Dmitri Mendeleev claimed he arranged his tables in order of atomic weight (" Atomgewicht ") However, in deference to the observed chemical properties, he violated his own rule and placed tellurium ( atomic weight 127. 6 ) ahead of iodine ( atomic weight 126. 9 ).

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

However, some systems use the reverse definition (" 0 " is " High ") or are current based.

However, his paintings evoked bitter controversy ( dubbed " The Munch Affair ") and after one week the exhibition closed.

However, the topography other than coastlines and major rivers is quite different, and the only apparent reference to the real world besides the map may be the Blood Wood, known as " Wyrm Wood " before the Scourge and similar in location and extent to the Chernobyl ( Ukrainian for " wormwood ") Zone of alienation.

However, it was the informal descriptive of Imperator (" commander ") that became the title increasingly favored by his successors.

However, financial institutions are in the process of rolling out smart cards with integrated circuits (" chips ") that will enable verification by entering a personal identification number ( PIN ) at the EFTPOS terminal.

However, the term " flagellate " is included in other terms ( such as " dinoflagellate " and " zooflagellate ") which often are more formally characterized.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

However, there is debate as to whether the cognomen Barca ( meaning " thunderbolt ") was applied to Hamilcar alone or was hereditary within his family.

However, endothermic homeotherms ( the animals generally characterized as " warm-blooded ") both produce more heat and have better ways to retain and regulate it than other animals.

However, slightly leaning the blade over and digging one of its edges into the ice (" rock over and bite ") gives skaters the ability to increase friction and control their movement at will.

However, after Hitler won power, Gustav became enamoured with the Nazis ( Fritz Thyssen described him as " a super-Nazi ") to a degree his wife and subordinates found bizarre.

However, K-Meleon has its own plugins ( called " kplugins ") and browser themes, ( the default being Phoenity ) which can extend the functionality and customize the appearance of the browser.

However, using the definition of " light pollution " from some Italian regional bills ( i. e., " every irradiance of artificial light outside competence areas and particularly upward the sky ") only full cutoff design prevents light pollution.

However, this practice is not extensively used in regular Leet ; more often it is seen in situations where the argot ( i. e., " secret language ") characteristics of the system are required, either to exclude newbies or outsiders in general, i. e., anything that the average reader cannot make sense of is valid ; a valid reader should himself try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.

However, in recent years the explosion of microbreweries has led to a modest renaissance and an increasing number of milds ( sometimes labelled " Dark ") are now being brewed.

However, English has a click in its " tsk tsk " ( or " tut tut ") sound, and another is often used to say " giddy up " to a horse.

However, the tradition of not losing rural roots continues today, and minestrone is now known in Italy as belonging to the style of cooking called " cucina povera " ( literally " poor kitchen ") meaning dishes that have rustic, rural roots, as opposed to " cucina nobile " or the cooking style of the artistocracy and nobles.

However, unlike Substance, which focused almost exclusively on the 12 " versions of the group's singles, Singles collected the 7 " versions, many of which ( like " Ceremony ", " Temptation " and " Confusion ") had never been released on CD.

However, in the 1850s Bismarck correctly foresaw that by failing to support Russia ( after Russian help in crushing the Hungarian Revolt in 1849, and at Olmütz in 1850, the Austrian leader Schwarzenberg had said that " Austria would astonish the world by the depth of her ingratitude ") Austria could no longer count on Russian support in Italy and Germany, and had thus exposed herself to attack by France and Prussia.

However, it may have also resulted from early Christian missionaries focusing their efforts within major population centers ( e. g., St. Paul ), rather than throughout an expansive, yet sparsely populated, countryside ( hence, the Latin term suggesting " uneducated country folk ") until a bit later on.

However, it is still not clear from where the words “ Kashubians ” and “ Kashubian ” ( Polish: “ Kaszubi ” and “ Kaszubski ”, Kashubian language: " Kaszëbi " and " kaszëbsczi ") originated and how they were brought from the area near Koszalin to Pomerelia.

However, wear and decomposition of the wheel, as well as the direct mechanical coupling to a vibrating motor, introduced low-frequency noise (" rumble ") and speed variations (" wow and flutter ") into the sound.

( Hall 1996: 133 ) New Towns in the North East were also planned such as Newton Aycliffe ( which the social reformer and government adviser William Beveridge wanted to be the " ideal town to live in ") and Peterlee.

The term " supply-side economics " was thought, for some time, to have been coined by journalist Jude Wanniski in 1975, but according to Robert D. Atkinson's Supply-Side Follies, the term " supply side " (" supply-side fiscalists ") was first used by Herbert Stein, a former economic adviser to President Nixon, in 1976, and only later that year was this term repeated by Jude Wanniski.

According to an inscription found in this city, Akornion, a citizen of the city was a chief adviser ( πρῶτοσφίλος, literally " first friend ") of Burebista.

John Sassamon, a Native American Christian convert (" Praying Indian ") and early Harvard graduate, translator, and adviser to Metacomet, was a figure in the outbreak of the war.

The inscription also refers to the Dacian king Burebista, and one interpretation is that Akornion was his chief adviser (, literally " first friend ") in Dionysopolis .. Other sources indicate that Akornion was sent as an ambassador of Burebista to Pompey, to discuss an alliance against Julius Caesar.

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

A Don't pass line bet is a bet for the shooter to lose ( shooter " seven out, line away ") and is almost the opposite of the pass line bet.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

Presque vu ( from French, meaning " almost seen ") is the sensation of being on the brink of an epiphany.

The Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced " eee-suh ") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

A large portion of Dutch aid funds also are channeled through private (" co-financing ") organizations that have almost total autonomy in choice of projects.

Finally, everything comes to what is a plain flat plain at the lowest elevation possible ( called " baseline ") This plain was called by Davis ' " peneplain " meaning " almost plain " Then the rejuvenation occurs and there is another mountain lift and the cycle continues.

The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.

Rationality ( here equated with " wanting more rather than less of a good ") is widely used as an assumption of the behavior of individuals in microeconomic models and analysis and appears in almost all economics textbook treatments of human decision-making.

Novelty almost matched it in terms of efficiency, but its firebox design caused it to gradually slow to a halt due to a build up of molten ash ( called " clinker ") cutting off the air supply.

The original ( or " Baudot ") radioteletype system is based almost invariably on the Baudot code or ITA-2 5 bit alphabet.

The rooster is often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn (" cock-a-doodle-doo ") and will almost always start crowing before 4 months of age.

# Absorption: oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide can diffuse into the epidermis in small amounts ; some animals use their skin as their sole respiration organ ( in humans, the cells comprising the outermost 0. 25 – 0. 40 mm of the skin are " almost exclusively supplied by external oxygen ", although the " contribution to total respiration is negligible ")

The set ( called a " quick set ") is placed only slightly above the net and the ball is struck by the hitter almost immediately after leaving the setter's hands.

The best quality woks are almost always hand-made, being pounded into shape by hand (" hand hammered ") from two or more sheets of carbon steel which are shaped into final form by a ring-forming or hand-forging process.

On the surface of the Earth, the acceleration due to gravity ( the " strength of gravity ") is approximately constant ; this means that the ratio of the weight force of a motionless object on the surface of the Earth to its mass is almost independent of its location, so that an object's weight force can stand as a proxy for its mass, and vice versa.

The fire in 1681 ( the " Horneman Fire ") led to an almost total reconstruction of the city, overseen by General Johan Caspar von Cicignon, originally from Luxembourg.

The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from " nurture " was termed tabula rasa (" blank slate ") by philosopher John Locke, and proposes that humans develop from only environmental influences.

During this time the Canadian government signed treaties ( known as the " Numbered Treaties ") with various First Nations ( but not Métis ), which turned over rights to almost the entire western plains to the Government of Canada.

His vocabulary is almost entirely classical, with only a few medieval constructions such as " loricator " ( someone who makes armour, a calque of the Arabic " zarra ") and " assellare " ( to empty one's bowels ).

A folk etymology derives the word from the Greek πάν pan-(" all ") and thēr (" beast of prey ") because they can hunt and kill almost everything.