`` We '' were Bill Garrett of the National Geographic Illustrations Staff, whose three cameras and eight lenses made him look as formidable as any fighting man we met ; ;

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

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* National Geographic: Fear of Spiders rooted in Evolution

Using Nevado Mismi, which in 2001 was labeled by the National Geographic Society as the Amazon's source, these scientists made new calculations of the Amazon's length.

* National Geographic Society, Alton Biggs, Lucy Daniel, Edward Ortleb, Peter Rillero, Dinah Zike.

* Cline, Eric H. ( 2007 ), From Eden to Exile: Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible, National Geographic Society, ISBN 978-1-4262-0084-7

Atlanta ’ s tree coverage does not go unnoticed — it was the main reason cited by ‘‘ National Geographic ’’ in naming Atlanta a " Place of a Lifetime.

* National Geographic Society.

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

In 2003 Lance Milbrand stayed on the island for 41 days on a National Geographic Society expedition, recording his adventure in video, photos, and a written diary ( see links below ).

In 1968 the Casiquiare was navigated by an SRN6 hovercraft during a National Geographic expedition.

McCarry was editor-at-large for National Geographic and has contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other national publications.

* Isles of the Caribbean ( National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 1980, co-author )

* From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic ( 1997, editor )

National Geographic Traveler ranked Columbus 11th on its historic destinations list in late 2008, describing the city as " authentic, unique, and unspoiled.

National Geographic Magazine once devoted an entire article to the town's architecture.

Men, Ships and the Sea ( National Geographic Society )

Most of the organisms collected were simple, soft-shelled foraminifera ( 432 species according to National Geographic ), with four of the others representing species of the complex, multi-chambered genera Leptohalysis and Reophax.

* John Roach, " Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors " in National Geographic news, August 2001

This finding was covered by National Geographic and the New York Times.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today.

The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

The National Democratic Revolution ( NDR ) is described as a process through which the National Democratic Society ( NDS ) is achieved ; a society in which people are intellectually, socially, economically and politically empowered.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.

* 1988: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Comic Strips Humor Award

Some atheist organizations, such as the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics and the British National Secular Society, offer certificates of " debaptism ".

In 1993 Bakelite was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in recognition of its significance as the world's first synthetic plastic.

Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

Charles Chaplin Sr. was by then a severe alcoholic, and life with the man was bad enough to provoke a visit from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

* 2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.

In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

In 2004 the National Railway Company of Belgium, carried 178. 4 million passengers a total of 8, 676 million passenger-kilometres.

Stroustrup was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

On October 4, 2004, the Cambodian National Assembly ratified an agreement with the United Nations on the establishment of a tribunal to try senior leaders responsible for the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.

* Played by his grandson Richard Attlee, in the TV series Dunkirk in 2004, and in Jerome Vincent ’ s ' Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold '; the story of how the National Health Service came to be.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

For example, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, coyotes were responsible for 60. 5 % of the 224, 000 sheep deaths attributed to predation in 2004.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

" I Was a Teenage Half-Orc ", National Review Online, October 15, 2004.

" New York Times National 2004, 15.

An example of an earthquake swarm is the 2004 activity at Yellowstone National Park.

In 2004, Enter the Dragon was deemed " culturally significant " in the United States and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

In 2004, the film was deemed " culturally significant " by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Friends ( stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S ) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004.

In 2004 de Klerk announced that he was quitting the New National Party and seeking a new political home after it was announced that the NNP would merge with the ruling ANC.

After that the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Executive Committee was established by presidential directive in 2004 to advise and coordinate federal departments and agencies on matters concerning the GPS and related systems.

On January 4, 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the United National Movement won the country's presidential election and was inaugurated on January 25.

Fresh parliamentary elections were held on March 28, 2004, where the United National Movement's parliamentary faction, the National Movement-Democrats ( NMD ), secured the vast majority of the seats ( with ca.

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.