Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that Erich Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers ; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and Hebrew fables such as the " king of trees " in Book of Judges 9: 8-15 and " the thistle and the cedar tree " in II Kings 14: 9.

Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, while others are cultivated as ornamental trees.

Several other examples of provable quantum speedups for query problems have subsequently been discovered, such as for finding collisions in two-to-one functions and evaluating NAND trees.

Several economically important products come from Rosaceae, including many edible fruits ( such as apples, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, pears, raspberries, and strawberries ), almonds, and ornamental trees and shrubs ( such as roses, meadowsweets, photinias, firethorns, rowans, and hawthorns ).

Several other commercial products are also produced from the trees, including essential oils, extracted oleoresins, and nutmeg butter ( see below ).

Several singular oak trees, such as the Royal Oak in Britain and the Charter Oak in the United States, are of great historical or cultural importance ; for a list of important oaks, see Individual oak trees.

Several eucalypts are among the tallest trees in the world.

Several organizations are attempting to breed blight-resistant chestnut trees.

Several varieties of kelp grow in the bay, some becoming as tall as trees, forming what is known as a kelp forest.

Several species of trees not indigenous to Arkansas are found here, including beech, butternut, sugar maple, and cucumber trees.

Several trees, including pine, oak, sycamore, china-berry, live oak, sweetgum, poplar, are prevalent in the area.

Several buildings and countless trees and power-lines were damaged as the tornado moved roughly parallel with Indiana 252.

Several powerful hurricanes following the Civil War and up to the 1893 hurricane resulted in uprooted trees and flood damaged dikes in the rice fields and ultimately ended the production of rice on the Waccamaw Neck.

Several books have been produced with his family trees, which in turn have led to a BBC television series about them, including interviews from the bands depicted in the trees.

“ Damage on the campus was limited to a parking garage for university vehicles and some downed trees .” Several Iowa City homes and businesses received extensive damage.

Several downtown streets have been reconstructed as part of a streetscape improvement project: sidewalks were reconstructed with brick and cobblestone, trees were planted, and some power lines were rerouted underground to improve the appearance of Shelton's central business district.

Several cherry trees planted on the bank of the tidal pond next to Portsmouth City Hall were the gift of Portsmouth's Japanese sister city of Nichinan — the hometown of Marquis Komura Jutarō, Japan's representative at the conference.

Several of the Asian species are widely cultivated as ornamental trees.

Several sources note Mexican Spotted Owls ' use of large, mature trees, including roosting in areas with high densities of relatively large Douglas-fir and southwestern white pine ( Pinus strobiformis ) in coniferous forests of New Mexico.

The origin of the Box trees growing on the hill is disputed: Several sources from the late eighteenth century suggest that the first Box Trees on the Hill were planted by Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel during the reign of Charles I.

Many species grow to become large trees, with Ceiba pentandra the tallest, reaching a height to 70 m. Several of the genera are commercially important, producing timber, edible fruit or useful fibres.

Several other smaller parks, among which the City Garden and the Doctors ' Garden, are located in central Sofia.

Several spurs of Route 4 existed before 1953 and the Garden State Parkway was originally planned as a bypass of Route 4 that was to be designated Route 4 Parkway.

Several cultivars are grown for ornamental purposes in parks and large gardens, and the following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit :-

Several films and television programmes were shot in whole or in part in Welwyn Garden City, including

Several albums have also used the title, including an album by gothic metal band Darkwell, an album by darkwave band Miranda Sex Garden and Suspiria de Profundis by Die Form, which can also be regarded as inspired by Thomas De Quincey's work of the same title.

Several television gardening programmes were broadcast from the Show Garden together with a BBC Songs of Praise in which HRH The Princess Royal was shown the garden by Barnaby Miln.

* Several prominent hotels including Novotel Nathan Road Kowloon Hong Kong, Eaton Hotel Hong Kong, Nathan Hotel, and the Mayfair Garden Hotel

Several early 1980s video releases by Cardiacs-in particular The Consultant's Flower Garden and the clip for To Go Off and Things-provided video " evidence " that Alphabet ran Cardiacs ' internal affairs in the manner of an Edwardian children's home ( complete with behavioural problems and bullying ).

Several cultivars have been selected, of which ' Aurea nana ' and ' Elegantissima ' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* Several malls in Whampoa Garden

Several cultivars have been selected for garden use, of which V. odorata ' Wellsiana ' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Several monuments to the Defenders of Moscow and the heroes of the Great Patriotic War are located in Zelenograd and the surrounding area, the most famous of which is the Shtyki Memorial, from which the remains of the Unknown Soldier were taken for reinterment at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.

Several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed a retirement home, Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added his younger siblings to their family.

Several dedicated parks organizations, including the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, the Friends of the Public Garden, the Franklin Park Coalition, and the Arboretum Park Conservancy, were created to protect, maintain, restore and advocate for the Emerald Necklace parks through the work of their staff, the donations of their constituents and the efforts of their volunteers.

Several new additions have opened in 2010, including the Limonaia ( Lemon House conservatory ) and the Winter Garden — a courtyard garden that features plants especially known for their winter attributes ; a formal pool with twin turtle fountains is in the center of the Winter Garden.

Several championship wrestling matches occurred there, both for the NWA and the WWWF ( including Stan Stasiak winning the WWWF championship belt in 1973, the only time until 1977 the belt ever changed hands outside of Madison Square Garden ).

Several weddings take place in the Garden Conservatory's romantic setting each year, near the Lionhead Fountain and Crystal Gazebo.

Several historical references have been described ; notably by Leonardo da Vinci: describing a soldier who sweated blood before battle, men unexpectedly given a death sentence, as well as descriptions in the Bible, that Jesus experienced hematidrosis when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane ().

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

Several soft drinks contain extracts from kola nuts, the seed of the kola tree cultivated in the West Indies and South America.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Several other oxidation states are known, which range from + 2 to + 7 and can be identified by their characteristic optical absorption spectra.

Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.

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 recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.

Several feet below the earth, temperature ranges from in North Dakota to, in Southern Florida.

Several memorials to his heroic deed have been erected over the years, against great opposition from the citizenry: in the Ludwigskirche, in the Gymnasium Carolinum and at No 6 Kronenstrasse.

Several intact arched stone bridges from the Hellenistic era can be found in the Peloponnese in southern Greece

Several of the heavier bromine isotopes from fission are delayed neutron emitters.

Several of the Commonwealth nations followed the British lead and sourced buses from British manufacturers, leading to a prevalence of double-decker buses.

Several of the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.

Several years later, Purcell would give the Herald a suburban presence it never had by purchasing the money-losing Community Newspaper Company from Fidelity Investments.

Several non-archosaurian lizard species move bipedally when running, usually to escape from threats.

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 paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

Several Arab states supported Libyan territorial claims to the Strip, among the most outspoken of which was Algeria, which provided training for anti-Habré forces, although most recruits for its training programs were from Nigeria or Cameroon, recruited and flown to Algeria by Libya.