Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a " cult of Bowie " that was " unique — its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom.

His draw was such that some facilities were " crowded to suffocation "; an example was his hugely popular London Reception Speech, which Douglass delivered at Alexander Fletcher's Finsbury Chapel in May 1846.

Renamed Turbo Pascal, it became hugely popular, thanks in part to an aggressive pricing strategy and in part to having one of the first full-screen Integrated development environments, and fast turnaround-time ( just seconds to compile, link, and run.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.

In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Lang's Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ( 1922 ) was a hugely popular film when it was released.

SUVs and trucks became hugely popular during the economic boom in the second half of the decade.

Both Plato's cave and Platonism have meaningful, not just superficial connections, because Plato's ideas were preceded and probably influenced by the hugely popular Pythagoreans of ancient Greece, who believed that the world was, quite literally, generated by numbers.

The Mascletà is almost unique to the Valencian Community, hugely popular with the Valencian people and found in very few other places in the world.

Sponsored by the Caravan Trade & Industries Association " Caravan Holiday " was completed by early 1972 and released in cinemas across Australia as a supporting feature to Peter Bogdanovich's hugely popular US comedy picture What's Up, Doc?

His Carmina Burana was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in 1937.

The Pavlova ( food ) | Pavlova is still iconic and hugely popular in Australia.

* Captain Video and His Video Rangers, a hugely popular kids ' science fiction series

A second album soon followed, Bo Nedaber ( Let's Talk ), eventually going gold, which included the hugely popular hits Tfila ( Prayer ) and Simanim Shel Ohavim ( Lovers Signs ).

Together with Henning Bahs, he also created the hugely popular series of Olsen Gang feature films.

The Binet-Simon scale was and is hugely popular around the world, mainly because of the vast literature it has fostered, as well as its relative ease of administration.

It ran for 204 performances and was hugely popular.

Despite its relatively weak security, the Penet remailer was a hugely popular remailer owing to its ease of anonymous account set-up and use compared to more secure but less user-friendly remailers, and had over 700, 000 registered users at the time of its shutdown in September 1996.

In Japan, in the early 1960s, a toy called Dakkochan became hugely popular.

( 1977 ) itself spun off from the hugely popular British TV show The Sweeney, and the first episode of Minder, Gunfight at the O. K.

Robert's friend from Trinity College, Thomas Moore, championed his cause by writing hugely popular ballads about him and Sarah Curran, such as

Located in Shreveport, it was relatively small and yet hugely popular.

He appeared in Little Fockers, the critically panned yet hugely commercially successful 2010 sequel to Meet the Fockers.

In 1964, the play enjoyed yet another incarnation when David Merrick, who had produced the 1955 Broadway production, mounted a hugely successful, Tony Award-winning musical version entitled Hello, Dolly !, with a score by Jerry Herman and starring Carol Channing.

Brébeuf was said to have been massive in body, hugely strong, yet gentle in character.

It is very mountainous and full of rocks ; yet, it is hugely dense of lofty trees that grow upon the hardest of those rocks.

Today, Ickleton's farms are hugely more productive than they were, even in the 1940s, yet they employ only a small number of people.

She is little remembered, yet in her day she was hugely popular and the epitome of stardom.

At the time it was a hugely consequential secret and yet he confided this national secret to Brinkley, the foreign correspendent of The Times, demonstrating the utmost confidence in which the Chief of the General Staff held Brinkley.

The film My Big Fat Greek Wedding was considered hugely successful for an independent film, yet according to the studio, the film lost money.

A crime melodrama of the kind then hugely popular, it heavily borrowed from Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1974 ), but already displayed one of Wong's principal trademarks in its atmospheric and sometimes expressionistic color palette.

Böll himself was heavily attacked after the books publication, but both the novel and the film were hugely successful in West Germany.

Her first article for the paper heavily criticized Oberlin's affirmative action program and received a " hugely negative response " from other students on campus.

During the filming of this season, it was heavily rumored that the Challenge would borrow heavily from the hugely popular reality television show, Survivor.

His story became the subject of stage melodramas during the 19th century, most notably Dion Boucicault's hugely inaccurate 1884 play Robert Emmet, inaccuracies including Emmet and Sarah being portrayed as Roman Catholics, John Philpot Curran being portrayed as a Unionist, and Emmet being killed onstage by firing squad.

In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once hugely important railway junction which was the setting for Charles Dickens's story Mugby Junction.

Clark writes that " between Lorenzen's call and the physicians ' examination, another party would enter, and hugely complicate, the story ".

Under his editorship the programme became hugely popular, and it was he who masterminded what is still its most remembered story, a world famous April Fool's Day ' Joke ' which fooled many viewers into believing that spaghetti grew on trees.

The story soon became hugely popular.

Written and directed by playwright Terry Johnson, the film tells the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and ' 70s.

Gaby's story, with that of her daughter, continues in Kirinya to a hugely satisfying space-operatic but also visionary and satirical climax.

His story incorporates literary images of murder and mutilation that would be well at home in movies such as the hugely popular Saw and Hostel film series – movies that have drawn increasing opprobrium from concerned sociologists and public commentators for their meticulous depictions of physical and mental torture.