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  • Later, he and Martha were to visit the library for more digging into the earlier disappearances now that the date of Martha's bones was better known.

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  • On the 16th of January 1547, he was crowned the first Russian tsar by the metropolitan of Moscow; on the 3rd of February in the same year he selected as his wife from among the virgins gathered from all parts of Russia for his inspection, Anastasia Zakharina-Koshkina, the scion of an ancient and noble family better known by its later name of Romanov.

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  • Bernhardt Schmidt, better known in England as Father Smith, was invited about 1660 to build the organ for the Chapel Royal, Whitehall; two years later he built the organ in Durham Cathedral a' 474.1, difference a whole tone, and practically agreeing with the Cammerton of Praetorius.

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  • Four years later (1520) the Portuguese seaman, Ferdinand Magellan, entered the estuary in his celebrated voyage round the world, undertaken in the service of the king of Spain (Charles I., better known as the emperor Charles V.).

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  • It is, however, less liable to cause confusion, and in many other ways more convenient to employ the better known term Marsupialia in both senses.

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  • His labours were continued with even more striking results by another Englishman, Winfred, better known as St Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans, who suffered martyrdom at Dokkum in A.D.

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  • The Florentine mosaics are perhaps better known abroad; they are composed of larger pieces than the Roman.

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  • Besides the types forming this series, there are a number of others (Medulloseae and allied forms) which show numerous, often very complex, types of stelar structure, in some cases polystelic, whose origin and relationship with the simpler and better known types is frequently obscure.

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  • He presented a famous report in the Constituent Assembly on the organization of the army, but is better known by his eloquent speech on the 28th of February 1791, at the Jacobin Club, against Mirabeau, whose relations with the court were beginning to be suspected, and who was a personal enemy of Lameth.

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  • He is even better known as a poet, for his Diwan and the Anaq, and as a hymn-writer.

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  • From the Molokani the Dukhobortsi, in England better known as Doukhobors, are distinguished by their subordination of the Scriptures to the authority of the " inner light."

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  • In 1899 he married Baroness de Rosen, and after 1900 he appeared but little in public; but he became better known as a composer, chiefly of pieces for his own instrument.

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  • It has, moreover, been remarked that almost all the animals mentioned were at home in the Egypt of those days, or at least, like the elephant, were to be seen there occasionally, whereas the structure of the hedgehog, for instance, is explained by a reference to the sea-porcupine, better known to fish-buyers on the Mediterranean.

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  • The Palestinian Talmud was completed in the 4th century, but the better known and more influential version was compiled in Babylonia about 500.

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  • The first European settlement in Mississippi was founded in 1699 by Pierre Lemoyne, better known as Iberville, at Fort Maurepas (Old Biloxi) on the north side of Biloxi Bay, in what is now Harrison county.

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  • Of all his English friends none seem to have been so intimate with him as the 1st marquess of Lansdowne, better known as Lord Shelburne, and Mr, afterwards Sir Samuel, Romilly.

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  • This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen 1 An obviously erroneous entry in the Admission Book states that he had been at school under Mr. Lovering for ten years, and was in his fifteenth year.

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  • Rodrigo Diaz, called de Bivar, from the place of his birth, better known by the title given him by the Arabs as the Cid (El Seid, the lord), and El Campeador, the champion par excellence, was of a noble family, one of whose members in a former generation had been elected judge of Castile.

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  • Among the Arabian and later alchemists we find attempts made to collate compounds by specific properties, and it is to these writers that we are mainly indebted for such terms as "alkali," " sal," &c. The mineral acids, hydrochloric, nitric and sulphuric acids, and also aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids) were discovered, and the vitriols, alum, saltpetre, sal-ammoniac, ammonium carbonate, silver nitrate (lunar caustic) became better known.

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  • The idea of this immense collection of ethical and moral precepts was first suggested to the poet by his favourite disciple Hasan, better known as Husam-uddin, who in 1258 became Jalal-uddin's chief assistant.

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  • Even after Gerbert of Aurillac, better known as Pope Sylvester II.

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  • Latin letters are used throughout; the miniatures of older maps are superseded by symbols, and in the better-known countries the maps are fairly correct, but they fail lamentably when we follow their author into regions - the successful delineation of which depends upon critical combination of imperfect information.

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  • His contemporary, Mesihi, whose beautiful verses on spring are perhaps better known in Europe than any other Turkish poem, deserves a passing mention.

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  • But when the legend became common property, other and better-known heroes were added to their number - Orpheus, Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux), Zetes and Calais, the winged sons of Boreas, Meleager, Theseus, Heracles.

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  • The letter implies that he was known to the Antiochians, and that it was likely he would be still better known.

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  • The one was an Irishman called Fith, better known as Iserninus, the other Auxilius.

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  • Finally, the laws of distribution of animals over Siberia cannot be made out until the changes undergone by its surface during the Glacial and Lacustrine periods are well established and the Post-Tertiary fauna is better known The remarkable finds of Quaternary mammals about Omsk and their importance for the history of the Equidae are merely a slight indication of what may be expected in this field.

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  • Paulsen is almost better known for his educational writings than as a pure philosopher.

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  • Hayes in 1877, and Varina Anne (1864-1898), better known as "Winnie" Davis, the "daughter of the Confederacy," who was the author of several books, including A Sketch of the Life of Robert Emmet (1888), a novel, The Veiled Doctor (1895), and A Romance of Summer Seas (1898).

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  • Less fortunate than his great exemplar, Charlemagne, Stephen had to depend entirely upon foreigners - men like the Saxon Asztrik 1 (c. 976-1010), the first Hungarian primate; the Lombard St Gellert (c. 977-1046); the Bosomanns, a German family, better known under the Magyarized form of their name Pazmany, and many others who came to Hungary in the suite of his enlightened consort Gisela of Bavaria.

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  • Some of the prelates - notably Janos Csezmeczey, better known as Janus Pannonius (4331 47 2) - had a European reputation for learning.

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  • In 1849 Stephen Ladislaus Endlicher (1804-1849), better known as a botanist than as a historian, published a collection of documents, Rerum hungaricarum monumenta Arpadiana.

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  • Charles Szasz is generally better known as a metrical translator than as an original poet.

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  • In northern Europe should be mentioned Gulielmus Copus (1471-1532) and Gunther of Andernach (1487-1584), better known as Guinterius Andernacensis, both for a time professors at Paris; and, among the greatest, Thomas Linacre (about 1460-1524; see Linacre).

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  • Among the first of these were Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666-1723), still better known as an anatomist; Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), also an anatomist, the author of a classical work on the diseases of the heart and aneurisms; and Ippolito Francisco Albertini (1662-1738), whose researches on the same class of diseases were no less important.

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  • Continuing westward, the most important stream was Tyburn, which rose at Hampstead, and joined the Thames through branches on either side of Thorney Island, on which grew up the great ecclesiastical foundation of St Peter, Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey.

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  • Jaidev is better known as the author of the Gitagobind, which was translated by Sir Edwin Arnold, than as a religious reformer; but in the Adi Granth are found two hymns of his in the Prakrit language of the time, in which he represents God as distinct from nature, yet everywhere present.

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  • Of the better known metals potassium and sodium are the softest; they can be kneaded between the fingers like wax.

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  • Sulphur.-Amongst the better known metals, gold and aluminium are the only ones which, when heated with sulphur or in sulphur vapour remain unchanged.

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  • In this year he published his Exposition on the Church Catechism, perhaps better known by its sub-title, The Practice of Divine Love.

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  • Andrea Palladio (1518-1580) was a native of Vicenza, as was also a contemporary, Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552-1616), who was largely dependent on him, but is better known for his work on architecture (Architettura universale, 1615).

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  • Still more memorable was the expedition afterwards undertaken by the united forces of Pisa and Genoa against Mogahid, better known in the Italian chronicles as Mugeto.

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  • He used to frequent the services at St James's, Piccadilly, and Margaret chapel, since better known as All Saints', Margaret Street.

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  • James was educated at Norwich Grammar School under Edward Valpy, as good a scholar as his better-known brother Richard.

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  • He was a priest named KakuyU, but better known as the abbot of Toba, who lived in the 12th century.

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  • The last and greatest master of the school was a priest named Meicho, better known as Ch Densu, the Japanese Fra Angelico.

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  • The Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de la republique des lettres (1762-1787), better known as Memoires de Bachaumont, from the name of their founder, furnish a minute account of the social and literary history for a period of twenty-six years.

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  • A much better known Giornale was that of Apostolo Zeno, founded with the help of Maffei and Muratori (1710), continued after 1718 by Pietro Zeno, and after 1728 by Mastraca and Paitoni.

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  • The premature death and high talents of these young men, and the association of one of them with the most popular poem of the age, have made Hallam's family afflictions better known than any other incidents of his life.

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  • It was borne by several dynasts of Persis, when it formed an independent kingdom in the time of the Parthian empire (on their coins they call themselves Artakhshathr; one of them is mentioned by Lucian, Macrobii, 15), and by three kings of the Sassanid dynasty, who are better known under the modern form Ardashir.

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  • Socinus, are better known than his riper work.

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  • The vertical distribution of temperature ' in the open ocean is much better known than that of salinity.

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  • In the year before (1742) he had planned the " Pennsylvania fire-place," better known as the " Franklin stove," which saved fuel, heated all the room, and had the same principle as the hot-air furnace; the stove was never patented by Franklin, but was described in his pamphlet dated 1744.

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  • On the defeat of Josiah at Megiddo his younger brother Jehoahaz (or Shallum) was chosen by the Judaeans, but the Egyptian conquerer Necho summoned him to his headquarters at Riblah (south of Hamath on the Orontes) and removed him to Egypt, appointing in his stead Eliakim, whose name ("El[God] raiseth up") was changed to its better-known synonym, Jehoiakim.

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  • There can be no doubt that the Indian conquests of Alexander were the means of making the parrot better known in Europe, and it is in reference to this fact that another Eastern species of Palaeornis now bears the name of P. alexandri, though from the localities it inhabits it could hardly have had anything to do with the Macedonian hero.

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  • The larger and better known Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne is owned and conducted by a private company.

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  • In theory every wild species has its place in a zoological collection, but the actual choice is limited by so many practical considerations that the better-known collections are remarkably alike.

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  • The principal and better-known use, however, is in welding.

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  • After the conquests of Alexander the Great Sogdiana formed part of the empire of the Seleucidae, and shared the fortunes of the rather better-known Bactria.

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  • The word is related to or derived from the name of the Mexican national war-god, Mexitl, better known as Huitzilopochtli.

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  • In 1534 Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, better known as Silken Thomas (so called because of a fantastic fringe worn in the helmet of his followers), a young man of rash courage and good abilities, son of the Lord Deputy Kildare, believing his father, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London, to have been beheaded, organized a rebellion against the English Government, and marched with his followers from the mansion of the earls of Kildare in Thomas Court, through Dame's Gate to St Mary's Abbey, where, in the council chamber, he proclaimed himself a rebel.

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  • In November, the same year, he started Szepirodalmi Tigyelo, a monthly review better known by its later name, Koszeru, which did much for Magyar criticism and literature.

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  • The first advance in accuracy was due to a certain Adrian, son of Anthony, a native of Metz (1527), and father of the better-known Adrian Metius of Alkmaar.

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  • The compounds containing this radical are treated under other headings; the hydride is better known as ethane, the alcohol, C 2 H 5 OH, is the ordinary alcohol of commerce, and the oxide (C 2 H 5) 2 O is ordinary ether.

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  • Mollusca was that of the Nuda, better known as Tunicata.

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  • Some of the cervical vertebrae are also united in at least the better-known genera.

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  • From this time the whole structure of the kiwi has certainly been far better known than that of nearly any other bird, and by degrees other examples found their way to England, some of which were distributed to the various museums of the Continent and of America.'

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  • It was at this troubled epoch that Chyang Chub Gyaltshan, better known as Phagmodu from the name of his native town, appeared on the scene.

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  • Latterly the word fuero came to be used in Castile in a wider sense than before, as meaning a general code of laws; thus about the time of Saint Ferdinand the old Lex Visigothorum, then translated for the first time into the vernacular, was called the Fuero Juzgo, a name which was soon retranslated into the barbarous Latin of the period as Forum Judicum; 4 and among the compilations of Alphonso the Learned in like manner were an Espejo de Fueros and also the Fuero de las leyes, better known perhaps as the Fuero Real.

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  • Mark Pattison's tenth and youngest sister was Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison (1832-1878), better known as Sister Dora, the name she took in 1864 on becoming a member of the Anglican sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, Yorkshire.

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  • Scarcely more is to be said in favour of the suggestion made by Von Hammer; but better known in connexion with the name of Lagarde, who connects the name Purim with the old Zoroastrian festival of the dead, entitled Farwardigan.

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  • In France protestant missionary effort began after the overthrow of the empire, and in 1822 several isolated committees united to form the Societe des Missions Evange liques, better known as the Paris Evangelical Society.

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  • Teobaldo Mannucci, better known as Aldo Manuzio, the founder of the Aldine press, was born in 1450 at Sermoneta in the Papal States.

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  • From the earliest historic times few animals have been better known to man than the lion.

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  • Thus their Syrian origin is manifest, the more so that in the Syriac, MS. they are appended to the New Testament, like the better-known epistles of Clement in the Codex Alexandrinus.

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  • At the north-east corner, opposite to Italy, and commanding the strait, arose Zancle, a city of uncertain date (first quarter of the 7th century B.C.) and mixed origin, better known as Messana (Messene, Messina).

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  • Nearly at the same time a young Englishman, George Goldie-Taubman, afterwards better known as Sir George Goldie (q.v.), having some private interests on the Niger, conceived the idea of amalgamating all local British interests and creating a British province on the Niger.

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  • The man selected for the post of first high commissioner was Colonel - afterwards better known as Sir Frederick - Lugard, who had conducted one of the Royal Niger company's most successful expeditions into the western portion of the interior and had already been employed by the British government to raise and organize the West African Frontier Force.

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  • The Kongelov is dated and subscribed the 14th of November 1665, but was kept a profound secret, only two initiated persons knowing of its existence until after the death of Frederick III., one of them being Kristoffer Gabel, the king's chief intermediary during the revolution, and the other the author and custodian of the Kongelov, Secretary Peder Schumacher, better known as Griffenfeldt.

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  • The picture painted by Darer on this commission was the "Adoration of the Virgin," better known as the "Feast of Rose Garlands"; it was subsequently acquired by the emperor Rudolf II., and carried as a thing beyond price upon men's shoulders to Vienna; it now exists in a greatly injured state in the monastery of Strahow at Prague.

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  • Bockholdt, better known in history as John of Leiden, was now supreme.

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  • As the author of "the spiritual regulation" for the reform of the Russian Church, Theofan must, indeed, be regarded as the creator of "the spiritual department" superseding the patriarchate, and better known by its later name of "the holy synod," of which he was made the vice-president.

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  • Perhaps no Ecuadorean volcano is better known than Pichincha, the " boiling mountain," because of its destructive eruptions and its proximity to the city of Quito.

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  • From its situation and importance this coal-field is better known than any other in India.

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  • The account given of his reign by Megasthenes makes him better known to us than any other Indian monarch down to the time of Akbar.

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  • In 1798 Lord Mornington, better known as the marquis Wellesley, arrived in India, Wellesley.

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  • The successor of Lord Minto was Lord Moira, better known as the marquis of Hastings, who governed India for the long period of nine years, from 1814 to 1823.

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  • On the death of Brown in 1820 Stewart retired altogether from the professorship, which was conferred upon John Wilson, better known as "Christopher North."

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  • We need devices, indeed, to determine priority or superior claim to be " better known absolutely or in the order of nature," but on the whole the problem is fairly faced.4 Of science Aristotle takes for his examples sometimes celestial physics, more often geometry or arithmetic, sometimes a concrete science, e.g.

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  • The name Phinehas (apparently of Egyptian origin) is better known as that of a son of Eli, a member of the priesthood of Shiloh, and Eleazar is only another form of Eliezer the son of Moses, to whose kin Eli is said to have belonged.

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  • This last is an account of the Battle of the Standard (1138), better known than the similar account by Richard of Hexham, but less trustworthy, and in places obscured by a peculiarly turgid rhetoric.

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  • The Talitridae, better known as sandhoppers, can forgo the briny shore and content themselves with the damp foliage of inland forests or casual humidity in the crater of an extinct volcano.

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  • His French colleague, Petau, better known under his latinized surname of Petavius, opened still wider floodgates when he taught that theological dogmas, like everything else, have a history.

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  • About 1551 he conceived the idea of making his native land better known by translating into Latin parts of the great Chronik of Johann Stumpf.

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  • Guicciardini is, however, better known as the author of the Storia d'Italia, that vast and detailed picture of his country's sufferings between the years 1494 and 1532.

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  • Lastly, the true form is such that it deduces the given nature from some source of being which is inherent in more natures, and which is better known in the natural order of things than the form itself."

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  • In August 1555 he visited his native country and found the queen-mother, Mary of Lorraine, acting as regent in place of the real "sovereign," the youthful and better-known Mary, now being brought up at the court of France.

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  • The other leading verse-writers were Karl Vilhelm Bottiger (1807-1878), the son-in-law and biographer of Tegner, who, in addition to his lyrical poetry, chiefly of the sentimental kind, wrote an admirable series of monographs on Swedish men of letters; Johan Borjesson (1790-1866), the last of the Phosphorists, author of various romantic dramas; Vilhelm August Detlof von Braun (1813-1860), a humorous lyrist; " Talis Qualis," whose real name was Karl Vilhelm August Strandberg (1818-1877); Oscar Patrick Sturzen-Becker (181'- 1869), better known as " Orvar Odd," a lyrical poet who was also the author of a series of amusing sketches of everyday life; and August Teodor Blanche (1811-1868), the popular dramatist.

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  • He afterwards resided many years at Bombay, where, while maintaining among natives a quasi-spiritual character, he was better known among Europeans for his doings on the turf.

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  • Two days after the accession of King Joseph, Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Mello, better known as the marquess of Pombal (q.v.), was appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs and war.

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  • Gomes Coelho, better known as Julio Diniz, records his experiences of English society in Oporto in A Familia ingleza, and for his romantic idealism he has been dubbed British; Portuguese critics have accused him of imitating Dickens.

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  • Few names belong by exclusive right to San Francisco's literary annals, - the most noteworthy being those of Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller and Henry George; but perhaps a score among the better known of the more recent writers in the country have done enough of their work here to connect them enduringly with the city.

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  • Tausen found a diligent fellow-worker in Jurgen Viberg, better known as Sadolin, whose sister, Dorothea, he married, to the great scandal of the Catholics.

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  • The capacity of plant seeds to remain dry and inactive for very long periods is still better known.

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  • No story about Corneille is better known than that which tells of the trap between the two houses, and how Pierre, whose facility of versification was much inferior to his brother's, would lift it when hard bestead, and call out "Sans-souci, une rime!"

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  • The Biggleswade well was sunk by processes better known in connexion with the sinking of mine shafts and foundations of bridges across the deep sands or gravels of bays, estuaries and great rivers.

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  • The series of Christian-Saracen buildings is continued in the country houses of the kings which surround the city, La Favara and Mimnerno, the works of Roger, and the better known Ziza and Cuba, the works severally of William the Bad and William the Good.

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  • Jainism purports to be the system of belief promulgated by Vaddhamana, better known by his epithet of Maha-vira (the great hero), who was a contemporary of Gotama, the Buddha.

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  • Ismail Agha Shekak, better known as Simko, living between Van and Urmia, murdered the patriarch of the Nestorians, who fled to Persian territory and called upon the Russians to avenge the murder.

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  • In 1833 Lord Ashley, better known as Lord Shaftesbury, had carried the first important Factory Act.

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  • Smith moved from the war office to the treasury, and became leader of the House of Commons; while Lord Salisbury himself returned to the foreign office, which the dramatically sudden death of Lord Iddesleigh, better known as Sir Stafford Northcote, vacated.

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  • In 1860 De Morgan endeavoured to render their contents better known by publishing a [[Syllabus]] of a Proposed System of Logic, from which may be obtained a good idea of his symbolic system, but the more readable and interesting discussions contained in the memoirs are of necessity omitted.

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  • In the East (Council of Ephesus, 431) he was helped by the entanglement of Pelagianism with Nestorianism, just as in the West the ruin of Nestorian prospects was occasioned partly by dislike for the better known system of Pelagianism.

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  • These bodies, better known as revolutionary committees, were charged with the enforcement of the Law of Suspects.

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  • His philosophy was expounded in an Arabic work better known under its Hebrew title Emunah Ramah (Sublime Faith).

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  • Among his friends were the Hangests (especially Claude), Nicolas and Michel Cop, sons of the king's Swiss physician, and his own kinsman Pierre Robert, better known as Olivetan.

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  • The former, better known as Amlaib (Olaf) Cuaran, married the daughter of Constantine, king of Scotland, and fought at Brunanburh (938).

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  • Tradition connects the better known of these fairs with pagan rites performed round the tombs of the heroes of the race; thus the assembly of Telltown was stated to have been instituted by Lugaid Lamfada.

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  • Kastoria is the seat of an Orthodox archbishop. It is usually identified with the ancient Celetrum, captured by the Romans under Sulpicius, during the first Macedonian campaign, 200 B.C., and better known for the defence maintained by Bryennius against Alexis I.

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  • Forest trees are well represented; they are, in fact, better known than in any of the later English deposits.

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  • Their defense of property is connected to the catholic apologetics for which they are better known.

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  • The better known Bourdon gage works by allowing the pressure into a curved tube, itself of a slightly elliptical cross section.

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  • This is a town and region famed for its aperitif wine, of course, better known as sherry.

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  • Much smaller than its better-known neighbor, Mallorca, the Balearic island of Menorca makes an ideal place for a relaxed spring getaway.

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  • Sir Guy Dawber (1861-1938) is now largely overlooked by architectural historians but deserves to be better known.

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  • But he is really better known as a surrealist painter, and has had numerous exhibitions.

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  • It has been published in order to make Carmelite spirituality, as expressed in the official documents of the Order, better known.

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  • They have in the last fifteen years become much better known through systematic excavations financed by the German empire and through other researches connected therewith, and though many important details are still doubtful, their general development can be traced.

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  • The duke's only survi ing son, Peregrine (1659-1729), who became znd duke of Leeds on his father's death, had been a member of the House of Lords as Baron Osborne since 1690, but he is better known as a naval officer; in this service he attained the rank of a vice-admiral.

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  • Though the aquatic members of a class of animals are in some instances derived from terrestrial forms, the usual transition is from an aquatic ancestry to more recent land-living forms. There is no doubt, from a consideration of the facts of structure, that the aquatic water-breathing Arachnids, represented in the past by the Eurypterines and to-day by the sole survivor Limulus, have preceded the terrestrial air-breathing forms of that group. Hence we see at once that the better-known Arachnida form a series, leading from Limulus-like aquatic creatures through scorpions, spiders and harvest-men, to the degenerate Acari or mites.

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  • The word " benzine " is sometimes used in commerce for the coal-tar product, but also for the light petroleum better known as petroleum-benzine; a similar ambiguity is presented by the word " benzoline," which is applied to the same substances as the word " benzine."

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  • Nearly at the same time a young Englishman, George Goldie-Taubman, afterwards better known as Sir George Goldie (q.v.), having some private interests on the Niger, conceived the idea of amalgamating all local British interests and creating ' a British province on the Niger.

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  • But this is altogether wrong, and the proofs offered, when rightly sifted, are often seen to rest upon the distortion of Heraclitean doctrine in the reports of later writers, to assimilate it to the better known but essentially distinct innovations of the Stoics.

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  • But later in life he became even better known to the literary world by his novels, [[Joseph]] Vance (1906), Alice for Short (1907), Somehow Good (1908) and It Never Can Happen Again (1909), in which the influence of Dickens and of his own earlier family life were conspicuous.

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  • Tulsi's great poem, popularly called Tulsi-krit Ramayan, but named by its author Ram-charit-manas, " the Lake of Rama's deeds," is perhaps better known among Hindus in upper India than the Bible among the rustic population in England.

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  • I'm Lieutenant Colonel Denisov, better known as 'Vaska,' said Denisov, pressing Prince Andrew's hand and looking into his face with a particularly kindly attention.

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  • Alongside the better-known anvil, forge and hammer, the swage block was an important tool.

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  • Some of the better known niche brands are Focal, Audison, and MB Quart.

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  • Kathryn Finney, better known as The Budget Fashionista, offers tips for buying women's watches.

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  • The Siamese cat became much better known after it was introduced in Britain.

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  • Though gingko biloba is better known as a treatment for the symptoms of dementia, the University of Maryland Medical Center's Alternative Medicine Index indicates that gingko can be used for pain relief as well.

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  • Hewlett-Packard, better known as HP, offers technology courses.

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  • Making Memories, Colorbok, and Creative Imaginations are some of the better known companies that make this type of scrapbook.Online, there are a number of talented women selling custom pre-made scrapbook albums and scrapbook layouts.

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  • While California might be better known for it's beaches than it's mountain slopes, there are still almost 30 different ski resorts to choose from, all up and down the eastern side of the state.

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  • Over the years, he romanced Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, and the winner of the 1973 Miss World competition.

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  • Ross Matthews - better known as "The Intern" from The Tonight Show.

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  • While the marriage was a shock, Kenny's infatuation with Zellweger was better known.

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  • Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, better known as simply Tina Fey, was born in 1970.

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  • Destiny Hope Cyrus, better known as Miley Cyrus and equally as well known as Hannah Montana, is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus (best known for his serious mullet and hit song Achy Breaky Heart) and Leticia Cyrus.

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  • Another graceful candidate better known for her role in the movie American Pie, Shannon Elizabeth waltzed her way out of the reality T.V. competition.

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  • About a decade ago, when Rodman was better known for his skills on the court than any of his other cross-dressing, attention getting adolescent behavior, Rodman was arrested multiple times in a span of a few short months for drunk driving.

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  • Nadya Suleman, better known as the Octomom, has signed a TV deal that will bring viewers a reality television show based on her and her fourteen children.

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  • Here are a few of his better-known movies and roles.

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  • Here are some of his better known movies and co-stars.

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  • Paul Reubens is better known by his stage name, Pee Wee Herman.

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  • You can always impress your friends if they never knew that Terry Jean Bollette is now better known as Hulk Hogan or that Boris Karloff was once known only as William Henry Pratt.

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  • Many offer different perks versus some of the better known names such as smaller class sizes, more focused learning and location.

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  • The Aralias described are now placed under Fatsia, but we retain the older name as better known in gardens.

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  • Hardy evergreen perennials, of which V. graeca is the handsomest, and bears a strong resemblance to the better-known V. utriculata, long cultivated in gardens.

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  • Eulalia - This Japanese Grass, E. gracillima, is less vigorous in growth than either of the better known kinds, the leaves being more narrow and more gracefully recurved.

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  • The most familiar is N. stylosa, perhaps better known as an Iberis, which makes tiny dark green cushions barely 2 inches high, covered early in the year with clusters of rosy-purple flowers smelling smelling like heliotrope.

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  • N. alpina, better known as Hutchinsia, is also attractive, with its glossy green leaves and white flowers.

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  • The plant needs the same treatment as Tigridias, and is so beautiful that when better known it will be much grown in light warm soils.

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  • A Rose Selection Lutea - This very distinct Rose is better known through the forms derived from it than in its wild form, pretty as that is, and it would be charming to grow on warm banks.

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  • Virginian Creeper (Vitis Quinquefolia) - Better known as Ampelopsis quinquefolia, its foliage changes in the fall of the year to various shades of crimson, scarlet, and purple.

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  • The longer points, sharper teeth, more numerous nerves and leathery texture, together with the fact that they hang longer, may enable any one to tell the leaf of the Japan Zelkowa from that of the better-known Z. crenata.

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  • While perhaps better known for their guitars, there are a number of contemporary Fender amp models.

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  • Here are some of the better-known sites offering advice for the ambitious and talented homeowner.

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  • Timberwolf has taken extreme measures to ensure your pet is not in danger of contracting Mad Cow Disease by eliminating the risk of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), better known as Mad Cow Disease, contamination.

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  • Some European eyeglass designers are better known than others, but as everyone's individual style is different, be sure to check out some of the lesser known designers for a style that's uniquely yours.

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  • A lesser known consequence to UV rays is Pterygium, but it's every bit as dangerous as its better known disease counterparts.

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  • One of the better known companies for rimless eyewear is Silhouette.

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  • The Harry Potter theme park in Florida better known as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is located at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.

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  • Rolfe was better known as The Angry Nintendo Nerd.

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  • In this way, while he may have once been known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd, Rolfe has grown to be better known as The Angry Video Game Nerd.

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  • Better still, it is more affordably priced than some of the better known video games on the market today.

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  • Outside of North America, the Sega Genesis was better known and marketed as the Sega Mega Drive.

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  • A little known fact is that Sonic was voiced by Jaleel White, better known as Steve Urkel from Family Matters.

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  • The most interesting is Karazhan, better known as the Medivh's Tower.

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  • Belkin may be better known for networking products, but it also develops and sells cases, chargers, and other accessories primiarly for Apple products.

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  • A better-known satellite phone manufacturer and service provider is Globalstar, which can issue U.S. telephone numbers.

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  • The original vaccine, which as of 2004 was still used in other parts of the world, contains whole cells of Bordatella pertussis, the organism that causes pertussis, better known as whooping cough.

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  • While the Tao symbol is probably better known as the yin yang symbol, the encircled symbol represents the never-ending energy of chi, which is the concept of infinity.

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  • Although Jennifer Aniston is better known for her blonde or light brown hair and blonde highlights, she went brunette with red highlights back in 2007.

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  • While she had done some acting and been a member of the group Wild Orchid, it was with the Black Eyed Peas that Stacy Ann Ferguson, better known as Fergie, became a star.

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  • Granted, this statement refers to the better known type of monokini, not the topless monokini that is popular in Europe (also the original style of "monokini" from the 1960s) and will show plenty of skin.

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  • However, and similar to another great tennis beauty, Anna Kournikova, Ms. Ivanovic is fast becoming better known for her physical beauty than her moves on the court.

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  • Miratex is a brand new fabric that of late, is steadily replacing the better known Lycra.

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  • Best Buy, better known for its movies, music and computer products, sells replacement water filters for Hamilton Beach coffee makers.

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  • No other relief organization is better known in the United States than the American Red Cross.

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  • The Waukesha Wisconsin humane society is better known as the Humane Animal Welfare Society.

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  • The American Diabetes Foundation, better known as the American Diabetes Research Foundation, is committed to research and is unique in its mission and structure.

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  • In 1844, the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" was published, better known as "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

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  • You may find yourself in the position of educating him about the disease and its consequences as the awareness of its existence have only become better known in recent years.

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  • These handbags are authentic replicas of the original Lightship basket, which today is better known as the Nantucket Basket.

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  • The group gathers around the wall of bushes, better known as a hedge to humans, and discusses what this could be and what they should do.

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  • Michel de Nostredame, better known as "Nostradamus", was an acclaimed medical doctor of his day.

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  • The United States Department of Agriculture administers the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program.

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  • As painful as this sounds, thong sandals are actually surprisingly comfortable, and for this reason they're often seen on the beach, where they're better known as flip-flops.

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  • His real name is Patrick Henry Gosling, but to thousands of devoted fans he's better known as Marcus Patrick.

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  • He was quickly recast with actor Michael Muhney, better known to fans of the television show Veronica Mars as Sheriff Lamb.

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  • Just outside the cemetery gates is the United States Marine Corps Memorial, better known as the Iwo Jima Memorial.

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  • Perhaps better known for their talking thermometers, Voice Zone has been a familiar brand for hearing impaired people for many years.

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  • The watches are stylish, but are better known for their accuracy.

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  • While the term "spankies" is common in cheer speak, for everyone else, they might be better known as bloomers, briefs, or cheer shorts.

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  • The group that lowered their fat consumption had decreased levels of low-density lipoprotein, better known as LDL cholesterol, and reduced blood pressure.

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  • It would make sense that if free radicals are the enemies, then we need a weapon of defense to stop the fight, better known as aging.

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  • Supporters of the negative calorie diet claim that by eating these particular foods your body will dip into stored calories, better known as fat cells, to obtain the necessary energy to digest the negative calorie food.

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  • Other herbs are considered thermogenic, better known as "fat burners", due to the natural presence of caffeine.

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  • Cybex is better known for its cardio equipment than its strength equipment, but the Cybex Functional Trainer does provide a full-body workout that can isolate the muscles of the leg.

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  • Google translate is one of the better known translation services.

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  • In 1902, nine different auto clubs joined to form the American Automobile Association, better known as AAA.

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  • Another famous pin-up girl was Ms. Norma Jeane Mortenson, better known as Marilyn Monroe.

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  • Soft Surroundings carries the type of bathrobe better known for being comfortable when you are lounging.

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  • Despite some of her English lyrics resulting in overly-literal translations, songs such as 'Suerte', better known in English as 'Whenever, Wherever', and 'Underneath Your Clothes' were huge hits.

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  • T.I. - better known to his mama as Clifford "Tip" Harris - hit the scene in 2001 with his solo debut record I'm Serious, on his own Grand Hustle imprint.

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  • Raul, a drummer who was better known as Stixx, was brought in from a past heavy metal band of Orrie's, called Redzer.

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  • Amy Ray and Emily Saliers - better known as the Indigo Girls - have enjoyed an unlikely amount of mainstream pop success for a primarily folk group.

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  • The rapper known as Notorious B.I.G. is perhaps better known for his murder than for his music.

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  • One of these talented artists is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., who is better known as Lil Wayne to his fans.

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  • These tracks are from popular American singer Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, who is better known as Katy Perry.

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  • Don and Phil Everly, better known as The Everly Brothers, are one of the biggest selling rock duos to ever hit the Billboard Hot 100.

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  • Rahman Harper, better known as "Rock" won in 2007.

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  • Larry Rudolph - Better known for managing Britney Spears career, Rudolph is the Co-President of the L.A. store along with Jeff Boz.

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  • Mariano may be better known for her relationship with Rob "Boston Rob" Mariano, a fellow Survivor contestant.

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  • The following collections may not be complete, but most of the better-known tales are represented.

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  • Some Star Trek characters are better known than others.

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  • Galen Tyrol, better known as "The Chief", and played by Aaron Douglas, looks more than troubled in the photo.

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  • Valtrex - Perhaps better known for its treatment of the type 2 virus, Valtrex can also be quite effective for the fever blister treatment.

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  • We've highlighted some of the better-known options in town and noted what makes them unique.

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