Similar experiments were not uncommon during the period, and some of the better-known results include Pitman Shorthand and ( much later ) the Shavian alphabet.

Jones points out that though Bryan's speaking engagements were not deemed political by the standards of 1896, by modern measurements he was far more active in campaigning for the nomination than most of the better-known candidates.

Delegates called for better-known speakers, such as Altgeld or Bryan, but were granted neither then ; the Illinois governor declined, and the Nebraskan, once seated, spent much of his time away from the convention floor at the platform committee meeting at the Palmer House.

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

The " blue-green " Progressive Greens were contrasted with the better-known " red-green " Green Party, which generally takes a left-wing position.

The historian Daniel Boorstin suggests that perhaps this was because the better-known places in his world were in the northern hemisphere, and on a flat map these were most convenient for study if they were in the upper right-hand corner.

She also said that the popular domestic novels of the 19th century, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, were remarkable for their " intellectual complexity, ambition, and resourcefulness "; and that Uncle Tom's Cabin offers a " critique of American society far more devastating than any delivered by better-known critics such as Hawthorne and Melville.

In comparison to that better-known strip, the Rarebit Fiend strips had minimal backgrounds, and were usually done from a fixed perspective, with the main characters often in a fixed position.

In 1963, after approval by referendum of the voters of the City of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County, and with the approval of the Virginia General Assembly, the two political subdivisions were consolidated as a new, much larger independent city, retaining the better-known name of the Virginia Beach resort.

Although there were no new songs to record, Barclay persuaded Brel to return to the studio to rerecord eleven of the better-known songs he cut for Philips Records during the early years of his music career.

A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season ( 1989 ), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon ; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft ( 1989 ) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, Lock Up ( 1991 ) with Sylvester Stallone ; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 ), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith.

These colorful textiles of the Caucasus region were a domestic art made for home use and local commerce, and may have inspired the better-known Caucasian rugs made for export.

The better-known Hellhammer covers were done by bands Napalm Death and Sepultura, both of whom covered the Hellhammer song " Messiah ".

Many of ICE ’ s better-known products were related to JRR Tolkien ’ s world of Middle-earth, but the Rolemaster rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, Spacemaster, have been the foundation of ICE ’ s business.

Major studies of behaviour in the field were completed on the three better-known " great apes ", for example by Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas ( field work on gibbons and the bonobo is still relatively underdeveloped ).

Not only were the better-known writings reprinted, many for the first time since the 1930s, but other more obscure articles and letters were collected and printed for a wider audience than they had when first distributed.

A common example would be the exploration of the pyramids in Cairo, Egypt along with the mythology that surrounds it, but uncommonly known examples were chosen over better-known ones.

Noteworthy also are the number of his surimono, although they were designed almost exclusively prior to 1844, few artists were better-known in this area.

" Among the better-known contributors were the writers Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Bernard O ' Dowd, Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Harrison Owen, Robert Kaleski and Vance and Nettie Palmer, the cartoonists Livingston Hopkins (" Hop "), David Low, Phil May, D. H. Souter, Norman " Heth " Hetherington, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

Although Cowley ’ s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg rates Cowley as “ one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century ” whose “ skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue and creating sprightly, memorable comic characters compares favourably with her better-known contemporaries, Goldsmith and Sheridan .” Cowley ’ s plays were produced frequently during her lifetime.

" One of the better-known books on the subject, which was first published in 1984 and has enjoyed a readership beyond academia, has been David A. Hounshell's From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States.

According to a better-known source, a seventeenth-century account by Dutchman Jeremias Van Vliet, a ' renowned legend ' stated that Ramatibodi was an ethnic Chinese, having sailed down from China.

The " Mimbreño " pattern was produced between 1936 and 1970 by the Onondaga Pottery Co. of Syracuse, New York under its better-known trade name, Syracuse China.

Zhongshan Park () is a common name for Chinese parks, in honour of Sun Yat-sen, better-known in Chinese as Sun Zhongshan, who is considered by many to be the " Father of modern China ".

Some of the more familiar and better-known gastropods are terrestrial gastropods ( the land snails and slugs ) and some live in freshwater, but more than two thirds of all named species live in a marine environment.

The character has been reinterpreted over the years, but in all versions serves as a hero with abilities similar to those of Superman, sometimes serving as a substitute for the better-known character.

Newton was deeply interested in all forms of natural sciences and materials science, an interest which would ultimately lead to some of his better-known contributions to science.

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

Veteran rock critic Dave Marsh chose the 1958 " 5 " Royales hit " The Slummer the Slum " as one of the top 1001 singles of all time in his book The Heart of Rock and Soul, crediting Pauling with capturing the first intentional use of guitar feedback on record, years before better-known squawks from the Beatles, Yardbirds, and Velvet Underground.

Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s.

For example, all members of the English, Scottish, British and United Kingdom Peerage and Baronetage are included, however minor their achievements, but many better-known people are not.

The group's better-known songs, such as " The Weight ", " Up On Cripple Creek ", " Chest Fever ", " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", " The Shape I'm In ", " Life Is A Carnival " and " It Makes No Difference ", are all present.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

Bryozoans ' evolutionary relationships to other phyla are also unclear, partly because scientists ' view of the family tree of animals is mainly influenced by better-known phyla.

In addition, Bandanese speak a distinct Malay Dialect which has several features distinguishing it from Ambonese Malay, the better-known and more widespread dialect that forms a lingua franca in central and southeast Maluku.

Some of the better-known ancient law codes include the code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin, the code of Hammurabi of Babylonia, the Hittite code, the Assyrian code and Mosaic law.

Boudin is typically stuffed in a natural casing and has a softer consistency than other, better-known, sausage varieties.

She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.

Arithmetic coding, invented by Jorma Rissanen, and turned into a practical method by Witten, Neal, and Cleary, achieves superior compression to the better-known Huffman algorithm, and lends itself especially well to adaptive data compression tasks where the predictions are strongly context-dependent.

In Ireland, however, more dolmens are found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren — and Connemara, which includes some of the better-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen.

Not a lot is known of Jude, which would explain the apparent need to identify him by reference to his better-known brother.

Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging, along with Shindo's Onibaba, Hani's Kanojo to kare and Imamura's The Insect Woman, became some of the better-known examples of Japanese New Wave filmmaking.

' Forever Changes ' overflows with innovations that match any of the efforts of better-known contemporaries.

Geographically, however, Latvia encompasses 64, 589 square kilometers, a size surpassing that of better-known European states such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark.

Most of Escher's better-known pictures date from this period.

" Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a " reliable " and " solid " performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors.

Although better-known, the RAF conducted fewer attacks than the Revolutionary Cells ( German: Revolutionäre Zellen, RZ ), which is held responsible for 296 bomb attacks, arson and other attacks between 1973 and 1995.

Discovery credit can also be inadvertently reassigned from the original discoverer to a better-known researcher.

Barker's legendarium, like that of the better-known J. R. R. Tolkien, considered not just the creation of a fantasy world but also an in-depth development of the societies and languages of the world.

Barker tapped into this tradition and the setting he had developed from his childhood fantasies ( much as H. G. Wells had done for his Floor Games leading into the better-known follow-up, Little Wars ) to further explore and develop Tékumel.