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 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 contained in Privilege of king Kazymyr to Denisko Mukosiyovich in Zbarazh and villages of Zbarazh Volost (for the term of life) "for safe service", given out by approbation Gentlemen-advices from January 12, 1442, in which a village is remembered among other villages of volost. In 1518 year village gets a city right from king Sigizmund I. 1545 – remembered in the revision of Kremenets castle, where it is marked