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.

A rare surviving K3 kiosk can be seen beside the Penguin Beach exhibit at ZSL London Zoo, where it has been protected from the weather by the projecting eaves and recently restored to its original colour scheme,

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

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

* Remnants of contemporary culture accordingly appear as valued antiquities or sometimes just as unrecognized survivals, lending a rare feeling of nostalgia for the present to the stories.

The professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticises it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor of Divinity Keith Ward suggests that materialism is rare amongst contemporary UK philosophers: " Looking around my philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists.

His A Street Scene in Cairo ; The Lantern-Maker's Courtship ( 1854 – 61 ) is a rare contemporary narrative scene, as the young man feels his fiancé's face, which he is not allowed to see, through her veil, as an Westerner in the background beats his way up the street with his stick.

This a rare intrusion of a clearly contemporary figure into an Orientalist scene ; mostly they claim the picturesqueness of the historical painting so popular at the time, without the trouble of researching authentic costumes and settings.

Through use of the land trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury, and contemporary items.

" The 133-hectare space that represents, according to UNESCO, " an exceptional example of architecture and town planning of the post-war era ," is one of the rare contemporary World Heritage Sites in Europe.

It is a rare contemporary glimpse into a late Gothic aristocratic English interior and tells a great deal about her status and lifestyle.

" The paper considered the album to be the Beatles ' " creative summit ", comparing it favourably to contemporary music and taking note of the now antiquated equipment used, concluding that " a listening experience like that offered by The Beatles is truly rare.

One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a " signal moment in the architectural culture ", because it represents " one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something.

Of the rare exceptions, Bulgakov in Master and Margarita ( not published in author's lifetime ) and Strugatskies in Monday Begins on Saturday introduced magic and mystical creatures into contemporary Soviet reality to satirize it.

Because New Preston's steep, rocky terrain presents significant constraints to development, most viable development sites were utilized prior to 1900, making contemporary construction of new homes and businesses rare.

The collection includes a variety of modern and rare materials including official military documents, contemporary accounts and discourses, manuscripts, maps, graphic arts, literature, and many works on naval art and science.

It is now known to bibliophiles as home to nearly twenty antiquarian and second-hand independent bookshops, including specialists in modern first editions, collectible children ’ s books, early printing, rare maps and atlases, antique prints, theatrical ephemera, and esoterica, as well as a contemporary art gallery, an antiques shop, shops specializing in philately, numismatics and art deco jewellery and an Indian restaurant.

But others will embrace its thematic and stylistic complexity as qualities all too rare in contemporary cinema.

While being recognized as a rare example of an active reformer in contemporary Austrian politics, his governments were also highly controversial from the beginning, starting with the fact that he formed a coalition government with Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) on both occasions.

certainly rare in contemporary classical music.

Details of contemporary “ relevance ” yielding specific clues as to time, place, and people ( like Kirill ’ s admonition of Feodorek – Bishop Fedor of Rostov called so in depreciation ) are rare and skillfully disguised.

It has maintained a very strict rubric to the urban contemporary format since its inception in 1976, which is rare amongst larger markets urban-oriented radio stations who have shifted to the Mainstream Urban or Urban Adult Contemporary formats ; this approach has been protected by default only because WVEE has no counter-competing sister stations in Atlanta.

Recent productions have been rare, in part because of the large forces required and the work being so atypical of " received " Wagner to contemporary audiences.

" Join the Gang " was a rare excursion into contemporary youth culture, an acerbic observation of peer pressure and drug use, which included sitar in its instrumentation as well as a musical quotation of The Spencer Davis Group's recent hit " Gimme Some Lovin '.

Episodes offer rare close-up contemporary footage of races and cars that year at the Rallye Du Nord, Magny Cours, Nürburgring, Monza, Targa Florio, Le Mans, Monaco, Rouen-Les-Essarts, Sebring and Reims.

As a painter, Schongauer was a follower of the Flemish Rogier van der Weyden, and his rare existing pictures closely resemble, both in splendour of color and exquisite minuteness of execution, the best works of contemporary art in Flanders.

Volume 3 of the Diary was discovered by William Michael Rossetti to contain an encounter with William Blake ; a rare description of the poet and artist from a contemporary.

Despite its generally positive reviews, Peachtree Road was one of John's leanest-selling contemporary efforts, reaching # 17 US upon its release, yet only managing # 21 in the UK, making it one of his rare albums to miss the Top 10 in his homeland.