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The Grand adage ( a. k. a. the Love Duet ) from the second scene of Swan Lake was fashioned from an aria from that opera, as was the Valse des fiancées from the third scene.
Second mover advantage can be summarized by the adage " The second mouse gets the cheese.

second and variously
This predicted event has been variously interpreted as referring to: ( 1 ) Jesus ' transfiguration ; ( 2 ) his resurrection ; ( 3 ) the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost ; ( 4 ) the spread of the kingdom through the preaching of the early church ; ( 5 ) the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem in AD 70 ; or ( 6 ) the second coming and final establishment of the kingdom.
* In the second main variety of gland the secretory portion is enlarged and the lumen variously increased in size.
Some scholars used the obelus and various other critical symbols, in conjunction with a second symbol known as the metobelos (" end of obelus "), variously represented as two vertically arranged dots, a γ-like symbol, a mallet-like symbol, or a diagonal slash ( with or without one or two dots ).
To such a degree, in fact, that series writers no longer feel they have to be immediately resolved, or even referenced, when the next episode is shown --- for example, the last episode of the second series of Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd ended with a substantial cliffhanger that was not addressed until the third episode of series three, variously because the writer didn't feel it was " a strong enough opener ," or simply " couldn't be bothered.
Pompilia's mother is variously identified as Numa's first wife Tatia or his second wife Lucretia.
In the first edition of the Vite ( 1550 ), he attributed a Christ Carrying the Cross to Giorgione ; in the second edition completed in 1568 he ascribed authorship, variously, to Giorgione in his biography, which was printed in 1565, and to Titian in his, printed in 1567.
Astrologers also use other ephemerides that include Lilith, a term they use variously for the apogee of the Moon or the second focus of the Moon's orbit.
The band, with Electra, recorded a second cassette album ( known variously as Twelfth Night, The Electra Tapes and Early Material ) which was released to coincide with an autumn tour.
Her second husband, Edwin Nitscke, worked variously as a gardener, factory cleaner and taxi driver.
Ray went to trial following the second arrest in 1959, also in Detroit, for soliciting an undercover officer in a bar called the Brass Rail, which has been described variously as attracting traveling musicians and attracting gay people.
She is also variously referred as Kṛṣṇā ( or Krishnaa, meaning one of darker complexion ), Panchali ( meaning one from the kingdom of Panchāla ), Yajnaseni ( meaning one born from a Yajna or fire-sacrifice ), Mahabhaartii ( great wife of the five descendents of Bharata ) and Sairandhri ( literally: an expert maid, her assumed name during her second exile in which she worked as Virat kingdom's queen Sudeshna's hair-stylist ).
We now know this additional name variously as the second name, last name, family name, surnames or occasionally the byname, and this natural tendency was accelerated by the Norman tradition of using surnames that were fixed and hereditary within individual families.
A number of nontriniatarian traditions reject the doctrine of the Trinity, but differ from one another in their views, variously depicting Jesus as a divine being second only to God the Father, Yahweh of the Old Testament in human form, God ( but not eternally God ), prophet, or simply a holy man.
The second type, known variously as a multiple back, repeating back or drop back camera, still exposed the images one at a time but used a sliding holder for the filters and plates which allowed each filter and the corresponding unexposed area of emulsion to be quickly shifted into place.
In The Consecrated Urn, Bernard Blackstone observes that " Indolence " has been variously thought the first, second, and final of the five 1819 odes.
Cervantes variously names Sancho in the first book Sancho Zancas ( legs ); however, in the second book he standardizes Sancho's name in reply to the " false " Avellaneda Quixote sequel.
Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, variously called Vanya, Vanka, and Vanechka, Ivan is the middle son and first by Fyodor's second marriage.
The village was variously called " Hoton ", " Howton ", " Hutton ", the second part of the name being added during the time of the Paganals, a distinguished Norman family into whose hands the manor passed towards the end of the 11th Century.
The second part of the name is variously spelt-" Paynel ", “ Painell ", " Pannell ", " Pagnell ".
" Solondz did, however, remove a portion of the film ( which has variously been reported as either a subplot of the second story, or a third story entirely ) which contained a sex scene involving two male actors ( one of whom was James Van Der Beek ).
It may be held to the foot by a narrow thong that generally passes between the first and second toe, or by a strap or lace, variously called a latchet, sabot strap or sandal, that passes over the arch of the foot or around the ankle.
Its second version, known variously as ST-II or ST2, was drafted by Claudio Topolcic and others in 1987 and specified in 1990.
The Sanskrit word smṛti स ् म ृ त ि ( also transliterated variously as smriti, smRti, or sm ' Rti ) literally means " that which is remembered ", and refers both to " mindfulness " in Buddhism and " a category of metrical texts " in Hinduism, considered second in authority to the Śruti scriptures.
In some Scrabble tournaments, a system known variously as " modified Swiss ", " Portland Swiss ", " Fontes Swiss " or " speed pairing " is used, whereby first players are placed in groups of four, and play three rounds of round-robin play, and subsequently are paired as in Swiss pairing, but using the standings as of the second to last round, rather than the last round.

second and rendered
In the second siege, decisive help was rendered by the Bulgars.
This last part is necessary, but only on account of the second, which again is rendered necessary by the first.
They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.
For example the Hebrew word מ ַ צ ָּ ה is rendered in English, according to the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, as matzo, matzah, matso, motsa, motso, maẓẓo, matza, matzho, matzoh, mazzah, motza, and mozza.
The second character is qi in Mandarin, and thus wok hei is sometimes rendered as wok chi in Western cookbooks ) is the flavour, tastes, and " essence " imparted by a hot wok on food during stir frying.
Chris Jackson published some tests indicating that a piece of text rendering code he had written could render 99, 000 glyphs per second in GDI, but the same code using GDI + rendered 16, 600 glyphs per second.
This might in English heraldic language be rendered thus: Per bend sinister argent a cross gules surmounted by a bugle-horn of the first, the bell to sinister, stringed Or, and sable issuant from base a lion rampant, his dexter paw couped at the line of partition, of the third armed, langued and crowned of the second.
The patent stated that the second peerage was in honour of the great services he had rendered, especially in promoting the abolition of slavery.
The second image is the same model rendered without edge lines.
In particular, when x is set to π, the second equation is rendered invalid.
Initially produced by Blackburn himself, the series was later picked up by game publishers Kenzer & Company, who began publication with a second printing of issue four after an error made by Blackburn rendered the first printing nearly unreadable.
In 50 BC, at his Proconsular term ’ s expiry, the Senate forbade Caesar's standing for election in absentia for a second consulship and because of this, Caesar thought he would be prosecuted and rendered politically marginal if he entered Rome without consular immunity or his army.
That stance, while unremarkable at the time, ultimately rendered him incapable of re-election in a state whose antislavery, anticompromise faction became dominant midway in Jones ' second term, as the new Republican Party.
The position of the young earl, powerful on account of his possessions and hereditary influence in the Welsh marches, was rendered still more important by his marriage in 1368 at the age of 16 to the 13 year old Philippa, the only child of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second son of Edward III.
In the second sequel, Son of Frankenstein, the creature is again rendered inarticulate.
The record features a new version " Rain ", a track which made its debut on his second anthology release, Time and Again, as well as versions of Phil Perry's " Perfect Island Night ", " Where Is the Love " ( rendered as a duet with Deniece Williams ) and " Our Day Will Come ".
In June 2007, a collection of her poems appeared in the second issue of the avantgarde Hebrew poetry and criticism magazine Daka rendered by Eran Tzelgov.
The second interruption was in 2000, when a coup attempted by George Speight rendered the parliamentary system unworkable and resulted in Parliament's dissolution.
In the second season of Beast Wars, the reason for Starscream's ability to survive beyond death was revealed — a mutation in his spark had rendered it indestructible.
" Notes on an original manuscript chart of Bering's expedition of 1725-30, and on an original manuscript chart of his second expedition, together with a summary of a journal of the first expedition, kept by Peter Chaplin, and now first rendered into English from Bergh's Russian version.
He continued to deputise occasionally as captain of England's one-day side, and became the second international captain to concede a match in 2001, after a pitch invasion during a One Day International against Pakistan rendered the continuation of play impossible.
The descendants of Amenohohi-no-mikoto, the second son of the sun goddess and ancestor of the imperial family, have been, in the name of Izumo Kokuso or governor of Izumo, taking over rituals because when Izumo-taisha was founded Amenohohi-no-mikoto rendered service to Okuninushi-no-kami.
FMV rendered and encoded at 30 frames per second by the Japanese / US ( NTSC ) developers was often down-sampled to 25 frames per second for PAL release — usually by means of 3: 2 pull-down, resulting in motion judder.

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