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The most eminent spokesman of this school was Isaac ben Abraham, known as Isaac the Blind, whose extant works include a very obscure commentary on the Sefer yetzira.

Pāli poems, with their new metres (often based on a musical phrase), stylistic features, figures of speech, and choice diction, foreshadow classical kāvya literature in Sanskrit, whose extant specimens date from a later period.

Apart from Tamburlaine and the minor work Dido, Queen of Carthage (of uncertain date, published 1594 and written in collaboration with Thomas Nashe, Edward IIisis the only one of Marlowe's plays whose extant text can be relied on as adequately representing the author's manuscript.

Some morphological features of the spermatozoa are reminiscent of those of extant Branchiobdellida, a peculiar group of leech-like worms whose extant representatives are ectosymbionts on freshwater crayfish.

Domestication and breeding, however, have caused a severe reduction of crop diversity, whose extant genetic variation is much smaller than that of their wild relatives [ 10, 11].

Domestic pigs belong to the mammalian clade Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed animals whose extant representatives include ruminants such as cattle and sheep.

He was a perfectly competent commercial photographer -- architecture, class portraits, shipbuilding -- whose other extant pictures are reportedly undistinguished or even dull.

And if this seems to be sending up an artist whose earliest extant drawing is of Mickey Mouse, remember that at the age of 15 Sendak illustrated Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf; which quite likely has some bearing on his current project.

But the reigning deity of White Light will be Claudio Monteverdi, whose three extant operas will be presented, in matchless style, by the conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists (Oct . 18-21.

(That was the Bay Psalm Book, an extremely rare example of American colonial printing, one of whose 11 extant copies was sold by Sotheby's last November for $14.2m).The Rothschild sale marks a remarkable repeat performance in the market for manuscript books, a genre that for decades mainly interested medieval specialists and rare book connoisseurs.

They, together with the family Antilocapridae (whose only extant species is the pronghorn), belong to the superfamily Giraffoidea.