Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

Known mostly by his pen name ( or takhallus ) of Nesîmî, he composed one divan in Azerbaijani, one in Persian, and a number of poems in Arabic.

Known as aqub ( or akub ) in Arabic, Arabs use it for food and healing purposes, and respect and identify with the plant.

Known to the Aztecs as huautli, it is thought to have represented up to 80 % of their caloric consumption before the conquest.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

The seemingly immortal and omnipotent Leto is left as Emperor of the Known Universe, with Ghanima at his side.

Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered.

Known as a top-down formation scenario, this theory is quite simple yet no longer widely accepted because observations of the early universe strongly suggest that objects grow from bottom-up ( i. e. smaller objects merging to form larger ones ).

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

In particular, it is possible that he copied descriptions of the crocodile, hippopotamus and phoenix from Hecataeus's ' Circumnavigation of the Known World ' ( Periegesis / Periodos ges ), even mis-representing the source as ' Heliopolitans ' ( Histories 2. 73 ).

Known in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Known as the Double Elephant folio after its double elephant paper size, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced and the finest aquatint work.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Known in French as fougasse, the term is sometimes still used in the present day to describe such devices.

The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

The epithet " Known Space " is an in-universe term that refers to a relatively small part of the galaxy centered around Earth.

The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.

The Ringworld orbits a sun outside Known Space, but it is a well-established artifact within the Known Space " universe ".

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

Known to have been used for 124 launches from 1958 to 1975, reaching up to 1158 kilometers altitude.

Most life in Known Space shares similar biochemistries, since they evolved from the Thrintun practice of seeding barren worlds with food yeast which they used to feed their slaves.

The stepping disks are an outgrowth and improvement of the transfer booth technology used by humans and other Known Space races.

Known as the meat of the vegetable world, edible mushrooms are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines ( notably Chinese, Korean, European, and Japanese ).

Known as the vertical blanking interval ( VBI ), these extra lines are used to convey different things in different countries, like closed captioning.

" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.

Known as the Vilna Shas, this edition ( and later ones printed by his widow and sons ) has been used in the production of more recent editions of Talmud Bavli.

Known as the " Ohio Gang " ( a term used by Charles Mee, Jr., in his book of the same name ), some of the appointees used their new powers to exploit their positions for personal gain.

Known in Japanese as, crucifixion was used in Japan before and during the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Known as Ham-Friendly ALE, the amateur radio ALE standard is used to establish radio-communications, through a combination of active ALE on internationally recognized automatic data frequencies, and passive ALE scanning on voice channels and all other channels.

It originated as the Known World, a semi-generic setting used in early adventure modules, first mentioned in the Module X1, Isle of Dread, which was expanded upon in various D & D modules and sources, particularly a series of Gazeteers.

As the name implies, the " Known World " covers the most notable nations of Mystara, the ones most commonly used in Mystara-based campaigns and featured in fiction ( both officially published " canon " and fan-based ).

Known by some as the finest of wood arrows, footed arrows were used both by early Europeans and Native Americans.

Known in the Philippines as himbabao or alukon, these flowers are commonly used in the cuisine of northeastern Luzon.

Known as lap cheong by Cantonese, in Thailand it is most often used, again, as an ingredient for a Thai salad, yam kun chiang, one that is normally only eaten together with khao tom kui, a plain rice congee.

Known control points can be used to give these relative positions absolute values.

Known in Japan as the Famicom Robot, this short-lived accessory jumpstarted Nintendo's involvement in the western market, though only used for Stack-Up and Gyromite.

Known sub-bases and auxiliaries used for training were:

Known as the Tudek and Houserville Sites, they were used during the Archaic period for the quarrying and reduction of stone tools made of jasper.

Known as the " Italian Squad ", its primary mission was to deal with dynamite bombs used by the Mafia to intimidate immigrant Italian merchants and residents.

Known colloquially as the duck brake, the design was used by many notable riders of the day, and was widely exported to England, Australia, and other countries.

* Known as " samp " it was used in colonial times as a kind of porridge.

Known as West Cumberland Golf Club, it used this nine hole course until the First World War when it closed.