The best-known instance is the parabolic reflector, which is a mirror or similar reflective device that concentrates light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation to a common focal point, or conversely, collimates light from a point source at the focus into a parallel beam.

The case of the glacier in the valley of Argeles Gazost, between Lourdes and Gavarnie, in the of Hautes-Pyrénées is the best-known instance.

( Gore Vidal, for instance, wrote mysteries as “ Edgar Box .”) Fast published nineteen novels as " Cunningham ," the best-known of which are the Masao Masuto mysteries, seven books featuring a Nisei detective with the Beverly Hills, California Police Department.

Freeform and album-oriented rock stations made use of novelty songs ; some of the best-known work from Frank Zappa, for instance, is his extensive body of novelty music.

One of the best-known 18th Dynasty pharaohs is Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of the Aten and whose exclusive worship of the Aten is often interpreted as history's first instance of monotheism.

His best-known novel, La Modification, for instance, is written entirely in the second person.

His best-known work is noted for its hand-tinted portrayal of painterly dream worlds, often inhabited by nude or semi-nude figures surrounded by bare plaster walls or painted backdrops, frequently re-using identical elements ( for instance, a clouded sky or a view of Prague's Charles Bridge ).

While he also wrote Romana about the history of Rome, his best-known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551.

Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema.

All men are created equal has been called " one of the best-known sentences in the English language ", containing " the most potent and consequential words in American history ".

Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history.

This has been called " one of the best-known sentences in the English language ", containing " the most potent and consequential words in American history.

It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way, influenced the music industry through the genre of rock music.

Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

The symbolic importance of this battle has made it one of the best-known battles in British – Irish history and it is a key part of the folklore for the Orange Order.

This is one of the best-known moments in hockey and Canadian sports history.

One of the best-known works on the history of HIV is 1987's book And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts.

The deaths of Custer and his troops became the best-known episode in the history of western Indian wars, due in part to a painting commissioned by the brewery Anheuser-Busch as part of an advertising campaign.

Probably the best-known hotel in the town's history, and the one continuded under the same name for the longest period was the Hotel Divine, shown above in 1908.

This has become his best-known work, based on the oral history and spiritual teachings of Black Elk, a prominent Oglala Lakota sachem or medicine man.

In his best-known book, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages ( 1971, with numerous reprints ), Lopez argued that the key contribution of the medieval period to European history was the creation of a commercial economy, centered at first in the Italo-Byzantine eastern Mediterranean, but eventually extending to the Italian city-states and over the rest of Europe.

" His best-known saying was " Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis ," which emphasises the importance of taking a good history.

Wynette was sometimes called the " First Lady of Country Music ", and her best-known song, Stand by Your Man, was one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country music genre.

His best-known work is The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul ( 1868 ), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in part the " common-sense " philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition, and declaring the notion of design to be a priori.

It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany.

Today, he remains one of the best-known jockeys in the history of horse racing, called " the Master " for his riding skills, good sense of pace and the ability to switch his whip from one hand to the other with ease during a race.

The most popular ranchera composers include Lucha Reyes, Cuco Sánchez, Antonio Aguilar, Vicente Fernandez and José Alfredo Jiménez, who composed many of the best-known rancheras, with compositions totaling more than 1000 songs, making him one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of western music.

Rastell's best-known work is The Pastyme of People, the Chronydes of dyvers Realmys and most specially of the Realme of England ( 1529 ), a chronicle dealing with English history from the earliest times to the reign of Richard III, edited by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in 1811.

The latter recording was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, as well as the most requested song in the history of The Dr. Demento Show.

* Eliot Asinof's book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series is the best-known history of the scandal.

Nonetheless, the importance of TPR in the history of sabermetric analysis seems secure: for many years it was the best-known of the sabermetric stats and was used by thousands of fans who had purchased Total Baseball.

The best-known exact solutions, and also those most interesting from a physics point of view, are the Schwarzschild solution, the Reissner – Nordström solution and the Kerr metric, each corresponding to a certain type of black hole in an otherwise empty universe, and the Friedmann – Lemaître – Robertson – Walker and de Sitter universes, each describing an expanding cosmos.

A better understanding of the physics of explosions made it possible to use controlled explosions in construction, the best-known example being the construction of the Medeu Mudflow Control Dam outside of Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Since its foundation, the institute grew rapidly to about one hundred scientists, becoming one of the worldwide best-known and leading institutes for theoretical physics.

It is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

Among the famous mathematicians and cryptanalysts working there, the most influential and the best-known in later years was Alan Turing who is widely credited with being " The Father of Computer Science ".

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

The best-known example in the recent past is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy literature, though similar material exists concerning the September 11 attacks, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the spread of AIDS in the black community.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

The best-known of these is the nucleolus, which is mainly involved in the assembly of ribosomes.

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

* Many safety clutches are not friction clutches, but belong to the interference clutch family, of which the dog clutch ( see below ) is the best-known.

The 1000-kilometre Kinshasa-Kisangani route on the Congo River is the longest and best-known.