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 " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

Known as " Île Royale " to the French, the island also saw active settlement by France.

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

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 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 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 in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

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 " 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 ).

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 Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

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.

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

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.

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.

* In Larry Niven's harsh Known Space stories ( 1964-) Mars is a backwater bypassed by humans in their rush to the mineral wealth of the Asteroid Belt.

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

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 in medieval times as Thorney Island, the site may have been first-used for a royal residence by Cnut the Great during his reign from 1016 to 1035.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

Known as the " Ohio Gang " ( a term used by Charles Mee, Jr., in his book of the same name ), some of the appointees used their new powers to exploit their positions for personal gain.

Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents.

As the name implies, the " Known World " covers the most notable nations of Mystara, the ones most commonly used in Mystara-based campaigns and featured in fiction ( both officially published " canon " and fan-based ).

Known by Bonapartists as Napoleon II, he was living under virtual imprisonment at the court of Vienna under the name Duke of Reichstadt.

Known as Highway 417 in Ontario ( and the Queensway in Ottawa ) and Autoroute 40 in Quebec, the Trans-Canada also assumes the name " Autoroute Métropolitaine " ( also known as " The Met " or " Metropolitan Boulevard ") as it traverses Montreal as an elevated highway.

* Deep River ( Town ) ( Known as Saybrook until 1947, when name was changed to Deep River )

Known to natives of north and central Mexico by its Nahuatl name Ololiúqui ( also spelled ololiuhqui or ololiuqui ) and by the south eastern natives as xtabentún ( in Mayan ), it is a perennial climbing vine with white flowers, often planted as an ornamental plant.

Known variously as Smithville, then Macon, the name Grove Hill was selected around 1850 for the large grove of oak trees on the plateau.

Known in O ' odham as Nowa: l, the name Nogales means " black walnuts " in Spanish, and the walnut trees which once grew abundantly in the mountain pass between the cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, can still be found around the town.

Known as the Georgia Air Depot in the beginning, the depot has undergone many name changes.

Known for a long period as West Chester Intersection, the town ’ s name was changed to Malvern in 1873 when the Pennsylvania Railroad straightened its tracks through the village.

Known as the Salt Lake Buzz from 1994 to 2000, the team changed its name to the Salt Lake Stingers in 2001.

Known as " Mr. Personality ", after the name of one of his biggest million-selling hits.

Known as In Concert ( not to be confused with the 1985 Capitol release of the same name ), King Biscuit experienced modest success with the album ( though America themselves did not: it failed to break the charts ).

Known as " the Ecstasy lady ", after hiring her, he insisted that she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis.

Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry.

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 as the Spirit of Bermuda ( not the first noteworthy vessel of the name ), she operates from Bermuda primarily as a sail-training ship for youths.

Known as " the elder ", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.

In an African naming ceremony before her death, she took the name Gambda Adisa, which means " Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known ".

Known for its melodious calls, the species ' name currawong is believed to be of indigenous origin.

Known by her friends as " Jackie ," and maintaining the Cochran name, she flew in the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934.

Known for its extensive collection of garden and building architectures and other works of art ( a popular name in China was the " Garden of Gardens ", ).