Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

This can be seen as early as the second episode of the first season, which recounts the defeat of the original battleship Yamato while sailors and pilots from both sides salute her as she sinks ( this scene was cut from the English dub, but later included on the Star Blazers DVD release ).

Rossini's opera recounts the first of the plays from the Figaro trilogy, by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, while Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

The Talmud also recounts a more positive view of Balaam, stating that when the Law was given to Israel, a mighty voice shook the foundations of the earth, so much so that all kings trembled, and in their consternation turned to Balaam, inquiring whether this upheaval of nature portended a second deluge ; the prophet assured them that what they heard was the voice of God, giving the sacred law to the Israelites ( Talmud, Zeb.

Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias ' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera ; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena ; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.

In the second series of I'm Alan Partridge, Alan recounts a story about a time he was once caned for having a chalk penis drawn on the back of his school blazer by another student, an incident about which he still feels bitter.

A second Rawlinson album, Sir Henry at N ' didi ’ s Kraal ( 1984 ), recounts Sir Henry's disastrous African expedition, but omits the rest of the Rawlinson clan.

Angelou's second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, recounts her life from age 17 to 19 and " depicts a single mother's slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ; it is notable that, according to textual scholars, in the Jahwist version of the story it is only the Joseph tribes that are among these migrants, since it only recounts Jacob as having met Rachel, and the matriarchs of the other Israelite tribes-Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah-do not appear.

After months of recounts it was confirmed that the Progressive Conservatives had won a slim majority, Smallwood resigned as premier on January 18, 1972 and Moores was sworn in as the second Premier of Newfoundland.

The second verse recounts the poet's desire that his eventual death should coincide with a similar storm.

Fraser recounts the circumstances surrounding the plot to murder the Queen's second husband Darnley in detail.

The second recounts the origins of the Gael themselves, and tells how they in turn came to be the masters of the country and the ancestors of all the Irish.

The English author Laurie Lee recounts meeting Campbell in the Toledo chapter of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, the second volume of his autobiographical trilogy.

" Blackburn recounts this experience in " Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories " on the original series ' remastered second season DVD set.

Rooms are equipped with a mini-bar and are checked each day by a team of three people, of which one person inventories, the second recounts and a third supervises the pair.

A Change of Tongue, her second work of prose in English, recounts ten years of evolution after South Africa's first democratic elections.

The second verse recounts past social issues from the voice of someone supporting racial segregation.

Asimov recounts the unusual history behind Murder at the ABA in his second autobiographical volume, In Joy Still Felt ( 1980 ).

His second book, We Belong to the Land, recounts his work in the development of Mar Elias Educational Institutions, from humble beginnings to major schools for educating Palestinian young people and for helping to bring about reconciliation in a land of strife.

Her second book Wau-Bun: The " Early Day " in the North West, recounts her experiences of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s.

The second story recounts the tale of the " girl-bird " Gertrude McFuzz, who has a small, plain tail feather and envies Lolla Lee Lou, who has two feathers.

Mishnah Parah recounts eight, stating that Moses prepared the first, Ezra the second, Simon the Just and Yochanan the High Priest prepared two each, and Elioenai ben HaQayaph and Hanameel the Egyptian prepared one each ( Mishna Parah 3: 5 ).

The second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family in the 3rd century BC.

The second legend attached to Ephrem is that he was a monk.

The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.

:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

A common legend states that in the second year of the Hsüan-ho, in the Sung dynasty 1120 AD, a certain official memorialized the throne, praying that the ya p ' ai ( ivory cards ) be fixed as a pack of 32, comprising 127 pips it should be 227, but Chinese printers are careless, in order to accord with the expanse of the stars and constellations.

The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.

The legend also claims that Æthelberht was killed at Sutton St. Michael and buried four miles ( 6 km ) to the south at Hereford, where his cult flourished, becoming at one time second only to Canterbury as a pilgrimage destination.

Graceland, the former home of music legend Elvis Presley, is one of the most visited houses in the United States ( second only to the White House ), attracting over 600, 000 domestic and international visitors a year.

The Royal Arch Degree under the Irish Constitution contains a legend concerning the first Temple, not the second.

If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2 < sup > 64 </ sup >− 1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615 turns to finish, much longer than the predicted lifespan of the sun.

Another legend is that the second tower is being left unfinished until the " Excellent Builder " will come to direct its completion.

For open wheel racing, 1967's revolutionary STP-Paxton Turbocar fielded by racing and entrepreneurial legend Andy Granatelli and driven by Parnelli Jones nearly won the Indianapolis 500 ; the Pratt & Whitney ST6B-62 powered turbine car was almost a lap ahead of the second place car when a gearbox bearing failed just three laps from the finish line.

1541, contains a legend in front of the " isla de Orliens " that says: " Here many French died of hunger "; possibly alluding to Cartier's second settlement in 1535-1536.

In the mid-1970s, Larry Graham worked with Betty Davis, the second ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis.

It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.

White was the Dallas Cowboys ' first pick and the second player selected in the 1975 National Football League Draft, and was moved to middle linebacker, where he was a backup to Cowboy legend Lee Roy Jordan, playing mostly on special teams his first two seasons, including his rookie season when Dallas lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl X. Jordan retired following the 1976 season, and his slot was filled by Bob Breunig, who held the position the next nine seasons.

* Billy Martin-Baseball legend, second baseman and Yankees manager ; operated and lived on a farm in Port Crane after retiring from the New York Yankees.

So does the legend of their foundation itself: the peace-loving king Numa instituted the Salii of Mars Gradivus, foreseeing the future wars of the Romans while the warmonger king Tullus, in a battle during a longstanding war with the Sabines, swore to found a second group of Salii should he obtain victory.

Two months later, in January 1595, Barnfield published his second volume, Cynthia, with certain Sonnets, and the legend of Cassandra, and this time signed the preface, which was dedicated, in terms which imply close personal relations, to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Jimmy Wallington became the show's announcer for most of its life with Allen as the feature ( he succeeded George Burns and Gracie Allen sidekick Harry Von Zell ), though for a brief spell during its second season the announcer was budding radio personality and future television legend Arthur Godfrey.

He then re-married, and his second wife, according to Kentish tradition recorded in the legend of Saint Mildrith, was a woman named Ymme of Frankish royal blood, though recently it has been suggested that she may have instead been the daughter of Erchinoald, mayor of the palace in Neustria, the western part of Francia.

The second legend ( more popular in western India ) relates to the Vamana avatar of the big three Vishnu, the incarnation he assumed to kill the demon king Bali.

Olimpia, who were winners of the 1979 Copa Libertadores, were blossoming in their second golden era with players such as Ever Hugo Almeida, Gabriel González, Adriano Samaniego, and star Raul Vicente Amarilla, all coached by legend Luis Cubilla.