The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

The taiko drummer traditionally wears a " happi coat " or " hanten " ( a colorful festival coat ), " tabi " ( split toe shoes ), " tekko " ( wristbands ), momohiki ( pants ), hachimaki ( headband ), " haragake " ( traditional workman's apron ) with a haramaki underneath ( a strip of cloth wrapped around the midsection ), so most of the upper body is bare.

It is the most colorful of the versions and is distinctive for the downward-looking stance of one of its background figures.

His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.

Geckos come in various patterns and colors and are among the most colorful lizards in the world.

His most famous television roles are those of the colorful attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won three Emmy Awards, and Robert California in The Office.

The peacock, with its elaborate and colorful tail feathers, which the peahen lacks, is often referred to as perhaps the most extraordinary example of a dimorphism.

It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the " Monkey Trial " of " the infidel Scopes.

One of the most colorful turtles is the eastern painted turtle which includes a yellow plastron and a black or olive shell with red markings around the rim.

The pre-Lenten celebration is considered one of most colorful carnivals of Africa and is celebrated in each of the 9 inhabited islands of the archipelago.

This speech made Brandt, as well as the Social Democratic Party, popular among most of the students and other young West German baby-boomers who dreamed of a country that would be more open and more colorful than the frugal and still somewhat-authoritarian Bundesrepublik that had been built after World War II.

: A native of Mexico and Central Americas, considered one of the most colorful of all Central American trees.

The most colorful festival in Murcia may come one week after Holy Week, when locals dress up in traditional huertano clothing to celebrate the Bando de la Huerta ( Orchard parade ) on Tuesday and fill the streets for the Entierro de la Sardina ( Burial of the Sardine ) parade the following Saturday.

These works show the influence of Cézanne, and fill the canvas with a colorful surface and a more painterly treatment than the hard-edge style of most of his later works.

One Nation Under Sex which documents the colorful sex lives of America's most powerful leaders, was co-written by Larry Flynt and Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach and published in 2011.

It was then that the German landsknechts, colorful mercenaries with a redoubtable reputation, took over the Swiss forces ' legacy and became the most formidable force of the late 15th and throughout the 16th century, being hired by all the powers in Europe and often fighting at opposite sides.

Certainly he's the most colorful figure in a film that wastes no time on character development or personality ".

The most colorful resident of this period was bad man Jefferson Randolph " Soapy " Smith.

Many, one of the most popular and colorful officers serving at nearby Fort Jesup.

This story doesn't quite correspond with most personal histories of the controversy but it makes a colorful tale.

Males of most species are more colorful than the females.

Peter and his wife, Emma, were two of the town's most colorful characters.

One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.

The process of `` pasteurization '' involves milder and less prolonged heat treatment which accomplishes the destruction of most, but not all, of the microorganisms.

It is far more difficult in many communities to obtain admission to an apprentice program which involves union approval than to get into the most selective medical school in the nation.

The most obvious detriment concerning abiotic stress involves farming.

The most basic overdrive effect involves clipping the signal when its absolute value exceeds a certain threshold.

Endochondral ossification, on the other hand, occurs in long bones and most of the rest of the bones in the body ; it involves an initial hyaline cartilage that continues to grow.

Therefore, the field of bioinformatics has evolved such that the most pressing task now involves the analysis and interpretation of various types of data.

The most recent bank model, was introduced together with the euro, involves coordination of the European national banks, which continue to manage their respective economies separately in all respects other than currency exchange and base interest rates.

At the most basic level, this involves establishing what form of currency the country may have, whether a fiat currency, gold-backed currency ( disallowed for countries with membership of the International Monetary Fund ), currency board or a currency union.

The production of most industrially important chemicals involves catalysis.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not necessarily equivalent, and the most useful notion, introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929, involves the existence of certain finite families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

In general topological spaces, however, the different notions of compactness are not equivalent, and the most useful notion of compactness — originally called bicompactness — involves families of open sets that " cover " the space in the sense that each point of the space must lie in some set contained in the family.

The vector calculus operations of grad, curl, and div are most easily generalized and understood in the context of differential forms, which involves a number of steps.

The most frequently cited example — although it is almost never employed by current users — involves the replacement of " stairs " with the rhyming phrase " apples and pears ".

Surrogate colonialism involves a settlement project supported by colonial power, in which most of the settlers do not come from the mainstream of the ruling power.

Like most other types of subpixel rendering, ClearType actually involves a compromise, sacrificing one aspect of image quality ( color or chrominance detail ) for another ( light and dark or luminance detail ).

Although most often used for matrices whose entries are real or complex numbers, the definition of the determinant only involves addition, subtraction and multiplication, and so it can be defined for square matrices with entries taken from any commutative ring.

Currently, one of the most famous open problems in theoretical computer science is the P = NP problem, which involves the relationship between the complexity classes P and NP.

The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers speaking a different language ; however the practice also involves the rerecording of audio segments and then synchronizing the recording with the existing footage.

Today most engineering work involves the use of computers and it is commonplace to use computer-aided design programs when designing electrical systems.

fantasy readers, the most noteworthy being Saurus, which involves an alien reptilian being observing human life, somewhat after the fashion in which ethnographers observed peoples deemed " primitive " at that time.

Another possible mechanism involves mutations leading to ineffective GABA ( the brain's most common inhibitory neurotransmitter ) action.

Hemispherectomy involves removal or a functional disconnection of most or all of one half of the cerebrum.

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague.

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague, also known as the Maharal, who reportedly created a golem to defend the Prague ghetto from antisemitic attacks and pogroms.

One of the most widespread forms of gambling involves betting on horse or greyhound racing.