The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

Also well-known and well worth seeing are the two remaining city gates, the Ponttor, one half mile northwest of the cathedral, and the Kleinmarschiertor, close to the central railway station.

One sad-looking clump of coconut palms was jokingly called " King-Doyle Park " after two well-known citizens of Hawaii who visited on the Taney in 1938.

In collaboration with Shen Lin he devised well-known heuristics for two NP-complete optimization problems: graph partitioning and the travelling salesman problem.

It was home to many artists during the late 19th and early 20th century ; well-known author and editor Ludwig Thoma lived here for two years.

His theory substantially comprised two statements: first, that animal organs and behaviour can change according to the way they are used ; and second, that those characteristics can transmit from one generation to the next ( the example of the giraffe whose neck becomes longer while trying to reach the upper leaves of a tree is well-known ).

A well-known comparison is that of Kenneth Kister, who gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of the Britannica with two comparable encyclopaedias, Collier's Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

The most well-known use of the Cooley – Tukey algorithm is to divide the transform into two pieces of size at each step, and is therefore limited to power-of-two sizes, but any factorization can be used in general ( as was known to both Gauss and Cooley / Tukey ).

Rossini had been a well-known gourmand and an excellent amateur chef his entire life, but he indulged these two passions fully once he retired from composing, and today there are a number of dishes with the appendage " alla Rossini " to their names that were either created by or specifically for him.

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

In both these Annunciations, Leonardo used a formal arrangement, such as in Fra Angelico's two well-known pictures of the same subject, of the Virgin Mary sitting or kneeling to the right of the picture, approached from the left by an angel in profile with rich flowing garment, raised wings and bearing a lily.

A well-known quadruple star, also called " the Double Double " because each of the two brighter components is a double star.

" It is difficult historically to attribute that law to Gauss, who in spite of his well-known precocity had probably not made this discovery before he was two years old.

Texas hold ' em and Omaha are two well-known variants of the community card family.

An example is the well-known calculation of the tiny first-order quantum-mechanical correction to the classical Newtonian gravitational potential between two masses.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.

Pitt and Henry Fox were considered the two favourites for the position, but Newcastle instead rejected them both and turned to the less well-known figure of Sir Thomas Robinson, a career diplomat, to fill the post.

It is planned for Wayland to eventually replace X in Ubuntu and Fedora, two well-known GNU / Linux distributions.

Harrison wrote his autobiography, not once but twice ; his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, was a well-known writer of children's books and fairy tales in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Flood also contains another two of They Might Be Giants ' most well-known songs, " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )", a cover of The Four Lads ' song, and " Particle Man ", both of which were made into animated music videos on the children's television show Tiny Toon Adventures, exposing the band to a much younger audience.

The nationalist cause led Italy into World War I. Damiano Chiesa and Cesare Battisti were two well-known local irredentists who had joined the Italian army to fight against Austria-Hungary with the aim of bringing the territory of Trento into the new Kingdom of Italy.

This opera contains two well-known examples of Sullivan's characteristic combination of two seemingly disparate melodies.

The purchasers rejected the order in two letters written in vigorous terms.

There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

It was professedly worth three thousand dollars in stock and good will, and the name was written in gold in foot-high letters across each of the two display windows.

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

The Phoenician script was probably the first phonemic script and it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn.

* A language may represent the same phoneme with two different letters or combinations of letters.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

* conjunct consonant letters where two or more letters are graphically joined in a ligature, or

In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing marks (), as well as combinations of these.

In sign languages, however, several channels operate simultaneously — hand shape, often with the two hands operating independently, hand location, hand motion, facial expression, mouthing — making an alphabetic script more complicated than just stringing letters together in the order sounds are produced.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

For example, consider the following two strings of length 64, each containing only lowercase letters and digits:

Among the letters of Julian are two ( 29 and 30 ) addressed to Alypius ; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the second bore gifts and letters from Louis IX of France to Güyük Khan.

* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.