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.

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.

The game was inspired by such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest Saga series by E. C. Tubb, the Foundation stories of Isaac Asimov, H. Beam Piper's Space Viking, Larry Niven's Known Space, Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium, Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League and several other works of science fiction literature.

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 also as the " rule of the coronels ", the term referred to the classic boss system under which the control of patronage was centralized in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch known as a coronel, particularly under Brazil's Old Republic, who would dispense favors in return for loyalty.

Known as the " rule of the colonels ", this term referred to the classic boss system under which the control of patronage was centralized in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch known as a " colonel ", particularly under Brazil's Old Republic, who would dispense favors in return for loyalty.

Known to bandmates as " Daddy Slack ," he played the piano solo on Bradley's recording of " Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar ", one of the early white boogie-woogie hits and a classic of the Big Band era.

Known simply as in Japan, this was SNK's first major breakthrough US release and became something of a classic.

Known as Z-Country, the station combines today's best country music with classic country songs.

Known locally as RTN7, the subchannel offers classic television programs daily from 6 a. m. to 2 a. m., with infomercials during late-night hours, and sports on Saturday, if necessary.

Known as the ‘ Mega64 ,' this device has the power to download classic and contemporary video games into the user's brain, causing them to take on a whole new reality.

Known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the cult classic, short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man, Gulliver's Travels, Bad Teacher, Despicable Me, The Muppets and The Five-Year Engagement, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Known to many members in the Upper Valley simply as " Hanover ," Hanover Country Club was a classic New England 18-hole course that underwent significant renovations in 2001.

Known as the SG coaxial cable system, designed by Bell Labs, with repeater spacing of.

; Initial injection station: Known also as supply or inlet station, is the beginning of the system, where the product is injected into the line.

Known as the DECsystem-10 in the marketplace, the normal operating system was TOPS-10.

Some commercial dishwashers work similar to a commercial car wash, with a pulley system that pulls the rack through a small chamber ( Known widely as a " rack conveyor " systems ).

Known as the ritsuryō, this system attempted to recreate the Tang imperium in Japan, despite the " tremendous differences in the levels of development between the two countries ".

Known as an attacking and sometimes ruthlessly efficient captain, Waugh rebuffed criticism over " manipulation of the points system " during the Cricket World Cup to ensure his team's progression, and was often critical of the media.

Known as " System 3 ", this new system comprises around 40 PIC16F877 microcontrollers under the command of a Linux PC.

Known for its river system, the region is the catch basin of Mindanao.

Known for its use of carhops on roller skates, the company annually hosts a competition to determine the top skating carhop in its system.

In 1984, Geoff Crammond, who later developed the Grandprix series ( Known collectively as GPX to its fanbase ), produced what is considered the first attempt at a racing simulator on a home system, REVS, released for the BBC Microcomputer.

Known as the " Townsend Plan ," this proposal influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security system.

* In Larry Niven's ' Known Space ' setting ( specifically the ' Man-Kzin Wars ' shared-world series ), RKVs were used as part of the counterattack against the Kzinti occupation of the Alpha Centauri system, striking the planet Wunderland with a combined energy release equaling 12 gigatons of TNT.

Known simply as the Panda 4x4, this model was the first small, transverse-engined production car to have a 4WD system.

Known as CardBASIC, it was intended for the standard card-reader based batch processing system.

Known simply as Monitor, it is the first real-world example of a system using an extremely simple kernel along with a variety of user-selected programs that built up the system as a whole.

Known informally as " Charlie on the MTA ", the song's lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ).

Known informally as " Rambam ( Maimonides ) of Chabad Chassidus " ( from his encyclopedic work on developing Chabad Chassidic philosophy into an organized system ), Rebbe Rashab was a prolific writer on Chabad theology.

Known simply as the Electronic Program Guide, or the EPG for short, the software was designed to be run within the head end facility of each participating cable system on a single, custom-modified consumer-grade computer supplied by United Video.

Known as “ the father of the poor ,” Yrigoyen presided over a rise in the standard of living of Argentina's working class together with the passage of a number of progressive social reforms, including improvements in factory conditions, regulation of working hours, compulsory pensions, and the introduction of a universally accessible public education system.

Known also as the tidal disruption or tidal filament hypothesis, this conception of how our solar system formed was proposed in 1918 by two British scientists, Sir James Jeans and Sir Harold Jeffreys.