Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

Many of these dance types are familiar from baroque music, perhaps most spectacularly in the stylized suites of J. S. Bach.

Many examples are familiar in everyday speech even today, " One cannot be a judge in one's own cause " ( see Dr. Bonham's Case ), rights are reciprocal to obligations, and the like.

Many more English translations are titled Tao Te Ching than Dao De Jing, making the former spelling more familiar to native speakers.

Many designs were in use that complied with the flag resolution, with stars arranged in a square, a wreath, rows, patterns, or the familiar " Betsy Ross " circle.

Many familiar fables of Aesop include " The Crow and the Pitcher ", " The Tortoise and the Hare " and " The Lion and the Mouse ".

Many familiar mathematical structures such as number systems obey these axioms: for example, the integers endowed with the addition operation form a group.

Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids and Quick & Flupke.

Many larger animals begin their life as zooplankton before they become large enough to take their familiar forms.

Many secular motets are known as " ceremonial motets " Characteristic of ceremonial motets was a clarity of diction, for the audience was not presumed to be familiar already with the text ( as would have been true with Latin hymns ) and also a clear articulation of formal structure, for example a setting apart of successive portions of text with sharp contrasts of texture or rhythm.

Many familiar modern instruments, including the violin, the guitar, and keyboard instruments, were born during the Renaissance.

Many gynecologists are not familiar with this family of conditions, but awareness has spread with time.

Many of these returnees had become familiar with Chinese cuisine and subsequently set up Chinese restaurants across Japan.

Many people are familiar with William Shakespeare's melodramatic version of events in Henry VI, Part 3, notably the murder of Edmund of Rutland, although Edmund is depicted as a small child, and following his unnecessary slaughter by Clifford, Margaret torments his father, York, before murdering him also.

Many familiar fungi belong to this class, including bracket fungi and toadstools.

Many species nest on buildings, and the House and Eurasian Tree Sparrows in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, so sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds.

Many familiar with the classic Milne books protested Disney's decision to exclude Piglet, and Disney relented.

Many of the Taller projects have become familiar and symbolic landmarks in their respective locations.

Many critics, particularly at the music's inception, suspected that the abandonment of familiar elements of jazz pointed to a lack of technique on the part of the musicians.

Many of the references and topics covered are ones with which the target audience most likely would not be familiar.

Many of the sounds and explosion effects used in its cartoons are also very familiar, the majority of them being recycled from Hanna-Barbera ( though this was, and still is a common trait among animation companies ), though the company's DC Comics cartoons of 1966-7 used more realistic sound effects.

Many owners let their properties for use as film and television sets as a means of gaining extra income, thus many of them are familiar sights to people who have never visited them in person.

Many people have also become familiar with the town as the mailing address of the weekly automotive series MotorWeek.

Many of the street names in Morris are named after towns which were familiar to Kershaw from his home state of Illinois.

Many are phototrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy.

Many Ásatrú groups celebrate with blóts.

Many Coccidiomorpha have an intermediate host as well as a primary host, and the evolution of hosts proceeded in different ways and at different times in these groups.

Many western human rights groups state that civil rights and free expression are severely limited in Belarus, though there are some individuals and groups that refuse to be controlled and some journalists have disappeared.

Many organisations, including the police, not for profit, social or charitable groups with a regular need for group transport may find it practical or cost-effective to own and operate a bus for their own needs.

Many thousands of innocents were incarcerated as part the Leningrad Affair and the Doctor's Plot, while whole ethnic groups were deported to Siberia.

Many ethnic groups were involved, including ancestors of the Turks, Mongols, and Tibetans.

Many riders choose to ride together in groups of the same skill level to take advantage of drafting.

Many carbohydrates contain one or more modified monosaccharide units that have had one or more groups replaced or removed.

Many Capoeira groups include Maculelê in their presentations.

Many historical reenactment groups, especially those whose focus is Antiquity or the Middle Ages, commonly use mail both as practical armour and for costuming.

Many thousands of dissidents, deserters, or other people were arrested, tortured or executed by various Cheka groups.

Many groups sprang up independently of CND, some affiliating later.

Many of the existence proofs and some of the uniqueness proofs for the sporadic groups originally used computer calculations, most of which have since been replaced by shorter hand proofs.

Many groups that were popular during the disco period subsequently struggled to maintain their success — even those that tried to adapt to evolving musical tastes.

Many of the Essene groups appear to have been celibate, but Josephus speaks also of another " order of Essenes " that observed the practice of being engaged for three years and then becoming married.

Many flame wars have been fought between groups insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and insulting the others.

Many Muslims object to the use of the term when referring to Islamist groups, and oppose being placed in the same category as Christian fundamentalists, whom they see as theologically incomplete.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

Many groups of Guatemalan exiles were armed and trained by the CIA, and commanded by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas they invaded Guatemala on June 18, 1954.

* Compact groups or locally compact groups — Many of the results of finite group representation theory are proved by averaging over the group.

* Lie groups — Many important Lie groups are compact, so the results of compact representation theory apply to them.