Some old characters, like The Three Bears and Little Plum, have more recently made a return.

Generally, children first studied the Chinese characters with rote memorization of the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, then went on to memorize the other classics, in order to ascend in the social hierarchy.

This was also the period where Jones created many of his lesser-known characters, including Charlie Dog, Hubie and Bertie, and The Three Bears.

The original alignment system ( which grouped all characters and creatures into ' Law ', ' Neutrality ' and ' Chaos ') was derived from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

* Three of the Four Great Books of Song are published ( the last one in 1013 ), which were enormous Chinese encyclopedias having millions of written Chinese characters each.

Built by the sculptor Henri Ding, the Fountain of the Three Orders, which represents three characters, is located on the Place Notre-Dame.

The characters Huang ( 皇 huáng " god-king ") and Di ( 帝 dì " sage king ") had been used separately and never consecutively ( see Three August Ones and Five Emperors ).

Three of the four principal hobbit characters in The Lord of the Rings ( Frodo, Pippin and Merry ) certainly had Fallohide blood through their common ancestor, the Old Took.

C-3PO also displays the ability to lie ( essentially favouring one human group over another ), giving him a more autonomous capability of thought than characters subject to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

Three of these characters were pronounced very similarly in Old Chinese – according to a recent reconstruction by William Baxter – but sound changes in the intervening 3, 000 years or so ( including two different dialectal developments, in the case of the last two characters ) have resulted in radically different pronunciations.

There are also a number of films about Western-type characters in contemporary settings, such as Junior Bonner set in the 1970s and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in the 21st century.

In Season Four, Spike was introduced to fill the antagonistic role that Cordelia had in seasons One to Three ; as Joss Whedon explains on the DVD featurette, " All of our characters got to the point where they were loving and hugging, and it was sort of like, where's Cordelia?

Also, in the World War II propaganda film The New Spirit ( 1942 ), Donald Duck fills out his income tax and lists his occupation as " actor ," and the film The Three Muskateers ( 2004 ) includes a DVD bonus feature of the characters reminiscing on their experience filming the movie.

* Athos ( fictional character ), one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ) by Alexandre Dumas ( père ), indirectly named from the village

" Hylas " is the name of one of the two characters in George Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.

Several characters called Lugaid, a popular medieval Irish name thought to derive from Lug, also exhibit triplism: for example, Lugaid Riab nDerg (" of the Red Stripes ") and Lugaid mac Trí Con (" Son of Three Hounds ") both have three fathers.

Three of the remaining original pilot characters differed from those of the series ( including the actor / actress cast ): In the pilot, the Professor was instead a high school teacher played by John Gabriel ; Ginger the movie star was instead Ginger, a practical secretary with red hair, played by Kit Smythe ; and Mary Ann the Kansas farm-girl was instead Bunny, a stereotypically cheerful " dumb blonde " secretary, played by Nancy McCarthy.

Three of the teens from the original cast — Gosselaar, Diamond, and Voorhies — remained on the show, playing the same characters with only minor changes to their backstories.

* Qin Shi Huang is one of the 32 historical figures who appear as special characters in the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI by Koei.

The character was a success, and reappeared in 1999's Three of a Kind, an episode which focused on the recurring characters of The Lone Gunmen.

In 1933 Disney was continuing to emphasise story development and characterization which resulted in yet another hit for Disney: Three Little Pigs, which is seen as the first cartoon in which multiple characters displayed unique, individual personalities is still considered to be the most successful animated short of all time, and also featured the hit song that became the anthem in fighting the Great Depression " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ".

* In Yury Olesha's 1924 novel Three Fat Men, one of the main characters is armorer Prospero

One of four males born in a litter of English Beagles, Porthos and his brothers, Athos, Aramis and d ' Artagnan, were named after characters from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

Three of the anti-Rh sera used were taken from recently sensitized individuals.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

* Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, Hardcover, 243 pages, Published 1985 by Dodd, Mead NY, ISBN 0-396-08747-7 includes 20 from 4 sets: The Tuesday Club Murders, The Regatta Mystery, Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, and Double Sin and Other Stories.

Three more, to contain the Chorale Preludes with Schweitzer's analyses, were to be worked on in Africa: but these were never completed, perhaps because for him they were inseparable from his evolving theological thought.

Three different types of punch cards were used: one for arithmetical operations, one for numerical constants, and one for load and store operations, transferring numbers from the store to the arithmetical unit or back.

Three separate sources were combined to form fr. 350, as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from Strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of Otto Hoffmann, Karl Otfried Muller and Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens.

Three years had now elapsed without any production coming from his chisel.

Three excerpts from Wozzeck were performed in 1924, and this brought Berg his first public success.

At 9: 30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.

Three fingers from the soldier's right hand was traumatically amputated during WWI.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Disraeli scored another diplomatic success at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in preventing Bulgaria from gaining full independence, limiting the growing influence of Russia in the Balkans and breaking up the League of the Three Emperors.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

In the next scene, Banquo and Macbeth, returning from the battle together, encounter the Three Witches, who predict that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor, and then king.

He appears again to Macbeth in a vision granted by the Three Witches, wherein Macbeth sees a long line of kings descended from Banquo.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

The Three Character Classic begins with " People at birth are naturally good ( kind-hearted )", which stems from Mencius ' idea.

Three mountain chains — Sima, Nioumakele, and Jimilime — emanate from a central peak, Mtingui ( 1, 575 m ), giving the island its distinctive shape.

As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle