Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
Verba, Rivne Oblast division of Poland of 1793 territory which Verba belongs to stepped back to the Russian Empire. A township was the center of volost in Dubno Uyezd of the Volhynian Governorate. In obedience to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (published in Imperial Russia, 1890–1907) 124 yards were counted in a township Verba, lived 1068 habitants, there was a railhead, 9 shops and 8 coaching inns, orthodox church and synagogue. Verba, Rivne Oblast Verba (, , ) is a village in Dubno Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. In 2001, the community had 2863 residents. The first writing mention about a village is