Their ranks are expected to swell as knowledge of a pending operation spreads.
As knowledge of the art of making porcelain spread across Europe, the science of botany also was flourishing.
The Dark Ages were aptly named as far as knowledge of primates is concerned.
But that comforting interpretation has grown less supportable as knowledge of the real world has expanded.
As knowledge of the nobles' prowess spread beyond their domains, they were invited to competitive jousts in provincial tournaments.
One variety of radical skepticism claims that there is no such thing as knowledge of an external world.
The technology that operates our world comes from the sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, geology as well as knowledge of our distant past from the social sciences like anthropology.
Moreover, intelligence experts say, the government is short of seasoned analysts and new ones lack such essential skills as knowledge of foreign languages.
By recruiting Airey, the Germans get access to some of ITV's trade secrets as well as knowledge of where the skeletons are buried.
The issue becomes more pressing as knowledge of other planetary systems expands and radio telescopes can beam ever more powerful signals into the void.
Ma insisted that a knowledge of institutional history was just as necessary to the Confucian official as knowledge of the Confucian Classics.
