The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

This investigation usually opens no sooner than five years after the death of the person being investigated.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

The park is also home to the Cascades Ice Cream Co. which opens when there is usually still snow on the ground and stays open until October.

Frequent Sunday night / Monday morning host of Coast to Coast AM George Knapp usually opens his show mentioning unobtainium.

The World Showcase usually opens two hours after park opening and remains open later than the Future World section of the park ; however, most major attractions in Future World including Test Track, Soarin ', Mission Space, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, and Spaceship Earth remain open until park close.

A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces ( opens along a seam ) on two sides.

The sperm duct opens into a gonopore at the posterior end of the animal, which is usually modified to form a penis.

The latter meaning that the owner retains possession, while the appropriate national heritage body maintains it and ( usually ) opens it to the public.

Although a ceremonial door opens directly into Front Quad, the chapel usually is reached through the door in staircase 3.

They have included one with a staircase with buttons, with the contestant trying to avoid a " broken " button to win ( this game was relaunched in 2005 with a man in a cherry picker, usually a stunt double, falling out of there if the broken button was pushed ), one with 12 keys with the contestant must choose the key ( with a set number of chances ) that opens the large " vault " containing the car inside ( similar to " The Price Is Right "' s " Master Key " and " Safe Crackers " pricing games ).

This coiled shell usually opens on the right-hand side ( as viewed with the shell apex pointing upward ).

When the customer opens the package and uses the product, however, it is usually considered unique and no longer interchangeable with unopened packages unless there is some customer service issue, such as a return or exchange.

Depending on country, the final degree ( if any ) is called Abitur, Artium, Diploma, Matura, Maturita or Student and it usually opens the way to professional schools directly.

The formation process usually begins when the sea attacks small cracks in a headland and opens them.

The silk ' belt ' opens out at one end into a large apron which is usually heavily embroidered and with thick tassles at the bottom.

The fountains usually run from around mid-April to the end of October, making this one of two aquatic play areas in Toronto that opens very early in the season and closes very late in the season.

For slower shutter speeds, the first curtain opens ( usually ) from right to left, and after the required time with the shutter open, the second curtain closes the aperture in the same direction.

It usually opens completely, accompanied by a popping sound.

A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces ( opens along a seam ) on two sides.

The mold is usually designed so that the molded part reliably remains on the ejector ( B ) side of the mold when it opens, and draws the runner and the sprue out of the ( A ) side along with the parts.

The President usually opens each Parliamentary session with an address drafted by the Cabinet setting out the Government's agenda for the session, and may address Parliament and send messages to it.

The episode opens with the Fab Five in an SUV ( usually in New York City, where the series was based ) discussing their straight subject.

" Black Friday " officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.

Whatever his original assignment, the fictional private eye ends up by investigating and solving a crime, usually a murder.

It usually goes up.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of adjoining properties might impair the residential value of the farm.

`` Several times I found the players pepping me up, where it usually is the coach who is supposed to deliver the fight talk.

In their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in October, 2006, they showed that both pure monetary rewards and charitable donations activated the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food and sex.

Typically, prolonged breeders congregate at a breeding site, the males usually arriving first, calling and setting up territories.

Furthermore, U. S. appellate courts are usually restricted to hearing appeals based on matters that were originally brought up before the trial court.

An aardvark's length is usually between, and can reach lengths of when its tail ( which can be up to ) is taken into account.

They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

To move position, the guns must be limbered up again and brought — usually towed — to the new location.

The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form.

The fairy shrimp of the order Anostraca are usually long ( exceptionally up to ).

Intentional walks are a strategic defensive maneuver, usually done to bypass one hitter for one the defensive team believes is less likely to initiate a run-scoring play ( e. g., a home run, sacrifice fly, or RBI base hit ), or to set up a double play or force out situation for the next batter.

Ingested proteins are usually broken up into single amino acids or dipeptides in the small intestine, and then absorbed.

The player may add up to half the value of their original bet to the insurance and these extra chips are placed on a portion of the table usually marked " Insurance Pays 2 to 1 ".

Several structures make up a cabin: the similar but usually lighter structure which spans a raised cabin is a coach-roof.

Longer distance tours are also carried out by bus, either on a turn up and go basis or through a tour operator, and usually allow disembarkation from the bus to allow touring of sites of interest on foot.

Battles are, on the whole, made up of a multitude of individual combats, skirmishes and small engagements within the context of which the combatants will usually only experience a small part of the events of the battle's entirety.

To speed up match play and to provide an added dimension for strategy, a doubling cube is usually used.

SSI ICs, such as the ones used in the Apollo guidance computer, usually contained up to a few score transistors.

The brightest stars, usually the stars that make up the constellation's eponymous asterism, also retain proper names, often from Arabic.

* Hydroxylapatite ( Ca < sub > 5 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 3 </ sub >( OH ), but is usually written Ca < sub > 10 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 6 </ sub >( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub >) makes up seventy percent of bone.

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.