An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

* Charlie Austin ( born 1989 ), English footballer

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* Sarah Austin ( translator ) ( 1793 – 1867 ), English author

* Austin Healey ( born 1973 ), English rugby union player

* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

: English ( official ), local dialects

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

* Athene Seyler ( 1889 – 1990 ), English actress

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

* Lyubov Kuznetsova ( 1928 ), Russian calligrapher

After studying for some years at Luoyang's ( Taixue ), he became well-versed in the classics, and befriended notable persons, such as the mathematician and calligrapher Cui Yuan ( 78 – 143 ), the official and philosophical commentator Ma Rong ( 79 – 166 ), and the philosopher Wang Fu ( 78 – 163 ).

Chinese calligraphy | Calligraphy of Huang Tingjian ( 1045 – 1105 ), a renowned calligrapher and associate of Su Shi

Fellow students included calligrapher and light artist Marian Zazeela ( who married Young in 1963 ), composers Terry Riley and Yoshi Wada, philosophers Henry Flynt and Catherine Christer Hennix and many others.

Another exemplar was Zhao Mengfu ( 1254 – 1322 ), a former official of the Song Dynasty who served under the Mongol administration of the Yuan and whose wife Guan Daosheng ( 1262 – 1319 ) was also a painter-poet and calligrapher.

* Zhao Mengfu ( traditional Chinese: 趙孟頫 ), calligrapher, descendant of Song Imperial Family

* Zhao Yong ( traditional Chinese: 趙雍 ), calligrapher, son of Zhao Mengfu, descendant of Song Imperial Family

Wei Shuo (, 272 – 349 ), courtesy name Mouyi ( 茂猗 ), sobriquet He ' nan ( 和南 ), commonly addressed just as Lady Wei ( 衛夫人 ), was a Chinese calligrapher of Eastern Jin, who established consequential rules about the regular script.

Wei and Li had Li Chong ( 李充 ), also a calligrapher and a Palace Secretarial Attendant ( 中書侍郎 ).

Su Shi (​) ( January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101 ), was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era.

* Huang Tingjian ( 1045 – 1105 ), Famous poet and calligrapher

* Noureddine Daifallah ( born 1960 ), Moroccan calligrapher

* Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang ( born 1963 ), Chinese Muslim calligrapher

A member of the board of the National Palace Museum, he was a renowned calligrapher, friend of great artists such as Chang Dai-chien ( 張大千 ; pinyin: Zhang Daqian ), Huang Jun-bi and Lan Yin-ting, and a keen art collector.

One of these copies was acquired by Emperor Huizong ( 1100 – 1026 ), himself a keen calligrapher.

* Alfred John Fairbank ( 1895-1982 ), British calligrapher, type-designer

* Anna Hornby, N. E. A. C ( 1914 – 1996 ), an English painter, calligrapher and member of the New English Art Club

* Deng Shiru ( 鄧石如 ), calligrapher and seal carver

Zhao Mengfu (, 1254 – 1322 ) courtesy name Ziang ( 子昂 ), pseudonyms Songxue ( 松雪, " Pine Snow "), Oubo ( 鸥波, " Gull Waves "), and Shuijing-gong Dao-ren ( 水精宫道人, " Master of the Crystal Palace "), was a prince and descendant of the Song Dynasty's imperial family, and a Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty.

Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

Together with Plato and Socrates ( Plato's teacher ), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

Polykleitos in his Canon wrote that beauty consists in the proportion not of the elements ( materials ), but of the parts, that is the interrelation of parts with one another and with the whole.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

The ampere ( SI unit symbol: A ), often shortened to amp, is the SI unit of electric current ( quantity symbol: I, i ) and is one of the seven SI base units.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

Since a coulomb is approximately equal to elementary charges ( such as electrons ), one ampere is approximately equivalent to elementary charges moving past a boundary in one second, or the reciprocal of the value of the elementary charges in coulombs.

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

The three petals ( or inner tepals ), also showy, are located alternately between the sepals, two at the side and one usually at the bottom of the flower.

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

For example, if one defines categories in terms of sets, that is, as sets of objects and morphisms ( usually called a small category ), or even locally small categories, whose hom-objects are sets, then there is no category of all sets, and so it is difficult for a category-theoretic formulation to apply to all sets.

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.