Besides the indigenous tale of the banyan tree, other legends are widely told including the story of the Moon Lady, and the story of the carp who wanted to become a dragon.

" Besides the Huainanzi ( above ) mentioning a pair of yinglong pulling the chariot of Fuxi and Nüwa, analogous examples ( Visser 1913: 122-4 ) include legends of Huangdi ascending to heaven on a dragon ( Shiji ) and Yu riding a carriage drawn by two flying dragons ( Bowuzhi ).

Besides controlling rain and drought, the Yinglong Responsive Dragon did something else: " With his tail he drew lines in the earth and thus created the rivers … In other words, the dragon made the waterways – the most important thing for all cultivators of rice.

Besides the primary quest to find dragon eggs, Year of the Dragon features an extensive set of minigames, which are split off from the levels into smaller zones.

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

Besides the derived problems of the faulty propulsion system, they suffered from a serious problem of lack of stability.

Besides describing the social class who own the means of production, the Marxist usage of the term " bourgeois " also describes the consumerist style of life derived from the ownership of capital and real property.

Besides the animal soul, which is derived from the " Supreme powers " and is common to all creatures, man possesses a special soul.

Besides the famous oath, many Chinese proverbs in use today are derived from the novel:

Besides gelatin, other fining agents for wine are often derived from animal products, such as micronized potassium casseinate ( casein is milk protein ), egg whites, egg albumin, bone char, bull's blood, isinglass ( Sturgeon bladder ), PVPP ( a synthetic compound ), lysozyme, and skim milk powder.

Besides giving the group complete creative control, starting their own record label allowed the Spankers to increase the frequency of their releases, avoid the problems they had experienced with their three prior labels and keep a larger share of the profits derived from their recordings.

Besides hypnotism, another of the important distinct branches that derived from mesmerism was spiritualism.

Besides the details given by Gregory himself, there are four other sources of information, according to Kötschau all derived from oral tradition ; indeed, the differences between them force the conclusion that they cannot all be derived from one common written source.

Besides being derived from different species, a major difference between American and French oak comes from the preparation of the wood.

Besides the implications derived from an emigratory trend from the motherland, historically speaking saudade is the term associated with the decline of Portugal's role in world politics and trade.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

Besides beer and wine, Argentines frequently drink cider ( here again, the heritage comes from Spain and Italy, more precisely from Asturias and Campania ).

Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.

Besides not being multiplier locked, XP-Ms curiously were not disabled from multi processor operation.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

Besides the Mutoscope, American Mutoscope also made a projector called the Biograph, which could project a continuous positive film print made from the same negatives.

Besides the basic distinction in genre between fiction and documentary ( from which hybrid forms emerged founding a new genre, docufiction ), film genres can be categorized in several ways.

Besides his face looked a proper mess, helmet-scarred, a great wart on his nose, an unpleasant discharge always trickling from one eye.

Besides using Gothic architecture as a setting, with the aim of eliciting certain associations from the reader, there was an equally close association between the use of Gothic architecture and the storylines of Gothic novels, with the architecture often serving as a mirror for the characters and the plot lines of the story.

Besides this, Anatoli translated, between the years 1231 and 1235, the following works: ( 1 ) The Almagest of Ptolemy, from the Arabic, though probably the Greek or Latin title of this treatise was also familiar to him.

Besides the barbarian threat from the north, internal divisions within the empire, especially within the Christian Church, caused troubles.

Besides the creation of Eve from Adam ’ s rib establishing male

Besides his teaching, Merleau-Ponty was also political editor for Les Temps modernes from the founding of the journal in October 1945 until December 1952.

Besides private sponsors, it relies on resources obtained from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and local authorities, proposing projects to be undertaken with local communities and thus engaging with the general public.

Besides carpet, exports to Germany from Nepal

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

Besides its established role as a diagnostic technique, PET has an expanding role as a method to assess the response to therapy, in particular, cancer therapy, where the risk to the patient from lack of knowledge about disease progress is much greater than the risk from the test radiation.

Besides factorization and discrete logarithms, quantum algorithms offering a more than polynomial speedup over the best known classical algorithm have been found for several problems, including the simulation of quantum physical processes from chemistry and solid state physics, the approximation of Jones polynomials, and solving Pell's equation.

Besides these groups, who were more-or-less unwilling emigrants, a considerable variety of Muslim adventurers went forth from Futa Jalon.

Besides, French doctrine and jurisprudence traditionally allow pictures incorporating a copyrighted work as long as their presence is incidental or accessory to the main represented subject, a reasoning akin to the de minimis rule.

Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities.

Besides the BFI edition with the often missing poetry-quotation scene, there exists a French DVD version, distributed by Gaumont Columbia Tristar Home Video, containing a transfer that is a restored, high-definition, colour-corrected version of the film ( superior to the original Criterion and BFI editions ), however, it has no English subtitles, as it is a French product for French cinephiles.

Besides, the Congress of France-the name given to the body created when both houses of the French Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, meet-gathers in the Château de Versailles to vote on revisions to the Constitution.

Besides a multidisciplinary university, the University of Western Brittany, Brest and its surrounding area possess several prestigious French elite schools such as École Navale ( the French Naval Academy ), Télécom Bretagne and the Superior National School of Advanced Techniques of Brittany ( ENSTA Bretagne, formerly ENSIETA ).

Besides the superior defensive tactics of the English army, the heavy losses on the French side are explained by the high chivalric ideals held by knights at the time.

Besides this the French Republic has sovereignty over several other territories, with various administrative levels.

Besides Bislama, most ni-Vanuatu also know their local language, the local language of their father and that of their mother, and their spouse, and formal schools are taught in English or in French.

Besides the members of the Central Graduate School alliance, Ecole Centrale de Nantes has numerous additional French educational partners, which are listed in the following:

Besides regulating colonial expansion, the proclamation dealt with the management of newly ceded French colonies.

Besides, she was a granddaughter of the fabulously rich Grand Duke of Baden and related by blood to the French Imperial family through her maternal grandmother Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Emperor Napoléon I's adopted daughter and second cousin of Napoléon III's mother .< ref >

Besides his native language, Finnish, Ahtisaari speaks Swedish, French, English, and German.

Besides those in Vietnam, the French also called many of the indigenous peoples of Cambodia Montagnards as well.

Besides the debate, French law bans the production, possession, sale, purchase and use of drugs, with penalties more or less severe depending on the act.

Besides literature written in the French language, the literary culture of France may include literature written in other languages of France.

Besides Fontenoy he added Rocoux ( 1746 ) and Lawfeldt or Val ( 1747 ) to the list of French victories.

Besides a large collection of stuffed animals and artefacts from former French and German colonies in Africa and Polynesia, it also houses a collection of ancient Egyptian items.

Besides these chosen foci, he was required to study mathematics, biology, English literature, composition, Latin, and two additional languages — despite having some knowledge of French, he chose German and Hebrew.

Besides the tables mentioned above, a great collection, called Tables du Cadastre, was constructed under the direction of Gaspard de Prony, by an original computation, under the auspices of the French republican government of the 1790s.

Besides his engineering work, he also piloted a Vanwall F1-car in 1956 but crashed into his teammate Mike Hawthorn during practice for the French Grand Prix at Reims, ending his career as a race driver and focusing him on the technical side.

Besides his native French, Cassel speaks English, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and basic conversational Russian which he learned for his role in Eastern Promises.