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In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.
And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.
So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The best known field of application for builders is in heavy-duty, spray-dried detergent formulations for household use.
As long as the bar prefers to adduce evidence by written deposition, rather than viva voce before an authoritative judicial officer, I fear that the antiquated rules will remain unchanged, and expensive prolixity remain the best known characteristic of Equity ''.
G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.
Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.
Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.
" His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:
The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.
Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.
Jackson Pollock is the artist best known for starting that revolution.
Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).
Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.
* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).
Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.
* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music
* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead
He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

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In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.
As with many other game species, the best sources of historical and large scale population data are hunting bag records and questionnaires.
Perhaps best known among these pioneers was Britain's Melusine Wood, who published several books on historical dancing in the 1950s.
He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class ( 1963 ).
In collaboration with Engels he also set about writing a book which is often seen as his best treatment of the concept of historical materialism, The German Ideology ; the work, like many others, would not see publication in Marx's lifetime, being published only in 1932.
The best known examples of an anarchist communist society, established around the ideas as they exist today, that received worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon, are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.
The tradition instead has been that such decisions cannot be made now, and must be made through struggle and experimentation, so that the best solution can be arrived at democratically and organically, and to base the direction for struggle on established historical example.
To date, the best known examples of an anarchist communist society ( ie, established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon ), are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.
To distinguish the masculine " Malinche " from the feminine, the prefix " La " gives the name by which the historical and legendary figure is best known: La Malinche.
In this view, historians do their best to tease out later editorial additions ( itself a very difficult task ) and skeptically view accounts of miracles, leaving behind a reliable historical text.
* Estonian Manors Portal – the English version gives the overview of 438 best preserved historical manors in Estonia
The office is therefore best understood from a historical perspective.
The best known historical approach involved the Stanford-Binet IQ test, developed originally by the French psychologist Alfred Binet.
He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.
A standard general reference work in the field is Donald Morris's " The Washing of The Spears ", which notes the sources, as a whole, for this historical era are not the best.
Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.
It is the world's best known brown ale and is an icon of the North East of England as a result of its historical links to the region.
George Shipway ( 1908 – 1982 ) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book The Chilian Club.
* Mika Waltari: numerous works of historical fiction, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian ()
The two competing theories concerning the origins of reason are relevant to political and ethical thought because, according to the Aristotelian theory, a best way of living together exists independently of historical circumstances.
Written from a hagiographical point of view and prone to exaggeration and some legendary details, it is not the best historical source for his life, but is widely reproduced and considered to contain elements of some value.
The best known of these is Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Ming Dynasty historical novel based on events in the Three Kingdoms period.
Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.
This historical reconstruction accords best with the observed levels of divergence within the family, whereby the most divergent languages are found furthest west ( since they constitute the earliest branchings during eastern migration ), and the shallowest subgroupings are found furthest to the east ( Eastern Algonquian, and arguably Core Central ).

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