The Metamorphoses was the best-known source of Roman mythology throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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 story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source.

Although probably the best-known Roman holiday, Saturnalia as a whole is not described from beginning to end in any single ancient source.

His Art of Playing the Violin published in London ( 1751 ) is the best-known summation of the 18th century Italian method of violin playing, and is an invaluable source for study of late Baroque performance practice, giving detailed information on vibrato, trills, and other violin techniques.

As another source of her transformation into an organizer, biographer Elliott Gorn draws out her early Roman Catholic connection – including bringing to light her relationship to her estranged brother, Father William Richard Harris, Roman Catholic teacher, writer, pastor, and Dean of the Niagara Peninsula ( in St Catharine's ) in the Diocese of Toronto, who was " among the best-known clerics in Ontario.

The best-known of the species in this family is the source of annatto, the achiote, which belongs to the type genus of the family.

The campaign is the best-known action of the western theater of the war and the source of Clark's reputation as an early American military hero.

The best-known member is T. terrestris ( puncture vine ), a widespread weed and also the source of a dietary supplement.

For decades it was the best-known lesbian novel in English, and often the first source of information about lesbianism that young people could find.

One of the best-known thioamides is thioacetamide, which is used as a source of the sulfide ion and is a building block in heterocyclic chemistry.

To this day Imru ' al-Qays remains the best-known of the pre-Islamic poets, and has been a source of literary and national inspiration for Arabic intellectuals all the way into the 20th century.

Pater Noster or " Our Father " is probably the best-known prayer in Christianity.

This, his best-known novel, offers a contrast between " Rydberg's admiration for classical antiquity and his critical attitude to dogmatic Christianity.

Shown here is a Christian cross, the best-known religious symbol of Christianity.

Deedat's best-known moment came when he debated with televangelist Jimmy Swaggart at a time when Swaggart was one of the leading faces of Evangelical Christianity.

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.

The elements of the narrative include some of the best-known stories in the Bible — the Creation itself, Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel — followed by the genealogies tracing the descendants of Cain and Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.

His best-known books are In Understanding be Men ( a handbook of Christian doctrine ) and The One Hundred Texts, with Bible verses explaining Reformed teaching.

The best-known recent proponents of mythicism are Bible scholar Robert Price, German historian George Wells ( who slightly retracted his position late in life ), mythicist-popularizer Earl Doherty, and historian Richard Carrier.

While the story in the books of Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy is the best-known account of the Exodus, there are over a hundred and fifty references scattered through the Bible.

His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

The best-known of these was the Twitchell Case in Massachusetts, in which parents David and Ginger Twitchell were convicted in 1990 of involuntary manslaughter in the death of their two-year-old son Robyn, who succumbed to a bowel obstruction.

In 2002, one of Coronation Street's best-known storylines began, which culminated in 2003.

He taught psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison ( 1957 – 63 ), during which time he wrote one of his best-known books, On Becoming a Person ( 1961 ).

Devo gained a new level of visibility with 1980's Freedom of Choice which included their best-known hit, " Whip It ", which immediately became a Top 40 hit.

A batik ( wax resist ) process is used to create intricate, brilliantly colored eggs, the best-known of which is the Ukrainian pysanka and the Polish pisanka.

Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is terraforming, by which a planet's surface conditions are altered to be more like those of Earth.

Abbott's best-known work is his 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions which describes a two-dimensional world and explores the nature of dimensions.

The best-known attempt is doubly special relativity, which posits that the Planck length is also the same in all reference frames, and is associated with the work of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and João Magueijo.

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE.

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

Baudhayana ( c. 8th century BCE ) composed the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, the best-known Sulba Sutra, which contains examples of simple Pythagorean triples, such as:,,,, and as well as a statement of the Pythagorean theorem for the sides of a square: " The rope which is stretched across the diagonal of a square produces an area double the size of the original square.

The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai (" life "), which is composed of two letters which ( using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table shown below ) add up to 18.