Two major tragedies occurred during the reign of Louis Bonaparte: the explosion of a cargo ship loaded with gunpowder in the heart of the city of Leiden in 1807, and a major flood in Holland in 1809.

Two tragedies strike Richard: the " accidental " drowning death of his younger disabled brother, whom he dearly loved, and the " accidental " death of Richard's unborn son when Ellen " trips " and falls down a flight of stairs.

Two Latin tragedies are extant ; Archipropheta sive Johannes Baptista, printed at Cologne in 1548, probably performed at Oxford the year before, and Christus redivivus ( Cologne, 1543 ), edited by JM Hart ( for the Modern Language Association of America, 1886, separately issued 1899 ).

Two tragedies written in rhymed heroic couplets, in imitation of John Dryden, followed in 1676, Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow and Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Caesar.

Two of his tragedies, Tragedy of Orestes and The Courageous Turk, contain speeches translated from Seneca ’ s play.

Two other tragedies from this time are Anne Boleyn ( 1850 ) and Leonor de Guzman ( 1853 ).

The novel consists of three sections: Book One portrays the protagonist's arrival in Scotland as a child, following the death of his parents back in Ireland ; Book Two focuses on the character's adolescence and ends on a pair of tragedies ( the death of his best friend and his failure to win a scholarship to study medicine at the university, due to a sudden illness ); Book Three begins with the protagonist as a somewhat embittered figure, entering the adult working world with little hope for the future, which is only compounded by the fact that he has fallen in love.

Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

Two of the vital qualities demanded of a politician by other politicians are that he always keep a confidence and that he keep his word.

Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

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 metabolites ( 1, and 2 ) ) of p-aminobenzoic acid ( PABA ) which act as cofactors for the hydroxylation of aniline by acid-fast bacteria are biosynthesized from Aj.

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.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

-- Two errors by New York Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the eleventh inning donated four unearned runs and a 5-to-2 victory to the Chicago White Sox today.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci

Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

Two versions of Peleus ' fate account for this ; in Euripides ' Troades, Acastus, son of Pelias, has exiled him from Phthia ; and subsequently he dies in exile ; in another, he is reunited with Thetis and made immortal.

Two versions of this story appear in Euripides ' play Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra.

* Two Satyr Plays: Euripides ' Cyclops and Sophocles ' Ichneutai ( 1957 )

* The 20 highest-grossing films of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Spider-Man 3, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Finding Nemo, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Shrek the Third.

* Number Two ( The Prisoner ), a character from the British television series The Prisoner

Two of these pilots, Open All Hours ( written by Roy Clarke ) and Prisoner and Escort ( written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ) became series.

He thereafter appeared in a number of notable films including Raffles, The Masquerader, Clive of India, A Tale of Two Cities in 1935, Under Two Flags, The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town in 1941.

During World War Two, Hildesheim was chosen ( based on its inhabitants devotion to Adolf Hitler ) to be the indoctrination and further training location for a group of 27 British Prisoner of war defectors as members of what was known as the " British Frei Korps " SS.

Notable films with scenes filmed in the streets around the market include: Bridget Jones's Diary ( 2001 ), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004 ).

He was the second ( to Guy Doleman ) of many actors to portray the role of " Number Two " in the series The Prisoner, appearing in the series ' first episode.

The story is told in four large parts: Book One: Mistress of Magic, Book Two: The High Queen, Book Three: The King Stag, and Book Four: The Prisoner in the Oak.

He also appeared in musicals such as Two by Two, Prisoner of Second Avenue, and Chess.

The role of Knight Two was then offered to The Prisoner star Patrick McGoohan, who likewise wished to accept, but was out of the country at the time of filming, and had to decline as well.

* Two Songs: Song of a Prisoner, Song of Malaya ( 1971 ) poems

He also played the authority figure Number Two in The Prisoner (" Checkmate ", 1967 ).

In 1967, he appeared in two episodes of The Prisoner as an unusually crude and brutal Number Two in " Hammer Into Anvil " and as a colleague from Number Six's pre-Village days in " Many Happy Returns ".

* Number Two ( The Prisoner ), a character in the British television series " The Prisoner "

He is also notable for having been among several British actors to play the character of Number Two in the sixties cult TV series The Prisoner ( 1967 / 68 ).

She played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda ( and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough ), and the female Number Two in the episode Dance of the Dead of the TV series The Prisoner ( 1967 ).

His other numerous television credits included Danger Man ( 1965 ), The Avengers ( 1964 & 1966 ), The Prisoner ( 1967 ), Owen MD ( 1971 – 73 ), Quiller ( 1975 ), Van der Valk ( 1977 ), Doctor Who ( 1982 ), Yes Minister ( 1982 ), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and for the BBC A Tale of Two Cities 1980 television series as well as The Pickwick Papers ( 1985 ) as Mr. Pickwick.

His films include The Pink Panther and Casino Royale ( both with Peter Sellers, alongside whom he made five films ) although he is probably best known for his portrayal of Number Two in the ITC classic series The Prisoner.

Ironically in light of his reasons for leaving the United States for Britain, " Living in Harmony ", the episode of The Prisoner in which he appeared as The Judge / Number Two, was banned in the series ' original run on American television, supposedly due to drug use but more likely because of the political commentary on the Vietnam War that could be read into the episode.