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 familiar groups, the rodents and the insects for example, are clades ; others, like the lizards and the monkeys, are not.

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 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 of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many modern Pueblo tribes trace their lineage from settlements.

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Many modern moorings still rely on a large rock as the primary element of their design.

Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent DNA tests have not shown any genetic similarity with modern Europeans.

Many modern avionics have their origins in World War II wartime developments.

Many forces ' IFVs carry anti-tank missiles in every infantry platoon, and attack helicopters have also added anti-tank capability to the modern battlefield.

Many modern forces now have their dedicated armored car designs, to exploit the advantages noted above.

Many modern baseball theorists believe that a new pitch will swing the balance of power back to the pitcher.

Many modern machine learning methods are based on objectivist Bayesian principles.

Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.

Many modern companies operate without a COO.

Many modern scholars of liberalism argue that no particularly meaningful distinction between classical and modern liberalism exists.

Many thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years.

Many modern computer systems provide methods for protecting files against accidental and deliberate damage.

Many newly independent states thus found themselves impoverished, with minimal administrative capacity in a fragmented society, while faced with the expectation of immediately meeting the demands of a modern state.

Many consider New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno the father of the modern gag cartoon ( as did Arno himself ).

Many regard it as one of the world's first examples of modern journalism.

Many modern doors, including most interior doors, are flush doors:

Many very old double basses have had their shoulders cut or sloped to aid playing with modern techniques.

Many tragic incidents result from modern recreational users ingesting Datura.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

Many Islamic scholars and modern Western academics do not view Uzair as " Ezra "; for example Professor Gordon Darnell Newby associates Uzair with Enoch and Metatron.