Two of Adams ' uncles, Dominic and Patrick Adams, had been interned by the governments in Belfast and Dublin.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Two of his uncles were strongly in sympathy with the revolution, but his father was a conservative, and disciplined him by sending the boy to continue his education at the French semi-military academy in Phalsbourg ( 1849 – 50 ).

Two uncles on the father's side having settled in North America, he visited Maryland in 1763, apparently to assist in recovering a tract of land about which a dispute had arisen, and thus began practising as a lawyer at Baltimore, where for a time he met with much success.

Two uncles sent by his mother and wife to call him back also became monastics there.

Two of Fraser ’ s uncles were active in the fur trade, which was a major part of the commercial life of Montreal at the time, and the Frasers were related to Simon McTavish, a leading figure in the North West Company.

Two of her uncles were cabinet ministers.

Two of his maternal uncles were the later Pope Calixtus II and Raymond of Burgundy, Count of Coimbra and husband of the future Queen Urraca of Castile and Leon.

Two of Groven's maternal uncles also played the hardanger fiddle, and his mother's sisters, as well as Aslaug herself, were gifted folk singers.

Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at Berlin.

Two years later, in 1855, he opened his own cattle and pork butchering business with the help of one of his uncles who loaned him $ 400.

* Actor Nathaniel Parker, who played pilot ' Flash ' Gordon in the series, lost two uncles in World War Two, both of them real-life RAF fighter pilots.

Two paternal uncles were prominent Filipinos during the American period, Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos, and his brother Pedro, a leading socialist leader during the Commonwealth era.

Two uncles, Timothy S. Williams and Josiah B. Williams, were New York State Senators from the Ithaca area.

Two of his uncles had become quite famous: General George Rogers Clark, hero of taking of Fort Sackville at Vincennes, IN, and considered to be the founder of Louisville, and Captain William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.

Two absorptions of Af with ethyl acetate or two absorptions of Af ( which had been passed through Dowex-2-chloride ), NS and Af with crown gall tissue powder, or mouse liver powder did not further improve the specificity of staining.

Two companies now had headquarters with Clark J. Wait, who by then had his own drugstore at Factory Point -- the `` Northern Union Telegraph Company '' and the `` Western Union ''.

Two entries in The Early Life support the assumption that during this period Hardy had virtually suspended the writing of poetry.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

Two hours of watching his serenely happy face, listening to his soft humming as he bent over his penciled figures, and Blanche had to leave.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two to three weeks prior to the charter of the Virginia, Graham had been snooping around the San Luis Rey Mission.

Two weeks ago she had gone west to Pearson City.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two letters had arrived for Miss Theresa Stubblefield: she put them in her bag.

Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.

Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

Two vessels had arrived and departed before his escape, but both were Spanish.

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.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

Two years later, to avenge his sister, Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

Two airports, Sofia Airport and Burgas Airport, had a runway longer than 3, 000 meters, and there were four heliports.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

Two approaches have been attempted to solve the problems cited above.

Two days later, Taylor attempted to flee Nigeria, but he was apprehended by Nigerian authorities and transferred to Freetown under UN guard.

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.

* Two books about the attempted robbery of the De Beers diamonds from the Dome were published in 2004: Diamond Geezers-The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium ( ISBN 1843171228 ) written by Kris Hollington, published by Michael O ' Mara Books Ltd, and Dome Raiders-How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time ( ISBN 1852271949 ) written by Jon Shatford and William Doyle, published by Virgin Books

Two theories of origins have attempted to explain the common elements in fairy tales found spread over continents.

Two sequels were attempted and expansions have been released regularly.

Two houses, Norton Priory in Cheshire, and Hexham Abbey in Northumberland, attempted to resist the commissioners by force ; actions which Henry interpreted as treason, resulting in his writing personally to demand the summary brutal punishment of those responsible.

Two other players, Pete Banaszak and Dave Casper, attempted to recover it but batted it forward when they could not.

Now she herself took power and soon also killed her oldest surviving son Seleucus V. Two different motives are given as reason for this deed: According to one version he had attempted to claim the throne without her agreement, according to the other version she was afraid that he might avenge the assassination of his father.

Two female members of the royal house were required in order to activate the weapon, but the Phantom Tribe attempted to get around this barrier by creating a machine that would require the use of only one.

Two days later, on January 18, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), Louise Arbour, attempted to enter Kosovo to investigate the killings but was refused access by the Yugoslav authorities.

Two Jesuits, John Anthony Cantova and Victor Walter, attempted missionary work there in 1731 ; the former was soon murdered, the latter obliged to flee.

Two years later Sigurd attempted to appoint Ingemund ( whose background is unknown ) to take possession of the kingdom of the Isles.

Two centuries passed before the Spanish attempted to colonize the area.

Two hours later, it would crash into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers attempted to take over the plane from a team of hijackers.

Two Buffalos and two P-40s were destroyed on the ground, and one P-40 crashed when it attempted to land on a bomb-damaged runway.

Two police officers and a chauffeur were also shot as the men attempted to avoid capture.

He unsuccessfully attempted to kill Padan Fain in the Two Rivers, and as of Knife of Dreams is still hunting Fain.

Two months later during mission STS-41-C, astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson attempted to use the MMU to capture the Solar Maximum Mission satellite and to bring it into the orbiter's payload bay for repairs and servicing.

Two Belgian Air Force ( BAF ) F-16 fighters attempted to intercept the objects, with no success.

* August 11: Two people were killed and 16 wounded when an explosive device was detonated by Palestinian militants inside an Arab taxi as it attempted to cross the Qalandia checkpoint just north of Jerusalem.

Two delegates of the Polish government in Exile and AK, Zygmunt Rumel and Krzysztof Markiewicz attempted to negotiate with UPA leaders, but were captured and murdered on July 10, 1943, in the village of Kustycze.

His episode, " Two Minutes ", written by Johanne McAndrew, saw him play a getaway driver as two of his mates attempted to rob a pub of its takings.

On the night of 8 – 9 June, action on the outer defence zone flared when Lieutenant Mark Townsend's 1 Troop ( K Company, 42 CDO ) probed Mount Harriet, killing two Argentines ( Corporal Hipolito Gonzalez and Private Martiniano Gomez ). At the same time, two platoon-size fighting patrols from 45 Commando attempted the same on Two Sisters Mountain, but the Argentine Rasit ground surveillance radar on Mount Longdon was able to detect the 45 Commando platoons, and artillery fire dispersed the force.