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 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 for his compositions of amusing genre scenes ( also called bodegones ), such as Old Woman Frying Eggs, his sacred subjects include Adoración de los Reyes ( 1619, The Adoration of the Magi ), and Jesús y los peregrinos de Emaús ( 1626, Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus ), both of which begin to express his more pointed and careful realism.

Known also as the Old North Road, it was a major coaching route to the north, exiting the City at Bishopsgate.

Known for its biotic diversity, this small wilderness was declared a permanent natural preserve in 1993 with support from the EHHA, thus protecting it from any future development. The park has four entrances: Old Stage Camp Road off Edgewood Road, the Sunset Trailhead off Hillcrest Way, Clarkia Way off Cañada Road, and the Sylvan Way Access.

Known by locals as the " City of Shade and Water ," it is believed to be named in honor of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Known as the " Grand Old Man of the Canadian Senate ", Wark served until his death at the age of 101.

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 as the " Knight of Hope "-the title of a biography written by Jorge Amado-Prestes helped organize the failed tenente rebellion of 1922, a revolt by the largely middle class officer corps and poor conscripted servicemen against the agrarian oligarchies that dominated Brazil's Old Republic ( 1889 – 1930 ).

Known as the " Old Indian Fighter ", Burleson was a veteran of the War of 1812 and had served in the Missouri and Texas militias.

Known throughout the school as ' Old Pompous '.

* Proud Old Paper Has Known Power, Glory, ( Oakland Tribune ) San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 1992.

Known in the Union Army as " Old Stars ", he is best known for ordering the raid that became famous as the Great Locomotive Chase during the American Civil War.

Artognou was the Late Brittonic form of a name that would later be rendered as Arthnou in Old Welsh and Artnou in Old Breton, meaning " Bear-knowing " or " Famous / Well Known Bear " ( from Brittonic * arto-" bear " and * gnāwo-" knowing "; compare Modern Welsh arth " bear " and gno " evident, clear, manifest, well known ").

Known as the “ Old Parish ”, dedicated to “ S.

Known as Old Leysians, they include:

" Known as ' Old ' Ard ' Art ' for his refusal to consider the cares and comforts of officers and men, no one expected more of his captains and officers than Wilson.

Known within his family as “ The Old Judge ,” distinguishing him from the proliferation of Johns, John Lowell is considered to be the patriarch of the Boston Lowells.

Known today as Edinburgh Law School, it is located in the historic Old College, the original site of the University.

Known to members as the " Old Barn ", the Porcellian clubhouse is located at 1324 Massachusetts Avenue above the store of clothier J. August.

Known descendants from the Old Chief are around so why disinherit them?

Known as the " Old Republicans " ( or sometimes called Quids ), the men targeted Madison and Gallatin as the primary sources of Democratic-Republican weakness.

Known sites of Aboriginal significance in the reserve include the Birriagi Rock Shelter, which is the oldest Aboriginal site within the Australian Capital Territory.

Greetland is also home to the Rose and Crown Pub ( Known locally as " The Crown " or more affectionately " The Frown ", it is also well known to by the locals as " The Rose ", The Branch Road Inn, The Sportsman Inn, The Spring Rock, The Star, The Travelers Rest, The Queen, The Shears and a number of Working Mens Clubs.

Known for their psychedelic rock and blues influences, the band released an album titled Gospel Hard Rock in 1971, followed by Victims of Tradition in 1972.

Known primarily for Tejano star Selena Quintanilla, Corpus Christi was also home to Reverend Horton Heat singer Jim Heath and American Garage Rock band Zakary Thaks.

Known as " The Rock Of Boston ", its two main Boston-area competitors were Album Oriented Rock / active rock WAAF and alternative music stations WBOS and WFNX.

* Known b-sides for White Light Rock & Roll Review include " Dusk " and " Can't Get Shot in the Back ( If You Don't Run )".

The band has drawn on many musical influences, but are best known as a secular gospel collective of east coast musicians dedicated to songwriting, Old-Time Music, Bluegrass Music, Country Music, Rock and Roll Music, live music played in expected, as well as unexpected venues in expected, as well as unexpected ways, recorded music, and are " Known best for rowdy, energetic live shows ," the group is mainly a touring and live-performance act in the U. S. and Europe.

Known as the original UCSD college music festival, MuirStock inspired MarshallPalooza and Rock ' n ' Roosevelt.

Known for the 1958 song " Yakety Yak ", which spent a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Known for unscripted interviews with unscheduled Punk rock celebrities, surprise guests presented by the show included Jerry Only, Ian MacKaye, Chrissie Hynde, and dozens of San Francisco Area native Punk Rock musicians.

Known for its white sand beaches and its views, Finale Ligure is located directly adjacent to the Rock of Caprazoppa, a steep limestone mountain on the southwest, and much of the town extends up hill slopes.

Known as the Bears, the 450 student school is on the eastern edge of Hillsboro in the Reedville area along Rock Road.

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 " Father Serra's Church ," it has the distinction of being the only remaining church in which Father Serra is known to have celebrated the rites of the Roman Catholic Church ( he presided over the confirmations of 213 people on October 12 and October 13, 1783 ).

Known as " The Italian Cathedral of the West ," Saints Peter and Paul Church is located on the north side of Filbert Street in front of Washington Square, where Joe DiMaggio married his first wife and came for photos after his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Known by his enemies as " Pope " Dwight, he wielded both the temporal sword ( as head of Connecticut's Federalist Party ), and spiritual sword ( as nominal head of the state's Congregational Church ).

Known for her virtue of chastity and corporal mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the first Native American woman to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.

Known as St. Mary ’ s On The Harbour the address is on Hope Street, being the Church for the Parish of Castletown in the Diocese of Sodor and Man.

Known branches of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ include several congregations led by United Brethren founder Martin Boehm that eventually became part of the Brethren in Christ Church.

Known throughout the Anglican Communion for progressive teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students have been directly involved in many of the social controversies surrounding the Episcopal Church in the latter half of the 20th century and at the start of the 21st.

Known as Pastor Ted to the congregation he served, he was the founder and former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches ; and was leader of the National Association of Evangelicals ( NAE ) from 2003 until November 2006.

Known today as the Woodrow United Methodist Church, its original congregants included some of the island's earliest well-known families.

Known as “ Poly Church ,” it currently houses the School of Arts and Letters and the university chaplain.

Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942.

Known on-air as " Eleven ," it is operated by Brigham Young University, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Known as the infamous Paniqui Assembly in history, it brought forth the controversial Constituciones Provisionales de la Iglesia Filipina that provided temporary regulations for the church in the Philippines due to the exigencies of war ( and forerunning the schism with the Roman Catholic Church or the Iglesia Catolica Apostolica Romana ).

One church in England in the anglican tradition, have used the name ' Free Church ', Known as the Free Church of England.