Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick, promising the Scots instead that " for the second Anna, if the King did like her, he should have her.

The original population of the colony also derived overwhelmingly from certain areas of north-west Europe ( the Scottish highlands, Ireland and the Basque country ) commonly linked in popular belief and tradition with a high level of supernatural abilities such as the second sight.

Scot Symon continued Struth's success, winning six league championships, five Scottish Cups and four League Cups, becoming the second manager to win the domestic treble in season 1963 – 64, the era of ' Slim ' Jim Baxter, one of the club's greatest players.

A second consecutive league title was won by a record 21 point margin, the club securing a domestic double with a 4 – 0 Scottish Cup final victory over Aberdeen.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

The second was a church, dedicated to St. Mary, which stood on the site of the Scottish National War Memorial.

The Scottish inventor James Watt published a paper on the composition of water in 1783 ; Cavendish had performed the experiments first but published second.

Along Center Street, which intersects Logan's Historic District, are a number of stately houses on the National Register of Historic Places, including the three-story French chateauesque home at 250 West Center Street built in 1907 by the Scottish immigrant, industrialist, and LDS polygamist David Eccles for his second wife, Ellen Stoddard.

At the age of fifteen, Orchardson was sent to Edinburgh's renowned art school, the Trustees ' Academy, then under the mastership of Robert Scott Lauder, where he had as fellow-students most of those who afterwards shed lustre on the Scottish school of the second half of the 19th century.

The second Bishops ' War, the following year, began with the a Scottish invasion of England in which the Scottish defeated the English and remained stationed in England until their issues were solved.

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

At DZ ' Y ', the Dutch SS Wach Battalion became heavily engaged with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, threatening to hamper the arrival of the second lift.

What is considered to be the earlier of the two engines, now known as " Puffing Billy " is conserved at the Science Museum in London ; the second Wylam Dilly is in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

In Scotland, to deal with the misunderstanding between " first " and " second " votes, the ballot for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election was changed as recommended by the Arbuthnott Commission.

* Scottish Cup final – Rangers 2 – 0 Hearts at Celtic Park ( second replay after 1 – 1 and 0 – 0 draws previously )