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Here we will activate your sympathetic nervous system using a famous model pain stimulus: dunking your hand in ice water.
That two-day conflict has become one of the most famous battles in history.
The wall was painted with a large mural depicting famous scenes from American history.
Billy the Kid was one of the most famous outlaws of America's early history.
Several of the architect's most famous buildings will soon be depicted on postage stamps.
Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
I stifled a yawn as she launched into a monologue about how she is going to become a famous star.
She was so famous that people would accost her on the street and ask for an autograph.
The obverse designs feature famous Scots while the reverse designs feature Scotland's UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Seizing the moment, she introduced herself to the famous film director.
The comedian is famous for his monologue about winning the lottery.
He claims that he is a lineal descendent of a famous military hero.
They got a famous actor to do the narration for the documentary.
A cross in the sky could have appeared.... The famous Alpinist Edward Whymper saw a similar effect on the Matterhorn.
Apsara Dance, famous for strong hand and feet movement, is a great example of Hindu symbolic dance.
Puppetry and shadow plays were also a favoured form of entertainment in past centuries, a famous one being Wayang from Indonesia.
These witch trials were the most famous in British North America and took place in the coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts.
Schlesinger, Jr, and famous lawyers such as Glanville Williams, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and Sir Edward Coke.
More information on famous senior and junior members of the university can be found in the individual college articles.
The terracotta for the Hammersmith school was made by the famous Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth.
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The Villa d'Este near Tivoli is famous for the water play in its terraced gardens.
The ground floor of the State Apartments retains various famous medieval features.
Vestments embroidered in the famous style known as Opus Anglicanum were burnt.
The vaults of Bristol are the most famous examples of this style, which can also be seen at York.
Manarola is the second-smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
The most famous forts and palaces in Rajasthan are located in Chittor, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur, Saphieree, Amber and Nahargarh.
During 1976, Queen played one of their most famous gigs, a free concert in Hyde Park, London.
Over the years many famous leaders visited the Crystal Palace, and were accorded special festivals, with extended published programs.
His most famous modernist work was the German pavilion for the 1929 international exposition in Barcelona.
In 1937 Mies van der Rohe also moved to the United States,he became one of the most famous designers of postwar American skyscrapers.
The fame of Gropius and Breuer attracted many students, who themselves became famous architects, including Ieoh Ming Pei and Philip Johnson.
The location is approximately three miles from the site of Robin's robberies at the now famous Saylis.
Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood.
Sherwood Forest is home to the famous Major Oak, which, according to local folklore, was Robin Hood's principal hideout.
She gave Coventry a number of works in precious metal by the famous goldsmith Mannig and bequeathed a necklace valued at 100 marks of silver.
Thus, it remains doubtful whether there is any historical basis for the famous ride.
The famous London black cab taxis are produced in Coventry by LTI and these are now the only vehicles still wholly built in Coventry.
The most famous claimed edition of Mother Shipton's prophecies foretells many modern events and phenomena.
Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, a work of realist political theory.
This Portuguese inquisition was a local analogue of the more famous Spanish Inquisition.
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Brick Lane in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets is famous for its many curry houses.
In Indonesia the caves at Maros in Sulawesi are famous for their hand prints.
The Insular style is most famous for its highly dense, intricate and imaginative decoration, which takes elements from several earlier styles.
His most famous, and perhaps greatest, painting of the period was The Ambassadors.
The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature.
This would have been a burial fitting a king who was famous for his wealth in Old Norse sources.
The famous Plowman's Tale did not enter Thynne's Works until the second, 1542, edition.
It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales.
Its many adaptations have made it one of his most enduring and famous stories.
The most famous musical theatre adaptation is West Side Story with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Kehler notes he was the husband of famous Shakespearean scholar Mary Cowden Clarke.
The best known of the pieces from the incidental music is the famous Wedding March, frequently used as a recessional in weddings.
This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble and gallant character.
This connection with the Sidney family provided the impetus for one of Jonson's most famous lyrics, the country house poem To Penshurst.
He met famous theorists and intellectuals of the time, and was able to display his poetic skills.
He is also the subject of perhaps the most famous biography in English literature, namely The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.
They're all here in this illustrated, brain-boggling bonanza by famous puzzler and mathemagician Martin Gardner.
His speeches and writings, having made him famous, led to the suggestion that he was the author of the Letters of Junius.
He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer, and he is also famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper.
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The poem was a direct inspiration for John Keats' famous poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions.
Another one of his famous poems was Matilda, the story of a young girl who died because of her own lies.
Powell was also an author and poet and knew many of the famous writers of the day.
Kipling was now a famous man, and in the previous two or three years had increasingly been making political pronouncements in his writings.
In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous.
The collection is not as famous as the Child Ballads or Percy's Reliques, but important, nevertheless.
It is possible that the rhyme was acquired from one of these sources and then adapted to fit the most famous bridge in England.
He was also known for reworking pieces such as the famous Messiah, which premiered in 1742, for available singers and musicians.
This work contains one of Handel's favourite arias, Cara sposa, amante cara, and the famous Lascia ch'io pianga.
Together, these works constitute Handel's most famous music for what we would now consider the orchestra.
It quickly and deservedly became the most famous logo in the history of popular music.
Nirvana played what was to become their last UK concert, and one of their most famous.
The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, the most famous opera house in the world.
Unveiled in April 2014, it shows more than 400 famous figures who have appeared on the stage.
He was famous from the start of his career for his voice and his mastery of Shakespearean verse.
Most accompaniments at this time, these examples notwithstanding, comprised pieces by famous composers, also including studies.
To try to raise its own standards, the LSO had engaged Mengelberg, a famous orchestral trainer, known as a perfectionist.
Beowulf, is the most famous work in Old English and has achieved national epic status in England, despite being set in Scandinavia.
Northern Ireland has produced a number of significant poets, the most famous being Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney.
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English Heritage is the guardian of over 400 sites and monuments, the most famous of which include Stonehenge, Iron Bridge and Dover Castle.
The leading men's magazine of its age, Playboy helped bring explicit photography, embodied by its famous nude centerfolds, into the mainstream.
Both of these major works were sold from the famous collection of the Duke of Sutherland.
The square was once famous for feral pigeons and feeding them was a popular activity.
The rivalry between England and Australia gave birth to The Ashes in 1882 and this has remained Test cricket's most famous contest.
The town of Newmarket is considered the centre of English racing, largely because of the famous Newmarket Racecourse.
The famous scientific hoax of Piltdown Man was claimed to have come from a gravel pit at Piltdown near Uckfield.
One of the most distinctive and famous features of the Lord's ground is the significant slope across the field.
Later he went to Padua in Italy famous for the Orto botanico di Padova, 16th century herb gardens.
He has largely been credited with creating Wasps' famous Blitz Defence that stops teams and is the basis for Wasps' own scoring chances.
A number of national and internationally famous people originate from Huddersfield.
He later became one of the most successful and famous Wigan players of all time.
As Wigan developed into one of the most famous rugby league clubs in the world, Central Park also became one of the most famous.
This was also the first jersey to feature the famous stickman of St Helens insignia.
Of just seventeen players to be elected to the Hall of Fame, no fewer than three were teammates in that famous Huddersfield side.
Promotion to the Second Division had been achieved, and there was pride once again in the famous claret and gold jersey.
There are many other famous golf courses in Scotland, including Carnoustie, Gleneagles, Muirfield, Balcomie and Royal Troon.
Faldo won the famous Claret Jug trophy for a third time in the 1992 Open Championship at Muirfield.
Some of the most famous racers are Irineo Leguisamo, Vilmar Sanguinetti, Marina Lezcano, Jorge Valdivieso, Pablo Falero and Jorge Ricardo.
The most famous National Hunt race is the Grand National, run at Aintree in April each year.
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The course is home of the Grand National steeplechase, one of the most famous races in the world.
Apple brandy, of which the most famous variety is calvados, is also popular.
The Royal Porcelain Factory is famous for the quality of its ceramics and export products worldwide.
Rangiroa and Fakarava in the Tuamotu islands are the most famous spots in the area.
There is a famous Fairy Bridge and it is said to be bad luck if one fails to wish the fairies good morning or afternoon when passing over it.
Scotland has a rich history of science and engineering, with Edinburgh producing a number of famous names.
Cardiff is also famous for Cardiff Castle, St David's Hall, Llandaff Cathedral and the Wales Millennium Centre.
It was made internationally famous as the setting for the classic film, Odd Man Out, starring James Mason.
The most famous emigration to America was the migration of Puritan separatists from the Anglican Church of England.
Among some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the Illyrians, a people populating the western Balkan peninsula.
In the 18th century, the famous Maratha privateer Kanhoji Angre ruled the seas between Mumbai and Goa.
Another famous 'capture' was that of the Spanish frigates Thetis and Santa Brigada which were loaded with gold specie.
In the cases of more famous prisoners, usually captains, their punishments extended beyond death.
During the American Civil War, the Confederacy sent out several commerce raiders, the most famous of which was the CSS Alabama.
The most famous of the projects was the high speed roadway, the Reichsautobahn, known as the German autobahns.
Among the most famous of German buildings, the Schloss Neuschwanstein represents Romanesque Revival.
Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, Vanity Fair featured caricatures of famous people for which it is best known today.
His works were notable for their surreal elements, with perhaps the most famous being the cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.
Gilbert was famous for demonstrating the action himself, even as he grew older.
Other events include the Stonehaven Folk Festival regularly attended by famous Glaswegian comedian Billy Connolly.
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Another of Snowdonia's famous inhabitants is the Snowdon or rainbow beetle.
Several 20th century Prime Ministers, such as David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, were famous for their oratorical skills.
The most famous such arrangement was the 1278 treaty that established modern Andorra.
Qatar was described as a famous horse and camel breeding centre during the Umayyad period.
This is one of the most famous examples of epistemological rupture in physical cosmology.
The most famous of those experiments, published in 1798, was to determine the density of the Earth and became known as the Cavendish experiment.
Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.
Honors and tributes flowed to Bell in increasing numbers as his most famous invention became ubiquitous and his personal fame grew.
Leicester was also home to the famous Gents' of Leicester clock manufacturers.
Dahl was also famous for his inventive, playful use of language, which was a key element to his writing.
It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art.
By 1914, Maugham was famous, with 10 plays produced and 10 novels published.
East Coker continues the examination of time and meaning, focusing in a famous passage on the nature of language and poetry.
The famous Orkneyinga Saga however, although it pertains to the Earldom of Orkney, was written in Iceland.
In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective.
Barrie moved in literary circles and had many famous friends in addition to his professional collaborators.
His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Many of Burns's most famous poems are songs with the music based upon older traditional songs.
In September 2007, the Bank of Scotland redesigned their banknotes to feature famous Scottish bridges.
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, is generally regarded as MacDiarmid's most famous and influential work.
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The multitalented Ben Franklin accomplished enough to have made three men famous.
In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker travelled the world, although he never visited Eastern Europe, a setting for his most famous novel.
Conrad aroused interest among the Poles as a famous writer and an exotic compatriot from abroad.
The band received the Brit Award for outstanding contribution to music in February 2007, playing several of their most famous songs afterwards.
Winehouse joined a campaign to stop a block of flats being built beside the George Tavern, a famous London East End music venue.
His famous cycle at the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, is seen as the beginnings of a Renaissance style.
The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's David.
The video is accompanied by a recording of the famous Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.
The poses of the figures referenced famous works of art from the past and recent movies.
It was sponsored by the Daily Mail's Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
Education writer Richard Wright considers that Hume's position rejects a famous moral puzzle attributed to French philosopher Jean Buridan.
Lilburne was instrumental in the writing of two more editions of this famous document.
Popper also wrote extensively against the famous Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
As a teacher, he wished to no longer be recognized as a member of the famous Wittgenstein family.
Often there is a perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner, the most famous of which is the Ashes contested between England and Australia.
Among Ireland's most famous golf courses are Royal County Down Golf Club, Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portmarnock and Ballybunion.
Queensberry's efforts to end that relationship led to his famous dispute with Wilde.
The belligerent is more careful with his attitude when warned that this may be the famous gunman English Bob.
The most famous historical sites are Vaduz Castle, Gutenberg Castle, the Red House and the ruins of Schellenberg.
Various square lookout towers that characterize the most famous images of the wall have disappeared.
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Additionally, they usually have temporary exhibitions of more and less famous artists.
Short stories such as Ficciones and The Aleph are among his most famous works.
The most famous exception to this is a strong sign language law that was passed by the National Congress of Brazil.
Aalto is also famous for his work in furniture, lamps, textiles and glassware, which were usually incorporated into his buildings.
In the 1890s Finnish nationalism based on the Kalevala spread, and Jean Sibelius became famous for his vocal symphony Kullervo.
Indonesia has at least 150 active volcanoes, including Krakatoa and Tambora, both famous for their devastating eruptions in the 19th century.
The eponymous hotel is famous among anglers, who are obliged to stay there when fishing the river.
Historically Galloway has been famous both for horses and for cattle rearing, and milk and beef production are both still major industries.
Almanacs were very popular, also, Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac being the most famous.
A famous speech was made by Gladstone in Parliament against the First Opium War.
One of the most famous German artists associated with both Die Jugend and Pan was Otto Eckmann.
A famous pair of ospreys are present in the summer months, and they often attract large crowds to see them.
The Hebrides, also known as Fingal's Cave, is a famous overture written by Felix Mendelssohn inspired by his visit to Staffa.
One of the most famous is Pienza, close to Siena, a Renaissance city, also called The Ideal Town or Utopia Town.
Between 1459 and 1462 the most famous architects of Italy worked there for the Pope Pius II and built the city centre of the small town.
The famous glass wall allowing views from the reception area into the pool remains.
The Centre has a winter garden, an outdoor restaurant area, and several famous shopping names.
Among the most famous Scottish American soldier frontiersmen were Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, founding father of Texas.
McDonnell Aircraft was founded by James Smith McDonnell, in 1939, and became famous for its military jets.
Philip Danforth Armour founded Armour Meats in 1867, revolutionizing the American meatpacking industry and becoming famous for hot dogs.
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Occasionally the Royal Bank of Scotland issues special commemorative banknotes to mark particular occasions or to celebrate famous people.
The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world.
The archrivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox is probably the most famous in baseball.
And so ends one of Euler's most famous papers. We see that Euler actually solves the Basel problem three times and that he does much more.
The most famous sportsman rumoured to come for a round here was basketballer Michael Jordan, who flew in just for the midnight golf experience.
The famous actor's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in the short film is little known.
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
Assam bush is the best choice for making many world famous teas, but not for white tea, either budset or leaf style.
Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books.
At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
The once famous actor objected to his costar having a bigger dressing room.
Horsehead Nebula is a typical dark nebula, and is famous for resembling the head of a horse.
Two famous fictional characters who wore deerstalker hats were Sherlock Holmes and Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
We're having a party on Saturday, but you must dress up as a famous historical figure.
You need to provide fame-ish photos and music that sounds sufficiently close to famous music that it won't freak people out.
Nanoha and Fate both receive brand-new transformation sequences, although the famous exploding knickers are still there in all their glory.
The most famous Broadway theatrical revues of all time were the Ziegfeld Follies.
There are many other famous golf courses in Scotland, including Carnoustie, Gleneagles, Muirfield, and Royal Troon.
The islands are famous among birdwatchers for their ability to attract rare birds from all corners of the globe.
Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.
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Some of the most famous artists to depict the region in their work have been Alfred Heaton Cooper and William Heaton Cooper.
The best known university in the region is the University of Oxford, famous for its ornate colleges and its rowing teams on the Thames.
In 1894 Parsons' Marine Turbine Company launched The Turbinia, a famous vessel, the first powered by electric turbines.
The town's most famous bridge, though, is the Transporter Bridge, built over 100 years ago.
He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison.
The Victorian era is famous for the Victorian standards of personal morality.
His most famous building projects include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Old Saint Peter's Basilica.
In 77 or 78, he married Julia Agricola, daughter of the famous general Agricola.
Notable mathematicians include Sir William Rowan Hamilton, famous for work in classical mechanics and the invention of quaternions.
The famous cleric Gerald of Wales tells, in his Descriptio Cambriae, a story of King Henry II of England.
The most famous site in Britain from this period is Stonehenge, which had its Neolithic form elaborated extensively.
One of the most famous landmarks in the UK, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon.
Many of the most famous Greek bronze sculptures are known through Roman copies in marble, which were more likely to survive.
Brooches and armlets were used, but the most famous item of jewellery was the torc, a neck collar of metal, sometimes gold.
A famous medical example is one promoting yew juice as a cure for snakebite.
This replaced the famous Legio IX Hispana, whose disappearance has been much discussed.
One of the two following praefecti was the famous jurist Aemilius Papinianus.
This was a common occurrence as Emperors such as Julian employed famous physicians such as Galen.
By far the most famous work of Norman art is the Bayeux Tapestry, which is not a tapestry but a work of embroidery.
Henry returned to Anjou in either 1143 or 1144, resuming his education under William of Conches, another famous academic.
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Not as reserved as his mother Matilda, nor as charming as his father Geoffrey, Henry was famous for his energy and drive.
Nonetheless, Henry's passion was for hunting, for which the court became famous.
The most important humanists living in Matthias' court were Antonio Bonfini and the famous Hungarian poet Janus Pannonius.
The most famous public figure to resist the Treason Act was Sir Thomas More.
One famous attack upon a Spanish mission in 1628 resulted in the enslavement of about 60,000 indigenous people.
One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior.
So is Ira Gershwin something to do with the more famous George Gershwin? Caroline says.
The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre.
The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges.
The most famous natural right formulation comes from John Locke in his Second Treatise, when he introduces the state of nature.
Lord Monboddo is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics.
In his famous Poor Law Bill, the proposal was made by Pitt that children should be set to work at the age of five.
Napoleon was, and remains, famous for his battlefield victories, and historians have spent enormous attention in analysing them.
The Lak People's Movement was headed by a famous former sportsman-karatist and businessman named Magomed Khachilaev.
Among the 'soldiers of fortune' was the ancestor to famous Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov, called George Learmonth.
None of these demands were new, but the People's Charter was to become one of the most famous political manifestos of 19th century Britain.
Churchill followed that closely with two other equally famous ones, given just before the Battle of Britain.
In England, Simon de Montfort is remembered as one of the fathers of representative government for holding two famous parliaments.
At the north end of the Palace rises the most famous of the towers, Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben.
The Old Bailey is the unofficial name of London's most famous criminal court, which is now part of the Crown Court.
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Liverpool has produced several famous swimmers who have gone on to represent their nation at major championships such as the Olympic Games.
It is larger than London's famous Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath put together and the freemen of the city have the right to graze cattle on it.
He brought members of his famous acting family such as Sarah Siddons and John Kemble out of London to Newcastle.
Did you know that the famous computer printer companies can sell their laserjets, inkjets and dot printers at under production cost?
There also is the famous Iron Bridge at Ironbridge, which was the world's first iron arch bridge.
The Sheffield Walk of Fame in the City Centre honours famous Sheffield residents past and present in a similar way to the Hollywood version.
Over the years many Jaguar models have sported the famous chrome plated Leaping Jaguar, traditionally forming part of the radiator cap.
As a result, BAE Systems is the successor to many of the most famous British aircraft, defence electronics and warship manufacturers.
This was completed in 2015 to include famous faces from the worlds of theatre, film, art and literature.
Newton's position was vigorously defended by his follower Samuel Clarke in a famous correspondence.
Hardy's collaboration with Littlewood is among the most successful and famous collaborations in mathematical history.
A number of famous actors and musicians have been lined up for the celebrations.
Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its performance in winning the contest made it famous.
Stephenson became famous, and was offered the position of chief engineer for a wide variety of other railways.
The ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea gave several famous examples of such paradoxes.
One of the most famous and recent ones is the 25 euro 150 Years Semmering Alpine Railway commemorative coin.
Rugby is most famous for the invention of rugby football, which is played throughout the world.
Romans were particularly famous for their public baths, called thermae, which were used for both hygienic and social purposes.
The most famous works from this period include the epic poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in Britain.
At least three of Liverpool's most famous citizens, The Beatles, had some Irish ancestry.
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The Bangladesh Plain is famous for its fertile alluvial soil which supports extensive cultivation.
Celebrations in London are famous for colourful parades, fireworks, and street dancing.
Newquay on the north coast is famous for its beaches and is a popular surfing destination, as is Bude further north.
Cornwall provided the inspiration for The Birds, one of her terrifying series of short stories, made famous as a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
The fairy tales collections collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century became famous throughout the world.
Methodist preachers were famous for their enthusiastic sermons and often accused of fanaticism.
Wesley warned against the dangers of alcohol abuse in his famous sermon, The Use of Money, and in his letter to an alcoholic.
The shrine at Bury St Edmunds soon became one of the most famous and wealthy pilgrimage locations in England.
The Wilton Diptych was painted during the reign of Richard II of England and is the most famous representation of Edmund in art.
Piran is the most famous of all the saints said to have come to Cornwall from Ireland.
However, the famous transformation of Becket into an ascetic occurred at this time.
The alumni of this university include many famous artists and politicians.
There was a concentrated Expressionist movement in early 20th century German theatre, of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights.
And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world.
These books laid the foundation for Marx and Engels's most famous work, a political pamphlet that has since come to be commonly known as The Communist Manifesto.
Benn comes from a sporting family that includes a famous cousin in the football world, Paul Ince, who would often accompany Benn to the ring for his UK fights.
There's a famous lullaby sung by most parents to their children that says that the Cuca will come and get them if they do not sleep, just as in Spain.
Pugin's most famous project is The Houses of Parliament in London.
In Finland, good examples are the Helsinki Central railway station, designed by Eliel Saarinen, father of the famous American modernist architect Eero Saarinen.
In the United States, the most famous designer was Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose work was shown at the shop of Siegfried Bing and also at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
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The most famous fence is Becher's Brook which is 5ft high, but has a 7ft drop on landing and is widely regarded as the biggest challenge on the course.
Among the leaders of the Canadians was the famous bushfighter, Marin.
Visitors to the famous arboretum at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, may care to be reminded that there is an attractive middle-aged group of this non-cedrous cedar there.
When we arrived in Hangchow, all the pilots were honored at a big banquet given by that famous American general with a lady's name, Claire Chennault.
The most famous of the roods was that of Boxley in Kent, which used to smile and bow, or frown and shake its head, as its worshippers were generous or closehanded.
Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
Lancelot became one of the most famous knights of the Round Table, and Elaine of Corbenic, daughter of the Fisher King, suddenly falls in love with him.
Their most recent world cup campaign saw them come within 30 seconds of a famous win over Australia, however a last minute penalty sealed the win for the Wallabies.
Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism.
When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc.
The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread.
Golfers have the chance to see the famous track from a different perspective and famous features such as Becher's Brook are incorporated into the course.
Barrie, most famous for his creation of Peter Pan and George MacDonald whose works including Phantastes played a major part in the creation of the fantasy genre.
About twenty-three years ago the town talked about Richepin having deserted hearth and home, wife and child, to devote himself to a Delilah in the person of a famous actress.
In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
The club's president is the famous BBC commentator Barry Davies.
Washington is famous for its apples, and Idaho for its potatoes.
In 1962 the Gloster Aircraft Company closed down and its once famous runway fell victim of redistricting and it is now within the boundary of Hucclecote.
The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
She often performed Sullivan's songs at her famous Sunday soirees.

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