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.

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 large farms operate within Mansfield, including Mountain Dairy, which has been producing and processing milk under the stewardship of one family since 1871.

Lake Waccabuc, Lake Oscaleta, and Lake Rippowam are interconnected and are collectively known as the Three Lakes, and are natural ( not man-made ) lakes.

Three man-made lakes maintained by the Corps of Engineers are located near Cookeville, created to help flood control in the narrow valleys of the Cumberland Plateau: Center Hill Lake, Cordell Hull Lake, and Dale Hollow Lake.

Three small man-made islands, " Xiao Ying Zhou " ( 小瀛洲 ), " Hu Xin Ting " ( 湖心亭 ), and " Ruan Gong Dun " ( 阮公墩 ) lie in the center of Outer West Lake.

Three of these Ages are Amateria, a mechanical Age in the middle of a vast sea ; Edanna, a world of preserved nature, with abundant plant and animal life ; and Voltaic, a dusty island riddled with canyons filled with man-made constructions.

Three small lakes – Meshach, Shad, and Shadrach – are located within the village of Royal Lakes.

Three small lakes – Meshach, Shad, and Shadrach – were constructed for recreational purposes and the remaining land was divided into 2, 435 lots, each measuring-by-125 feet.

The lakes geographically define the town's areas, such as Three Points, The Island, The Highlands, Grandview Boulevard and Shirley Hills.

* Stoner Lakes – Three linked lakes by the north town line.

Three small lakes lie west of the community of Pine Plains: Stissing Lake which is excellent for swimming, Thompson Pond which is dedicated to conservation for wildlife, and Twin Island Lake, the largest out of the lakes lie in the center of the town.

Three lakes that are called range to the south north in the northern part of the city.

North East of Stevens Point, Sunset Lake, Three Lakes and numerous other unnamed glacial pot-like lakes exist.

Three of the dams are of the run-of-the-river type, the 4. 5 km length of the falls is now impounded in small lakes.

Three hundred garden-builders worked on the project, digging the lakes and installing seven hundred boulders in a space of 540 square meters.

Three small lakes, Blue Lake (, about 40 % overgrown ), Green Lake () and Tui Lake (, drinking water quality ) are located in the northern caldera of Raoul Island.

Seven major peaks of the Cascades — Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Three Fingered Jack, Diamond Peak, North, Middle and South Sisters — as well as numerous high mountain lakes are within these wilderness areas.

Three species ( M. aquaticum, M. heterophyllum and M. spicatum ) have aggressively invaded lakes, natural waterways and irrigation canals in North America.

* Three Lakes, a complex of three small lakes in Redwood County, Minnesota, US

Three larger lakes and several smaller ones are centered at and can be found on the " Cisco Grove " and " Soda Springs " USGS topographic maps.

Three lakes sit on the Alberta side of the park ( Elkwater Lake, Spruce Coulee Reservoir and Reesor Lake ), with another four in Saskatchewan ( Harris, Adams, Coulee Lake and Loch Leven ).

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