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

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.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

Large dams such as Three Gorges Dam in China can provide large amounts of hydroelectric power ; it will have a 22. 5 Watt # Gigawatt | GW capability.

Three large ships landed on the first day and 700 immigrants passed over the docks.

1850 BCE " contains fifteen Pythagorean triples with quite large entries, including ( 13500, 12709, 18541 ) which is a primitive triple ,< ref > Three positive integers form a primitive Pythagorean triple if and if the highest common factor of is 1.

Three men from St Kilda caught a single " garefowl ", noticing its little wings and the large white spot on its head.

alt = Three killer whales swim along beside a large iceberg.

Three of the reactors at Fukushima I nuclear accidents | Fukushima I overheated, causing nuclear meltdown | meltdowns that eventually led to explosions, which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.

* Three leading food processing companies, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Nestle, together achieve a large proportion of global processed food sales.

Three large corporations guided Hitler as a puppet, and now plan the subjugation of the planet to their organization, the Triad.

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

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

Three designers are widely considered the pioneers of that movement and of logo and corporate identity design: The first is Chermayeff & Geismar, which is the firm responsible for a large number of iconic logos, such as Chase Bank ( 1964 ), Mobil Oil ( 1965 ), PBS ( 1984 ), NBC ( 1986 ), National Geographic ( 2003 ) and others.

* Ketone bodies, commonly called ketones — Three chemicals produced during ketosis ( i. e., fat metabolism ) and which are released in large quantities during abnormal fat processing.

Three major land battles, seven large naval battles ( five nighttime surface actions and two carrier battles ), and continual, almost daily aerial battles culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942, in which the last Japanese attempt to bombard Henderson Field from the sea and land with enough troops to retake it was defeated.

The election of such a relatively large number of Bloquistes was the first of The Three Periods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader Jacques Parizeau.

Its land area is larger than that of San Bernardino County, California, the largest county in the contiguous Lower 48 states, Three Forths as large as the state of Ohio.

Three sizes of the probe were created ; the primary probe model was supplemented by a smaller model for wide shots and a large model that used forced perspective to give the probe the illusion of massive dimensions.

Portions of the historic Three Chopt Trail, a Native American trail, run through a large portion of the county.

Three large man-made lakes provide residents with sport fishing, water skiing, and sailing as well as hydroelectric power.

Perry may have grown in popularity after the English Civil War, when the large numbers of soldiers billeted in the Three Counties became acquainted with it, and reached a zenith of popularity during the eighteenth century, when intermittent conflicts with France made the importing of wine difficult.

Three large orbit rings of stainless steel encircle the Unisphere at various angles.

* The Compass Room is dedicated to the administration of justice ; its name comes from the large wooden compass surmounted by a statue of Justice, which stands in one corner and hides the entrance to the rooms of the Three Heads of the Council of Ten and the State Inquisitors.

Three of the main areas that agroecologists would look at in farms, would be: the environmental impacts, animal welfare issues, and the social aspects.

Three of these farms ( the one bordering Aitken College is known as " Hacienda ") are now set for development into a new housing estate, taking advantage of excellent city views to the south and a view of the Greenvale Reservoir to the east.

Three of them had farms in this area and built houses ; Charles John Taylor at Glen Orchard ( now Saint Heliers ), William Innes Taylor at Glen Innes, & Richard James Taylor at Glendowie.

Three other estates in the parish are those of Ower, Stanswood, and Stone, all of which are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and still exist as farms in the south of the parish.

He stood with limited success at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky as well as at Clashmore Stud in Ireland and breeding farms in France and Japan.

Widely known as one of the world's preeminent horse farms, Three Chimneys has been home to a number of famous horses including U. S. Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew, U. S. Filly Triple Crown champion Chris Evert, as well as Silver Charm, Chief's Crown, Genuine Risk, Point Given, Slew o ' Gold, Capote, Smarty Jones, and Big Brown.

Three farms namely Stray Leaf, East View and Mulligans Flat predate the founding of the suburb.

Three Canadian organizations operate programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada ( DFAIT ), the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) and the Department of National Defence ( DND ).

Three units of the Rodriquez RHS150 type operate on each lake, for a total of nine hydrofoils.

Three major football competitions operate throughout the year: the National Football League and the All-Ireland Senior Championship are operated on a county basis, while the All-Ireland Club Championship is contested by individual clubs.

Three companies operate fiber optic submarine communications cables connecting Israel and Europe:

Three lumber mills currently operate in Tillamook County, one at Garibaldi, one in Tillamook, and one south of Tillamook at the former Naval Air Station.

Three wineries operate in the county and are licensed separately to sell to the public.

Three public school districts operate in the county:

General Public Utilities Corporation, the plant's owner, formed General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation ( GPUN ) as a new subsidiary to own and operate the company's nuclear facilities, including Three Mile Island.

Three former employees of Western Stoneware now operate the facility under the name " WS ", Inc and have leased the building and logo from the city of Monmouth.

* Three ferry companies ( Arnold Transit Company, Shepler's Ferry and Star Line Ferry ) operate out of Saint Ignace, connecting tourists and commuters to Mackinac Island.

Three of the top ten largest cement factories in the United States operate in the city: Texas Industries (" TXI "), Holcim and Ash Grove.

Three sisters, Marilyn Hicks, Linda Roy, and Caron Perkins, operate the Matador as an eight-unit bed and breakfast.

Three ferry companies operate out of Mackinaw City, connecting tourists and commuters to Mackinac Island: north and south Arnold Line, Sheplers Ferry and the Star Line.

Three other characters who show up regularly in both the manga and anime are Shinichi and Koichi's mother and father, who operate a small hotel.

Three wineries operate in the city's west-end: Henry of Pelham Winery, Hernder Estates and Harvest Estates.

Three reporters still operate in Carlisle as regional news correspondents but operate from a smaller bureau in the Kingstown area of the city which opened on Friday 10 July 2009.

Three model aircraft clubs operate within a three mile radius of Biggin Hill Airport.

Three Outback locations continue to operate in Edmonton, Alberta.

Three side-by-side units of land were established, each large enough to operate a full farm rotation, so that the food-chains involved — soil – plant – animal and back to the soil — could be studied as they functioned through successive rotational cycles, involving many generations of plants and animals, in order that interdependences between soil, plant and animal, and also any cumulative effects could manifest.

In Caacupé operate several institutions, such as the Governorate of the Cordillera, City Hall, Comptroller General of the Republic, Court of First Instance, Banco Nacional de Fomento, COPACO SA, ANDE, Mail, Regional Hospital, oversight of primary and secondary schools, National University Three private universities, secondary schools, primary and secondary schools, several high schools, private institutes, Paraguayan Red Cross, Lions Club, and several more institutions.

Three private medical centers also operate in Kuantan, namely the Kuantan Medical Centre, Kuantan Specialist Hospital and Darul Makmur Medical Center.

Three of them operate as retailers ' cooperatives: Do It Best Corp, from Fort Wayne Indiana, True Value company from Chicago Illinois and Ace Hardware from Oakbrook Illinois.

Three short-time hotels operate on the top floor.