Two thirds of the chemical elements occur on Earth only as compounds, and in the remaining third, often the compound forms of the element are most common.

* The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems ( Oct 2012?

Two factors determine the structure and behavior of the magnetosphere: ( 1 ) The internal field of the Earth, and ( 2 ) The solar wind.

* May 28 – Two monkeys, Able and Miss Baker are the first living beings to successfully return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.

Two years later, in 1670, Gabriel Mouton, a French abbot and scientist, proposed a decimal system of measurement based on the circumference of the Earth.

: Two extraterrestrials ( played by Foley and McDonald ) are on a spaceship orbiting the Earth.

Kingdom of Earth ( 1967 ), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel ( 1969 ), Small Craft Warnings ( 1973 ), The Two Character Play ( also called Out Cry, 1973 ), The Red Devil Battery Sign ( 1976 ), Vieux Carré ( 1978 ), Clothes for a Summer Hotel ( 1980 ) and others were all box office failures, and the relentlessly negative press notices wore down his spirit.

Two Space Shuttle missions – the ill-fated STS-51-L ( ended by the Challenger disaster ) and STS-61-E – were scheduled to observe Halley's Comet from low Earth orbit.

Two other Soviet launches at around the same time, Mars 2MV-4 No. 1 and Mars 2MV-3 No. 1 were spacecraft, however both failed to leave Earth orbit due to problems with the upper stages of their carrier rockets.

Two small metal rods were used for autonomous obstacle avoidance, as radio signals from Earth would take too long to drive the rovers using remote control.

Two natural sciences museums — the Natural History Museum and the Earth and Man — display minerals, animal species ( alive and taxidermic ) and rare materials.

Two well-off Earth men are arguing about whether there is slavery on Venus, and one of them gets shanghaied there -- or so he believes ; they later find out that they've bet one another about the topic, gotten drunk, and signed on.

Two more Earth flybys were scheduled in February 2007 and 2008, and a flyby of comet d ' Arrest might have occurred on 16 August 2008 at a relative velocity of 11. 8 km / s, 1. 35 AU from the Sun and 0. 36 AU from Earth.

Two commonly made observations supported the idea that the Earth was the center of the Universe.

Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn ...

* Twilight of the Dark Master ( 1997 ): Two ancient races return to Earth and battle it out in the year 2089.

He had many epithets which alluded to different aspects of his deity: Titlacauan (" We are his Slaves "), Ipalnemoani (" He by whom we live "), Necoc Yaotl (" Enemy of Both Sides "), Tloque Nahuaque (" Lord of the Near and the Nigh ") and Yohualli Èecatl (" Night, Wind "), Ome acatl (" Two Reed "), Ilhuicahua Tlalticpaque (" Possessor of the Sky and Earth ").

Two additional releases also went Top 40 in the US: " More Than You Know "(# 18 ) and " I Feel the Earth Move "(# 25 ), which was a remake of Carole King ’ s # 1 from her album Tapestry.

Two small metal rods were used for autonomous obstacle avoidance, as radio signals from Earth would take too long to drive the rovers using remote control.

Two small metal rods were used for autonomous obstacle avoidance, as radio signals from Earth would take too long to drive the rovers using remote control.

However, little more information was forthcoming from DC until the January 12, 2012 announcement of two new ongoing titles set to launch in May 2012: the Robinson / Scott series, ( now titled Earth 2 or Earth Two, depending on the source ), and Worlds ' Finest, which will revolve around the Huntress and Power Girl from the new Earth-2 stranded on the main DC Earth.

Two kinds of arcs are generally observed on Earth: island arcs that formed on oceanic lithosphere, such as the Mariana or Tonga island arcs, or continental arc that formed on the continent, such as the Cascade Volcanic Arc.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

Two Imperial Star Destroyers and a pair of TIE fighter s pursue the Millennium Falcon

Other components of the Battle Force included Aircraft, Battle Force, with Carrier Division One and Carrier Division Two, plus Cruiser Divisions 4, 5, and 6, as well as Destroyers, Battle Force.

* Whitley, M. J. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia.

Two forms of the game, association croquet and golf croquet, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world.

Two of Toussaint's chief lieutenants, Dessalines and Christophe, recognizing their untenable situation, held separate parleys with the invaders, and agreed to transfer their allegiance.

The Federal German government thus agreed to the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany ( Two Plus Four Agreement ), which officially re-established both German states ' sovereignty.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

Two centuries later Jonathan Swift said he was " the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ," a sentiment with which Samuel Johnson agreed.

Troughton enjoyed the return to the programme so much that he readily agreed to appear one more time as the Second Doctor, with Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor in The Two Doctors ( 1985 ).

Two years later, after the approval of the Catalan Statute, the University Council agreed to recourse to the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Two key acquisitions were Sira, taken from the Marathas, and the kingdom of Bednore, where as a casus belli he agreed to support a claimant to its throne against usurpers.

Two, it was rumored that Ketchel and Johnson, when they agreed to the fight, agreed to take the fight to the full 20 rounds and Ketchel would allow Johnson to win in the 20th.

Two of Warwick's knights, William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville and Sir Thomas Kyriell, who had agreed to remain with Henry and see that he came to no harm, were captured.

Two joint boundary commissions were set up to establish the boundary line in the Northeast ( it agreed on the Saint Croix River ) and in the Northwest ( this one never met and the boundary was settled after the War of 1812 ).

Two months later the Education Committee agreed to seek a site at or near Canterbury, given the historical associations of the city, subject to the support of Canterbury City Council.

Two weeks before the 1983 – 84 NHL season began, Gilmour and the Blues agreed on a contract and he joined the team in time for the start of the season.

Two years later, the Arkansas-based department store chain Dillard's and Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. agreed to acquire Horne's, with plans of combining it with another recent acquisition for Dillard's — the Ohio-based Higbee's store chain.

Two public meetings were convened to discuss the future of the reserve and it was agreed to constitute Fleet Pond Society to address the numerous concerns.

He remarked that such an endeavor would be “ unique ” in that the school would “ welcome students of all creeds and races .” Two years later, on his 74th birthday, March 14, 1953, Albert Einstein agreed to attach his name to the medical school.

Two other principalities that originally agreed to join, Qi ( modern central Shandong ) and Jibei ( modern northwestern Shandong ), reneged at the final moment.

Two other principalities agreed to join-Qi ( modern central Shandong ) and Jibei ( modern northwestern Shandong )-but neither actually did.

Two months later he agreed, after negotiations with NATO officials, to sign an accord providing for a new permanent council, to include Russia, the NATO secretary general, and a representative of the other NATO nations, to function as a forum in which Russia could air a wide range of security issues that concerned that country.

Eventually he pitched it to Jane Root, then controller of BBC Two, who agreed to develop it.

Two years after his draft, Bertuzzi and the Islanders had not yet been agreed to a contract.

Two years after Selim's accession, on 17 February 1568, Sokollu Mehmed Paşa succeeded in concluding at Edirne a peace treaty with Emperor Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " honary present " of 30, 000 ducats.

Two years later, Chrysler management agreed to be acquired by German automaker Daimler-Benz.

Two days earlier the Free Unions had already agreed to refrain from labour strikes and demands for higher wages for the duration of the war.