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Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.
His plot thoroughly unraveled, Pseudolus appears to be in deep trouble — but Erronius, completing his third circuit of the Roman hills, shows up fortuitously to discover that Miles Gloriosus and Philia are wearing matching rings which mark them as his long-lost children.
* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.
In the third mystery the plot involves Encyclopedia's partner, close friend and bodyguard, Sally Kimball, the one person under twelve years of age to physically stand up to Bugs.
Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.
Nobusumi married Akechi Mitsuhide's daughter, and was killed after the Incident at Honnō-ji by Nobunaga's third son, Nobutaka, who suspected him of being involved in the plot.
The Tom Swift of this third series is less of an inventor than his predecessors, and his inventions are rarely at the center of the plot.
It uses a distinctive non-chronological third person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters ' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
Shakespeare's changes to the plot are uncharacteristically slight, especially in light of the romance's undramatic nature, and Shakespeare's fidelity to it gives The Winter's Tale its most distinctive feature: the sixteen-year gap between the third and fourth acts.
Another son, Daniel, received an area east of the original plot, and a third son, George, received an area outside of the present borough known as " Seven Stars " ( located north of Schuylkill Haven on the Schuylkill River ).
The third plot strand tells the story of Reverend Gail Hightower.
J. R. R. Tolkien wanted to use this as the overall title for the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, feeling that the title " The Return of the King " gave away too much of the plot.
The third and final series focused on a different character each week but with the overlaps creating a more complex layering of the plot, more akin to a one-off episode of a situation comedy ( albeit with intertwined plots ) than a traditional sketch show.
" By the final third of the series, the writers had wrapped up the science-fiction plot with the Orb and focused more on traditional Western motifs.
Played by actress Eliza Dushku in the TV series and by Whitney Thompson in the motion comic series, Faith was introduced in the third season of Buffy and was a focus of that season's overarching plot.
A portion of the play and the 1979 movie was used for the plot of the American sitcom Seinfeld's third season's episode, The Letter.
Although the third film departed from the plot of the first two films, Wallace attempted to connect all three films together through certain stylistic themes.
This event of her unwanted pregnancy is the main plot in the first third of the novel, titled " Section One ".
The saloon brawl scene was a parody of the western film genre, and a plot detour launched during the final third of the film was a direct parody of The Prisoner of Zenda, wherein a traveler is a lookalike for the king and stands in for him.
The game received considerable acclaim for its brightly colored graphics, expansive plot, " Ring Command " menu system, innovative real-time battle system, modified Active Time Battle meter adapted for real-time action, its innovative cooperative multiplayer gameplay, where the second or third players could drop in and out of the game at any time rather than players having to join the game at the same time, the customizable AI settings for computer-controlled allies, and the acclaimed soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta.
The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher ( that is, an early-modern scientist ) and friend to the young Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively.
He has a significant role in the plot of Sovereign, the third of the series and in Heartstone, the fifth.
A crucial plot element of the book is the idiom " on the gripping hand ", a three-armed variation of the idiom " on the other hand " similar in meaning to " on the third hand ", but with the added sense that the third-mentioned consideration is the most important one.
It was introduced in the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise, and became an important recurring plot element throughout the season, exploring the subject of drug addiction.
In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, a 65 minute film, the third in the Falcon series of films revolving around Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence ( played by George Sanders ), used the plot of Farewell, My Lovely, with Lawrence substituted for Marlowe.

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The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them, but with the semicircle at the top of the intersection ; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line.
AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).
In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:
A second lane leads alongside the railway line to Aberdour Castle, while a third leads to the restored Aberdour House.
It is assumed that internal interaction forces obey Newton's third law of motion in its strong form, that is, that the forces between particles are equal and opposite and act along the line between the particles.
During the first years of the reign of his older brother as Elector, Anton was the third in line, preceded only by his older brother Karl.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
: This is the third line in the Pascal: s triangle.
Restless legs syndrome can be treated using clonazepam as a third line treatment option as the use of clonazepam is still investigational.
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
Comb printers, also called line matrix printers, represent the third major design.
A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.
One starts by deleting the open middle third (, ) from the interval, leaving two line segments:
*, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1783
*, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1823
Tramlink runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one section of alignment, though not track, shared with a third rail electrified Network Rail line.
Classes within Chinese society were not closed, and imperial China had not been aristocratic since the third century BCE because of " the meritocratic line in Confucian thinking would eventually find realization under the empire in the remarkable Chinese civil service examination.
The first line represents the subject, the second the author ( and perhaps title ), the third and fourth dates of editions, indications of translations, and critical works on particular books or authors.
On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E ( for English — other letters are used for other languages ) indicates a translation into English.
Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

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