During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

One of the earliest, and probably the most well-known, is DIN 476 — the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes in 1922 — adopted in 1975 as International Standard ISO 216.

Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte ( Black Forest cake, made with cherries ) is probably the most well-known example of a wide variety of typically German tortes filled with whipped or butter cream.

Isaac Ambrose ( 1604-January 20, 1663 / 1664 ) was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Roman Catholic family.

In particular, Arthur features in a number of well-known vitae (" Lives ") of post-Roman saints, none of which are now generally considered to be reliable historical sources ( the earliest probably dates from the 11th century ).

Built in 1906, it is the largest and probably most well-known memorial to Bismarck worldwide.

" 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.

All probably are synonymous with the more well-known species.

Jos – juice is probably the most well-known instance.

The well-known aphorism, " A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems ", is probably due to Alfréd Rényi, although it is often attributed to Rényi's colleague Paul Erdős ( and Rényi may have been thinking of Erdős ), who was famous for the many theorems he produced, the number of his collaborations, and his coffee drinking.

It is probably the most singular thing in connexion with this singular administration, that its most pregnant measure should thus have been one directly opposed to the well-known principles of its head.

Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.

On return from campaigns in Greece, the general Sulla returned with what is probably the most well-known element of the early imperial period: the mosaic, a decoration of colourful chips of stone inset into cement.

Lerner's name for his imaginary locale was probably based on a well-known Scottish landmark, the Brig o ' Doon ( Bridge of Doon ).

The Moabite Stone also mentions ( line 17 ) a female counterpart of Chemosh, Ashtar-Chemosh, and a god Nebo ( line 14 ), probably the well-known Babylonian divinity Nabu.

The dedication to Julian probably indicates the consul and patrician, not the author of a well-known epitome of Justinian's Novellae, who lived somewhat later than Priscian.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is therefore probably the most well-known and visited site in the city.

Unamuno was a well-known lusophile, being probably the best Spanish connoisseur of Portuguese culture, literature and history of his time.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is probably the most well-known working group in WAI ; the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1. 0 are often simply referred to as “ the WAI guidelines ,” even though WAI also produces other guidelines and specifications.

Among the collections partly derived from it, one of the most well-known is probably that in French verse by Marie de France.

In the Western world, Guan Yu is sometimes called the Taoist God of War, probably because he is one of the most well-known military generals worshiped by the Chinese people.

Traill ( 1978 / 2006 ) suggests that this Ashby-hierarchy probably coincides with Piaget's well-known theory of developmental stages.

Dando's status as a well-known public figure probably brought her into contact with thousands of people, and she was known by millions, so there was fevered speculation about the motive for her killing.

The design for the conversion to a theatre was by Owen Luder ( later to become President of the Royal Institute of British Architects on two occasions and a well-known Dulwich personality ), the original design for the building was probably designed by Richard Pearsall, in the Metropolitan Board of Works Architect's Department.

According to both Pasteur Vallery-Radot and Maurice Vallery-Radot, the following well-known quotation attributed to Pasteur is apocryphal: " The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant.

The training programme is called " Elementary ", after Holmes's well-known, yet apocryphal, phrase " elementary, my dear Watson ".

The first chapter of the Platform Sutra tells the well-known apocryphal story of the Dharma-tramsmission from Hongren to Hui-neng.

The latter may have met him ; a well-known apocryphal anecdote describes how Reincken and Bach met, and how, after Bach improvised a lengthy fantasia on the Lutheran chorale An Wasserflüssen Babylon ( paying homage to Reincken's massive fantasia on the same chorale ), Reincken remarked: " I thought that this art was dead, but I see that it lives in you.

A well-known apocryphal haiku often attributed to Matsuo Bashō indicates that the poet is at a loss for words:

There is a well-known story, probably apocryphal, about how Hill gained an interest in reforming the postal system ; he apparently noticed a young woman too poor to redeem a letter sent to her by her fiancé.

In " Moumoku Monogatari " Junichiro Tanizaki retells the well-known tale of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi from the perspective of a blind servant.

The complexity of Mozart's work, noted early on by Goethe, also plays a role in a well-known tale about the opera.

Lancelot or Lancelin may have instead been the hero of an independent folk-tale which had contact with and was ultimately absorbed into the Arthurian tradition: the theft of an infant by a water-fairy, the appearance of the hero at a tournament on three consecutive days in three different disguises, and the rescue of a queen or princess from an Other-World prison are all features of a well-known and widespread tale, variants of which are found in almost every land, and numerous examples of which have been collected by Theodore Hersart de la Villemarqué in his Barzaz Breiz, by Emmanuel Cosquin in his Contes Lorrains, and by J. F. Campbell in his Tales of the West Highlands.

In the 2000 eight-hour movie ( broadcast as a mini-series ) The 10th Kingdom, Scott Cohen plays a character called Wolf, which is based on the Big Bad Wolf and there is some speculation to whether he may even be the Big Bad Wolf's descendant ( mainly owed to the fact that most other characters in the mini-series are descendants of many well-known fairy tale characters ).

" Hansel and Gretel " ( or, and ;, diminutives of Johannes and Margaret ) is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812.

The more well-known tale is in John 11: 41-44, in which Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.

The Blind men and an elephant is a well-known tale that has been used among Jainists, Buddhists and Hindus in India, as well as by Persian Sufi writers Sanai of Ghazni, Attar of Nishapur and Rumi.

Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin ( 1964 ), the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler ( 1966 ), a look at white-collar crime.

Another well-known work is East O ' the Sun and West O ' the Moon, a collection of Norwegian fairy stories ( including the tale of that name ), charmingly translated from Norwegian Folktales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.

Arthur is brought into Fionavar as The Warrior by Kimberley ; Lancelot is revived in Cader Sedat in the second book, and Guinevere's life and memories awaken within Jennifer ; the three reenact some ( though not all ) of their well-known tale as expiation for their sins.

One of the three, Soloman Daisy, tells a stranger at the inn a well-known local tale of the murder of Reuben Haredale which had occurred 22 years ago that very day.

Brawne Lamia tells her noir-ish tale, which is presumably a parody take on The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler's rather well-known Philip Marlowe detective novel of the same name.

A well-known tale relates that Reb Itzikl engaged in a fierce debate with a Maskil, and won the debate after citing an argument from Sefer Haikarim.

A well-known reference to these important women's skills is in the folk tale Rumpelstiltskin, which dates back to Medieval Germany and was collected in written form by the folklorists the Brothers Grimm.

The Library of Congress conducted a study in the summer of 1980 about the origin of the tale, and concluded that " although the story has been well-known for years, there are no documented sources and no published mentions of it ".