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.

In the best-known version of this illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles ; the first central circle then appears smaller than the second central circle.

Sheldon's two novels, produced toward the end of her career, were not as critically well-received as her best-known stories but continued to explore similar themes.

The two best-known are those of " Jadwiga's cross " and " Jadwiga's foot.

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

Nacreous pearls, the best-known and most commercially-significant pearls, are primarily produced by two groups of molluscan bivalves or clams.

Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies ; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.

Gibson is one of the best-known North American science fiction writers, fêted by The Guardian in 1999 as " probably the most important novelist of the past two decades ".

Over the next two years, Morris and party founder Henry Hyndman worked together as the best-known leaders of the fledgling organisation.

Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens.

His two best-known mistresses were Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, and, from 1735, Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth.

Some of the best-known remains from the period include the " peat bog corpses ", among them the well-preserved bodies of two people deliberately strangled: Tollund Man and Haraldskær Woman.

Zulu was closely followed by two of his best-known roles: the spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File ( 1965 ), and the womanising title character in Alfie ( 1966 ).

Forster's two best-known works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences.

Hrabal's two best-known novels are Closely Observed Trains ( Ostře sledované vlaky ) ( 1965 ) and I Served the King of England ( Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále ), both of which were made into movies by the Czech director, Jiří Menzel ( 1966 and 2006, respectively ).

The best-known NDRI is bupropion ( Wellbutrin, Zyban ), and the two best-known NRIs are atomoxetine ( Strattera ) and reboxetine ( Edronax ).

The best-known example of this is London, which contains two cities ( the City of London and the City of Westminster ) but is not itself a city.

In addition to the group's two best-known tracks, " White Rabbit " and " Somebody to Love ", the album featured " My Best Friend " by former drummer Skip Spence, Balin's driving " Plastic Fantastic Lover ," and the atmospheric Balin-Kantner ballad " Today ".

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

The two best-known of the Camenae were Carmentis ( or Carmenta ), who had her own flamen and in whose honor the Carmentalia was held, and Egeria, the divine consort of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome considered the founder of Roman law and religion.

As part of her comedic training, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in two of Chicago's best-known improvisational theater groups — the Practical Theater Group, and the renowned Second City.

His best-known poems, however, are to be found in the two earlier volumes of Shorter Poems ( 1890, 1894 ).

The two best-known Japanese doom metal acts are Church of Misery and Boris, both of whom have gained considerable popularity outside the country.

The earliest printed works in Renaissance natural history fell into two categories: 1. newly recovered, translated and corrected editions of ancient texts, and 2. herbals based on the empirical knowledge of the early botanists.

In Western Europe herbals flourished for two centuries following the invention of moveable type ( c. 1470 – 1670 ).

These shifts in alliance and allegiance not only increased the difficulties confronting the English embassy as a whole, but also directly involved the two Savoyards, Amadee and Othon.

The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

He asked the government for two hundred soldiers, who were to be specifically assigned to arrest English traders and disloyal Indians.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis.

English law provides for two offences of assault: common assault and battery.

The Iliad with an English Translation by A. T. Murray, Ph. D. in two volumes.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

Due to imprecision in the standard English language, two completely different feelings experienced by two different people can be represented by an identical verbal expression.

Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.

Historians are divided on the detail of Ælle's life and existence as it was during the least-documented period in English history of the last two millennia.

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.