The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.

The philosopher Crantor, a student of Plato's student Xenocrates, is often cited as an example of a writer who thought the story to be historical fact.

One example which could have been overlooked without historical records is the Mayan interest in the planet Venus.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

Each series was set in a different historical period with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett and Lord Flashheart.

Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

For surveys, the most common approach is to follow a historical path by associating stances with the philosophers who are most strongly associated with them, for example Descartes, Locke, Kant, etc.

Many active and historical figures made significant contribution to control theory, including, for example:

As an example, McGinn cites the apocalypse in the Book of Daniel, which he sees as a record of historical events presented as a prophecy of future events and expressed in terms of " mythic structures ", with " the Hellenistic kingdom figured as a terrifying monster that cannot but recall Near Eastern pagan myth of the dragon of chaos ".

For historical reasons, many point defects, especially in ionic crystals, are called centers: for example a vacancy in many ionic solids is called a luminescence center, a color center, or F-center.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

The use of horror films to help audiences understand international prior historical events occurs, for example, to show the horridness of the Vietnam war, the Holocaust and the worldwide AIDS epidemic.

It also includes historical groups, for example the Kapalikas.

Houses of particular historical significance ( former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses ) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of built heritage and / or of streetscape values.

A well-known example of this legal usage is The Cases of Judge Dee ( 狄公案 Di Gongan in Chinese ), a Ming dynasty novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.

The tradition instead has been that such decisions cannot be made now, and must be made through struggle and experimentation, so that the best solution can be arrived at democratically and organically, and to base the direction for struggle on established historical example.

For example, etymological dictionaries provide words with their historical origins, change and development.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

For example, one might argue that the myth of the wind-god Aeolus evolved from a historical account of a king who taught his people to use sails and interpret the winds.

For example, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl claimed that " the primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.

* CIC Inland Processing Times: A historical graphical record of processing times for applications processed within Canada.

MERLIN, a Fortran-written software program is claimed to be the first scientifically based forecasting technology that combines equations derived from celestial phenomena with past historical data and blends that information into a graphical time-line that accurately plots the chronology of future events.

A graphical representation of Derry City's historical standings in the IFA Premiership | Irish League and League of Ireland

He not only describes what the user of a small telescope will see, but also includes much fascinating astronomical, mythological, and historical lore.

Earliest evidence of this club / registry is in California in 1989 opened & run by Raoul Trevoy Coleman owner of CRK Kennels as verified by paid business search ; between 1979-1989 there is no evidence of registered dogs, breeding, offspring, photographs, or documented history of dogs or people between this time of 1979-1989In 2009 controversial videos have surfaced featuring the owner / president of the club and owner of Cattle Rustler Kennels that has been deemed by some as abuse and others as schutzhund training, http :// raekwonmacguy. buzznet. com / user / video / 4397841 / alapaha-blue-blood-bulldog-abba / Mr. Coleman is still the owner / president of this club today, unfortunately this is part of the history of the breed and documented, the ABBA will always remain a historical factor in the ABBB breed.

Selected building contained additional data: e. g., interior shots, historical images, menus of restaurants, video interviews of city officials, etc., allowing the user to take a virtual tour through those buildings.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

Eusa mythology conflates the legend of Saint Eustace, who is depicted in a painting in Canterbury Cathedral, and the historical United States of America ( USA ), the first user of atomic weapons.

SimCity eventually offered historical city graphics to overlay its game engine but the underlying user interface and growth simulation remained unchanged.

The new building would connect the historical library building with the user areas of the reconstructed Red and Yellow Castle.

Typically α is left as a user input ( for example it may be estimated from historical data ).

A unique aspect of the game is the time travel element, which allows the user to learn historical information in addition to science.

The user can download a previously-traveled course / route to the Forerunner using Garmin's Communicator software together with the ANT + technology, and then follow this course / route to " race " against this historical course / route.

It allows the user to remotely view live or historical statistics ( such as CPU load averages or network utilization ) for all machines that are being monitored.

The basic principles under which the TGN is constructed and maintained were established by the Art and Architecture Thesaurus ( AAT ) and also employed for the Union List of Artist Names ( ULAN ): Its scope includes terminology needed to catalog and retrieve information about the visual arts and architecture ; it is constructed using national and international standards for thesaurus construction ; it comprises a hierarchy with tree structures corresponding to the current and historical worlds ; it is based on terminology that is current, warranted for use by authoritative literary sources, and validated by use in the scholarly art and architectural history community ; and it is compiled and edited in response to the needs of the user community.

Textual criticism ( or broader: text philology ) is a part of philology, which is not just devoted to the study of texts, but also to edit and produce " scientific editions ", " scholarly editions ", " standard editions ", " historical editions ", " reliable editions ", " reliable texts ", " text editions " or " critical editions ", which are editions in which careful scholarship has been employed to ensure that the information contained within is as close to the author's / composer's original intentions as possible ( and which allows the user to compare and judge changes in editions published under influence by the author / composer ).

* Jing Liao, A historical perspective: the root cause for the underdevelopment of user services in Chinese academic libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 30, num.