Carpenter's study showed that female common garter and ribbon snakes of Michigan mature at about the age of two.

For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; ;

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

The allosome pair consists of two X chromosomes ( female ) or one X and one Y chromosome ( male ).

Bongos have two heavy and slightly spiralled horns that slope over their back and like in many other antelope species, both the male and female bongos have horns.

In 2012, the US Air Force alleged that two of its female airmen were subjected to cyber-bullying after receiving Bronze Star Medals for meritorious non-combat service.

Couples consist of two people, traditionally but not necessarily one male and one female, referred to as the gent, gentleman or man, and lady or woman.

The Tswana people of Botswana saw the constellation as Dithutlwa, two giraffes-Acrux and Mimosa forming a male, and Gacrux and Delta Crucis forming the female.

The two parents are commonly identified as Sky ( usually male ) and Earth ( usually female ) who in the primeval state were so tightly bound to each other that no offspring could emerge.

In a bitheistic system, by contrast, where the two deities are not in conflict or opposition, one could be male and the other female ( cf.

In situ GUS staining of two female sex organs ( archegonia ) of a transgenic plant expressing a translational fusion of FIE-uidA under control of the native FIE promoter

), or one of the two terms is dominant ( signified over signifier ; intelligible over sensible ; speech over writing ; activity over passivity ; male over female ; man over animal, etc ).

" The poem was long considered to be about two male hills in a quarrel over a female hill, but scholars now consider that Kagu and Mimihashi might be female hills in love with the same male hill, Unebi.

The five female monarchs before Kōken / Shōtoku were ( a ) Suiko, ( b ) Kōgyoku / Saimei, ( c ) Jitō, ( d ) Gemmei, and ( e ) Genshō ; and the two women sovereigns reigning after Kōken / Shōtoku were ( f ) Meishō, and ( g ) Go-Sakuramachi.

In addressing the heterosexual female spectator, she revised her stance to argue that women can take two possible roles in relation to film: a masochistic identification with the female object of desire that is ultimately self-defeating or a transsexual identification with men as the active viewers of the text.

In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, and in which each individual produces only one type, a female is any individual that produces the larger type of gamete — called an ovum ( or egg )— and a male produces the smaller tadpole-like type — called a sperm.

In humans, an ovum can carry only an X chromosome ( of the X and Y chromosomes ), whereas a sperm may carry either an X or a Y ; thus the male sperm determines the sex of any resulting zygote, if the zygote has two X chromosomes it will develop into a female, if it has an X and a Y chromosome, it will develop into a male.

It was his first " love story between two men " where two men bond over their duty, skills and careers while considering their friendship to be more important than any affection towards a female.

" The film starred Monroe and Jane Russell as two gold digging, cabaret performer best friends that many critics point out is Hawks's only female version of his celebrated " buddy film " genre.

* Israel and Judah: The two " chronicles " of Israel and Judah provided the chronological framework, but few details apart from the succession of monarchs and the account of how the Temple of Solomon was progressively stripped as true religion declined.

Currently two Capetian monarchs still rule in Spain and Luxembourg.

Ruling monarchs could additionally steer the succession by adoption, as often occurred in the two first centuries of Imperial Rome.

To these two systems, the Carolingian monarchs added a third, the aprisio, which linked manorialism with feudalism.

Henry VII married his son Arthur to Catherine of Aragon, cementing an alliance with the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, and the two spent their honeymoon at Ludlow Castle, the traditional seat of the Prince of Wales.

The two Bourbon monarchs were also joined by Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, who hoped to secure gains from the Austrian Duchies of Milan and Mantua.

For her second consort Tamar chose, in 1191, the Alan prince David Soslan, by whom she had two children, George and Rusudan, the two successive monarchs on the throne of Georgia.

* December 26 – King Alexander III of Scotland marries Margaret, daughter of King Henry III of England, precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs.

The two monarchs then argued on a matter of etiquette, on whether the host or the guest should drink first.

It was in the nearby town of Villeneuve-Loubet that the two monarchs in 1538 concluded, through the mediation of Pope Paul III, a truce of ten years.

Taejo of Joseon, the founder of the Joseon Dynasty, took power in a coup in 1388 and after serving as a power behind the throne for two monarchs, established the Joseon Dynasty in 1392.

England had two new joint monarchs, William of Orange and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II.

Had his father not been deposed, there would have been only two monarchs during his lifetime ; his father and himself.

On 26 March 1244, the two monarchs signed the Treaty of Almizra to determine the zones of their expansion into Andalusia so as to prevent squabbling between them.

( In 2012 it was one of only two remaining Royal Yachts belonging to European monarchs ; the other, Dannebrog, belongs to the Queen of Denmark, the King's niece ).

As so often in other matters, Sparta was a notable exception to the rest of Greece, ruled through the whole period by not one, but two hereditary monarchs.

However, a reign spanning two world wars and the role he was believed to have played under Nazi rule made him one of the most popular Danish monarchs of modern times.

Intermittent civil war continued between the supporters of the two monarchs, and in April 1571 Dumbarton Castle fell to the King's men.

Cadfael explains his neutrality by saying " In my measure there's little to choose between two such monarchs, but much to be said for keeping a man's fealty and word.

On 28 October 1087 Peter joined his father in Pamplona in Navarre, where the two monarchs confirmed the rights of the bishops in the city.

Henry III and Edward I of England are two monarchs who spent much time here.

If this be so, we must necessarily ascribe it to the later of the two monarchs commemorated, i. e. to Shapur III, who must be supposed to have possessed more than usual filial piety, since the commemoration of their predecessors upon the throne is very rare among the Sassanians.