From Castile, he orchestrated a series of attempts to usurp the crown for himself.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

In many cases, these stories will describe a series of failed attempts to make land before the solution is found.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

Along with the commercial growth has come the rise of video games also depicting graffiti, usually in a positive aspect – for example, the Jet Set Radio series ( 2000 – 2003 ) tells the story of a group of teens fighting the oppression of a totalitarian police force that attempts to limit the graffiti artists ' freedom of speech.

From 492-449 BC the Persians made a series of unsuccessful attempts to conquer Greece.

The name Hallinskiði is obscure, but has resulted in a series of attempts at deciphering it.

Several attempts to revamp the series through cast changes and, later, expanding the focus from the motel to the surrounding community were unsuccessful.

French series are Highlander: The Series French science-fiction / fantasy television series ( both co-produced with Canada ) and a number of smaller fiction / fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a super secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, " Les atomistes " and bizarre

Previous attempts by Valve Software with the Half-Life series, Ritual Entertainment with SiN Episodes and Telltale Games themselves with Bone were for a variety of reasons not considered successful implementations of the distribution model.

After several failed attempts to attack government strongholds and little initial support from the local population, the National Guard nearly annihilated the Sandinistas in a series of attacks in 1963.

The series attempts to identify the planet's most significant environmental challenges.

* Each episode of the Irwin Allen series The Time Tunnel ( less the few set in the future ) depicted the time-traveling duo arriving at the scene of an historic tragedy, days or hours before the event, and invariably failing in their attempts to prevent it.

This began a long series of attempts by the USA to create a bi-metallic standard for the U. S. Dollar, which would continue until the 1920s.

In the first game series, Mortimer enslaves the Vorticons, a once peaceful alien race, and attempts to use them to destroy Earth.

A series of web pages by PBS that attempts to discuss the differences between dialects in the United States

In general, the games follow Larry's escapades as he attempts ( and mostly fails ) to convince a variety of young nubile women ( rendered with increasing sophistication throughout the series ) to have sex with him.

In 1184, after a series of failed attempts, the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf invaded Portugal with an army recruited in Northern Africa and, in May, besieged Afonso I in Santarém ; the Portuguese were helped by the arrival of the armies sent by the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July.

A series of attempts by the Ottoman Turks to take the island began in 1431 when Turkish troops under Ali Bey landed on the island, tried to take the castle and raided the surrounding area, but were repulsed.

Spurred on by a series of seminars in Poland in 1926 by Łukasiewicz that advocated a more natural treatment of logic, Jaśkowski made the earliest attempts at defining a more natural deduction, first in 1929 using a diagrammatic notation, and later updating his proposal in a sequence of papers in 1934 and 1935.

The two characters are close friends throughout the series, but their relationship does not resume until Star Trek: Insurrection, the third Star Trek film set in the Next Generation era, although Thomas Riker, the duplicate created by a transporter malfunction, attempts to respark their relationship in " Second Chances ".

In spite of early attempts to classify gaits based on footprints or the sound of footfalls, it wasn't until Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey began taking rapid series of photographs that proper scientific examination of gaits could begin.

The series attempts to show that it is not always necessary to be the best at everything, but that it's more important to simply take part.

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

The MCC had made it clear, in light of the revelations of the bodyline series, that these players would not face Australia.

It is made very clear during the series, even discussed directly by the characters, that Clark Kent is who he really is, rather than his superheroic alter-ego.

In the forewords to both 2010 and 2061, Clarke makes it clear that the plots of the movies and books do not necessarily follow a linear arc, and take place in parallel universes, consequently there are apparent inconsistencies in the character of David Bowman throughout the series.

With the advent of electrochemistry it became clear that metals generally go into solution as positively charged ions and the oxidation reactions of the metals became well understood in the electrochemical series.

In the final series, however it was clear that their cheerfulness was a façade and, in a particularly dark scene, Mildred hung herself " during a game of Happy Families ".

The series of events are not clear due to contradicting sources, but it is sure that after 971, Samuil and his brothers were the de facto rulers of the Western Bulgarian lands.

( It is clear from the context of the book, however, that the memo was intended as a joke, as the series of memos ends up discussing the pronunciation of such names as " Spook ", " Spilk " and " Spork ".

For the next two years preceding the battle of Adrianople there were a series of running battles with no clear victories for either side.

" Sun died in 1925 with no clear successor and leadership of the government, now named the Nationalist Government, rested in a series of Leninist-style dual party and state committees, the most powerful of which was the policy-making Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.

By the summer of 1929, it was clear that the economy was contracting and the stock market went through a series of unsettling price declines.

Some science fiction and fantasy books also show a clear picaresque influence, transported to a variety of invented worlds — for example, The Dying Earth series of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series, James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres and L. Sprague de Camp's Novarian series.

It consists of ten numbered poems that examine a series of emotional states, exploring suffering, despair, devotion, rather than a clear narrative.

Although a third season was considered, series creator J. Michael Straczynski made it clear that if the show ran a further season he would have nothing to do with it.

Another example is at Muggier, which was by at the base, and is even now high, and it is clear that both it and the Birs were built with diminishing stages, presenting a series of grand platforms, decreasing in length as they ascended, and leaving a comparatively small one at top for the temple cell.

This was eventually achieved with one match remaining, with Athletic moving clear of early-season successes RCD Espanyol after a series of narrow victories, including 2 – 1 wins over Basque rivals Osasuna and Real Sociedad in successive weeks.

Thirdly, although this engine used positive steam pressure to push water up out of the engine ( with no theoretical limit to the height to which water could be lifted by a single high-pressure engine ) practical and safety considerations meant that in practice, to clear water from a deep mine would have needed a series of moderate-pressure engines all the way from the bottom level to the surface.

In her 2010 Open Letters Monthly series, " A Year With Short Novels ," Ingrid Norton criticizes the tendency to make clear demarcations based purely on a book's length:

Bakshi moved into a warehouse loft in downtown Los Angeles to clear his head, and was offered $ 50, 000 to direct a half-hour live-action film for PBS's Imagining America anthology series.

St Kilda finished the home and away season a game clear on top with 14 wins and 4 losses, qualifying for a finals series in first position as minor premiers for the first time in the club's history.

During the series, Screech briefly has a girlfriend named Violet ( played by Tori Spelling ); it is not made clear why the two broke up.

Timed Mode challenges the player to score as many points as possible within a two-minute time limit, and Stage Clear mode takes the player through a series of stages in which the objective is to clear blocks below a set line.

Growth slowed somewhat in the 1970s, and a series of budget cuts made it clear that Auburn's sole economic reliance on Auburn University put the city in a tenuous position.