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 ).

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 ").

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Known in Europe as Mandarins, after the Portuguese word for ' councillor ', this variety of bureaucrats passed a set of complicated examinations and were posted throughout the empire.

Known more by its chorus ' this is the 51st state of the USA ' than its actual title, it was released as a single in 1986 but banned by BBC Radio 1 because of its use of the word piss in the lyric ' past the piss-stinking shopping centers in the new side of town '.

Known as the Isaiah Wall, it was rededicated in 1975 and had the name " Isaiah " added under the final word.

As the ARTS and SCIENCES, properly so called, are far from comprehending every necessary subject of inquiry, a considerable proportion of the work is allotted to HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY, in all their branches ; so that the Compiler flatters himself, that it will be found upon consultation, that there is not a word in the English Language ; a technical term in any Art or Science, an event of any importance in the history of mankind ; a city, town, kingdom, republic, or empire, in the Known World ; an opinion in Religion ; an article in Mythology ; a system of Philosophy ; or a great or learned character in the annals of Biography, that is not mentioned or described in the Encyclopaedia Perthesis.

Known as a " verbivore ", a word he coined in the early 1980s, Lederer's interests include uncovering word origins, pointing out common grammatical errors and fallacies, and exploring palindromes, anagrams, and other forms of recreational wordplay.

Known as Powhite Parkway ( first word officially pronounced, similar to Powhatan ), the state highway runs from SR 652 near Midlothian north to Interstate 195 ( I-195 ) in Richmond.

** Known words ( in vocabulary ): assigning the most frequent tag associated to a form of the word

Known in Germany as Zwetschge ( German word for damson ) due to similar pronunciation to his first name, Misimović previously played for Bayern Munich before joining Bochum at the start of the 2004 – 05 season and then moving on to Nuremberg in July 2007.

Known by the short title Earth in the Balance, the book explains the world's ecological predicament and describes a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems.

Known risks and unsettled issues are discussed below, but GH-deficient children receiving replacement doses are at the lowest risk for problems.

He also gave an insight into the problems of working with Beefheart in the BBC documentary The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart.

His candidacy citation read: " Known throughout the world as co-author of the Neyman-Pearson theory of testing statistical hypotheses, and responsible for many important contributions to problems of statistical inference and methodology, especially in the development and use of the likelihood ratio criterion.

Known as a difficult man to get on with, Milne's problems were not restricted to his opponents in the local Labour Party ; he twice unsuccessfully reported a local journalist, Jim Harland, to the Press Council over articles he had written.

Known as the Verebinsky bypass (), it was constructed in 1877 to circumvent a steep gradient that caused severe problems for steam locomotives.

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 bards caste, they and other upper castes had privileges that they inherited by birth.

At one time found on every Thrint estate throughout the Thrintun empire, the only known survivors in Known Space are on the planet Jinx, though they are later found on the Ringworld and on a forested planet called Beanstalk ( in the Man-Kzin Wars story " Hey Diddle Diddle ").

Most life in Known Space shares similar biochemistries, since they evolved from the Thrintun practice of seeding barren worlds with food yeast which they used to feed their slaves.

Known as the D50 or ( later ) the Ram 50, they were carried on as a stopgap until the Dakota ’ s sales eventually made the imported trucks irrelevant.

Known as " king cheetahs ," they were once thought to constitute a separate subspecies but are in fact African cheetahs ; their unusual fur pattern is the result of a single recessive gene.

Known as porte-fenêtre in France and portafinestra in Italy, they are very they are popular overlooking a terrace.

Known as the aadizookaanan (" traditional stories ," singular aadizookaan ), they are told by the debaajimojig (" story-tellers ", singular debaajimod ) only in winter in order to preserve their transformative powers.

Known as the " Black and White " sessions, because they " explored both American black music from Slavery to the present, and American white music from early traditional music to modern folk songs ".

Known as the " Hollywood Ten ", they claimed that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly gave them the right to do this.

Known as the Tudek and Houserville Sites, they were used during the Archaic period for the quarrying and reduction of stone tools made of jasper.

Known also as Jaxamatae, Ixibatai, Iazygite, Jászok, Ászi, they were a branch of the Sarmatian people who, c. 200 BC, swept westward from central Asia onto the steppes of what is now Ukraine.

Known as the Young Turks, they chafed at their bosses ' conservatism.

Known to them as " The Mystery Mountain ", in 1927 the height was measured at 13, 260 feet by triangulation ; they reached the lower summit in 1928, deeming the main summit too risky.

Known for their clarity of tone, they are the first cast steel chimes in the world.

Known by the same name, they operated inside the capital city, Asmara, during the last 15-20 years of the armed struggle in Eritrea against Ethiopia.

Known locally as the guirre they are genetically more distant from N. p. percnopterus, significantly greater even than N. p. ginginianus is from N. p. percnopterus.

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

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 Exodusters, they were lured by the prospect of good, cheap land and better treatment.

Known as Wehrmachtordnungstruppe (), they received extra rations for preventing escapes and keeping order in the camps.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

The Outsiders in Larry Niven's Known Space universe are cryogenic creatures based on liquid helium.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

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 versions are KOMPILER 2 for IBM 701 and KOMPILER 3 for the IBM 704.

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters.

Their commercial empire directly and indirectly controls events throughout Known Space and beyond, and Puppeteer plots are behind many of the larger events in Known Space.

The stepping disks are an outgrowth and improvement of the transfer booth technology used by humans and other Known Space races.

There are also two or three short stories which share common themes and some background elements with Known Space stories, but which are not considered a part of the Known Space universe: Bordered in Black and One Face ( see the collection Convergent Series ), and possibly The Color of Sunfire.

Known as the meat of the vegetable world, edible mushrooms are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines ( notably Chinese, Korean, European, and Japanese ).

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

Known as " locals " to regulars, pubs are typically chosen for their proximity to work, the availability of a particular beer, as a place to smoke ( or avoid it ), hosting a darts team, having a pool table, or appealing to friends.

" Known subversives " ( including peace activists and some trade unionists ) are arrested and interned under the Emergency Powers Act.

This said, individuals or small prides of Wemics are still found all over the Known World.

Known compounds of ytterbium are rare and have not yet been well characterized.

Known compounds detected in valerian that may contribute to its method of action are:

Known Lucayan settlement sites are confined to the nineteen largest islands in the archipelago, or to smaller cays located less than one km.

By common convention, the boundaries of the " Known World " are those covered in the world map as originally published in the module X1, The Isle of Dread, plus Norwold, the Isle of Dawn, and ( pre Wrath of the Immortals ) Alphatia.