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So I tried stepping up the curb the way I'd always known how, front on, for days on end, with no success, until it became obvious that the time and effort I was investing into this endeavor was clearly disproportionate to the benefit of its outcome.
It took time and trial and error to find treatments that did more good than harm, but by the end of World War II, they discovered what became known as the first chemotherapy drugs.
But what we're known probably most for is dealing with disasters and development, and we've been involved in a lot of issues, such as the tsunami and also things like Hurricane Katrina.
Well, for the last century, we've organized ourselves around fossil fuels, arguably, the most valuable material system we have ever known.
We've known about these powerful microbial interactions for thousands of years.
Tomorrow's child, my daughter, son, I'm afraid I've just begun to think of you and of your good, though always having known I should.
This mystical crop also known as “melange” is essential for all space travel, making it the cornerstone of the galactic economy.
Diogenes and his growing number of followers became known as “dog philosophers,” or kynikoi, a designation that eventually became the word “Cynic.”
The sugars in overripe fruit attract microscopic organisms known as yeasts.
The earliest known evidence comes from 7,000 BCE in China, where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey.
And this school, named after the U.K.'s first female doctor, and the surrounding buildings named for Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Mary Seacole, the Jamaican nurse known as the "black Florence Nightingale," and the English author, Emily Bronte, honor women who fought sexism, racism and ignorance, to pursue their passions to feed their own souls.
But for the lucky males and females of Solenopsis invicta, otherwise known as fire ants, it’s a day of romance.
These colonies have peacefully coexisted so far, but once workers appear, a phenomenon known as brood-raiding begins.
The patient or spouse agrees not to file a lawsuit if one of the known procedure failures occurs.
The Vikings came from the rugged, inhospitable north known today as Scandinavia.
And perhaps it is most well known that they provide static balance.
But together, the two formed a divine union known as Ardhanarishvara–– a sacred combination which brought fertility and connection to all living things.
The earliest known compass comes from about 200 BC in China.
This is a technique known as proof by contradiction.
It's one of the best known of these new marketplaces where a donor can go straight into a classroom and connect with what a teacher says they need.
One of the best known is Acumen Fund, led by Jacqueline Novogratz, a TEDster who got a big boost here at TED.
There was so much ice in 1992, the following year, that there was a bumper crop of polar bear cubs who were known as the Pinatubo cubs.
And we tried to put these into gene families to see what these discoveries are: Are we just discovering new members of known families, or are we discovering new families?
In time, the doctor’s potent potion and uncanny instincts became known throughout the land.
That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known.
It's in the middle of Soho, in this working class neighborhood, this little girl becomes sick and it turns out that the cesspool, that they still continue to have, despite the Nuisances Act, bordered on an extremely popular water pump, local watering hole that was well known for the best water in all of Soho, that all the residents from Soho and the surrounding neighborhoods would go to.
She was the high priestess of the moon god and history’s first known author.
But you know, everybody on this call has known somebody who has the disease.
This phenomenon, known as the Flynn Effect, happened much too fast to be caused by inherited evolutionary traits.
Though she never learned to read or write, Baumfree became known as an electrifying orator, whose speeches drew on Biblical references, spiritual ideals, and her experience of slavery.
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