His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who !, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron On March 27, 2001, 16 days after settlers had celebrated Purim with a march through the city in which some settler children were dressed up as Baruch Goldstein, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass.

Two festivals, called Faunalia, were celebrated in his honour — one on the 13th of February, in the temple of Faunus on the island in the Tiber, the other on the 5th of December, when the peasants brought him rustic offerings and amused themselves with dancing ( Peck 1898 ).

Two years later in his camp at Inniscarra near Cork city he then recognized the celebrated Florence MacCarthy as the MacCarthy Mor or Prince of Desmond.

It was after the election of Westminster in 1788 that Tooke depicted the rival statesmen ( Lord Chatham and Lord Holland, William Pitt and Charles James Fox ) in his celebrated pamphlet Two Pair of Portraits.

Two weeks later, one of the most celebrated games in Iowa history was set to be played.

Hanson also wrote a number of orchestral and chamber works during his years in California, including Concerto da Camera, Symphonic Legend, Symphonic Rhapsody, various solo piano works, such as Two Yuletide Pieces, and the Scandinavian Suite, which celebrated his Lutheran and Scandinavian heritage.

Two men whom Edwards defeated in Louisiana elections — David C. Treen and J. Bennett Johnston Jr .— and a third who was his protégé, John Breaux, confirmed in July 2007 that they intended to approach then U. S. President George W. Bush about procuring a pardon or commutation for Edwards, who celebrated his 80th birthday in prison in August 2007.

Two years later he played the celebrated Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev in the Cafe Antonini in Rome and won a game in 25 moves giving odds of a pawn and ceding the first move.

Two days after the Tribune celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 21, 1974, William F. Knowland committed suicide.

' The Only Way: 1995-1999 ', a DVD / video documentary, had its release celebrated a year later with Ten Yard Fight taking the stage, unannounced, at " Edge Day Two ," coinciding with the final performance of Boston's In My Eyes.

Two years later, the band celebrated their 25th anniversary by releasing The Wheel Keeps on Rollin.

Two more Navratras are also celebrated but they are known as " Gupt Navratras.

Two Special Edition versions of the Z31 generation model were produced ; a 50th Anniversary Edition celebrated the company's semi-centennial in 1984 and boasted additional luxury features, and a " Shiro Special ", released 4 years later, boasted performance-oriented upgrades.

Two years later, in 1974, the club celebrated its 50th anniversary, created a football school for minors and finished the year as champion under the leadership of Argentine Juan Eduardo Hohberg.

Two years later, in 1949, Tucker's rapidly ascending career was confirmed when Arturo Toscanini, the most celebrated Italian conductor of the twentieth century, engaged Tucker to sing the role of Radames for the NBC simulcasts of a complete performance of Aida opposite Herva Nelli in the title role, an event heard and seen on radio and television, and eventually released on LP, CD, VHS, and DVD.

Two celebrated examples of " Call For Action " lines were the ones maintained by WMCA in New York City, with a telephone number of ( 212 ) PLaza 9-1717, and by WFIL in Philadelphia, whose Call For Action number was ( 215 ) GReenwood 7-5312.

Two former Sumo Grand Champions ( Yokozuna ) were born and lived in Fukushima and their careers are celebrated in the sumo museum.

Two pizzoccheri fairs ( or sagre ) take place in Teglio: La Sagra dei Pizzoccheri, celebrated in July and the festival of The Golden Pizzocchero, celebrated in September.

Two celebrated guerrilla gardeners, active prior to the coining of the term, were Gerrard Winstanley, of the Diggers in Surrey, England ( 1649 ), and John " Appleseed " Chapman in Ohio, USA ( 1801 ).

Two major tours with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would follow, one in 1986 and a more celebrated tour in 1987.

A reunion in Amsterdam, Radio Day 2006, celebrated the launch of a new book by Hans Knot of station memories on November 4, 2006, and was attended by many media outlets, including Channel Two Israel, which interviewed Don Stevens, Chris Pearson, and Steve Silby, and broadcast the newsreel worldwide.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

Two of Kenesaw's four brothers, Charles Beary Landis and Frederick Landis, became members of Congress.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

Two monarchs have ruled simultaneously in some countries, as in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta or the joint sovereignty of spouses or relatives ( e. g., William and Mary of Kingdom of England and Scotland, Peter and Ivan of Russia, Charles and Joanna of Castile, etc.

Two of the most significant thinkers of the period were biologist Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 82 ), author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), and political scientist Karl Marx ( 1818 – 83 ), author of Das Kapital ( 1867 ).

Any Hohenstaufen in Sicily was bound to have claims over the cities of Lombardy, and as a check to Manfred, Urban IV introduced Charles of Anjou into the equation to place the crown of the Two Sicilies in the hands of a monarch amenable to papal control.

* A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ) by Charles Dickens

Two other pioneers of psychometrics obtained doctorates in the Leipzig Psychophysics Laboratory under Wilhelm Wundt: James McKeen Cattell in 1886 and Charles Spearman in 1906.

Two physicists, Charles A. Coulson and Harold K. Schilling, both claimed that " the methods of science and religion have much in common.

Gilliam also attempted to direct a version of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, which collapsed due to disagreements over its budget and choice of lead actor.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

The title of the book refers to Charles Percy Snow's 1959 work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which described the conflict between the cultures of the humanities and science.

Two members of the British Royal Family have studied at Trinity and been awarded degrees as a result: Prince William of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who gained an MA in 1790, and Prince Charles, who was awarded a lower second class BA in 1970.

" Two of Canada's four Confederation Poets-Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman-were educated at UNB, as was Francis Joseph Sherman, along with a number of notable 20th and 21st century Canadian writers.

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.

Two dynasties claimed the Spanish throne: the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs, both closely related to Charles and to his father, Philip IV.

* April 20 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.

* Charles Dickens publishes Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities

Two other sons, Lothar II and Charles, also get parts of the kingdom.

* June 17 – American Revolution: Two months into the colonial siege of Boston, British open fire on Breed's Hill on Charles Town Peninsula.

* 1859: Black divinities of the feminine gender — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.