Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

The Hobart Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Australia and a rare surviving example of an Egyptian Revival synagogue.

After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 ( a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time ).

* In Norway, Brother Robert writes Saga Af Tristram ok Ísodd, one of the rare fully surviving versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

* Boston's 1920 Vilna Shul in Massachusetts is a rare surviving intact Immigrant Era synagogue.

It was presented by Leslie Phillips and included new interviews with Betty Marsden and Barry Took, period interviews with Kenneth Horne, and rare excerpts from surviving wartime episodes of Much Binding in the Marsh.

Artifacts on display included rare surviving Native and European artifacts, maps, documents, and ceremonial objects from museums and royal collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

On rare occasions, two contestants were eliminated from the same game while the surviving contestant still had spins to play.

The Golden Ass and Satyricon were particularly revived and widely read in renaissance Europe, and are rare surviving samples of a mostly lost genre, which was highly popular in the classical world, known as " Milesian tales.

: N boat-shaped, rare both in art and in surviving specimens

Relatively few of these unwieldy ephemera survive ; a rare surviving great-circle panorama is the Panorama Mesdag in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, showing the dunes of nearby Scheveningen.

A rare surviving recording of the song can be found online.

A rare surviving recording of the show's theme song, " When You Travel the Great Lincoln Highway ", survives online.

Barton Turf church, situated a mile from the village, is noted for containing a very rare surviving example of a medieval rood screen across the chancel arch.

The Bog Turtle is the single most significant rare animal species surviving in Gaston County.

His Aetia (" Causes "), another rare longer work surviving only in tattered papyrus fragments and quotations in later authors, was a collection of elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of cities, obscure religious ceremonies, unique local traditions apparently chosen for their oddity, and other customs, throughout the Hellenic world In the first three books at least, the formula appears to ask a question of the Muse, of the form, " Why, on Paros, do worshippers of the Charites use neither flutes nor crowns?

The auditorium, built in 1935, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a rare surviving example of federal relief architecture in Minnesota.

The only surviving version of this book, kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and first translated by Pierre Amédée Jaubert, reports that, after having reached an area of " sticky and stinking waters " ( probably the Sargasso Sea ), the Mugharrarin moved back and first reached an uninhabited Island ( Madeira or Hierro ), where they found " a huge quantity of sheep, which its meat was bitter and inedible " and, then, " continued southward " and reached another island where they were soon surrounded by barks and brought to " a village whose inhabitants were often fair haired with long and flaxen hair and the women of a rare beauty ".

Consequently, surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts from before the 9th century are relatively rare ; but nine — over half of the total that survive — witness a more or less pure Alexandrian text.

Most functional and sought-after of these machines are cast-iron, pedal-operated devices manufactured beginning in the 1880s by bindery equipment makers like F. P Rosback Co. and Latham Machinery Co. Rosback also produced table-top perforators, but surviving models are exceedingly rare.

The pillarless design unfortunately made it less rigid and the handling was thus poorer than that of the two-door cars, and surviving examples are rare.

Trakai's Karaim kenesa is a rare example of a surviving wooden synagogue with an interior dome.

A rare surviving contemporary review by Guy Patin, a distinguished member of the Parisian medical faculty, indicates the considerable impact Religio Medici had upon the intelligentsia abroad:

Many of these are quite rare, with only single examples surviving of some types.

Only 12 remain — most having been replaced with the KX100 — making the K8 as rare as the K3.

This exhibit was refurbished in 2007 and currently a walk-through aviary for African birds, Cold Blooded Corner, a reptile house housing rare species ' such as Gila Monster and Madagascan Tree Boa, a partula snail unit, chipmunk and lovebird aviaries, a toddler's play area, kiosk, and shop.

A rare explosive form of antimony can be formed from the electrolysis of antimony ( III ) trichloride.

Roughly 88 % of people affected with AVM are asymptomatic ; often the malformation is discovered as part of an autopsy or during treatment of an unrelated disorder ( called in medicine " an incidental finding "); in rare cases its expansion or a micro-bleed from an AVM in the brain can cause epilepsy, deficit or pain.

Arbitrage transactions in modern securities markets involve fairly low day-to-day risks, but can face extremely high risk in rare situations, particularly financial crises, and can lead to bankruptcy.

While it is not recorded as a " steal ", in a practical sense a batter can be said to " steal first base " by successfully running to first base ( without being tagged or thrown out ) in rare circumstances following an uncaught third strike ; the rarely-seen play avoids an " out " and gains a baserunner.

The tests currently available can detect mutations associated with rare genetic disorders like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and Huntington's disease.

Blizzards can bring near-whiteout conditions, and can paralyze regions for days at a time, particularly where snowfall is unusual or rare.

Excessive connecting rod clearance, combined with extremely high oil pump output ( rare but not impossible ) can sling enough oil to coat the cylinder walls with enough oil to facilitate reasonable piston ring seal artificially give a misleadingly high figure, on engines with compromised ring seal.

This consideration is particularly important when individuals ' census responses are made available in microdata form, but even aggregate-level data can result in privacy breaches when dealing with small areas and / or rare subpopulations.

Less common side-effects may include cardiac arrhythmias, blurry or double vision and / or the temporary loss of blood cells or platelets and in rare cases can cause aplastic anemia.

If left untreated, it is possible for chlamydia in men to spread to the testicles causing epididymitis, which in rare cases can cause sterility if not treated within 6 to 8 weeks.

Dysprosium can then be separated from other rare earth metals by an ion exchange displacement process.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

A third less common design called the busetto shape can also be found, as can the even more rare guitar or pear shape.

By 1918 we can find a shot of the sky being used to reflect the mood of one of the characters without specific explanation in The Gun Woman ( Frank Borzage ), but it must be emphasized that these examples are very rare, and did not either then, or within the next several years, constitute regular practice in the American cinema.

Because of the specialized and rare circumstances required for a biological structure to fossilize, only a very small percentage of all life-forms that have ever existed can be expected to be represented in discoveries, and each discovery represents only a snapshot of the process of evolution.

Unsaturated fats can be further divided into cis fats, which are the most common in nature, and trans fats, which are rare in nature but present in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

One of the rare examples of Islamic fresco painting can be seen in Qasr Amra, the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez.

It is very rare for top clubs to miss the competition, although it can happen in exceptional circumstances.

Fair Isle can claim to be the best place to find rare birds in Britain with at least 27 first records.

Very long readings also occur for certain kanji or symbols which have a gairaigo reading ; the word " centimeter " is generally written as " cm " ( with two half-width characters, so occupying one space ) and has the seven-kana reading ( it can also be written as the kanji, though this is very rare ); another common example is '%' ( the percent sign ), which has the five kana reading.

Fossil remains of true finches are rare, and those that are known can mostly be assigned to extant genera at least.

The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by each of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced mobile suits ( one designed by each of the scientists ) known as " Gundams " ( called such because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space ).