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.

The department was manned by booi (), or " bondservants ," from the Upper Three Banners.

Three manned missions were made to Skylab: SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4 ( see also the Mission designations section below ).

Three hundred phone lines were manned by the BBC, so that members of the public could make donations using their credit cards.

Three hundred soldiers manned batteries, underground ammunition dumps, observation towers, repair shops and barracks around Swan Lake in the Long Meadow.

Three days later they escape to Brittany on a rowboat manned by 20 other sailors.

U. S. Navy aircraft from Carrier Air Wing Three ( CVW 3 ), flying from, Carrier Air Wing Eleven ( CVW 11 ), flying from, and Patrol Squadron Four ( PATRON FOUR ), flew combat missions from the Persian Gulf in support of ODF.

Three missions to the Tang court were dispatched during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku.

He is also occasionally " loaned out " to the Judges for missions, such as when he was part of " The Three Amigos " alongside Judge Dredd and Judge Death.

Three technology experiments will test and demonstrate new equipment for future missions.

Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space Shuttle missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009.

Three of the aircraft were operated for ad-hoc charter missions as well as private flights for the owners, whereas the fourth was to be operated privately.

Three missions are dedicated to Ezio rescuing her from her imprisonment in the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

Three versions are " trainer " craft, available in only the 2-player missions.

Three versions of Valkyrie are available only for single-player missions.

* January 29 – Three gasoline-powered trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line ( Nishinari Line ), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.

* 27 October: Three IDF soldiers killed in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in the northern West Bank while trying to prevent the bomber from detonating the bomb.

This was especially crucial as in a democratic society, particularly after the Three Mile Island nuclear power station crisis in March 1979, a host of nuclear accidents or well-publicized near misses could have shut down the nuclear fleet completely.

Fox affiliates that have their newscasts produced by another area station tend to have fewer hours devoted to news than their Big Three counterparts ( generally limited to one evening newscast and a one-or two-hour weekday morning newscast ) with little to no expansion into other timeslots due to the contracting station choosing to not carry newscasts on the Fox station in timeslots that compete with their own ( which differs from outsourcing agreements between two stations affiliated with either of the three pre-1986 broadcast networks where both stations may simulcast local news programs in the same timeslots ).

The singer Leslie Fish created a song called " Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three ", in which a space station is inundated with fresh fruit.

In the Three Chimneys tour, singer Davey Balfour takes Dan along on an attempt to break an unofficial ( and illegal ) speed record for flying around three power station chimneys in Kent in his private plane.

The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity ( 22, 500 MW ) but is second to Itaipu Dam with regard to the generation of electricity annually.

Three areas, Kings Cross, the area around Central railway station, and the section of George Street between Liverpool and Market streets, were hotspots for assaults.

Three lines leading out of the city to the south, east and west were to be extended and connected in a new underground station.

FEMA also responded to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident where the nuclear generating station suffered a partial core meltdown.

In Jerome K Jerome's 1889 comic novel, Three Men in a Boat, the protagonists spend some time in the station, trying to find their train to Kingston upon Thames:

Three days later, the Soyuz 10 crew attempted to dock with it, but failed to achieve a secure enough connection to safely enter the station.

Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847 ; St Mary's Hospital and Paddington Green Police Station ( the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom ).

WPTZ did not begin broadcasting Today when it premiered on January 14, 1952 ; network pressure caused the station to drop Three to Get Ready for it at the end of March of that year.

Viewed from the west, Three Mile Island currently uses only one nuclear generating station, TMI-1, which is on the left.

* Radio Harbor Country is a low-power FM community radio station ( WRHC-LP, 106. 7FM ) located in Three Oaks that broadcasts a wide variety of local programming and a blend of music of various genres.

Three bunk cars served as a station building.

* Three Bridges, small community that once had a passenger rail station

Three churches, all still standing ( one is the Tuxedo Historical Society today ), a train station, a library, and a post office were also built, as well as a school and a hospital.

Three television stations are available in Cody: KTVQ ( CBS ) and KULR ( NBC ) from Billings, and PBS station K49AI, a local translator for KCWC-DT in Lander.

Three television stations are available in Powell: KTVQ ( CBS ) and KULR ( NBC ) from Billings, and PBS station K49AI, a local translator for KCWC-DT in Lander.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

For instance, Sydney Pollack brought a lawsuit against Danish TV after screening his 1975 film Three Days of the Condor in pan-and-scan in 1991 ( The court ruled that the pan scanning conducted by Danish television was a ' mutilation ' of the film and a violation of Pollack's ' Droit Moral ', his legal right as an artist to maintain his reputation by protecting the integrity of his work.

Three Fronts, the Northwestern, Western, and Southwestern conducted the defense of the western borders of the USSR.

His unfinished opera Die drei Pintos ( The Three Pintos ) was originally given by Weber's widow to Giacomo Meyerbeer for completion ; it was eventually completed by Gustav Mahler, who conducted the first performance in this form in Leipzig on 20 January 1888.

Three successful telemetry sessions were conducted, gathering solar-wind and cosmic-ray data near Earth, at the Earth's magnetopause, and on February 19 at a distance of 1, 900, 000 km.

The concert was conducted and arranged by Larry Baird, who has participated in many other bands ' orchestral live concerts, such as Kansas, Michael Bolton, Three Dog Night, Al Jarreau and Alan Parsons.

* January 24 – Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements premièred by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by the composer.

Three years later, a full-scale test of Traube ’ s laboratory work was conducted at Maidstone, England.

Three tests were conducted as part of operation Plowshare and one as part of Vela Uniform.

Three factors usually distinguish futures studies from the research conducted by other disciplines ( although all disciplines overlap, to differing degrees ).

Three CDs were released with Mel Gibson's co-operation: ( i ) the film soundtrack of John Debney's original orchestral score conducted by Nick Ingman ; ( ii ) The Passion of the Christ: Songs, by producers Mark Joseph and Tim Cook, with original compositions by various artists, and ( iii ) The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By.

Three weeks after the experiment a follow-up study was conducted testing the memory of those individuals, and it was " revealed that highly emotional pictures were remembered best, and remembered better by women than by men " ( van Stegeren, 2009 ).

Vaughan Williams was delighted with the reception accorded the Three Carols, when he conducted the Bach Choir at the Queen's Hall in December 1923.

In 1990, he conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in the first ever Three Tenors concert in Rome, joining the tenors again in 1994 at the Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.

International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order.

Three tests were conducted using penile plethysmography.

Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted.

Three life sciences experiments were conducted, including one on the aggregration of red blood cells, intended to help determine if microgravity can play a beneficial role in clinical research and medical diagnostic tests.

Three spacewalks were conducted to complete assembly operations while the arrays were attached and unfurled.

Three months later his parents conducted a spiritual wedding ceremony between him and Julia Pak, daughter of church leader, Bo Hi Pak.

The Three Strikes policy currently costs approximately $ 500 million per year to implement, but conducted studies do not reflect that the policies have played a role in the reduction of crime.

Finzi himself conducted the work at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946.

Three separate investigations were conducted.

Three spacewalks were conducted by the crew of STS-97, all of which were completed prior to opening the hatch between shuttle and station.