Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.

Three days had passed since Spencer's arrest and each day had brought new dangers, new fears.

Three days after Stanton's removal, the House impeached Johnson for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47.

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the Matins service in Eastern Orthodoxy, and of Lauds on Sundays and feast days in Catholicism.

Three days later, Young pitched a perfect game against Waddell and the Athletics.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

Three days later he was asked by the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano to stay on as Prime Minister and he agreed to do so.

As a general rule, the four days above, the Biblical Jewish holidays ( Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Three Pilgrimage Festivals ) and Purim are observed as holidays in Israel.

Three days later, Ribbentrop attempted to meet with Hitler, only to be told to go away as Hitler had more important things to do.

Three days before he was to be married to Šomková, just a few weeks after he had begun working as a legal assistant, Mácha overexerted himself while helping put out a fire and soon thereafter died of pneumonia.

Three days after the initial incident, Greek troops invaded Bulgaria.

Three days later an Indian frigate captured the mercenaries on their freighter near the Sri Lankan coast.

* 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3, 500 arrests.

Three days later he was seen on an ATM camera with Hani Hanjour.

Three days later on March 10, the Vikings hired new head coach Bud Grant to replace Van Brocklin, who had resigned on February 11, 1967.

* 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

Three days after he had been welcomed on his arrival, Magellan fled the archipelago under attack.

Three days later, the Cardinals elected Pope Gregory X.

Three days after Tannhäuser's departure Urban's staff blooms with flowers ; messengers are sent to retrieve the knight, but he has already returned to Venusberg, never to be seen again.

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

Three of them occur in spring: the first and seventh days of Passover, and Pentecost.

Three days later, Tom Nunan, entertainment producer at UPN, held a press conference formally announcing Enterprise to the world at large.

Three days later, following an 11 – 3 debacle at home against the Diamondbacks, Brian Sabean, Bruce Bochy, and Drew Northfield held a private meeting with the starting pitchers, who had gone 5 – 13 with a 5. 56 ERA in August, including 14 straight starts without a win.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

The most important magician of the Renaissance was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ( 1486 – 1535 ), who widely studied various occult topics and earlier grimoires, and eventually published his own, the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, in 1533.

The parliament had evolved from an earlier council of nobility and clergy, the colloquium, constituted around 1235, but perhaps in 1326 representatives of the burghs — the burgh commissioners — joined them to form the Three Estates.

John B. Carroll ( 1993 ), after a comprehensive reanalysis of earlier data, proposed the Three Stratum theory, which is a hierarchical model with three levels.

Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in and his uniform # 5 was retired by the team.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

Furthermore, similar to Xinjiang which was converted into a province earlier, the Qing government also turned Manchuria into three provinces in the early 20th century, officially known as the " Three Northeast Provinces ", and established the post of Viceroy of Three Northeast Provinces to oversee these provinces, making the total number of regional viceroys to nine.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

Three Viking ships had beached in Portland Bay six years earlier, but that incursion may have been a trading expedition that went wrong rather than a piratical raid.

Moe quickly signed movie and burlesque comic Joe DeRita for the " third Stooge " role ; DeRita adopted first a crew cut and then a completely shaven hairstyle and became " Curly Joe " because of his resemblance to the original Curly Howard ( also to make it easier to distinguish him from Joe Besser, the earlier Stooge called Joe ). The Three Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita filling the role of the third stooge.

He then combined the titles of the earlier Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors into his new name: Shi Huangdi () or " First Emperor ".

Conversely, the band's transition from lengthy, complex songs to more compact, simplistic, radio-friendly material was not welcomed by critics ; Rolling Stone's review of ... And Then There Were Three ... read: "... this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments.

Shakespeare's earlier version, The True Chronicle of the History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters, was published in quarto in 1608.

This concept is largely fuzzy and unclear in earlier stories depicting very rudimentary robots who are only programmed to comprehend basic physical tasks, where the Three Laws act as an overarching safeguard, but by the era of The Caves of Steel featuring robots with human or beyond-human intelligence the Three Laws have become the underlying basic ethical worldview that determines the actions of all robots.

The film is considered the swan song for the " Big Three " Universal horror monsters – Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster – although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films.

Three years earlier his fame had earned him the position of lecturer on the The Four Books of Sentences — a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century — and in 1255 he received the degree of master, the medieval equivalent of doctor.

Cook had earlier ( 25 January 1769 ) written of the Three Brothers hills west of Cape St Diego, so perhaps he was inspired by them too.

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

Three days earlier, the five-Justice majority had ordered the recount stopped and the Court had to decide whether to re-start it.

Three years earlier, a U. S. Navy commission determined that Point Turner, between the protected waters of Sinclair and Dyes inlets, would be the best site in the Pacific Northwest on which to establish a shipyard.

Three years after it opened, the TTC renovated its southwestern terminus at Kennedy Station, because the looped turnaround track, originally designed for uni-directional streetcars under the earlier plan and not needed for the bi-directional ICTS trains, was causing derailments ; it was replaced with a single terminal track and the station was thus quasi-Spanish solution, with one side for boarding and another side for alighting, though the boarding side is also used for alighting during off-peak hours.

Three years earlier, the Chevy Chase Land Company had brought suit against a developer who had begun to sell lots to black people in a planned subdivision called " Belmont " on the grounds that the developer had committed fraud by proposing " to sell lots ... to negroes.

Three earlier towns have stood in the same general area.