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Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil.
* Baby: A Portrait of the First Two Years of Life ( 2008 )
Posthumously, two albums of demo recordings from 1974 to 1977 — Hardcore Devo: Volume One ( 1990 ) and Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ( 1991 )— were released on Rykodisc, as well as an album of early live recordings, DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years.
Two special anniversary books have been written about the show ; EastEnders: The First 10 Years: A Celebration ( ISBN 978-0-563-37057-4 ) by Colin Brake in 1995 and EastEnders: 20 Years in Albert Square ( ISBN 978-0-563-52165-5 ) by Rupert Smith in 2005.
Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.
Two years later, AFI released the list AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions honoring the most romantic films for the past 100 years, Harold and Maude ranked # 69.
Two Hundred Years of American Communes.
In his book, Two Years Before the Mast ( Chapter VII ), Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the islands as he found them circa 1834.
Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).
An article in The New York Times ( March 8, 1953: E9 ), titled " Looking Back Two Billion Years " describes the work of Wollman ( William ) M. MacNevin at The Ohio State University, before the Miller Science paper was published in May 1953.
These early tracks were released twenty years later on The Early Years, Volume One and Volume Two.
In 1987, he released Franks Wild Years ( subtitled " Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts "), which included studio versions from Waits ' play of the same name.
* Two Years ' Vacation
This theme had occasionally been explored in the context of World War Two in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) and The Men ( 1950 ).
The First Two Hundred Years, ed.
Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History trans Scott Straus
" By 1835, little of the Mission's assets remained, though the manufacture of hides and tallow continued in full swing as described in Richard Henry Dana's classic novel Two Years Before the Mast.
In his controversial historical work Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn claimed that Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast, invented the gas van in the Soviet Union in 1937.
With the Two Trees destroyed by Melkor, the departure of the Noldor out of the Undying Lands marked the end of the Years of the Trees, and the beginning of the Years of the Sun when the Valar created the Moon and the Sun out of Telperion's last flower and Laurelin's last fruit.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4, 732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ( 2007 ) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler.
George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

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* German — Beckmann, Max: Pierrot and Mask ( 1920 ), Before the Masked Ball ( 1922 ), Carnival ( 1943 ); Campendonk, Heinrich: Pierrot with Mask ( 1916 ), Pierrot ( with Serpent ) ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Sunflower ( 1925 ); Faure, Amandus: Standing Artist and Pierrot ( 1909 ); Heckel, Erich: Dead Pierrot ( 1914 ); Hofer, Karl: Circus Folk ( c. 1921 ); Leman, Ulrich: The Juggler ( 1913 ); Macke, August: Many works, including Ballets Russes ( 1912 ), Clown ( Pierrot ) ( 1913 ), Face of Pierrot ( 1913 ), Pierrot and Woman ( 1913 ); Mammen, Jeanne: The Death of Pierrot ( n. d .); Nolde, Emil: Pierrot and White Lilies ( c. 1911 ), Women and Pierrot ( 1917 ); Schlemmer, Oskar: Pierrot and Two Figures ( 1923 ); Werner, Theodor: Pierrot lunaire ( 1942 ).
Throughout the 1960s, Nimoy appeared in a number of other TV series including Bonanza ( 1960 ), The Rebel ( 1960 ), Two Faces West ( 1961 ), Rawhide ( episode, Incident Before Black Pass.
* A fictional town in South Park as seen in the episode Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow
Before Corey Haim's death in 2010, they did a reality TV show for two seasons ( 2007 – 08 ) on A & E named The Two Coreys after their 1980s moniker.
The city was named after the headland of Dana Point, which was in turn named for Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast, which included a description of the area.
It was during this period that Richard Henry Dana, Jr. first visited Santa Barbara and wrote about the culture and people of Santa Barbara in his book Two Years Before the Mast.
In his book Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. mentioned the island and called it " Wood Island.
* Two Years Before the Mast ( 1946 )
Two of his hits were " The Song of the Sewer ", sung in character as Norton, and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas ", a spoken-word record in which Carney, accompanied only by a jazz drummer, recited the famous Yuletide poem in syncopation.
* The cargo brig Pilgrim, whose 1834 trading voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to California is described in the book Two Years Before the Mast.
* Richard Henry Dana, Jr. author of the famous memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
" Excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast the time, San Pedro had no dock.
Biz Markie's playlist includes the following: " Children's Story " by Slick Rick, " Rapper's Delight " by The Sugarhill Gang, " Billie Jean " by Michael Jackson, " Holiday " by Madonna, " Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go " by Wham !, " It Takes Two " by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, " The Breaks " by Kurtis Blow and " Robot Rock " by Daft Punk.
Approached in 1926 by publisher R. R. Donnelley to produce an illustrated edition of Richard Henry Dana, Jr .' s Two Years Before the Mast, Kent suggested Moby-Dick instead.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. ( August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
During his voyages he had kept a diary, and in 1840 ( coinciding with his admission to the bar ) he published a memoir, Two Years Before the Mast.
With the California Gold Rush later in the decade, Two Years Before the Mast would become highly sought after as one of the few sources of information on California.
Two Years Before the Mast.
Now included in subsequent editions of Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.
He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar.
Dana did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships.
In White-Jacket, Herman Melville wrote, " But if you want the best idea of Cape Horn, get my friend Dana's unmatchable Two Years Before the Mast.

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