Twice it was sentenced to extinction by royal decree.

Twice sentenced by Judge Isaac Parker to hang for murder, he managed to escape the noose due to technicalities and went on to form a notorious gang that terrorized and robbed throughout northwest Arkansas around the turn of the century.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

It is also in this part of the novel that Higson reveals the details of Bond's parents ' death, first mentioned in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice.

Various fictional characters inspired by or nicknamed after Goemon appear in the film Abare Goemon: Rise Against the Sword ( played by Toshirô Mifune ), the manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider X, and the method of poison delivery sometimes attributed to Goemon's supposed attempt to kill Nobunaga inspired Aki's death scene in the film 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 ).

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Some of their early films include four written by A. A. Milne including The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

A slew of now-renowned noir " bad girls " would follow, such as those played by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers ( 1946 ), and Jane Greer in Out of the Past ( 1947 ).

Their production work as BeMusic was collected on two LTM compilation CDs, Cool As Ice: The BeMusic Productions and Twice As Nice ( which also included production work by Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio, and Arthur Baker ).

Twice ousted by the Panamanian military, he was again ousted ( for the third time ) as president by the National Guard after only 10 days in office.

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.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

In the field of education, think tank publications are subjected to expert review by the National Education Policy Center's " Think Twice " think tank review project.

Also inspired by the success of James Bond ; specifically the Asian-influenced You Only Live Twice, martial-arts-themed action movies exploded onto the western cinema screens with Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon ( 1973 ), and his imported films like Way of ( or Return of ) the Dragon ( 1972 ).

* 1925: The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Called Twice Ken is Plenty and intended as a two-man showcase for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by Jonathan Rigby and Robin Sebastian.

Only four horses competed against Secretariat for the June 9, 1973, running of the Belmont Stakes, including Sham, who had finished second in both the Derby and Preakness, along with three other horses thought to have little chance by the bettors: Twice A Prince, My Gallant, and Private Smiles.

Twice, on July 27 and September 27, the bank accounts of the FTUB were frozen by the authorities.

Although no crime is committed anywhere in the book, the novel was reprinted in 1989 by Random House, alongside Cain's thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1934 ), under the heading " Vintage Crime ".

* Helga Brandt ( No. 11, You Only Live Twice ) – thrown by Blofeld into piranha pool

* Hans ( You Only Live Twice ) – thrown by James Bond into piranha pool

* Mr. Osato ( Head Of Osato Chemicals, You Only Live Twice ) – shot and killed by Blofeld

* ( No. 3, You Only Live Twice ) – killed by explosion (# 3 played by Burt Kwouk )

Other unusual place names in the North East include the village of Pity Me ( probably a contraction of Pithead Mere, a nearby bog ), Bearpark ( from Beaurepaire, French for " beautiful retreat "-the name of a nearby Norman manor ), Idle ( home of the famous Idle Working Men's Club ), Once Brewed, and Twice Brewed.

Alexandre bis ( ' Alexander Twice ' in English translation, ' Dvakrát Alexandr ' in Czech translation ) is a surrealist comic opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů, ( H. 255 ), composed in 1937 to an original libretto written in French by André Wurmser.

After the war Garfield starred in a series of successful films such as The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ) with Lana Turner, Humoresque ( 1946 ) with Joan Crawford, and the Oscar-winning Best Picture Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ).

* The Postman Always Rings Twice on Screen Guild Theater: June 16, 1947

Twice voted the National League's Most Valuable Player, Hubbell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.

Twice, the two of them had carried their country to the Davis Cup semifinals, losing to Australia in 1947 and in 1948.

* I'll Try Anything Twice, ( 1947 )

* 1939 – 1950: " Twice as Much for a Nickel "

Alfred Hitchcock used him in Stage Fright ( 1950 ), then he made a film in Hollywood for King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice ( 1951 ).

* Twice led the league in hits and doubles ( 1950 – 51 )

* Twice All-Star ( 1950 – 51 )

Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.

Tony Dow became the established director after 1988, directing all subsequent episodes, bar the first part of Miami Twice, which was directed by Gareth Gwenlan.

" Think Twice ", which remained at number-one for seven weeks, eventually became the fourth single by a female artist to sell in excess of one million copies in the UK, while the album was eventually certified five-times platinum for two-million copies sold.

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.

In 2005, the album's title-track " Live Twice " became his fifth Top Ten single.

Sacchetti's version differs: " When I proposed to Lucio my original treatment for Per Sempre, which was nothing more than a sequel to The Postman Always Rings Twice in which a dead man returns to life, he became really enthusiastic and had my story read by a producer friend of his who then commissioned me to write a finished script.

It included the tracks " Casino " and " Think Twice ", which both became hits in clubs across Europe, and commercial hits in Norway.

Saito later became the model for the character Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice.

On 24 August 2012, Lightning Can Strike Twice became the 89th team to defeat the Eggheads in 1028 episodes.

The album featured her first Top 10 R & B hit " Once Bitten, Twice Shy ", which became her only UK hit and performed modestly on the US R & B charts.