Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

Most commonly, intrasexual selection involves male – male competition and intersexual selection involves female choice of suitable males, due to the generally greater investment of resources for a female than a male in a single offspring.

Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two to three adult females and one to two male offspring and one to two female offspring.

Most explanations have focused on the blade-like, backward pointed crest of male P. longiceps, however, and ignored the wide range of variation across age and sex.

– Most European countries allow men to compete also, France even allows male only podiums, according to the number of participants.

Most scorpions reproduce sexually, and most species have male and female individuals.

Most male Sikhs have Singh ( lion ) and most female Sikhs Kaur ( princess ) as their middle names.

Most species fertilize the eggs internally, with the male depositing a sac of sperm in the female's cloaca.

Most of male population in Siam were in service of court officials while their wives and daughters might do some small-scale trade in local markets.

Most societies have only two distinct, broad classes of gender roles, masculine and feminine, that correspond with the biological sexes of male and female.

Most species appear to be gonochorists, with separate male and female individuals.

Most species have separate male and female flowers, but a few have bisexual flowers.

Most public schools do not have school uniforms although some encourage traditional Emirati clothing such as the kandora for male students and abaya for female students.

Most commercial cultivars are hermaphroditic ; cultivars that produce only functionally female flowers require the presence of male trees.

Most fig inflorescences contain three kinds of flowers: male, short female, and long female.

Most members of the family engage in courtship feeding, where the male presents prey items to the female, and such feeding can account for much if not all of the energy females require for egg creation.

Most of the species are dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some are monoecious.

* Most male waterfowls are very protective in raising their offspring, sharing scout duties with the female.

Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.

Most British and French titles ( particularly newer creations ) of nobility descend to the senior male by primogeniture, to the exclusion of females, and agnatic cadets may bear courtesy titles.

Most of these revivalist skinheads reacted to the commercialism of punk by adopting a look that was in line with the original 1969 skinhead style.

Most skinheads wear boots ; originally they wore army surplus or generic workboots, then Dr. Martens boots and shoes.

Most of the musicians in the band's various lineups were skinheads.

Most breviaries published in the late 1950s and early 1960s used this " Pian Psalter ".

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Most modern guitars feature a 12 " neck radius, while older guitars from the 1960s and 1970s usually feature a 6-8 " neck radius.

Most of the musical films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Oklahoma!

Most large-scale computer system architectures were established in the 1960s, but continue to evolve.

Most important to the Thai economy in this period might be that the regime introduced the market-oriented Import-Substituting Industrialization ( ISI ) which led to steady and rapid economic expansion in the Kingdom in the 1960s.

Most major roads were built in the 1960s with assistance from the United States and the Soviet Union.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

Most of the World War II fleet was sold for scrap metal during the early 1960s.

Most estimates of the weight come from culling operations that were carried out in the 1960s.

Most famously, he played Dr Aziz in the stage and TV adaptation of A Passage to India in the late 1960s.

Most of their works were published only during the 1960s and 1990s.

Most of the remaining narrow-gauge trackage was abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s.

Most of the synonyms were created by old varieties re-surfacing without viable names, with the increase in popularity from the 1960s onwards.

Most material from the 1960s also only survive as telerecordings.

Most prime-time programs were preserved by the kinescope recording process, which involved filming the live broadcast from a television screen using a motion-picture camera ( videotape, for recording programs, was not perfected until the late 1950s and was not widely used until the late 1960s ).

Most but not all lynchings ceased during the 1960s.

Most notably in the 1960s and 70s he was best known as the owner of Kash's Big Bargain Barn.

Most Kidderminster to Bewdley trains continued through the Wyre Forest line ( dismantled in the 1960s and now a popular walking route ) to Tenbury Wells or Woofferton.

Most of these constructions were initiated during the period of rapid economic growth in the 1960s, but construction continued into the 1980s.

Most of Hirsch's writings have been translated into English and Hebrew by his descendants, starting with " Horeb " in the 1950s ( by Dayan Isidore Grunfeld of London ) and his Torah commentary in the 1960s ( by his grandson Isaac Levi, also of London ).

Most of the city was rebuilt in the plain and simple style of the 1950s and 1960s, but some of the historic landmark buildings have been restored.

Most CALL programs in Warschauer & Healey's first phase, Behavioristic CALL ( 1960s to 1970s ), consisted of drill-and-practice materials in which the computer presented a stimulus and the learner provided a response.

Most of the city ’ s monumental structures in the historic center were built in the first decades of the 20th century, although there are a number of significant large homes near this same area built in the 1960s in Art Deco style such as the La Portaviandas building.