The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

The sole surviving manuscript from which almost every other is derived is a ninth-century Carolingian text, V, produced in Fulda from an insular exemplar.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The archosaur clade includes two living orders, crocodilians ( of which Alligatoridae, Crocodylidae and Gavialidae are the only surviving families ) and dinosaurs ( of which birds are the sole surviving members ), along with the extinct non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

The sole surviving genus, Equus, had evolved by the early Pleistocene, and spread rapidly through the world.

At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructs, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War.

After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.

As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833 – 34, during which he was deposed.

Through his daughter by Cleopatra, Antony would become ancestor to the royal family of Mauretania, another Roman client kingdom, while through his sole surviving son Iullus, he would be ancestor to several famous Roman statesmen.

* Cicero, De republica in uncials, of the 4th century, the sole surviving copy, covered by St Augustine on the Psalms, of the 7th century, Vatican Library

* Seneca, On the Maintenance of Friendship, the sole surviving fragment, overwritten by a late-6th century Old Testament

The only extant family of this suborder is Equidae ( whose sole surviving genus is Equus ), comprising the horse, zebra, donkey, onager, and allied species.

The sole surviving work attributed to his authorship is his Letter to the Philippians ; it is first recorded by Irenaeus of Lyons.

The sole surviving work attributed to him is Polycarp's letter to the Philippians, a mosaic of references to the Greek Scriptures, preserved / produced in Irenaeus ' account of Polycarp's life.

The sole surviving protagonist in Operation Counterstrike is the player, who must advance, starting each of the four episodes from a human held but overrun military base, before fighting through into other dimensions, traversing these via slipgate or their otherworld equivalent.

In a joint tenancy with rights of survivorship deed, or JTWROS, the death of one tenant means that the surviving tenant ( s ) become the sole owner ( s ) of the estate.

The sole confirmed surviving sonnet in the Occitan language is confidently dated to 1284, and is conserved only in troubadour manuscript P, an Italian chansonnier of 1310, now XLI. 42 in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence.

It is the sole surviving member of the family Odobenidae, one of three lineages in the suborder Pinnipedia along with true seals ( Phocidae ) and eared seals ( Otariidae ).

Ravenna's Orthodox bishops carried out notable building projects, of which the sole surviving one is the Capella Arcivescovile.

A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy.

General Tilney: A stern and rigid retired general with an obsessive nature, General Tilney is the sole surviving parent to his three children Frederick, Henry, and Eleanor.

The latter died in 169, having failed to recover from an operation, which left Commodus as Marcus Aurelius ' sole surviving son.

In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

As well as introducing Daria's parents and younger sister as principal supporting characters, the first episode also introduced Jane Lane, Daria's sole schoolfriend and confidant.

The season five episode " Deep Space Homer ", in which the characters Homer and Barney are recruited by NASA, is Mirkin's sole writing credit on The Simpsons.

He also produced the show's sole two-part episode " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

The second one, " Static ", aired on March 10, 1961 as episode 20 ; the third, " The Whole Truth ", appeared on January 20, 1961 as episode 14 ; the fourth was Twilight Zones sole Christmas entry, " The Night of the Meek ", shown as the 11th episode on December 23, 1960 ; the fifth, " Twenty Two ", was seen on February 10, 1961 as episode 17 and the last one, " Long Distance Call ", was transmitted on March 31, 1961 as episode 22.

In the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode titled " Breakdown ", the sole survivor of a violent collision ( Joseph Cotten ) finds himself in a locked-in state, unable even to move an eyelid.

The next episode, " Ouroboros ", makes contact with a timeline in which Kochanski, rather than Lister, was the sole survivor of the original disaster ; this alternate Kochanski then joins the crew for the remaining episodes.

The president of the Basque Government in exile was always a PNV member and even the sole Spanish representative in the United Nations was the Basque appointee Jesús de Galíndez until his murder in an obscure episode regarding his PhD Thesis about Dominican Republic's dictator Trujillo.

It is assumed that after the events of the series ' finale, " Power Outage ", they are returned to their normal, non-powered state. Despite the sole episode in which they appear making reference to more of these Bang Babies ( season 4's " Army of Darkness "), these four are the only known members:

** In a variation on the basic definition of a bioship, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Emergence ", features a story in which the Enterprise-D develops an artificial intelligence from the sum of the ship's experiences, for the sole purpose of creating a biological life form which is released into space.

The episode story line revolves around a KGB mole ( played by guest star Dixie Carter ) placed into the FBI with the sole purpose of discovering the methods used by agent Bill Maxwell in catching spies and other assorted bad guys.

Some episodes have even featured the crew performing cons that benefit people they have befriended over the course of the episode rather than having them be the sole benefactors of the con ; examples include them faking a jewel theft from the Tower of London and allowed a member of the cleaning staff to discover it after she showed sympathy for team member Ash Morgan while he was working undercover as an immigrant worker ( Eye of the Beholder ), leaving the money stolen from a highly secure slot machine in a casino to a security guard at the casino who had advised Stacie Monroe during her brief employment ( Big Daddy Calling ), stating that they will ' return ' an apparently stolen painting only after the rights to the security system that protected it had been returned to the wife of the original inventor ( The inventor having committed suicide after he was cheated out of the patent ) ( New Recruits ), and arranging for the niece of a friend to get a modelling contract with an agency that has a rivalry with the company that cheated her out of her money in her original application.

The sole broadcast episode ( July 22, 2006 ) was notable for featuring a live marriage proposal, but a repeat of outtakes show It'll Be Alright on the Night was broadcast in the time slot on July 29.

It may be that his sole purpose in being in the episode was to abate any concerns as to whether he had been destroyed, because his presence was needed during the attack on Autobot City.

In " Rumspringa " ( September 25, 2003 ) — season 5, episode 9 of the CBS television show Judging Amy — Amy must make a difficult decision when an Amish teenager, who becomes pregnant during rumspringa and decides to return to her community with her daughter, is sued by the child's " English " father for sole custody.

Other characters included Aurelia ( a gypsy who ran Pinwheel House and used a special phone a desk phone base with a crystal ball on it and no receiver to dial the " Opposite City Operator " and was also Kim ’ s aunt ), Silas the Snail ( had an elderly-looking face, and took an entire episode to go from one end of the garden to the other ), Ebenezer T. Squint ( green-faced equivalent to Sesame Street ’ s Oscar the Grouch ; his sole goal in life was to be on the front page of The Daily Noodle ), Luigi O ' Brien ( who ran a mobile produce stand where all of the fruits and vegetables talked ), Molly the Mole who lived in a tree in the backyard, Herbert and Lulu the Hobo Bugs, and the Admiral Bird which always seems to outwit Smitty.

In 1995 she wrote her sole television script, produced for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street.

The season-two episode " The Last Man " ( episode 10, trans 11 Feb 1959 ) guest-starred Dan Duryea as the half-crazed sole survivor of a " lost " wagon train that had vanished in a snowed-in pass a year earlier ; Adams and McCullough, in a jointly featured story, now face their train being condemned to an identical fate, as their wagons are similarly stalled alongside the " dead " train.

This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.

Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of Great Seljuq, and thus became sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.

The United Progressive Party government was re-elected with nine seats and supported by the sole member from Barbuda, affiliated to the Barbuda People's Movement.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

It is drafted in reply to a birthday greeting from his followers, a manifesto proclaiming himself the sole representative of the Spanish monarchy.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

Kieler eventually rebounded from the shame of the scandal and had her own successful writing career while remaining discontent with sole recognition as " Ibsen's Nora " years afterwards.

Earned runs stem from the theory that the pitcher has sole responsibility to earn strikes against opposing batter ( s ) until at least three batters are retired in each inning of play, and nine innings ( a complete game ) are pitched.

By now, England were coached by Alf Ramsey who had managed to gain sole control of the recruitment and team selection procedure from the committee-based call-up system which had lasted up to the previous World Cup.

Once he had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son Augustus inaugurated a strategy of advancing the empire's southeastern European border to the line of the Danube from the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and Macedonia.

With sole regard to the central object and the surrounding ring, the motions would be indistinguishable from each other assuming that both the central object and the surrounding ring were absolutely rigid objects.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

Scheme introduced the sole use of lexically scoped variables to Lisp ; an inspiration from ALGOL 68 which was widely recognized as a good idea.

In recognition of this, the local Liberals supported the Country Party candidate for the sole NT seat from 1969 to 1972.

A later edict issued by Constantius after becoming sole emperor decreed that a person who was proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism would have their entire property confiscated by the state.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

; Lithoautotroph: An organism ( usually bacteria ) whose sole source of carbon is carbon dioxide and exergonic inorganic oxidation ( chemolithotrophs ) such as Nitrosomonas europaea ; these organisms are capable of deriving energy from reduced mineral compounds like pyrites, and are active in geochemical cycling and the weathering of parent bedrock to form soil

The See of Rome, as the sole unbroken line of apostolic authority, descending from St. Peter ( the " prince and head of the apostles "), is a visible sign and instrument of communion among the college of bishops and therefore also of the local churches around the world.

He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.

Muscles of the big toe: abductor hallucis stretches medially along the border of the sole, from the calcaneus to the first digit.

Ferrari, who wanted to remain the sole operator of his company's motor sports division, was angered when he was told that he would not be allowed to race at the Indianapolis 500 if the deal went through since Ford fielded Indy cars using the company's engine, and didn't want competition from Ferrari.