They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Hardy's two productive decades were separated by forty years, yet between them he developed only in that he became more steadily himself -- it was a narrowing, not an expanding process.

But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.

In two months she became a fat highly social baby, with a fuzz of flaxen hair all over her head.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the introduction of Buddhism.

It was a time when individual expression and worldly experience became two of the main themes of Renaissance art.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

" Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " was included in two hymnals distributed to soldiers and with death so real and imminent, religious services in the military became commonplace.

They had at least two sons, one of whom, Nithard, became a notable figure in the mid-9th century.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

After leaving the IHÉS, Grothendieck became a temporary professor at Collège de France for two years.

Ironically, the Miami Dolphins became a Professional Football powerhouse, winning two Super Bowl Championships, including the perfect season of 1972.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

The Abbasid army was fast on his heels, and laid siege to Carmona for approximately two months.

Bombardier wanted to develop a fast, lightweight snowmobile that could carry one or two people.

A fast way to determine whether two numbers are coprime is given by the Euclidean algorithm.

Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

The Cubs retained many players who experienced career years in ' 98, and after a fast start in 1999, they collapsed again ( starting with being swept at the hands of the cross-town White Sox in mid-June ) and finished in the bottom of the division for the next two seasons.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

It can be shown that any stationary flux v ( r ) which is at least two times continuously differentiable in and vanishes sufficiently fast for can be decomposed into an irrotational part E ( r ) and a source-free part B ( r ).

The distance between two different initial conditions in the case A ≠ 0 will change exponentially in most cases, either converging exponentially fast towards a point, or diverging exponentially fast.

( A 5-Fire, 5-Earth hero can typically defeat two 4-Fire, 5-Earth enemies, or handily defeat a 3-Fire, 5-Earth character in foot race, but cannot necessarily run twice as fast even though speed is governed by Fire.

The postweaning fast ranges from two weeks in the hooded seal to 9 – 12 weeks in the northern elephant seal.

The German contribution to this operation is two frigates, four fast attack craft, and two auxiliary vessels.

The 8086 took a little more than two years from idea to working product, which was considered rather fast for a complex design in 1976 – 1978.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

Larwood used a form of bodyline on that same tour, bowling fast leg theory to a leg-side field in two Test matches, although not with the same intensity and duration as came later.

The Vichy French, in response to Berlin's request, sent the cruiser from Dakar, and two sloops, the fast Annamite and the slower, from Conakry, French Guinea, and Cotonou, Dahomey, respectively.

The remaining energy to initiate fission can be supplied by two other mechanisms: one of these is more kinetic energy of the incoming neutron, which is increasingly able to fission a fissionable heavy nucleus as it exceeds a kinetic energy of one MeV or more ( so-called fast neutrons ).

Consider two ISPs, A and B, which each have a presence in New York, connected by a fast link with latency 5 ms ; and which each have a presence in London connected by a 5 ms link.

The heart of BETA's processing capability consisted of 63 dedicated fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) engines, each capable of performing a 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >- point complex FFTs in two seconds, and 21 general-purpose personal computers equipped with custom digital signal processing boards.

This is punishable by only paying diyya, If the perpetrator cannot afford the blood money, he / she can fast for two months straight to be forgiven.

Whippets with a single copy of this mutation are generally very fast ; those with two copies have disproportionately large musculature and are known as " bully whippets "

There is no direct access to the alternate registers ; instead, two special instructions, < code > EX AF, AF '</ tt > and < code > EXX </ tt >, each toggles one of two multiplexer flip-flops ; this enables fast context switches for interrupt service routines: < code > EX AF, AF '</ tt > may be used alone ( for really simple and fast interrupt routines ) or together with < code > EXX </ tt > to swap the whole AF, BC, DE, HL set ; still much faster than pushing the same registers on the stack ( slower, lower priority, or multi level interrupts normally use the stack to store registers ).