Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

Several of the extinct Baltic languages have a limited or nonexistent written record, their existence being known only from the records of ancient historians and personal or place names.

Several patterns of linking the rings together have been known since ancient times, with the most common being the 4-to-1 pattern ( where each ring is linked with four others ).

Several ancient writers, such as Pliny the Elder and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks delivered by catfish and torpedo rays, and knew that such shocks could travel along conducting objects.

Several other ancient churches in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa also use Orthodox, but are distinct from the Orthodox Church as described in this article.

Several ancient texts purporting to be the missing " Epistle to the Laodiceans " have been known to have existed, most of which are now lost.

Several analog computers were constructed in ancient and medieval times to perform astronomical calculations.

Several breeds of sheep were established in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt by 3500 – 3000 BC.

Several ancient philosophers expressed the idea that nature produces a huge variety of creatures, randomly, and that only those creatures that manage to provide for themselves and reproduce successfully survive ; well-known examples include Empedocles

Several versions of this myth have survived from ancient sources.

Several historians have conjectured that this was the most commonly used method in ancient warfare due to its practicality.

Several linguists unsuccessfully attempted to decipher the writing hoping to discover the ancient Prussian writing system.

Several talmudic sources indicating ancient Jewish practice refer to the use of small pebbles, often carried in a special bag, and also to the use of dry grass and of the smooth edges of broken pottery jugs ( e. g., Shabbat 81a, 82a, Yevamot 59b ).

Several ancient Russian towns, such as Suzdal, Yelets, and Pereslavl-Zalessky, have their main square named Krasnaya ploshchad.

Several different versions of Phineus's parentage were presented in ancient texts.

Several of Ceres ' ancient Italic precursors are connected to human fertility and motherhood ; the Pelignan goddess Angitia Cerealis has been identified with the Roman goddess Angerona ( associated with childbirth ).

Several ancient writers give figures for one or both of the armies but unfortunately they are contradictory and in some cases unbelievable.

Several ancient philosophers, including Heraclides Ponticus, wrote commentaries on the cult of Trophonios that are now sadly lost.

Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:

Several ancient chiefdoms and kingdoms, such as The 4th century BC League of Corinth, Noricum in Central Europe, and the Iroquois in pre-Columbian North America, could be described as federations or confederations.

Several experiments moving megaliths with ancient technology were made at other locations – some of them are listed here.

Several significant ancient Mayan sites are extant in ruined form in the Toledo District.

Several ancient societies built impressive mathematical systems and carried out complex calculations based on proofless heuristics and practical approaches.

Several notable persons of the ancient world were named Antipater, Antipatros ( from, literally meaning " like the father "):

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

Several additional candidates for written ASL have appeared in over the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

Several songs have been written about the Bloody Sunday ( 1972 ) in Northern Ireland, including:

Several notable RPG authors have written material for Chaosium, including Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis, Keith Herber, David Conyers, Ken St. Andre, and Arduin creator David A. Hargrave.

Several search engines have been written to help Perl programmers sort through the CPAN.

Several stories written for that magazine were later collected in her first published book, Judgment Night, published by Gnome Press in 1952.

Several languages that are not written with the Roman alphabet are transliterated, or romanized, using diacritics.

Several appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has long been lost.

* Several stories written by the Danish author Karen Blixen ( or Isak Dinesen ) take place in Helsingør, including " The Supper at Elsinore " in her first published volume of stories, Seven Gothic Tales.

Several months passed and pleas to Allan were ignored ; Allan may not have written to Poe even to make him aware of his foster mother's illness.

* Several of Gene Wolfe's novels are written in the forms of diaries, letters, or memoirs.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.

Several works of written and filmed science fiction have plots in which Heaven can be reached by the living through technological means.

In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.

Several songs have been written in tribute to Joey Ramone, including " Hello Joe " by Blondie from the album The Curse of Blondie, " Don't Take Me For Granted " by Social Distortion, " Here's To You " by Minus3, " You Can't Kill Joey Ramone " by Sloppy Seconds, Joey by Raimundos, " I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone " by Sleater-Kinney, and " Joey " by The Corin Tucker Band.

Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix.

Several Gnostic gospels, such as the Gospel of Mary, written in the early 2nd century, see Mary as the special disciple of Jesus who has a deeper understanding of his teachings and is asked to impart this to the other disciples.

Several of those masterly addresses of Congress, written at the commencement of the late Revolution, contain such noble, just, and independent sentiments of liberty and patriotism, that I cannot help wishing to transfuse them into the breasts of the rising generation.

Several novels, biographies, autobiographies, and comic books have been written about punk.

Several Heinlein works have been published since his death, including the aforementioned For Us, The Living as well as 1989's Grumbles from the Grave, a collection of letters between Heinlein and his editors and agent ; 1992's Tramp Royale, a travelogue of a southern hemisphere tour the Heinleins took in the 1950s ; Take Back Your Government, a how-to book about participatory democracy written in 1946 ; and a tribute volume called Requiem: Collected Works and Tributes to the Grand Master, containing some additional short works previously unpublished in book form.