Besides its digestive properties, it is used as a mild stimulant.

Besides the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar, the Aztec calendar, and the Hindu calendar have cycles of years that are used to delineate whole time periods ; the Hindu calendar, in particular, summarizes its years into groups of 60, while the Aztec calendar considers groups of 52.

Besides its literary qualities, this poem is important to historians because it is the only record of Joan of Arc outside the documents of her trial.

Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage over its chief American rival, the Library of Congress Classification system developed shortly afterward, is its simplicity.

Besides its classical Greek sound value, the short phoneme, it could initially also be used for other-like sounds.

Besides using the flag, the Council also uses a defaced version of the flag as its emblem: it is the existing design with a stylised, green " e " over the stars.

Besides its widespread monetary and symbolic functions, gold has many practical uses in dentistry, electronics, and other fields.

Besides its use as an explosive, gunpowder has been occasionally employed for other purposes ; after the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 1809 ), the surgeon of the Napoleonic Army Larrey combated the lack of food for the wounded under his care by preparing a bouillon of horse meat seasoned with gunpowder for lack of salt.

Besides a direct quote there exist many variations starting " Ich bin ein (+ noun, e. g., Frankfurter )" that is supposed to be understood by the primarily English-speaking audience based on the widespread knowledge of this German phrase and its myth.

Besides its urban elite it included a confederation of nomadic peoples who spoke languages of the Teda – Daza ( Toubou ) group.

Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River Eider by the short Gieselau Canal.

Besides its efficient industry, there also is a strong services sector.

Besides the still surviving Kuitra of Algiers and Morocco, its descendants include the Chitarra Italiana, Chitarrone and Colascione.

Besides the Copenhagen Airport, Malmö has an airport of its own, Malmö Airport, today chiefly used for low-cost carriers, charter flight routes, and domestic Swedish destinations.

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four " goals of life " or purusharthas ( 12. 161 ).

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, in developing countries, the state's capacity to reach the vast majority of the poor people may be limited because of its limited resources.

Besides playing its own cartridges, it also acts as a pass-through for Mega Drive / Genesis games, so it can be used as a permanent attachment.

Besides its public function in the synagogue, the Babylonian Talmud also mentions targum in the context of a personal study requirement: " A person should always review his portions of scripture along with the community, reading the scripture twice and the targum once " ( Berakhot 8a-b ).

Besides its main campus at University Park, USC also operates the Health Sciences Campus about northeast of downtown.

Besides the international think tanks present in the surrounding countries as well ( with Open Society Foundations being the most notable one ) Slovakia has a host of its own think tanks as well, such as Institute of Public Affairs ( Inštitút pre verejné otázky or IVO in Slovak ) and Forum Minority Research Institute ( Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet or Fórum Intézet in Hungarian and Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín or Fórum inštitút in Slovak ), with the latter concentrating on minority issues.

Besides solo works, the historical harpsichord was widely used for accompaniment in the basso continuo style ( a function it maintained in operatic recitative even into the 19th century ).

Besides, historical accounts of the Three Kingdoms era had several specific records of Guan Yu thrusting his opponents down ( probably with a spear-like polearm ) in battles, instead of cutting them down with a curved-blade.

Besides the renovation of various buildings, projects such as the reconstruction of the pavement of the streets and squares ( reversing them to their historical appearance ), and the introduction of new plants, trees and objects of ' small architecture ', are underway.

Besides Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, which identified themselves as nationalities, other communities have also taken that denomination in accordance to their historical regional identity, such as the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Aragon.

Besides the quotations made directly, there are found numberless allusions, more or less distinct, showing that the minds of the New Testament writers were filled with the expressions and ideas as well as historical facts recorded in the Old Testament.

Besides theological works, Bullinger also wrote some historical works of value.

Besides the mythical Tamoanchan, Mexican historian and scholar of Mesoamerican belief systems Alfredo López Austin identifies several sacred sites that were historical localities associated with Tamoanchan.

Besides his plays, Kotzebue wrote several historical works: his History of the German Empires was burned by nationalist students at the 1817 Wartburg Festival ( which Sand attended ).

Besides continuing his work on the Revolution and on the Middle Ages, he occupied himself fully with the Historical Seminar which he instituted ; with the Historische Zeitschrift which he founded-the original model of the numerous historical periodicals which now exist – and as secretary of the new Historical Commission.

Besides editions of the works of William Shakespeare, James Beattie, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton, Alexander Pope, Edward Gibbon, and Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 volumes ( 1812 – 1817 ); a Glossary to Shakspeare ( 1807 ); an edition of George Steevens's Shakespeare ( 1809 ); and the British Essayists, beginning with the Tatler and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index.

Besides contributing various historical and critical essays to the North American Review, such as " life and Character of Peter the Great ", ( 1845 ) and a remarkable essay on the Polity of the Puritans, he published in 1849, again anonymously, a second novel, entitled Merry Mount, a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, based again on the odd history of Thomas Morton and Merrymount.

Besides some novels, a semi-poetical work on the Canton of Vaud ( 2 vols., 1837-1841 ), and a volume of historical essays entitled Etudes d ' histoire nalionale ( 1842 ), he published several volumes of poems, Deux Voix ( 1835 ), Chansons lointaines ( 1847 ) and its continuation Chansons du soir ( 1867 ), and Sentiers de montague ( Gryon, 1875 ).

John Updike, whom Levine drew many times, wrote in the 1970s: " Besides offering us the delight of recognition, his drawings comfort us, in an exacerbated and potentially desperate age, with the sense of a watching presence, an eye informed by an intelligence that has not panicked, a comic art ready to encapsulate the latest apparitions of publicity as well as those historical devils who haunt our unease.

Besides seeing conflict long after World War II ended, the small arms of World War II are now considered collector's items with many civilian firearm owners and collectors around the world due to their historical nature, low cost ( due to many of these firearms now appearing on the firearms market in large numbers over the past decade ), and their durability.

Besides historical Praga, they include:

Besides Api-Api, another suggested historical name is Deasoka, which roughly means " below the coconut tree " in the Bajau language.

Besides some historical works he left a correspondence of considerable political interest.

Besides its historical importance, it also offers protection to one of the last stretches of Atlantic forest in the Northeastern area of Brazil.

Besides having interesting architectural features in most of its houses, Stone Town is punctuated with major historical buildings, several of which are found on the seafront ; these include former palaces of the sultans, fortifications, churches, mosques, and other institutional buildings.

Besides introducing the dialogues iambic trimeter and use for the first time female characters, invented the genre of tragedy to historical argument ( Capture of Miletus ), introducing a second part: you started, then the trilogy, which will be finally adopted by Aeschylus and his contemporaries.

Besides these three parties, who dominate the historical records, other Mainz monastic foundations and resident families held lands and rights here.

Besides detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and a science fiction novel, New Moon ( 1918 ), Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins ( 1911 ).

Besides various small pictures and allegorical subjects, Regnault was also the author of many large historical paintings ; and his school, which reckoned amongst its chief attendants Guérin, Crepin, Lafitte, Blondel, Robert Lefèvre, Henriette Lorimier and Alexandre Menjaud, was for a long while the rival in influence of that of David.

Besides their artistic value, they are a priceless source of information on the history and architecture of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, whose historical heritage was largely destroyed by the Germans during World War II.