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.

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

* 1740 – War of Jenkin's Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.

Three famous clipper ships which can be seen as models are Comet, Snow Squall, and Flying Cloud.

Three are Lighter aboard ships ( LASH ) which carry barges called Lighters that contain Army ammunition to be ferried ashore: MV American Cormorant, SS Green Harbour, ( LASH ), SS Green Valley, ( LASH ), MV Jeb Stuart, ( LASH ).

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable Navy officers:

Three US Naval ships have been named after this battle, including the USS Lake Champlain ( CV-39 ), the USS Lake Champlain ( CG-57 ), and a cargo ship used during World War I.

Three unidentified maritime prepositioning ships anchored off the coast of Saipan in June 2011

Three ships of the United States Navy:

Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in the original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films.

Three ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation and four TNG-era films.

Three ships of the US Navy have borne the name USS Reuben James.

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.

Three jibs were commonly used on Bermudian ships.

Three ships continued on, one of which was carrying Queen Joan of Sicily and Berengaria of Navarre, Richard's bride-to-be.

Three years later, his father having been discharged from service because of a navy reorganisation, they sailed together on their merchantman to Guinea, when they were attacked by seven ships of the English pirate Peter Easton.

Three of the eight remaining " big ships " were burnt: the Royal Oak, the new Loyal London and the Royal James.

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zulu, after the African Zulu people:

Three ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nelson in honour of Horatio Nelson:

Three U. S. Navy ships have been named for the city.

Three hospital ships of the United States Navy have borne the name

Three more Portuguese ships barely fended off another attack in September, the same month that Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires arrived back at Canton.

Three ships of the German navy have been named in honour of Blücher.

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Three light cruisers are still in existence as museum ships, and one is still used in active service by a navy-BAP Almirante Grau of the Peruvian Navy.

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Oregon, in honor of the Oregon Territory or the 33rd state.