Like the earlier catalogs of Hipparchus and Ptolemy, Ulugh Beg's catalogue is estimated to have been precise to within approximately 20 minutes of arc.

Like the earlier models, the 1200 used a 4-bit math unit while the 800 used the SuperNOVA ’ s 16-bit unit.

Like Britain earlier, Spain left behind a plaque proclaiming her sovereignty.

Like its contemporary simpler cousin, the 80186, it could correctly execute most software written for the earlier Intel 8086 and 8088.

Like his earlier raids, Raynald's expedition is usually seen as selfish and ultimately fatal for Jerusalem, but according to Bernard Hamilton it was actually shrewd strategy, meant to damage Saladin's prestige and reputation.

Like Dr. Schrader, an earlier investigator of organophosphates, Dr. Ghosh found that they were quite effective pesticides.

Like those earlier modes, packet was intended as a way to reliably transmit written information.

Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.

Like Ain't Love Grand, the album's sound was fairly far removed from the band's punk origins, yet featured a punchy, energetic, hard-rocking roots rock sound that in many ways represented a more natural progression from their earlier sound than the previous record had.

Like Calderón de la Barca's earlier El golfo de las sirenas ( The Sirens ' Gulf, 1657 ), El Laurel de Apolo mixed mythological verse drama with operatic solos, popular songs and dances.

Like the earlier attempts at bands, The Waterfront fizzled out, but in late 1983 Couzens decided to try again at starting a band, and approached Brown.

Like the earlier Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty ( along with Turkic allies ) conquered and subdued Central Asia during the 640s and 650s.

Like earlier heavy spacecraft, they were launched by Proton-K rockets.

Like the earlier masks of Commedia dell ’ Arte, Pierrot now knew no national boundaries.

Like the character William Wallace, which Gibson portrayed in Braveheart five years earlier, Benjamin Martin is a man seeking to live his life in peace until revenge drives him to lead a cause against a national enemy after the life of an innocent family member is taken.

Like earlier artists, they portrayed the colorful New Mexican landscape and cultural influences, such as the " timelessness they perceived in Puebloan culture and the deep connection to the land they noted in the everyday life of both Native Americans and Hispanics influence experimentation and innovation in their own art.

Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial form a year earlier.

Like the cowboy or gunfighter of the Western, the knight errant of the earlier European tales and poetry was wandering from place to place on his horse, fighting villains of various kinds and bound to no fixed social structures but only to his own innate code of honor.

Like most of Banks ' early SF work, it was a reworking of an earlier version, in this case from 1979.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

In 1991, they released Hard at Play on the EMI label, which went back to the R & B / rock sound of their earlier albums, and released the hit singles, " Couple Days Off " ( No. 11 ) and " It Hit Me Like a Hammer " ( No. 21 ).

Like mitochondrial " Eve ", Y-chromosomal " Adam " probably lived in Africa ; however, this " Eve " lived much earlier than this " Adam " – perhaps some 50, 000 to 80, 000 years earlier.

Like earlier Music70 releases, it was produced in a self-financed limited run and was privately distributed, primarily to friends and labels.

Like its other shows, it used stock footage heavily ; in one episode, character designs and animation sequences were recycled from the Groovie Goolies series of nearly 15 years earlier.

Like his fellow County Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Like most Durham colleges, Hild Bede celebrates an annual college day, usually in early May.

Like all the Durham University Colleges, rowing is well catered for.

Like many towns in this area it owes it growth to the rise of the East Durham coalfields in the late 18th and early 19th century.

Like all County Durham villages, residents are known to speak the pitmatic dialect although a large influx of middle class residents have inhabited parts of the village after new housing developments.

Like his father before him, he is buried at the Friends Burial Ground, Skinnergate, Darlington, County Durham.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.

Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals, Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist " death list ".

Like other writers for New Worlds Zoline uses " science-fictional and scientific language and imagery to describe perfectly ' ordinary ' scenes of life ", and by doing so produces " altered perceptions of reality in the reader.

Like the previous year, most fans and sports writers believed that the top NFL teams were superior to the top AFL teams.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

" his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank's father, Samuel, wrote: ' these forests of trees — so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am to depart — surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe ...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine.

Like other writers Stern found himself under pressure to have Spider-Man fight the Green Goblin again but did not wish to bring Norman Osborn or Bart Hamilton back from the dead, have Harry Osborn become the Green Goblin again or create yet another Green Goblin.

Like other early science fiction writers of the period, he was influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, whose technological adventure novels had become popular in translation in the rapidly modernising Meiji era Japan.

Like many future writers, he was an ambulance driver for a while.

: Like Chaucer and all other great writers, I embrace simplicity and directness of language.

Like most chronicles, it is now valued not so much for what was culled from previous writers, as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events from 1215 to 1235, including the signing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede.

Like many other writers, Robert Jordan never officially names his world, so ( in lieu of another name ) Randland has come into accepted common usage --- so that fans have something to call it, although clues scattered throughout the series often suggest the world is own respective planet earth.

Like many Portuguese writers of his time, Sá de Miranda often wrote in Spanish apart from Portuguese.

Like many multi-talented and successful writers, Bracken was not a prudent person and eventually became financially embarrassed.

Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen.

Like that of other Byzantine writers, his chronology is defective.

Like other memoirs by Hungarian writers and statesmen, it was first published in the West, because it could not be published in the Hungary of the post-1956 Kádár era.

Like Herodotus and Thucydides, he probably autographed his work for the benefit of later writers.

Like that of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and other black writers of the period, his work often dealt with race and class in the United States.

Like The Modern Monk, it deals with scandalous sexual liaisons not much in keeping with traditional modes of Burmese behaviour. One of the greatest female writers of the Post-colonial period is Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay.

Like the Pythons before them, the writers lampooned and tinkered with the medium on which the show was broadcast.