It was a three-month journey in the dead of winter followed by three months of labor on Mackinac boats.

But by the end of the three-month period, in October 1960, something approaching calm settled on the Congo.

John Brinnin invited Thomas to New York, where in 1950 they embarked on a lucrative three-month tour of arts centres and campuses.

As " Ashes to Ashes " hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring in The Elephant Man.

After a three-month vacancy, Pantaléon was chosen by the eight cardinals of the Sacred College to succeed him in a papal election that concluded on 29 August 1261.

* Inverted yield curve, the model developed by economist Jonathan H. Wright, uses yields on 10-year and three-month Treasury securities as well as the Fed's overnight funds rate.

Despite praise from critics and fans for her vocals on the three-month Street Angel tour, Nicks was crushed by the focus on her weight and the poor reception of the album itself.

That year, Yes embarked on the three-month Masterworks tour of the United States.

This was a new regiment yet to be raised, and Sherman's first command was actually of a brigade of three-month volunteers, at the head of which he became one of the few Union officers to distinguish himself at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was grazed by bullets in the knee and shoulder.

In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on a factory farm in the United States, after a three-month PETA investigation produced film of the workers beating the animals.

Despite Dundee's initial successes in the north, Gordon eventually surrendered on 14 June, due to dwindling supplies, and having lost 70 men during the three-month siege.

The five-minute film was animated by Minnis with Pantone markers on paper during a single three-month summer term at Sheridan College.

After a three-month journey by submarine, and a short stop in Singapore, he reached Tokyo on 11 May 1943, where he made a number of radio broadcasts to the Indian communities, exhorting them to join in the fight for India's Independence.

The band set out on a three-month headlining tour, and played to immense crowds at Woodstock ' 94 and the Glastonbury Festival.

During this run on the title, Grant Morrison ( issues # 25 & 26 ) and Neil Gaiman ( issue # 27 ) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's story dealing with nuclear fear, and Neil Gaiman's being a simple romantic ghost story.

The Sisters acquire for $ 5, 000 a three-month option on a former witch-hazel bottling plant opposite the Rossi property for use as a temporary shelter to stage the construction of the hospital.

In 1943, he joined the Communist Party USA and in 1950 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; in his testimony, he refused to disclose the names of contributors to a fund for a home for orphans of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War ( one of the contributors was Eleanor Roosevelt ), and was given a three-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

Katsav took a three-month leave of absence approved by the Knesset on 25 January.

In August 1966 Lin publicly called for a " three-month turmoil " within the PLA, and on October 6 Lin's Central Military Commission issued an urgent instruction that all military academies and institutes were to dismiss their classes and allow their students to become fully involved in the Cultural Revolution.

At the conclusion of Mulligan's three-month contract, Tucker told Mulligan that he should move on to another band that was a little less " tame ".

Vitiges arranges a three-month armistice for Gothic envoys to travel to Constantinople.

When it was re-released in 1995 the song reached number 5 during a three-month chart run in the UK Singles Chart, selling over 250, 000 ( UK ) copies in the process and earning a silver sales award.

However in 2005 the UK Debt Management Office announced that all new issues of index-linked gilts would use a three-month indexation lag, first used in the Canadian Real Return Bond market, and several gilts have now been issued on that basis.

The peace was short lived, however, and the following year the Covenanters took the castle again, this time after a three-month siege, during which the garrison ran out of supplies.

Even earlier, however, CBS aired a three-month half-hour similar series hosted by Walter McGraw in the 1955-1956 season entitled Wanted.

They also indicated that they were looking to resell the Evesham brand which was trading under the new company, Geemore Technology Ltd. After a lack of interest from potential buyers, however, the company finally closed down towards the end of March and the three-month contracts of all remaining Evesham staff who stayed on at Geemore expired.

Despite this, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for the striker, who scored three goals in 13 matches in all competitions during his three-month stay, saying, " He's been fantastic for us, his professionalism, his attitude, everything he's done has been excellent.

has been strangely quiet in both the real world and Lyoko, having done nothing during the group's three-month summer vacation.

As of 2003, he has starred or co-starred in an astonishing 84 shows, appearing in at least one per three-month cycle since 1996.

Following his statement that he was " hypersexualized ,", Kampia was " encouraged " by the MPP Board of Directors to take a three-month leave of absence and his return is subject to " convincing the board he has dealt with his issues.

He has blamed his three-month screen absence in 2005 ( due to meningitis ) for Mickey becoming little more than " light-relief ".

Although the luteal-phase treatment may be more acceptable to patients, there have been indications that by the end of a three-month period it is less well tolerated than the continuous treatment.

During his three-month internment at Saughton prison his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-boat.

Certain maternity hospitals in Dublin used to award a Licentiate in Midwifery or LM diploma, not to midwives but to qualified medical practitioners who had been examined there after a three-month residential appointment.

" As a former member of a street gang run by youthful racketeer Charlie " Big Time " Bigelow, Terry had his fair share of run-ins with the Gotham City Police at age fourteen while his parents were going through a divorce, even serving a three-month stint in juvenile hall ( having been underage, he is spared Charlie's three-year sentence ).

In the spring of 1946, she set off on a three-month tour of western Canada to tell audiences about the hunger and destitution in other countries, to furnish particulars about how Canadian contributions in previous years had been employed and to renew her appeal for funds and clothing.

On November 11, 2005, the bridge re-opened to traffic after the bridge deck had been replaced, ending a severe three-month traffic issue on the St. Croix.

During the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1919, Orsk withstood a three-month long blockade and then four times changed hands between warring sides.

On June 24 more than 400 families started the three-month trip across the plains to the Mississippi.

However, in the same three-month period, toll-road bonds, as a group, have bucked this trend.

Babies using sign language showed a three-month developmental advancement at 24-months, speaking like 27-month olds.

Sarandon also reprised his role as Jack Skellington for Halloween Screams and the Haunted Mansion Holiday, a three-month overlay of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, where Jack and his friends take over the Mansion in an attempt to take over Christmas, much as his character did in the film.

A suicide attempt at age 14 put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife.

After a three-month police surveillance operation, nine members of the DPM crew were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal damage costing at least £ 1 million.

Each October, as the northern ice pushes southward, small groups of eastern gray whales in the eastern Pacific start a two-to three-month, trip south.

Another model developed by Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists uses only the 10-year / three-month spread.

* The three-month change in the unemployment rate and initial jobless claims.

However, during the height of the crisis, a three-month period in 1994, the UN removed most of its peacekeepers, and virtually all other formal foreign support fled as well.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

( The three-month period of the shortest days and weakest solar radiation occurs during November, December, and January in the Northern Hemisphere and May through July in the Southern Hemisphere.

The three-month period associated with the coldest average temperatures typically begins somewhere in late November or early December in the Northern Hemisphere and lasts through late February or early March.

* September 19 – Thirty Year's War: Heidelberg, the capital of the Electorate of the Palatinate, is taken by the Imperial army of Tilly after a three-month siege.

They conducted a survey of the upper Yangtze River in the spring of 1945 and, disguised as coolies, conducted a detailed three-month survey of the Chinese coast from Shanghai to Kitchioh Wan, near Hong Kong.