In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that, in the Bible story, as in other flood myths, the flood marks a new beginning and a second chance for creation and humanity.

The second half of Exodus marks the point at which, and describes the process through which, God's theophany becomes a permanent presence for Israel via the Tabernacle.

In grammar, genitive ( abbreviated ; also called the possessive case or second case ) is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun.

* 1720 – The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy.

Higher second letter marks better oil properties, like lower engine wear supported by tests.

The earliest spring-driven timepiece with a second hand which marked seconds is an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection, dated between 1560 and During the 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1 / 5 minute.

Important tallages were made by Edward I in the second, third and fourth years, (£ 1, 000 ) and in the fifth year ( 25, 000 marks ), of his reign.

Formerly, when a word or phrase in quotation marks came at the end of a phrase or clause that ended with a semicolon, the semicolon would be put before the trailing quotation mark ; now, however, the magazine follows the more commonly observed style and puts the semicolon after the second quotation mark.

Gastrulation marks the opening of the " second mouth " that places them within the deuterostomes, and the mesoderm, which will host the skeleton, migrates inwards.

Carey played the first 11 games in 2004, after which he had taken the most contested marks at Adelaide, was 11 goals clear in the Crows ' goal kicking and was coming second in the club best and fairest.

Approximately 100 metres after the second torii, the dankazura, a raised pathway flanked by cherry trees that marks the center of Kamakura, begins.

This marks the second time that Ving Rhames makes an appearance in a remake of a George A. Romero zombie film, following Dawn of the Dead.

This marks Willis's second collaboration with director Robert Rodriguez, following Sin City.

Bose attended Hindu School in Calcutta, and later attended Presidency College, also in Calcutta, earning the highest marks at each institution while fellow student Meghnad Saha came second.

Until 1960, the meter was defined by a platinum-iridium prototype bar with two scratch marks on it ( that were, by definition, spaced apart by one meter ), the International Prototype Metre, and in 1983 the meter was redefined to be the distance in free space covered by light in 1 / 299, 792, 458 of a second ( thus defining the speed of light to be 299, 792, 458 meters per second ).

When the north tower rose to the level of the second storey the south was begun – the evidence lies in the profiles and in the masons marks on the two levels of the two towers.

Erato is also invoked at the start of book 7 of Virgil's Aeneid, which marks the beginning of the second half or ' Iliadic ' section of the poem: Calliope ( epic ), even Melpomene ( tragedy ) or Clio ( history ) might seem more appropriate.

In Egyptian writing, the second t marks a feminine ending, but was not usually pronounced, and the aleph ȝ may have moved to a position before the accented syllable, as witnessed by the Aramaic spelling ȝbst.

The second type, the graduated pipette, is straight-walled and as the name implies has graduation marks along most of its length.

This marks the second time in twenty years the city has won the title, the last time being in 1988.

At the side of the broad shady road called Rotten Row, leading from the West Lodge to Bailiffgate, a tablet of stone marks the spot where William the Lion of Scotland was captured in 1174, during the second Battle of Alnwick by a party of about four hundred mounted knights, led by Ranulf de Glanvill ; and there are many others of similar interest.

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its participation by the February 2010 plenary meeting, where CUIC moved to refocus on its eight marks of commitment and a shared concern for racial justice as a major dividing factor facing ecumenism.

The publication of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689, but dated 1690 ) marks a major turning point in the history of deism.

The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history.

The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history ; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way.

He finally managed to perfect it in 1790, with the issue of the " first-edition " of copies ( with some of this edition, including the V & A one, copying the cameo's delicacy by a combination of undercutting and shading the reliefs in grey ), and it marks his last major achievement.

It should be noted that the established criteria of Star Trek canon disqualifies novels as being official continuity ; the decision to undo Trip's death in " These Are the Voyages " in the novels marks one of the only occasions in which a licensed, expanded universe spin-off has openly contradicted a major part of Trek continuity – an earlier example involved the launch of a series of novels featuring Kirk that suggested the character did not die at the end of the film, Star Trek Generations.

It went on to play a major part in the remainder of the war, in a number of variants and marks, and it was the only allied fighter aircraft to be in production through the entirety of World War Two.

The Triassic – Jurassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

This marks the first time a major Hollywood film running more than ninety minutes is televised uncut in one evening.

* May 22 – The British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior.

Bill Viola's exhibition profile, which includes the National Gallery, London, Guggenheim Berlin, Guggenheim New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty Los Angeles, California, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York marks him as a major contemporary artist.

The capture of Veii and its surrounding territories marks the first major expansion of Rome which doubles its territory after this victory.

Engraving takes on not only the major features of the bore, such as the lands and grooves, but also minor features, like scratches and tool marks.

* Criterion ( iv ): The creation of the Beemster Polder marks a major step forward in the interrelationship between humankind and water at a crucial period of social and economic expansion.

NY 240 ( Vaughn Street ), a major north – south truck road, marks the east border of the village.

New York State Route 14 is a major north-south highway that parallels nearby Seneca Lake, which marks the eastern town line.

Joseph's accession marks a major break since the preceding reforms under Maria Theresa had not challenged these structures, but there was no similar break at the end of the Josephinian era.

It ushers in the D major choral finale: " Worthy is the Lamb ", leading to the apocalyptic " Amen " in which, says Hogwood, " the entry of the trumpets marks the final storming of heaven ".

A ring road marks the former city wall, and the Westen -/ Ostenhellweg, part of a medieval salt trading route, is still the major ( pedestrian ) street bisecting the city centre.

Accessed by the Ring's End Landing bridge, a graceful stone structure that marks a major shipping point for early settlers, Long Neck became a summer destination for the wealthy when rail travel made it accessible during the mid-19th century.

The Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 marks the emergence of Japan as a major military power.

Within the park is the village of Covadonga, where the battle of Covadonga ( about 722 ), the first major victory by a Christian military force in Iberia after the Islamic conquest, marks the starting-point of the Reconquista.

The IRC has been awarded high marks by charity watchdog groups and major publications for the efficient use of its financial support and the effectiveness of its work.

The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks.