In the preface to Double Indemnity, however, Cain gave a specific, and entirely different, explanation of the origin the title for The Postman Always Rings Twice, writing that it came from a discussion he had had with screenwriter Vincent Lawrence.

Twice however, in 1427 and 1431, the Hussites completely demolished the town, it was quicky rebuilt.

Twice previously the Senate has approved measures backing ETV and the House has let them die.

The original Greek title translates as “ The Man Deceiving Twice ”, yet the Plautine version has three tricks.

The notion of a supervillain threatening world leaders with a nuclear device has since become a cliché, and has been parodied in Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, The Simpsons episode " You Only Move Twice ", and other espionage spoofs.

In the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice, Kissy Suzuki has a cormorant who is named " David " after the actor.

Twice since then it has reverted to being a church, only to become again a meeting house dedicated to the great intellectuals of France.

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapter of what is known as the " Blofeld Trilogy ", Blofeld has revived SPECTRE, and Blofeld's final appearance, sans SPECTRE, is in the final novel of the trilogy, You Only Live Twice.

He has a full head of black hair in From Russia With Love and Thunderball ; a facial dueling scar in You Only Live Twice ; no scar or earlobes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ; and silver-grey hair in Diamonds Are Forever.

Twice, Coal / Railroad days has coincided with other celebrations in Appalachia.

He has also served as a martial arts advisor to various films and television productions, including the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, and in the first film from the highly popular Japanese series Shinobi no Mono.

Because a tint control is unnecessary in PAL, NTSC has jokingly been said to stand for Never The Same Color or Never Twice the Same Color.

The castle has been featured extensively in foreign and Japanese films, including the James Bond movie " You Only Live Twice " ( 1967 ), and Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 ).

The idea has entered United States popular culture: such constructions are referred to as " MacGyverisms " ( a term first used in episode 3 of season 2, " Twice Stung ").

In the past, Calendar has been hosted by the late Richard Whiteley ( until 1995, alongside his duties on Countdown, earning him the nickname " Twice Nightly Whiteley "), Austin Mitchell ( until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977 ) and Mike Morris.

Norm Abram has authored eight books about carpentry: Ask Norm, The New Yankee Workshop, Classics From The New Yankee Workshop, Mostly Shaker From The New Yankee Workshop, Outdoor Projects From The New Yankee Workshop, Norm Abram's New House, Measure Twice, Cut Once, and The New Yankee Workshop Kids ' Stuff.

Twice Babbitt has been converted into films, a feat Turner Classic Movies describes as “ impressive for a novel that barely has a plot .” The first was a silent film, released in 1924, starring Willard Louis as George F. Babbitt.

The Postman Always Rings Twice has been adapted numerous times, into a film six times, an opera, and two plays:

Twice in this era, the Rose Bowl has served as the BCS championship game.

Kronos has also recorded adaptations of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ", Sigur Rós's " Flugufrelsarinn ", Television's " Marquee Moon ", Raymond Scott's " Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals ", and Bob Dylan's " Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ".

* In The Simpsons episode " You Only Move Twice ", which generally spoofs Bond villain clichés, supervillain / great boss Hank Scorpio has " Mr. Bont " strapped to a table with a laser à la Goldfinger.

Twice flown, Piers has logged over 559 hours in space, including almost 41 EVA hours in 6 spacewalks.

Twice has a NHL team successfully converted on two penalty shots in a single game-first on February 11, 1982 when Thomas Gradin and Ivan Hlinka of the Vancouver Canucks scored on shots against Detroit Red Wings goaltender Gilles Gilbert, and on December 30, 2009 when Ryane Clowe and Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks converted penalty shots against Washington Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth.

Twice she has been awarded the Haas School's outstanding teaching award.

Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.

Twice in the series, Geordi refused to be granted natural vision, first by Commander Riker who had been given extraordinary amounts of power by Q and later by Doctor Katherine Pulaski.

" In 1971 Norman produced an album ( Born Twice ) for Randy Stonehill, who had been converted in August 1970 in Norman's kitchen.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man.

: Twice twenty been enraged,

Twice in its history, the Nauruan population fell below 1, 500, and the Nauruan ethnic group have been considered in danger of extinction.

Whilst expanding on James Bond's back story, Ian Fleming wrote in You Only Live Twice that the agent had attended Fettes College, his father's old school, after having been removed from Eton.

" The next day, Cash would perform Dylan's " Don't Think Twice, It's All Right " as part of his set, telling the audience that " we've been doing it on our shows all over the country, trying to tell the folks about Bob, that we think he's the best songwriter of the age since Pete Seeger ... Sure do.

The season 2 episode " The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice " could have been filmed much more cheaply by being shot in color and then decolorized, but Caron insisted on the authentic look of black-and-white film which took 16 days to shoot bringing the cost of the episode to then unheard of sum of two million dollars.

Twice, OIC has been represented in meetings with President George W. Bush.

Twice in the history of their special labels, there have been two used for the same year.

Twice married and the mother of one child, Brush died in New York City a few months before what would have been her 50th birthday.

Luzinski hit five home runs on five consecutive games, a franchise mark, which has since been tied by Ron Kittle, Frank Thomas ( Twice ), Carlos Lee, and Paul Konerko.

London Scottish have been great exponents of rugby sevens winning the Melrose Sevens ( Twice ), Middlesex Sevens ( seven times ) and the Rosslyn Park London Floodlit Sevens ( seven times ).

( This same literary device has also been employed by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes books and Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel You Only Live Twice.

Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond ( in You Only Live Twice ).