However, since the discovery of extensive deposits in locations such as Brazil, it has lost most of its value.

He was extremely skeptical of Peter Bartholomew's discovery in Antioch of the Holy Lance, especially because he knew such a relic already existed in Constantinople ; however, he was willing to let the Crusader army believe it was real if it raised their morale.

The publication of Total Baseball led to the discovery of several " phantom ballplayers ", such as Lou Proctor, who did not belong in official record books and were removed.

These techniques allowed for the discovery and detailed analysis of many molecules and metabolic pathways of the cell, such as glycolysis and the Krebs cycle ( citric acid cycle ).

Ancestral knowledge of ethnobotany and ethnozoology is useful in drug discovery ( for example, bintangor plant for AIDS ) or as future alternative food sources ( such as sago starch for lactic acid production and sago maggots as a protein source ).

The discovery of the New World represented a major turning point in the history of food because of the movement of foods from and to Europe, such as potatoes, tomatoes, corn, yams, and beans.

Despite the 1891 discovery by Eugène Dubois of what is now called Homo erectus at Trinil, Java, it was only in the 1920s when such fossils were discovered in Africa, that intermediate species began to accumulate.

MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).

The discovery of fullerenes greatly expanded the number of known carbon allotropes, which until recently were limited to graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon such as soot and charcoal.

None of the chroniclers aboard mentions any such discovery.

Eventually, natural explanations not involving intelligent life have been found for all such observations to date, but the possibility of discovery remains.

Arabic sources, such as Rhazes ( Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi 865 – 925 AD ), continue to be the source of discovery of new or relatively inaccessible Galenic writings.

The discovery of neutrino oscillations indicates that the Standard Model is incomplete and has led to renewed interest toward certain GUT such as SO ( 10 ).

Greater freedom for Roman Catholics to worship as they chose seemed unlikely in 1604, but the discovery of such a wide-ranging conspiracy, the capture of those involved, and the subsequent trials, led Parliament to consider introducing new anti-Catholic legislation.

With the discovery of the Orcutt and Lompoc fields, northern Santa Barbara County became a regional center of production ; towns such as Orcutt owe their existence to the quickly growing industry.

Before Moseley's discovery, the atomic numbers ( or elemental number ) of an element had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary sequential number, based on the sequence of atomic masses, but modified somewhat where chemists found this to be desirable, such as by the great Russian chemist, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.

It was initially popular, but was abandoned after the discovery that it had no relationship to outcomes such as college grades.

The collection's development corresponds to archaeological work such as Paul-Émile Botta's 1843 expedition to Khorsabad and the discovery of Sargon II's palace.

Constructivism itself has many variations, such as Active learning, discovery learning, and knowledge building.

The environmental consequence of this discovery was that, since stratospheric ozone absorbs most of the ultraviolet-B ( UV-B ) radiation reaching the surface of the planet, depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs would lead to an in increase in UV-B radiation at the surface, resulting in an increase in skin cancer and other impacts such as damage to crops and to marine phytoplankton.

Nininger reports several other such instances, in the Southwest US and elsewhere, such as the discovery of Native American beads of meteoric iron found in Hopewell burial mounds, and the discovery of the Winona meteorite in a Native American stone-walled crypt.

Galileo, seeking patronage from his now-wealthy former student and his powerful family, used the discovery of Jupiter ’ s moons to gain it.

This discovery would allow — two decades later — the production of long multi-strand cables that could be wound into coils to create large, powerful electromagnets for rotating machinery, particle accelerators, or particle detectors .< ref >

Following the discovery of a small statue of the demon Pazuzu ( an actual ancient Assyrian demigod ) and a modern-day St. Joseph medal curiously juxtaposed together at the site, a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa.

The discovery of gold made the Transvaal overnight the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa, but it attracted so many Uitlanders ( in 1896 approximately 60, 000 ) that they quickly outnumbered the Boers ( approximately 30, 000 white male Boers ).

He was using a powerful set of binoculars with objective lenses to scan the skies on the night of the discovery.

Cortisone had been recently discovered and the more effective azathioprine was identified in 1959, but it was not until the discovery of cyclosporine in 1970 that transplant surgery found a sufficiently powerful immunosuppressive.

However, when experiencing the powerful negative emotion of jealousy evoked by the discovery that Tara Maclay has replaced him in Willow's affections, he does change, and is seized by The Initiative and locked in their cells until Buffy, helped by Riley Finn, sets him free.

* A tongue-in-cheek French adventure comic series, Lanfeust of Troy, has also come up with a few characteristics similar to some from the World of Xanth, such as: humans possessing a single magical talents ranging from benign to powerful, jungle medieval / fantasy land with weird and extensive fauna, a young villager with an unknown-yet-powerful talent bound to become the hero, an arch-enemy wanting to conquer and rule the world, a quest for the source of magic ending up in the discovery of a fabulous creature, hero's love interest shifting from a beautiful and vain girl to a more complete type of women, humorous play on words on many names and titles, and so on.

Jini offers a number of powerful capabilities such as service discovery and mobile code.

The Xans ' eventual discovery and research of the Source's power lead them to create powerful technology.

So the discovery of bio-engineered ceramides and the capsules packaging together is a powerful force and remains till today a Arden signature and symbol.

For Müller the discovery of common Indian and European ancestry was a powerful argument against racism, arguing that " an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar " and that " the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians ".

The discovery of the W and Z bosons themselves had to wait for the construction of a particle accelerator powerful enough to produce them.

Perhaps even more unexpected is the discovery of very powerful molecular hydrogen signals from the shock wave, seen by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope which detects infrared radiation.

Aristotle says that peripeteia is the most powerful part of a plot in a tragedy along with discovery.

The story states that religious beings of the galaxy consider the discovery of the Third Core to announce the End Times, during which Sajuuk, thought to be an immensely powerful being, will return.

With this discovery, he becomes a pawn of powerful forces in a sinister plot.

Their most bizarre and horrifying discovery is a very powerful hypnotic entity, which Renie nearly dies trying to escape from.

The SB system is used primarily in vertebrate animals for gene transfer, including gene therapy, and gene discovery The recently engineered SB100X is an especially powerful enzyme that directs the highest levels of transposon integration yet developed

Busiek's involved the discovery that Jean Grey was still on the bottom of Jamaica Bay in suspended animation following the original shuttle crash and that the Phoenix entity had used her body and mind as a lens, creating an immensely powerful duplicate of Jean, but one which grew more corrupted and distorted the longer it remained separate from the true Jean.

However, all of this is thanks to the discovery of the powerful material called Metatron.

A second fight for world domination ensues during which important events transpire, including the discovery of an alien spacecraft ( which was secretly built by Nod under the command of Kane ), the rise of the Forgotten mutants, the creation of more deadly and powerful weapons like tiberium bio-warheads, and the discovery of a mysterious object called the Tacitus.

The excavation of Pompeii was important to a range of powerful, and often conflicting, interests who saw the discovery of Pompeii as validating their own view of history, but at the same time excluded anything that did not fit the preferred model.