* 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.

Two of these papers were on the subject of sexual selection, an idea of Darwin's whose standing has been revived in recent times.

Two sequels, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe and The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, have been written by the same authors.

Two days after Bloody Sunday, the Westminster Parliament adopted a resolution for a tribunal into the events of the day, resulting in Prime Minister Edward Heath commissioning the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery to undertake it.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

Two of his Cambridge associates, Stephen Gardiner and Edward Foxe, joined him.

Sir John Everett Millais, The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483, Royal Holloway collection, 1878

Two examples of this are the signing of a treaty between the Irish Free State and the Portuguese Republic in 1931, and the act recognising the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 separately from the recognition by the British parliament.

Two days later, in Upsettlington, the Guardians of the Realm and the leading Scottish nobles gathered to swear allegiance to King Edward I as Lord Paramount.

The concept of Pax Romana was first described by Edward Gibbon in Chapter Two of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York appears also to have been consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with Samuel Daniel's poem on the civil wars.

Two years later, after Edward's accession as King, Wallis divorced her second husband and Edward proposed to her.

Two months later, on 22 June 1483, Edward IV's marriage was declared invalid ( Edward, it was claimed, had at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville already been betrothed to Lady Eleanor Butler ); this made the children of the marriage bastards and ineligible for the succession.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hopper, Edward: Two Comedians ( 1966 ); Longo, Robert: Pressure ( 1982 / 83 ); Nauman, Bruce: No No New Museum ( 1987 ; videotape ); Serrano, Andres: A History of Sex ( Head ) ( 1996 ).

Two judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces.

* Edward Yang's Yi Yi: A One and a Two ( drama )

Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York appears also to have been consulted, and scholars have also supposed Shakespeare familiar with Samuel Daniel's poem on the civil wars.

The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection

Two seasons of inconclusive campaigning that ravaged the north of France left Edward penniless at the end of 1341 ; he returned home, and when he returned to the fray, it was to Brittany: he never returned to the Low Countries.

Two hundred mourners attended, including 64 members of the Macmillan family, Thatcher and former premiers Lord Home of the Hirsel and Edward Heath, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, and ' scores of country neighbours '.

Two other groups had also detected circular polarization at about the same time ( David Martyn in Australia and Edward Appleton with J. Stanley Hey in the UK ).

Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton ( 1874 – 1964 ), third daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, and Edith Villiers, married Lutyens on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

Notable among these are The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower ( 1878 ) depicting the Princes in the Tower, The Northwest Passage ( 1874 ) and the Boyhood of Raleigh ( 1871 ).

* The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower: Picture Gallery of Royal Holloway College

Image: princes. jpg | The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower ( 1878 ) Picture Gallery of Royal Holloway College

Two ex-convicts, Richard (" Dick ") Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, were soon arrested, tried, and convicted of the killings.