Several of his poems have passed into the cultural mainstream, and his work has been used by authors, musicians and film and television writers.

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 fiction writers use the technique of inventing a piece of literature or non-fiction and referring to this work as if it actually existed, typically by quoting from the work.

Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre.

Several prominent science fiction writers suffered some embarrassment.

Several early modern writers, including Athanasius Kircher and Emanuel Swedenborg, hypothesized contact with Mars.

Several writers on urbex have discussed the personal meaning of such acts of " infiltration "-or " invasions ".

" Several writers state that Willow's transition into Dark Willow is inevitable, grounded in Willow's self-hatred that had been festering from the first season.

Several writers have attempted to add a thousand and second tale, including Théophile Gautier ( La mille deuxième nuit, 1842 ) and Joseph Roth ( Die Geschichte von der 1002.

Several Jewish writers have dealt with the issue of theodicy: whether and how God is all-powerful and all-good, given the existence of evil in the world, particularly the Holocaust.

Several fellow writers, including Nolan and friend Jerry Sohl, began ghostwriting for Beaumont in his final years, so that he could meet his many writing obligations.

Several of the original Sesame Street writers and producers were hired from the Captain Kangaroo staff to help produce and direct the new program when it went on the air in 1969.

Several writers have attempted to map the parameters of avant-garde activity with limited success.

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

Several young writers were derisively referred to by the press as " decadent " during the mid 1880s.

Several of these herein mentioned Italian American women writers and editors are American Book Award winners and pioneers of Italian American writing, as is poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

Several well-known writers sold their first story to If ; the most successful was Larry Niven, whose story " The Coldest Place " appeared in the December 1964 issue.

Several early writers sought to discover clear parallels with Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, without great success.

Several music writers and musicians began to deride glam metal acts as " hair farmers ," hinting at the soon-to-be-popularized term hair metal.

Several pro-war activists and writers wrote of, and quoted, the Finnish team's press-release as if it were the actual report.

Several other writers regard the poem's matter approvingly, seeing it as anti-Catholic satire and polemic.

Several of these writers and producers had extensive background in emergency medicine.

Several renowned artists and writers come from Naustdal.

Several young writers were derisively referred to in the press as " decadent " in the mid 1880s.

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

Several conventions have been held in recent months in hotels on a nonsegregated basis.

Several dentists and patients with special dental problems have experimented with the device.

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 financial institutions, both banks and insurance companies, have been sounded out.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

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 AFI Alums have received both national and international recognition.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

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

Several genres of fiction have been confused as alternate histories.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.

Several of Ambrose's works have recently been published in the bilingual Latin-German Fontes Christiani series ( currently edited by Brepols ).

Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians.

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

Several alternatives to the human sacrifice have been presented in Greek mythology.

Several other princes have borne the name Alexander: