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.

Among native English speakers, many different accents exist.

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 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 many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Among western countries, the number of volunteers varied from a high of 50, 000 from the Netherlands to 300 each from Sweden and Switzerland.

Among other things, this treaty took away a large chunk of the Terai from Nepal and the rivers Mahakali and Mechi were fixed as the country's western and eastern boundaries.

Among these are Dang and Deukhuri in western Nepal and the Rapti Valley ( Chitwan ) in central Nepal.

Among other factors, declining membership of organized religions and the growth of secularism in the western world have given rise to a broader view of spirituality.

Among some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the Illyrians, populating the western Balkan peninsula.

Among other accomplishments, Fundy ports produced the fastest ship in the world, the ship Marco Polo ; the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the ship William D. Lawrence ; and the first female sea captain in the western world, Molly Kool of Alma, New Brunswick.

Among western collectors Tatra automobiles remain largely unknown.

Among the amphibian species found are the Cascades frog and the Rough-skinned Newt, the latter being a common far western USA taxon ; in fact, examples of neoteny have been found in individual newts of this species within the county.

Among these are the largest poultry producer in the western United States, Foster Farms, and a dairy, Joseph Gallo Farms, which owns the largest dairy herd in the United States.

Among others, there are four important bridges, in Spandau, in Potsdam, in Brandenburg and in a western suburb of that town ; and Berlin has a large number of bridges.

Among those in the audience was the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who at that time was planning to introduce Russian music and art to western audiences.

Among the most significant of the camp meetings were Camp Etna, in Etna, Maine ; Onset Bay Grove, in Onset, Massachusetts ; Lily Dale, in western New York State ; Camp Chesterfield, in Indiana ; the Wonewoc Spiritualist Camp, in Wonewoc, Wisconsin ; and Lake Pleasant, in Montague, Massachusetts.

Among the most influential of these was the practice of Pure Land Buddhism established by Hui Yuan, which focused on Amitābha Buddha and his western pure land.

Among the songs included were " Jesse James ", " The Old Chisholm Trail ", " Sweet Betsy From Pike ", and " The Buffalo Skinners " ( which George Lyman Kittredge considered " one of the greatest western ballads " and which was praised for its Homeric quality by Carl Sandburg and Virgil Thomson.

Among these are numerous pottery fragments from western Oceania, from the late 2nd millennium BCE.

Among them are the Bao River in the north, Pagsangahan River in the west, the Bagong-bong River in the south, the Panilahan River also in the south and the Anilao and Malbasag Rivers which border the eastern and western flanks of Ormoc City Proper.

Among the earliest historians to proclaim the importance of this battle was the great Russian historian of Muslim Central Asia, Vasily Bartold, of 20th century according to whom, " The earlier Arab historians, occupied with the narrative of events then taking place in western Asia, do not mention this battle ; but it is undoubtedly of great importance in the history of ( Western ) Turkestan as it determined the question which of the two civilizations, the Chinese or the Muslim, should predominate in the land ( of Turkestan ).

Among them will be projects from Jerry Bruckheimer, Shawn Ryan and Lynda Obst, and a western miniseries from Kevin Costner.

Among these was a role as a down-on-his-luck prospector seeking a better life for his family in an episode of Alias Smith and Jones, a western comedy.

Among LaGrange's alumni were several generals, Alabama governors Edward A. O ' Neal and David P. Lewis, Alabama Supreme Court justice William M. Byrd and U. S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens, who wrote the first American Civil War novel and the first western novel.

Among the visitors was Bhai Banno, who had led a group of Sikhs from Mangat, in western Punjab.

Among salaried workers in the western world, the work week often consists of Monday through Friday or Saturday with the weekend set aside as a time of personal work and leisure.

Among the Loma people of western Africa, spodomancy is still ( as of the late 20th century ) used to divine the sex of a child before birth.