With his successes, Howard decided to ship the horse East for its more prestigious racing circuit.

: 3: Ocean liner: Any large and prestigious passenger ship, including cruise ships.

The new imperial title may have sounded less prestigious than the old one, but Francis ' dynasty continued to rule from Austria and a Habsburg monarch was still an emperor ( Kaiser ), and not just merely a king ( König ), in name.

" All we can say safely ," says Walter Pohl, " is that the name Huns, in late antiquity ( 4th century ), described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

An Austrian princely family, the Rosenberg changed its name to Ursini-Rosenberg ( and subsequently to Orsini-Rosenberg ) in 1683, while creating spurious claims of kinship to the Orsini, which were regarded at the time as more prestigious.

The official tourism website of the nation explains this alternative name by stating: Originally called “ Guardia Nobile ” ( Noble Guard ), this name is still sometimes used today to underscore the highly prestigious institutional duties the Corps is called upon to perform.

His name lives on today in the Cunard Line, now a prestigious branch of the Carnival Line cruise empire.

) remained prestigious enough to be used frequently by many European royal families-owing originally to the fame of Charlemagne, to which was added that of later illustrious kings and emperors of the same name.

Although Parliament gave Barry a prestigious name in architecture, it near enough finished him off.

The Chief Joseph band of Nez Perce Indians who still live on the Colville Reservation bear his name in tribute to their prestigious leader.

Rumours occasionally circulated portraying Frame as a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, most notably in 1998, after a journalist spotted her name at the top of a list later revealed to have been in alphabetical order, and again five years later, in 2003, when Åsa Beckman, the influential chief literary critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, wrongly predicted that Frame would win the prestigious prize.

After Starks passes away, Janie finds herself financially independent and beset with suitors, some of whom are men of some means or have prestigious occupations, but she falls in love with a drifter and gambler named Vergible Woods who goes by the name of Tea Cake throughout the story.

Ted White took over as editor after Malzberg, eliminated the reprints and made the magazine a respected name again: Amazing was nominated for the prestigious Hugo award three times during his tenure.

* " La Pléiade ", or more correctly " La Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ", is also the name of a prestigious leather-bound Bible-paper collection of works in French ( literature, history, etc.

When she became the first woman to hold the Junior Fellowship at Harvard, Nussbaum received a congratulatory note from a " prestigious classicist " who suggested that since " female fellowess " was an awkward name, she should be called hetaira, for in Greece these educated courtesans were the only women who participated in philosophical symposia.

The Charlemagne Prize (; full name originally Internationaler Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen, International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen, since 1988 Internationaler Karlspreis zu Aachen, International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen ) is one of the most prestigious European prizes.

In 1999 Tower accepted a position as composer-in-residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and in 1998 she won the Delaware Symphony's prestigious Alfred I. DuPont Award for Distinguished American Composer .< ref name =" wwnorton ">

They have performed at many prestigious venues such as the Senate of Canada, CBC radio / news, CTV news, National Library and Archives, RCMP Sunset Ceremonies, Stephen Lewis Foundation meeting, to name a few.

It was at Hanlin where he changed his name to Zeng Guofan, which sounded more prestigious.

The Kennel Club ( UK ) operates a show called Scruffts ( a name derived from its prestigious Crufts show ) open only to mixed-breeds in which dogs are judged on character, health, and temperament.

Since LaSalle had been a Cadillac in all but name for most of its lifespan, it was decided it was time to bestow upon it the prestigious title of Cadillac.

LaSalle did not have the time to develop a prestigious name before the onset of the Great Depression, and did not have the opportunity after.

It was this type of warehouse that inspired the Germans in Duesseldorf and Muenchen to name their prestigious departmental stores, ' Warenhausen '.

Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

* developmental non-rhotic ars ( often called lisps ): Many non-rhotic British speakers have a labialization to of their ars, which is between idosyncratic and dialectal ( southern and southwestern England ), and since it includes some RP speakers, somewhat prestigious.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

They have been on the covers of prestigious magazines such as French, British and Italian Vogue.

Perhaps the most prestigious was the award in 1970 of the British Order of Merit.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

Randall has shot the prestigious British Lamb's Navy Rum calendar, has done album covers for recording artist such as Revenge ( side project of Peter Hook from New Order ), and Robert Palmer, as well as a music video for Capitol Records.

The Victoria Cross or VC is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Scott was elected president of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1933, its centenary year ( having already been awarded the RIBA's prestigious Royal Gold Medal in 1925 ).

EMI's classical artists of the period were largely limited to the prestigious British orchestras, such as the Philharmonia Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra.

* the winner of the highly prestigious British Construction Industry Civil Engineering Award for 2002.

Since 1941, the advanced pressurised Lockheed Constellation had been under development, and in 1946 BOAC was permitted to use dollars to purchase an initial fleet of five for the prestigious North Atlantic route ( there were no equivalent British types available ).

From the age of ten Burgoyne attended the prestigious Westminster School, as did many British army officers of the time such as Thomas Gage with whom Burgoyne would later serve.

Inspired by the prestigious British Museum reading room, the first iron dome in Canada was built in the early 1870s over the reading room of the Library of Parliament building in Ottawa.

Aside from the many local leagues, the Four Nations Chess League ( 4NCL ) is effectively a prestigious tournament run on a league format, to which many of the British and world's elite players are attracted.

All of the below Black Watch servicemen were awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He toured Europe and America by car and raced his J4 MG at Brooklands which qualified him to become a member of the prestigious British Racing Drivers ' Club.

On 27 November 1918, Gort was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions on 27 September 1918 at the Battle of the Canal du Nord, near Flesquieres, France.

He was trained at the prestigious Rose Bruford College and became famous for his role as Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars.

Räikkönen's British Formula Three Championship team Räikkönen Robertson Racing claimed their first major success, with British driver Mike Conway winning the 2006 British F3 International Series title and the prestigious Macau Grand Prix.