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 writers have claimed that session players played on " I'm Into Something Good "; according to the surviving band members, the song was recorded on a two-track recorder, with only a piano player in addition to the Hermits.

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 accounts identify his paternal grandmother with Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a cousin of Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Several neuroimaging studies have emerged in order to identify areas associated with stuttering.

Several texts identify Tychonoff's theorem as the single most important result in general topology Willard, p. 120 ; others allow it to share this honor with Urysohn's lemma.

Several people identify it as part of the specifications for a new aircraft propeller worth a great deal to a " foreign power ".

Several cylinder seals in her tomb identify her by the title " nin " or " eresh ", a Sumerian word which can denote a queen or a priestess.

Several other churches identify themselves as Evangelical but differ in denominational background.

Several other studies indicate that early perceptual experience is crucial to the development of capacities characteristic of adult visual perception, including the ability to identify familiar others and to recognize and comprehend facial expressions.

Several of these tests have been shown to accurately predict scholastic achievement and occupational performance, and help to identify a person's cognitive strengths and weaknesses.

Several attempts have been made to identify the ' fair lady ', ' lady gay ', or lady ' lee / lea ' of the rhyme.

Several of these challenges predated future game shows which used the same concepts, such as a game in which Woody Allen challenged the panel to guess words based on definitions written by children, which became the basis for Child's Play, and a pair of segments with Peter Falk and Soupy Sales in which the panel had to identify celebrities based on a series of photos starting with infancy and progressing older.

Several of the inmates on the pictures managed to survive the war and were able to identify the others on the pictures and the circumstances in which they were taken.

Several public opinion surveys conducted throughout Chile identify Colo-Colo as the most popular football club in the country.

Several criteria to identify the portion of the population comprising the " creamy layer " have been recommended, including the following:

Several listeners were able to identify Nyiregyházi by his distinctive sonority.

Several people passed in the hall and stared as he slowly retreated, trying to close the door a little, and she slowly leaned toward him and raised her voice.

Several English scholars and churchmen are described by Bede as being fluent in Greek due to being taught by him.

Several taximen began to poke fun at him.

Several things were notable about this battle, in which Charles set the pattern for the remainder of his military career: first, he appeared where his enemies least expected him, while they were marching triumphantly home and far outnumbered him.

Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing.

Several highways are also named for him, including the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) near Chicago and the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.

Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to him in a dream, announcing she had been disarmed by Jupiter, and would no longer be able to protect him.

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 schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Several books have him placed on special assignment with the FBI.

Several clans unenthusiastically joined him.

Several candidates were presented to him including one young woman from a noble family.

Several Berlin Jewish businessmen who did business with Ribbentrop in the 1920s and knew him well later expressed astonishment at the vicious anti-Semitism Ribbentrop later displayed in the Third Reich, saying that they did not see any indications that he had held such views when they knew him.

Several parts of the book were altered during transcription, to make it appear as if Maxim Rudometkin was telling Molokans to pray through him, contrary to the bible.

Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.

Several among his cardinals who had been shut up in Nocera with him and had followed him in Genoa determined to make a stand: they determined that a Pope, who by his incapacity or blind obstinacy might be put in the charge of one of the cardinals.

Several books have been filled with anecdotes about him and with his many witty remarks.

Several ships are named after him:

Several days later, Richard's brothers joined him in seeking reconciliation with their father.

Several Egyptian emirs were thus killed, but al-Adid was told that they were killed for rebelling against him.

Several were heard defending him in personal conversations with one another.