Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.

Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.

Among his other works is The Grey Room, the plot of which is centered on a haunted room in an English manor house.

The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men English translation

In the seventeenth century laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned " father of English medicine " or " English Hippocrates ," to whom is attributed the quote, " Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.

Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.

Among leading dictionaries and encyclopedias, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers " website ", and the Oxford English Dictionary changed to " website " in 2004.

Among these characters were Stavros, a Greek restaurant owner with fractured English ; and Loadsamoney, an obnoxious, Cockney plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned.

Among native English speakers, many different accents exist.

Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

Among the main achievements of the reign of Edward I were the reforms of the institution of the English Parliament and its transformation into a source for generating revenues.

126 Among the rarities .. was some fine ice cream, which, with the strawberries and milk, eat most deliciously .< ref name = oed >" ice cream, n ." The Oxford English Dictionary.

Among other events of the 17th century, the Bandanese attempted independent trade with the English, and the East-India Company's response was to decimate the native population of the Banda Islands, sending the survivors fleeing to other islands, and then installing slave labour.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

Among the letters given to the Grand Pensionary, by mistake was included one containing the secret English instructions to their contacts in the Orange party, outlining plans for an overthrow of the States regime.

Among English speakers, " breakfast " can be used to refer to this meal, or, less commonly, to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods ( eggs, oatmeal, sausages, etc.

Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems ( e. g., January is named for Janus ), Style guides for academic texts on religion generally prefer BCE / CE to BC / AD.

Among his most important works were translations of texts by Averroes.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

Among the primary source texts are short inscriptions in the Elder Futhark, among them the " bronze capsule of Schretzheim " ( c. 600 ).

* Among the Syriac manuscripts obtained from the Nitrian desert in Egypt, British Museum, London: important Greek texts, Add.

Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.

Among these groups are comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, and furry fandom, sometimes referred to collectively as " fringe fandoms " with the implication that the original fandom centered on science fiction texts ( magazines and later books and fanzines ) is the " true " or " core " fandom.

Among the earliest Kurdish religious texts is the Yazidi Black Book, the sacred book of Yazidi faith.

Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are the oldest known instances of written music, dating from c. 1400 BCE.

" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.

Among the various pseudepigraphic texts called " Book of Jasher " the 16th Century Hebrew Sefer haYashar ( midrash ) (( first edition 1552, later popular among early Mormons ) mentions the magicians.

Among the most important texts translated by Kumārajīva are the Diamond Sutra, Amitabha Sutra, Lotus Sutra, the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, Mahāprajñāpāramitā Upadeśa which was a commentary ( attributed to Nagarjuna ) on the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra.

Among his contributions are the translation of a large number of Tibetan texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings.

Among their most important texts on these matters were Debord's " Theory of the Dérive " ( published in the Belgian surrealist magazine Les Lèvres Nues, no.

Among the classic texts of Jewish tradition, some Jewish Bible commentators, the Midrash, the Talmud, and mainstream Jewish philosophy utilise revealed approaches.

Among later British treatments there have been Edward Hughes ' Songs from Aesop's fables for children ’ s voices and piano ( 1965 ), for which he asked the poet Peter Westmore to provide ten texts, and Arwel Hughes ' Songs from Aesop's Fables for unison voices.

Among the most important texts to the Yogācāra tradition to be the Five Treatises of Maitreya.

Among Chinese classic texts, tian " heaven " and long " dragon " were first used together in Zhou Dynasty ( 1122 BCE-256 BCE ) writings, but the word tianlong was not recorded until the Han Dynasty ( 207 BCE-220 CE ).

Among Salonen's compositions are ... auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen ... ( 1980, a saxophone concerto with a title taken from Franz Kafka's The Trial ), Floof for soprano and ensemble ( 1982, on texts by Stanisław Lem ) and the orchestral L. A. Variations ( 1996 ).

Among the principal relevant prophetic texts are those found in the Jewish Bible or Old Testament in the Book of Daniel, the book of Isaiah and the Book of Ezekiel, and those found in the New Testament in the Book of Revelation.

Among the many texts which address this subject in counterbalance are the words of Jesus, as for example in Matthew, " the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it ",

Among his other works are four symphonies, three violin concertos, a piano concerto, chamber music, songs and choral works to Norwegian texts, and an opera, Der Heilige Berg ( The Holy Mountain, 1914 ).

Among these are Chinese-Korean pedagogical texts such as Hongmu Chôngyun Yôkhun ( 1455 ) and Sasông T ’ onghae ( 1517 ); the Portuguese-Chinese dictionary ( 1583 – 1588 ) of the Christian missionary Matteo Ricci ; and Chinese rhyme manuals such as the Yunlue Huitong ( 1642 ).

Among the texts it preserved was the Showing of Love by Julian of Norwich and The Orcherd of Syon, which translated Catherine of Siena's Dialogue.