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	List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles's law states that at constant pressure, the volume of a given mass of a gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature (in kelvins) increases or decreases.
		Faraday's law of electrolysis states that the mass of a substance produced at an electrode during electrolysis is proportional to the number of moles of electrons transferred at that electrode; again named for Michael Faraday.
		Fourier's law, also known as the 'law of heat conduction states that the time rate of heat flow Q through a slab (or a portion of a perfectly insulated wire, as shown in the figure) is proportional to the gradient of temperature difference; named for Joseph Fourier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws (2862 words)

	Lavie v. Procter & Gamble Company (2003) * California
		The possibility that a published decision could contain a misstatement of law as to a fundamental provision of these statutes is a cause of particular concern to the Attorney General.
		Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
		He developed the eponymous Lanza scale, which is the scale used to measure relative degrees of injury to the stomach lining seen through endoscopy.
	www.claimrep.com /laws/cases/CA/caseCALavie.htm (12805 words)

	Cleisthenes Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		He also insists that all the laws were written down in public so that people could see their rights.
		This was a total revision of the citizenship, as previously citizenship depended on membership of one of the tribes, dominated by aristocratic rule.
		There is no direct evidence, but it has been plausibly argued that under Cleisthenes's reforms or shortly afterwards, the number of archons was increased to 10: the chief or "eponymous" archon, the king archon (a religious office), the "Polemarch" or war-archon, 6 "law setters" and the new office, the secretary to the law-setters.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /essays/clisthen.htm (1893 words)

	THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004
		That is the power of natural law: the evidence does not make the law plausible; the law makes the evidence plausible.
		As a New Year's exercise, he asked scores of leading thinkers in the natural and social sciences for "some bit of wisdom, some rule of nature, some law-like pattern, either grand or small, that you've noticed in the universe that might as well be named after you."...The responses, to be posted soon on Mr.
		In fact, the laws of physics require the knowledge and wealth possessed by intelligent beings in the universe to increase without limit, this knowledge and wealth becoming literally infinite by the the end of time.
	www.edge.org /q2004/q04_print.html (3891 words)

	Waynerad.Com Has The Good Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Cooper's Law looks at the improvement in the way we use the spectrum by comparing the number of "conversations" (voice or data) that can theoretically be conducted over a given area in all of the useful radio spectrum.
		Sarnoff's Law emerged from the advent of radio and television networks in the early twentieth century, in which a central source broadcasts from a small number of transmitting stations to a large number of receivers.
		Zipf's law is an experimental law, not a theoretical one.
	www.waynerad.com /laws.php (3175 words)

	Clisthenes of Athens
		He gave the tribes ten eponymous heroes selected by the Oracle at Delphi from a preliminary list of one hundred.
		A contributory factor was that Solon's laws had fallen into disuse under the Tyranny, and Kleisthenes replaced them with others, with the aim of winning the support of the Demos.
		But perhaps a question rather arises about those who were admitted to citizenship when a revolution had taken place, for instance such a creation of citizens as that carried out at Athens by Kleisthenes after the expulsion of the Tyrants, when he enrolled in his tribes many resident aliens who had been foreigners or slaves.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/Kleisthenes.html (1052 words)

	Attempts: Wacky Wikipedia Lists
		Lists of Cliché Lists (not a list of clichés, but a list of lists of clichés)
		Some of my personal favorites are lists of fictional things (that link is to a list of lists of fictional things, natch.) Here are some lists of...
		Fictional Laws and Rules (which sadly notes that it "may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness")
	stephenfrug.blogspot.com /2006/08/wacky-wikipedia-lists.html (660 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan
		Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan
		Thou shalt establish a law in Ireland and Britain for the sake of the mother of each one, because a mother has borne each one, and for the sake of Mary mother of Jesus Christ, through whom all are.
		The enactment of this Law of Adamnan is a perpetual law on behalf of clerics and women and innocent children until they are capable of slaying a man, and until they take their place in the tribe, and their (first) expedition is known.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/CainAdamnain.html (4809 words)

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		Under a law passed in 1989, Members of Congress are entitled to a COLA equal to the base salary pay boost received by federal workers.
		This makes understanding the law of the land very difficult for the average American citizen, and needs to be corrected.
		Originally, all law enforcement agencies and other departments of government were required to follow the opinions of the Supreme Court as if they were the written text of the Constitution.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/roc.9806 (17309 words)

	Film Shorts \| Film \| Film Shorts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		The story is rather predictable: Ben, an aspiring animator, has enrolled in a fine arts college and must break the news to his father, who is certain that his son is destined for medical school.
		It's only late in the film where things turn lively, as he finally wakes up and begins to do more of what he always did when he was as a teen rapper and a '90s TV star: comedy.
		Unlike Spielberg's Schindler's List, Hotel Rwanda doesn't have a huge budget, which is the primary reason why it's not a great film in terms of both photography and casting (many of the extras do not look like Hutus or Tutsis).
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Listings?oid=20719 (1733 words)

	syberchic.net
		Asimov's three laws of robotics - also called, more simply, the Three Rules of Robotics, a set of rules which the fictional robots appearing in the writings of Isaac Asimov (1920.
		Kerckhoffs' law In cryptography, a system should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
		Ko.akowski's Law (otherwise, the "Law of the Infinite Cornucopia"), put forth by Polish philosopher Leszek Ko.akowski, states that for any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.
	syberchic.net /eponymous_laws.html (2566 words)

	The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040525 - perl6:
		Michael Lazzaro pointed to the documentation list perl6-documentation@perl.org which is apparently rather quiet at the moment.
		Anyhoo, this led to a string of suggestions trying to sum up the Spirit of Perl 6, one of which managed to be a spoiler for Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
		The eponymous Bryan C. Warnock (note to any Wired Jargonwatch editors who may be watching, that's Bryan, not 'Brian') popped up to set the record straight about his dilemma.
	dev.perl.org /perl6/list-summaries/2003/p6summary.2003-05-25.html (1286 words)

	Yale University Library: Electronic Text Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Selections from all five divisions - Scriptores, or holy books, Leges, or laws, Diplomata, or government documents, Epistolae, or letters, and Antiquitates, or commentaries on classical works, are included.
		By pressing F2 when a given search box is highlighted, you can browse that category and view a list of all the entries in that category, with the exception of the Series search box.
		List produces a title list of all documents produced by a given search.
	www.library.yale.edu /etc/mgh.html (993 words)

	The 100 most influential lawyers in America
		Supreme Court and constitutional law expert; criminal defense appellate attorney who has appeared before the Supreme Court four times over the past three court terms, winning twice, with two rulings pending; participated as co-counsel in more than a dozen cases; in 2004, argued successfully for the petitioners in Crawford v.
		Served as associate counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation; as special assistant to the Massachusetts attorney general, investigated racial bias in the state's courts.
		Wrote the book on intellectual property law-or, more precisely, six books, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust; of counsel to Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, he has a hand in three cases before the Supreme Court this term; one of them, Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v.
	www.law.com /jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1150362316389 (933 words)

	Amazon.com: Every Generation: Music: Ronnie Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Saxophonist Ronnie Laws held high profile gigs with Quincy Jones and Earth, Wind And Fire before signing with Blue Note in 1975 where his first album Pressure Sensitive yielded the hit "Always There" which is still a staple in dance clubs around the world.
		This is well past due one of the greats Ronnie laws, this is one of my favorites and i can;t tell you how happy i am that this cd is here and now back in print.
		I am a hugh fan of Ronnie laws, and to me this is the best yet he is the master and you can tell his music and style from any other sax player.
	www.amazon.com /Every-Generation-Ronnie-Laws/dp/B0009ML1P2 (1092 words)

	What's New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		The transition from the first to the second edition is the most critical stage in a textbook's history, when a book not only demonstrates its staying power in a highly competitive market but also typically undergoes more changes than it will at any later edition.
		Eponyms present a sticky problem for scientific writers.
		Stylists have grappled for years with possessive eponyms and the contrary tastes of those who would insist on an apostrophe-s in Cushing's syndrome, yet take offense at the parallel expression, Down's syndrome.
	www.mhhe.com /biosci/ap/saladin2e/information/olc/whats-new.mhtml (772 words)

	VIAH site - information - homeschool
		The list is designed for all homeschoolers regardless of age or level of experience with programming.
		Radical Unschoolers - list supporting those who prefer to let their child choose the subject, style, time, and place for their own learning, and who are opposed to forcing children to learn according to any timetable other than their own.
		It is sponsored by Sarah Lawrence of the eponymous British magazine, Taking Children Seriously and features serious, intense, and all too prolix discussion of what it means to raise children non-coercively, as human beings in their own right." Homeschooling is discussed along with other topics.
	access.autistics.org /issues/education/hslists.html (3088 words)

	feeling listless - "Life. Like things and things going on."
		He describes how he had seen a number of young actresses who would have been perfect for the role and had a short list but when he went to see his financiers and producers, they told him that actually if he didn't cast Knightley they'd wouldn't make the picture.
		The ceremony begins soon and Anna Ford gives the address in which she talks about our achievement, and says that we'll be Manchester University students for the rest of our lives before listing all of the awards the institution has won lately.
		I'm beginning to understand that religion is a human construct, its laws and acts the work of people like me, with perhaps only a slightly clearer idea of what it all means based on earlier teaching.
	feelinglistless.blogspot.com (15229 words)

	The Comics Journal: ¡Journalista!
		A list of proposed amendments can be found here (Google translation).
		For a complete list of the rules for entry, click here -- this year's theme is "water".
		The article also goes on to note that "an e-mail list for librarians who want to discuss graphic novels has more than 600 subscribers", which isn't bad at all for such a specialized field.
	www.tcj.com /journalista/zarch200305A.html (6413 words)

	Mysterylist.com: Series Detectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		I have read lots of 'junk' series in my time, but after a brief obsession with each never went back to any of them and have only a few accidental remains of 'collections' (pity in a way because complete collections over 30 years old are now worth money).
		Originally, rogues and villains such as Fu Manchu were included on the previous Series page, but I felt that they deserved a place of their own.
		One of the early examples of a Robin Hood type burglar who is accepted as a guest at country houses while he proceeds to rob them blind.
	www.mysterylist.com /series8.htm (1687 words)

	Cinemarati Blog » Lists and Polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		The full results are listed on the website, along with comments from participants.
		That is precisely what I love about Top Ten lists — to either learn about a film I’d not heard of or, even more so, to read a convincing defense of a film I’d else wise never consider watching.
		Now up to 425 in number, the registry list is probably my most-consulted canon of American-made film titles, a perfect compliment to the more globally-oriented lists compiled by the British Film Institute every decade.
	www.cinemarati.org /index.php/archives/category/lists-and-polls/page/2 (3611 words)

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		This list, a first of its kind in South Africa, is not heavily moderated, but should serve as a springboard to varied academic access discussions, including (but not limited to) access to literature, adaptive technology, and the broader activities of academic institutions.
		List members are asked to keep all conversation free of personal attacks, racial remarks, or attacks of a religious nature.
		The main thrust of the list is to provide blind and sighted people with a way to exchange feelings and techniques for dealing with the complications of dating and relationships and to vent their frustrations.
	www.hicom.net /~oedipus/blist.txt (17436 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - London: The Biography
		In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.
		Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change.
		Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52194909 (649 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Peter Ackroyd
		London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city.
		In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.
		Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/PeterAckroydeBooks.htm (316 words)

	Prydein: Eponymous Cymric Frist Ruler of Britain
		However, it is essentially impossible to eliminate a tradition entirely and fragments of earlier tales still remain scattered through the ancient Cymric poems and genealogies.
		This king list has found its way into a number of the Cymric genealogies (the entire genalogy is given in full in the Jesus College MS 20 genealogies as enweu Brenhinoedd y Brytanyeit (The Names of the Kings of the Britons).
		This poem (the first in the list of the various names asssociated with Britain) strongly suggests that Britain is eponymously named after Prydein mad Aedd Mawr after Prydein conquers the island.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_p/prydein.html (775 words)

	John Walker's Reading List
		A book's appearing on this list does not necessarily mean I recommend you read it, nor even that it's worth reading at all in my opinion; it simply means that I've read it.
		You may consider some of the works listed here controversial and/or disreputable; their appearance does not constitute an endorsement of the views expressed in the volume.
		According to Shannon's theorem, you gain information only from messages which are not predictable; getting inside the head of somebody you disagree with and dissecting arguments which come to different conclusions than your own is an excellent way to broaden one's perspective, if only on the way that others think.
	www.fourmilab.ch /documents/reading_list/indices/noframes.html (4261 words)

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		Our lists are 83% similar to each other.
		It is possible to measure the value of undiscovered data between any two lists. I’m still trying to get my head around the math involved with this… and how far people have taken this stuff. I’ve checked out Set Theory extensively. I’m trying to not reinvent too many wheels here…
		Scalability of the system… As the number of lists grows within the system, the potential value of undiscovered data grows with it. Reed’s Law observes that the utility of networks scale exponentially with the network’s size. Given a set of n lists, there are n^2 possible subsets from which to measure undiscovered data.
	syminfo.wordpress.com (898 words)

	Newmark: Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free - CNN.com
		If this becomes law, your Yahoo Inc. e-mail account could operate more slowly, unless Yahoo ponies up big bucks to the major telecommunication companies that bring the Internet into your home.
		Allowing the telecoms to commercialize and allocate the user's priority is no different then forcing a motorist to exit at a restaurant that chooses to pay higher road taxes.
		Thank goodness our road taxes and laws were never structured that way.
	www.cnn.com /2006/US/06/09/newmark.internet/index.html (1458 words)

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