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 as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

Known as AppleNet, it was based on the seminal Xerox XNS protocol stack but running on a custom 1 Mbit / s coaxial cable system.

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

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 as Tractarians after their production of Tracts for the Times on theological issues, they advanced the case for the Church of England being essentially a part of the ' Western Church ', of which the Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative.

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 an Argive grip, it placed the handle at the edge of the shield, and was supported by a leather fastening ( for the forearm ) at the centre.

Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of " sex, drugs and rock ' n roll ," Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide, apparently caused by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, only strengthened his controversial status.

Known officially as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer built with IBM financing and with assistance from IBM personnel, under the direction of Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken.

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.

Known as the Hackett Medical College for Women ( 夏葛女子醫學院 ), this College was located in Guangzhou, China, and was enabled by a large donation from Mr. Edward A. K.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

Known colloquially under various names – the Pharos of Abusir, the Abusir funerary monument and Burg al-Arab ( Arab's Tower ) – it consists of a 3-story tower, approximately in height, with a square base, an octagonal midsection and cylindrical upper section, like the building upon which it was apparently modelled.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.

Known as the Bardia Mural, it was created by English artist, Private John Frederick Brill.

Known as " America's Sweetheart ," " Little Mary " and " The girl with the curls ," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting.

* Santa Claus Conquers the Martians ( 1964 ) – Known as one of the worst movies ever made, as such it was made fun of on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Known initially by the code name " EP " ( for " Electronic Paper "), it was introduced in 1982 as a competitor for VisiCalc.

Known for hundreds of popular synthesizers, drum machines, and other instruments, Roland was one of the top names in professional music equipment in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In ancient times, Sri Lanka was known by a variety of names: Known in India as Lanka or Sinhala, ancient Greek geographers called it Taprobane and Arabs referred to it as ( the origin of the word " serendipity ").

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.

The players initially play explorers from Known Space, sent as scouts to the Ringworld.

Known as one of the best visiting team locker rooms in the Big Ten Conference, it was initially painted a bright pink, a color thought to affect the play of the visiting team ( similar to Iowa's pale pink visiting locker room ).

Known for her comedic roles, Walters initially thought Cole had accidentally offered her the wrong part, and although pleased to have been cast against stereotype, she considered the role " a difficult path to trap " while striking a balance between Annie's grief and humorous moments.

Known as " Touring Suspension " ( or ' Sports Handling Suspension '), it initially was standard on the Fairmont GXL sedan ( optional on other sedans ) until it was made standard equipment on all sedans and hardtops in the 1978 ' XC½ ' facelift.

Known as the Schoelcher Library, initially it contained the 10, 000 books that Victor Schoelcher had donated to the island.

Known initially as Blue Duck, the Ikara was a " Rocket-Thrown-Weapon " with similarities to the French Malafon.

Known initially for his bass guitar sound, Wetton's vocal and songwriting abilities garnered attention with his work in the band Asia in the early 1980s.

Known to have existed in Navarre as early as the Middle Ages, Patxaran was initially a home-made liqueur of rural Navarre and became popular during the late 19th century.

Known initially as " Edgeworth Radio ", it was owned by Larus and Brother, a tobacco company known as the House of Edgeworth.

Known initially as SC Adevărul SA, it had its initial public offering distributed through the " MEBO method " of employee buyouts.

Known during its development as Formula Australia, it was initially for chassis constructed from aluminium only, running a 3. 8 litre Buick V6 engine as it was then utilised in the new versions of the Holden Commodore.

Known initially as the Halford H. 1, the project was taken up by de Havilland who produced it as the de Havilland Goblin.

Known initially as Kikaider, Android of Justice, it has since been referred to there simply by its Japanese title, Jinzo Ningen Kikaida or Kikaida for short.

Known among locals as Donna Aquilina, she was said to have become relatively rich through offering her services as a professional healer, but when she learned that she was under suspicion from the Holy Inquisition, she fled the city, and Montefalco did not initially set out to locate her.

Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue ( 突厥 tú jué ), the Göktürks under the leadership of Bumin / Tuman Khan / Khaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons established the first known Turkic state around 552 in the general area of territory that had earlier been occupied by the Xiongnu, and expanded rapidly to rule wide territories in Central Asia.

Known as the Missouri Rhineland for its vineyards, first established by German immigrants in the mid-19th century, this area has become a part of the agricultural and tourist economy.

Known as " the Apostle of the Four Lakes Region " because of his pioneering missionary work in the area, Inama established the first Catholic church in Dane County in Roxbury.

Known colloquially to students as the 7Cs — or the 5Cs, when referring only to the undergraduate institutions — the Claremont Colleges were founded in 1925 when the all-graduate Claremont University College ( now Claremont Graduate University ) was established in addition to the older all-undergraduate Pomona College.

Known as an old and prestigious international graduate scholarship ", the Rhodes Scholarships are administered and awarded by the Rhodes Trust, which was established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of Cecil John Rhodes, and funded by his estate under the administration of Nathan Rothschild.

Known as Pilgrims, they successfully established a settlement in what became Massachusetts.

Known as Longyear City until 1926, the town was established by and named after John Munroe Longyear, whose Arctic Coal Company started coal mining operations in 1906.

Known to Māori as Hiruharama, Jerusalem was the isolated site where, in 1892, Suzanne Aubert ( better known as Mother Mary Joseph ) established the congregation of the Sisters of Compassion.

Following a long gap after Sen's works, Dhirendra Nath Ganguly ( Known as D. G ) established Indo British Film Co, the first Bengali owned production company, in 1918.

Known as RAFI ( Rural Advancement Foundation International ) until 1 September 2001, the ETC Group traces its history back to the National Sharecroppers Fund that was established in the 1930s by Eleanor Roosevelt ( amongst others ) to alleviate the plight of poor, mostly black tenant farmers in the U. S. In the early 1970s, Pat Mooney, Hope Shand, and Cary Fowler began working on the Seeds Issue through the Rural Advancement Foundation — and, in time, set up an international arm concerned with the rights of farmers in the global south.

Known as the " Great Emigration ", it established the viability of the Oregon Trail for later homesteaders.

Known as the Ogdensburg agreement, it established the Permanent Joint Board on Defense.

Known as a great reformer, Urukagina established laws that forbade compelling the sale of property and required the charges against the accused to be stated before any man accused of a crime could be punished.

Known as the Saints or simply as ' Pats ' the club quickly climbed up the junior and intermediate ranks of Irish football and by the end of the 1940s were established as the top non-League of Ireland side in the country.

** Known to his fans as " Narucho ", he is one of the only 2 Casiopea members to have an established Solo career before joining the band.

Known today as Znamensk (), it was established 13 May 1946 and in the beginning used technology, material, and scientific support from defeated Germany.

Known for his hand-crafting, beading and appliquée to garments, Rocha first established a name for himself with his Chinatown label in Dublin in the 1980s and later designing clothing for both men and women in the Irish high street stores A Wear and their luxury stores Brown Thomas.

Known for her performances for various celebrity and royalty during her Geisha life, Iwasaki was also an established heir or atotori to her geisha house ( Okiya ) while she was just an apprentice.

Known as Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc., CPF was established in 1978 with operations in animal feed production, livestock breeding, further processing and trade.

Known for its strong A & R management and creative marketing solutions, Menart has established the following acts in the top of the Croatian popular music scene: The Beat Fleet, Colonia, Hladno pivo, Edo Maajka, Goran Karan, Karma, Letu Štuke, Luka Nižetić, Pips, Chips & Videoclips, Lollobrigida Girls, Gustafi and many others.

Known as the National Resistance Council ( NRC ), the 5th Parliament was established following the end of the Ugandan 1981-1985 guerrilla war.