Among the more common of such " native elements " are copper, silver, gold, carbon ( as coal, graphite, or diamonds ), sulfur, and mercury.

Among many other observations about flora, fauna, and native inhabitants related in his lengthy book, Bonaventure claimed to have seen enormous footprints in the region.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

John Edward Lloyd gave the following assessment of Llywelyn: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends ; his patriotic statemanship will always entitle him to wear the proud style of Llywelyn the Great.

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 are the Lossoth, a hardy people native to the Ice Bay of Forochel in the far north.

Among those with whom he performed were Anton Rubinstein and, in a concert in Offenbach's native Cologne, Liszt.

Among them was an explanation of why the natives of Krypton perished if they had possessed super powers on their native world ( as was the case in the earliest versions of Krypton outlined above, although this only became a problem once Superman — and by extension anyone from Krypton — was portrayed as increasingly powerful, able to withstand nuclear explosions, contrasted with his original power level in which a bursting mortar shell could penetrate his skin ).

Among these was the Reverend William Murphy, a native of Ireland and a pioneer Baptist minister from the Holston River area in East Tennessee who procured a land grant.

Among the first settlers in the parish was Newett Drew, a native of Virginia, who about 1818 established a grist mill at the former Overton community near Minden.

Among the early settlers was Jean François Perry, who was a native of France, and emigrated to this country in 1792.

Among the most prominent of the native sons of Aurelius were inventor Birdsill Holley and Miriam Angeline Works, first wife of Brigham Young, who led the " Latter-Day Saints " into the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Among the native Sitka spruce, western hemlock and wildflowers, the garden is a unique experimental outdoor laboratory, featuring a great many exotic species such as South African honeybush, New Zealand and Tasmanian tree ferns, Chinese fig hazel, Australian Grevillia, and Chilean flame and lantern trees.

Among these native to Reading are Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Carl Furillo, Baltimore Colts running back Lenny Moore, and Philadelphia 76ers forward Donyell Marshall.

Among the first settlers of Maple Falls was Herbert Everant Leavitt, a native of Melbourne, Quebec, Canada.

Among the earliest written records of Filipino martial arts comes from the Spanish conquistadors who fought native tribesmen armed with sticks and knives.

Among those who were able achieve this was Ladislav Troják ; A native of Košice who left for Prague to play for the LTC Praha – at those times considered to be the best ice hockey team in the country — in 1934.

Among these were several Austrian bakers, who were unfamiliar with the Danish baking recipes, and therefore baked pastries of their native homeland recipes.

Among the noted musical figures born in the state are Dorival Caymmi ; João Gilberto ; Gilberto Gil, the former ( 2003 – 2008 ) country's Minister of Culture ; Caetano Veloso and his sister Maria Bethânia ( Gil and Veloso being the founders of the Tropicália movement ( a native adaptation of the hippie movement ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which ultimate gained international recognition ); Gal Costa ; Luis Caldas ; Sara Jane ; Daniela Mercury ; Ivete Sangalo ; Carlinhos Brown and Margareth Menezes.

Among the statues in the town there is one of Edgar Quinet ( 1803 – 1875 ), a native of Bourg.

Among the exonyms not native to the Polish people or language are: лях ( lyakh ) used in East Slavic languages.

Among its native wildlife are 33 bird species and several threatened mammals such as the Philippine Deer, Giant Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat (“ bowet ”) and the Long-Haired Fruit Bat.

Among the laws which were drawn and enacted during Verwoerd's time as minister for native affairs were the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act in 1950, the Pass Laws Act of 1952 and the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953.

Among the native sparrows in North America, it is easily one of the most abundant, variable and adaptable species.

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.

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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 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 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.