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People had been known to have died in the crush on popular execution days.
I also learned that many of those who had known me for a long time found it impossible to abandon the idea of Martin they had in their heads.
And what we've known already for very long, is that this is important for learning, memory, mood and emotion.
Writing in the 15th century, Malory couldn’t have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be.
Nothing, not even light, can move fast enough to escape a black hole’s gravitational pull once it passes a certain boundary, known as the event horizon.
Similarly, light that passes close enough to an event horizon will be deflected in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
Although he’s best known for his short horror stories, Poe was actually one of the most versatile and experimental writers of the nineteenth century.
And yet, if he could’ve known how much pleasure and inspiration his writing would bring to generations of readers and writers alike, perhaps it may have brought a smile to that famously brooding visage.
By contrast, the first known burials about 120,000 years ago were likely reserved for transgressors, excluding them from the usual rites intended to honor the dead.
The nomadic Scythians littered the steppes with grave mounds known as kurgans.
And this stayed this way until about the 1980s, when this concept was challenged by the medical community and by the public health policymakers when they realized that by excluding women from all medical research studies we actually did them a disservice, in that apart from reproductive issues, virtually nothing was known about the unique needs of the female patient.
He told her that her grandmother, the only mother that she had ever known, had been in a terrible accident and was laying on a couch in his house, calling for her.
At the time, I'd barely heard about Calais, but it took about two or three seconds to figure out Calais is basically known for two things.
So the family fled to an area of Damascus known as Camp Yarmouk.
Right now, the genetic information to understand what types of genes would give rise to these traits is mostly not known.
For example, back in 2010, I won a really big poker tournament known as the European Poker Tour.
But when I met Ella, there were 73 different services on offer for her and her family in the city where she lives, 73 different services run out of 24 departments in one city, and Ella and her partners and her children were known to most of them.
They play this major role in shaping and maintaining the structure and diversity of the forest, and for that reason, tapirs are known as gardeners of the forest.
LD: From India, we traveled to East Africa, a region known for intolerance towards LGBT people.
And I grew up in a world believing that my worth and my standing was in keeping these rules that I'd known my whole life.
They've known each other for decades.
You obviously can't see it, but if you are a normal, healthy human, you can feel it, that sensation of extreme discomfort, also known as pain.
As we learn more about our universe and our place within it, some of the unknowns get better known, and we can estimate an answer a bit better.
Cantor's conjecture became known as the continuum hypothesis.
It is simply known as Avogadros's number.
This is known as a molar quantity.
Before I could even get started on my questions, my first step was to compile a database of all known geometric signs from all of the rock art sites.
But what we do have are some intriguing one-offs, like this panel from La Pasiega in Spain, known as "The Inscription," with its symmetrical markings on the left, possible stylized representations of hands in the middle, and what looks a bit like a bracket on the right.
He's not from a poor family, but he lives in the region known as the Subura, a poorer neighborhood in Rome, yet close to the center of the city.
And in a way, it's all thanks to him, because he challenged known facts, and with a sweep of his hand, got rid of the theoretical beliefs and all the mental limits that we like to impose on ourselves.
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