Nevertheless, in many Known Space stories, ARM agents operate or exert influence in other human star systems through the " Bureau of Alien Affairs " ( see In the Hall of the Mountain King, Procrustes, The Borderland of Sol, and " Neutron Star ").

Known as King Edward VII Retirement Home for Officers, this later included convalescents from military and civil service backgrounds, until the late 1990s for retired officers of the British Armed Services.

Known as the " Land King " Wallis operated Muncy Farms which was for its time a large and very successful farm.

Known as In Concert ( not to be confused with the 1985 Capitol release of the same name ), King Biscuit experienced modest success with the album ( though America themselves did not: it failed to break the charts ).

Churchill proclaimed the call letters to stand for " Well Known Bible Witness "; later usage referred to the middle letters " KB " standing for King of Buffalo ( alluding to its 50, 000 watt broadcast power ).

Pelé, Known as " The King of Association football | Football ".

Known for an extreme devotion to his cause, and loyalty to his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Torquemada headed an organization of ecclesiastical courts which imprisoned, tortured, and burned suspected nonbelievers at the stake.

# Known as Birkat David (" Blessing of David ") Asks God to bring the descendant of King David, who will be the messiah.

Known as the ' King of Pop ,' Jackson sold more than seven hundred fifty million albums over his career.

The show begins with the Voice of God declaring his supremacy: " My name is Known: God and King.

Known as the place where King Alexander III of Scotland died, it lies on the A921 road and the Fife Coastal Path.

Known as the King Games series, these games include Sneak King ( Xbox, 2006 ), Pocketbike Racer ( Xbox, 2006 ), and Big Bumpin ' ( Xbox 360, 2006 ).

Known as messianic dance or davidic dance ( named after King David, who famously danced before the Ark of the Covenant ), it takes a similar form to Israeli Folk Dancing.

Known as the " King of Country Music ," Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and " hoedown " format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.

Known as the " Ghazal King ", he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian ghazal singer Chitra Singh in the 1970s and 1980s.

Known as Viv ( or King Viv ), Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne.

Known affectionately among Angels fans as the King Fish, he is considered one of the greatest players in the Angels ' franchise history.

Known by the French as Monsieur Constance, the Thai เจ ้ าพระยา ว ิ ชาเยนทร ์-Chao Phraya Vichayen and the Portuguese Constantino Falcão ( 1647-June 5, 1688 ) was a Greek adventurer, who became first counsellor to King Narai of Ayutthaya.

Known by its nickname " Jungle Jim ", the unit was commanded by Colonel Benjamin H. King.

Known as a preacher, and became chaplain successively to Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, Prince Charles, and King James I.

Known across Europe for her looks, she was admired by such gentlemen as Alfred Vanderbilt and the King Manuel of Portugal.

Known as the " King of Flying Capital ", he was one of the main organisers of credit for post-war Germany.

Known as the " King of the Cloakmakers ", whose union he led, he carried himself like an actor, a career he had tried but failed at before he became a garment worker and union leader.

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

* Carl Craig: The Album Formerly Known As …, 2005

Known as " Ersk ", or more accurately " Oisk ", owing to the Brooklynese diction of the borough, Erskine signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and after two minor league seasons he made the team in July as part of a powerful squad that included Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider.

The songs included in the medley are " Magical Mystery Tour ", " All You Need Is Love ", " You've Got to Hide Your Love Away ", " I Should Have Known Better ", " A Hard Day's Night ", " Ticket to Ride " and " Get Back ".

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed " Lynchian ", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design.

Known as the " PDP-X ", the project was eventually cancelled.

Known as " the father of mineralogy ", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony.

Known as " the Sulphide Problem ", it had been noticed that considerable zinc in the lead-silver could not be recovered and was lost as tailings.

John Lennon played harmonica on early Beatles ' hits as " Love Me Do ", " Please Please Me ", " I'll Get You " and " I Should Have Known Better ", in the later songs such as " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )

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.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

* Known on the Windows platform as " DLL Hell ", an incompatible updated DLL will break executables that depended on the behavior of the previous DLL.

Known in the US as " Observed Trials ", it is not racing, but a sport nevertheless.

" The Theory Formerly Known As Strings ", Scientific American, February 1998, pp. 64 – 69.

Known collectively as " Artists United Against the U. S. Orphan Works Acts ", the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe " permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act.

Known by their nicknames " Dizzy " and the " Grand Old Man ", their colourful, sometimes bitter, personal and political rivalry over the issues of their time – Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism, expansion of the franchise, labour reform, and Irish Home Rule – spanned almost twenty years until Disraeli's death in 1881.

Known as " DJ Run, Son of Kurtis Blow ", Simmons soon began performing with Kurtis Blow.

Known as the " Death's Head Units ", the SS-TV was first organized as several battalions, each based at one of Germany's major concentration camps, the oldest of which was at Dachau.

Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named " the Swan of Catania ", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera.

Known as the " Super Outbreak ", the event was the largest and deadliest outbreak of tornadoes for almost 40 years until an even larger outbreak surpassed it in 2011.

Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and " dashing good looks ", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men .< ref > McMann 1996, p. 271, n. 13.

Known as " Big Bill ", Thompson was the last Republican to serve as Mayor of Chicago, and ranks among the most unethical mayors in American history.

Known as the " Twin Cities ", these two cities form the core of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3. 3 million residents.