Two early figures stand out: Hippias of Elis, who produced the lists of winners in the Olympic Games that provided the basic chronological framework as long as the pagan classical tradition lasted, and Hellanicus of Lesbos, who compiled more than two dozen histories from civic records, all of them now lost.

Two residents living just outside the city limits were killed by the tornado, and as many as a dozen other area residents were injured.

Two years earlier, Colonel Van Swearingen led a dozen soldiers by longboat down the Ohio to help rescue the inhabitants of Ft. Henry in Wheeling in a siege by the British and Indian tribes in 1777.

Two dozen wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions, some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged, were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections.

Two battalions of light tanks were positioned at Fort Stotsenburg in late November to protect Clark against seizure by Japanese airborne troops, while the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment ( AA ) provided limited antiaircraft artillery defense with 50-caliber machine guns and a dozen 3-inch guns.

Two or three dozen support, medical, and administrative staff were also sheltered there.

Two dozen Muslim dead were transferred here in 1968 from the Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common.

During this period, the U. S. Post Office issued more than a dozen ' Two Cent Reds ' commemorating the 150th anniversaries of Battles and Events that occurred during the American Revolution.

Lent ’ s dozen stories get as close to three-dimensional writing as is possible .” Paul Denham, notes the struggle a critic faces with the book and labels but also sees that struggle as an impediment “ from its real emotional power of a story ( or series of stories, if you prefer ) about the joy and pain of being a family .” Two reviews in The Globe and Mail concentrate on structure and theme.

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Two Israelis killed and about a dozen wounded in two separate suicide bombings by Palestinian terrorists in the towns of Rosh-Ha ' ayin and Ariel.

Two weeks later, Steele and his two dozen Mounties defeated Big Bear's force at Loon Lake, District of Saskatchewan, in the last battle ever fought on Canadian territory.

Two of Kadyrov's bodyguards, the Chairman of the Chechen State Council, a Reuters journalist, and as many as a dozen others were also killed ( a later report stated that more than 30 people had died ).

* Two dozen " marking stones ", half white and half black.

Two box tombs in memory of the family bear inscriptions to over a dozen Jeffcocks.

Two dozen arrests were made during the course of the raid, and several people later sued the SFPD.

Two hundred discourses exist to prove his fecundity, while his versatility is shown by the fact that he could treat the same subject differently on half a dozen occasions.

Two of them rappelled down the front of the hotel, after which they were able to hang the banner more than a dozen stories above the ground.

Two dozen Pakistani went to his house on November 27 at approximately 23: 00H, but he was still in Afghanistan and had been there since before the attacks.

Two passengers and a crewman were bludgeoned to death, several dozen were injured, and the ship was taken over.

He teamed with female vocalist Helen Forrest for many hit duets during World War Two, including " Together ," " I'll Buy That Dream ," and " Long Ago and far Away "; he sang with Judy Garland on two Decca recordings of songs from his film " The Shocking Miss Pilgrim " with Betty Grable ; and he paired repeatedly with the very famous Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ) on a dozen or so Decca collaborations, including the Billboard hit " Teresa ," " Great Day ," " My Sin ," and a masterful 1952 rendering of the dramatic ballad " Here in My Heart ," backed by the sisters and Nelson Riddle's lush strings.

Two years earlier, Colonel Van Swearingen led a dozen soldiers by longboat down the Ohio to help rescue the inhabitants of Ft. Henry in Wheeling in a siege by the British and Indian tribes in 1777.

Two law enforcement officials close to the case also said that new charges were expected against almost a dozen current and former prison employees.

Two city zoning inspectors with ties to Banks ’ 36th Ward organization were among more than a dozen defendants charged on May 22, 2008 by federal prosecutors in " Operation Crooked Code " who alleged bribery in the Daley administration ’ s Buildings and Zoning Departments.

Two dozen other candidates were offered in the hopes that someone else could gain a majority.

Two science-fiction novels – Genius Unlimited by John Rackham ( a pseudonym used by Phillifent ) and The Arsenal Out of Time by McDaniel – appear to be rewrites of " orphaned " U. N. C. L. E novel outlines or manuscripts.

Two novels titled Hard Crash and Prophet's Power were published, expanding on the premise and story first introduced in Unreal.

Two novels by Gombrowicz were filmed: Pornografia directed by Jan Jakub Kolski ( the film was completed in 2003 ) and Ferdydurke directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.

" Examples include " The Tales from Two Pockets ", and the first book of the trilogy of novels Hordubal, Meteor, and An Ordinary Life.

Two of the later novels, however, were written late enough to receive such accolades.

Two young adult novels book based on the games, entitled Cool Zool and Zool Rules, were released in February 1995.

* The prison appears in a number of novels by Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty and Great Expectations, and is the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz.

Two sisters of Bertie's father play major roles in most of the stories and novels.

Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of Tufts or a thinly-veiled substitute, such as the title characters of Two Guys and a Girl and the lead character of Christopher Golden's Body of Evidence mystery novels.

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 ).

He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for " The Two Cultures ", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and " literary intellectuals ".

* Two novels, Band Fags!

One nation conservatism was first conceived by the Conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who presented his political philosophy in two novels – Sybil, Or The Two Nations ( 1845 ) and Coningsby – published in 1845 and 1844 respectively.

Among the novels and respective cases alluded to are The Two Mrs. Grenvilles ( 1985 ) ( the shooting of Belair Stud owner William Woodward, Jr. by his wife, Ann Arden Woodward ); An Inconvenient Woman ( 1990 ) ( the Alfred S. Bloomingdale / Vicki Morgan affair and ensuing scandal ); and A Season in Purgatory ( 1993 ) ( the Michael Skakel / Martha Moxley murder case ).

Two of Russell's novels — The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God — have as their subject first contact with aliens.

His major novels include Gabriela, Cinnamon and Cloves ; Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands ; and Tieta, the Goat Girl, all of which became internationally renowned films.

Two years later Grey produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage ( 1912 ), his all-time best-seller, and one of the most successful Western novels of all.

Two of her novels, The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic, became influential within the religion of Wicca, especially upon Doreen Valiente.

Two fictional novels were published, based on scripts from early episodes — Dynasty ( 1983 ) and Alexis Returns ( 1984 ) — written by Eileen Lottman.

Since 2000, Visa for Avalon, her early semi-autobiographical novels Development and Two Selves, her memoir The Heart to Artemis, and her historical novel The Player's Boy have all been republished.

Author of numerous flagellation novels published in London and Paris including: Two Lascivious Adventures of Mr. Howard – A continuation of Maud Cameron and her Guardian ( 1907 ), The Amazing Chastisements of Miss Bostock ( 1908 ), Three Chapters in the Life of Mr. Howard ( 1908 ), Whipping as a Fine Art – Being an Account of Exquisite and Refined Chastisement Inflicted by Mr. Howard on Grown-up Schoolgirls ( 1909 ), et al.

Two are novels, one an autobiography.

McKean has collaborated with Neil Gaiman on two children's picture books, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish ( 1998 ) and The Wolves in the Walls ( 2003 ), and illustrated Gaiman's children's novels Coraline ( 2002 ) and The Graveyard Book ( 2008 ), as well as S. F. Said's Varjak Paw ( 2003 ).

Making matters even more complex is the reference to Number Six as " Drake " in some of the officially-licensed novels based upon the series, such as Number Two ( 1969 ) by David McDaniel which identifies Number Six by the name Drake in the very first line of the book.