Known as the largest film event in the Upper Midwest, the festival invites numerous films from all corners of the globe, and attracts a large number of independent filmmakers to the Twin Cities over the course of its run.

Advertising for the film ( pictured at right ) boasted of the extravagant expense incurred in presenting the spectacle :" Actual Sinking of an Ocean Liner. Two Battleships Sunk by United States Navy .$ 18, 000 Used for Ammunition in One Battle. 40, 000 People Employed. 10, 000 Horses in Thrilling Cavalry Charges. 40 Aeroplanes in Great Air Battle. Every Death-dealing Device Known to Modern War in Operation. One Year in the Making. Cost $ 1, 000, 000. 00. Entire Cities Built and Destroyed. An Awe-inspiring Spectacle that one minute makes your blood run cold and another thrills you with its touches of human gentleness. The Story of the Greatest Love of the Ages —- the Love of Humanity.

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 as " King Carl " and " The Meal Ticket ", Hubbell gained fame during the 1934 All-Star Game, when he struck out five future Hall of Famers in a row: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.

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 backpropagating action potentials, these signals depolarize the dendritic arbor and provide a crucial component toward synapse modulation and long-term potentiation.

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

Known as uchraspredy, these organs supervised appointments to important party posts.

Known collectively as the Revolutionary Settlement, these acts transformed the constitution, shifting the balance of power from the Sovereign to Parliament.

Known as the " Fish Wars ," these protests attempted to preserve Muckleshoot fishing rights in the nearby rivers not part of the official reservation.

; Partial delivery station: Known also as intermediate stations, these facilities allow the pipeline operator to deliver part of the product being transported.

Known as North House and South House, these were completed 1995-7.

Known as Oorlams, these Khoisan adopted Boer customs and spoke a language similar to Afrikaans.

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

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

Known as readymades, of which the most famous is Fountain, these artworks were to become a major influence on Fluxus and conceptual art in general.

Known as Mound Indians or Stone Box Indians, these Mississippian-period people built mounds with ceremonial buildings.

Known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, these drones are a force multiplier by giving the battlefield commander an " eye in the sky " without risking a pilot.

Known as " revamp puppets " or " revamps ", these puppets appeared on an episode-by-episode basis, cosmetically altered for each role in aspects such as hairstyle and hair colour.

Known as the St. Paul, Romanche, Chain, and Ascension fracture zones, these areas have with deep, easily identifiable transfrom faults and ridges.

Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest fossilized examples of extremely early life found anywhere on Earth.

Known as the " Northern Horse ", these die-hards were largely impoverished sons of gentry, and they became known for touchiness and lack of discipline.

Known as the " rabble of devilkin ", these exiles number roughly 50 former consorts, dukes, vassals, and other unique devils who lost favor with their masters.

Known as the Spring Series, these grips were known as DS-104 grips on high speed quads and DS-108s on eight passenger gondolas.

Known as the 1800 series, these cars were built in 1993 – 1994.

Known as the Loomis Sequence, these pre-Lassen dacites are the black, glassy, columnar lavas that now encircle Lassen Peak.

Known mainly for high performance bodysurfing and intense jaw dropping rides and wipeouts, these waves are created by swells hitting the jetty and " rebounding " into oncoming waves, creating the " wedge effect ," which results in peaks that can " jack up " to incredible sizes and shapes.