For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.

The most famous play of this group is Antigone, which " established Anouilh as a leading dramatist, not only because of the power with which he drew the classic confrontation between the uncompromising Antigone and the politically expedient Creon, but because French theatre-goers under the occupation read the play as a contemporary political parable.

The confrontation of sage Durvasa with Ambarisha is a very famous story in Shrimad Bhagavatam.

One of the most famous achievements of the NWC was the Global War Game, a large-scale wargaming effort to model possible United States-Soviet Union confrontation during the Cold War.

Because of its location, Chang ' an Avenue has been associated with a number of important events in Chinese history, such as the Tian ' anmen Square protests of 1989 ( including the famous confrontation of the Tank Man ), the May 4th Movement and the funeral procession of Zhou Enlai.

A similar confrontation occurred over a reference to " The three Rs ", during which sub-editors believed that-despite Biffo's amused protests to the contrary-the " Rs " part of the phrase was meant to sound a bit like " arse ", rather than a reference to the famous educational principle.

In 1956-1965, he again represented the Soviet Union at the UN Security Council, which led to his famous confrontation with Adlai Stevenson on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

But the ground is most famous for the confrontation between Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana during England's 1987-88 tour, which led to a day being lost during the match and some long-lasting bad feeling between the teams.

Despite wearing the improvised body armour for which Ned Kelly and his gang are now famous ( and which he is reputed to have designed ), Byrne received a fatal gunshot during the gang's final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, in June 1880.

It was still on the air during President John F. Kennedy's famous April 11, 1962 confrontation with steel companies over the hefty raising of their prices.

The most famous confrontation took place at the public 1860 Oxford evolution debate during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce argued against Darwin's explanation.

The most famous confrontation took place at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford on Saturday 30 June 1860.

In one famous incident, Kenny makes the cover of The New York Post after a confrontation with Jerry Seinfeld.

During this period he painted a confrontation of Beauty and Death, Deux jeunes filles — La Belle Rosine ( 1847 ), which remains perhaps his most famous work.

Punshon of The Guardian, in his review of January 13, 1939, said that Poirot, " by careful and acute reasoning is able to show that a convincing case can be made out against all the members of the family till the baffled reader is ready to believe them all guilty in turn and till Poirot in one of his famous confrontation scenes indicates who is, in fact, the culprit.

" This led the famous confrontation when Berra stormed to the back of the bus, slapped the harmonica out of Linz ' hands, and the instrument hit Joe Pepitone's knee.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

The architectural feature, the caryatides upholding the portico, famous around the world as the Porch of the Maidens, was referred to airily by Mando as the Girls' Place.

but even in that famous passage, Milton was aiming not at the theatricals as such but at their performance by ' persons either enter'd, or presently to enter into the ministry.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

Vernon was consummately fond of oysters, and Manning's had been famous for them since the Civil War.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.

An ex-fighter was introduced to her in a bar as `` Mr. Warfield, the famous producer ''.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

Her work at Jericho, from 1952 until 1958, made her world famous and established a lasting legacy in the archaeological methodology of the Levant.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

The most famous of these was the Unité d ' Habitation of Marseilles ( 1946 – 1952 ).

His two most famous typefaces, Palatino and Optima, were designed in 1948 and 1952, respectively.

In its native United Kingdom, it became famous as the theme to the weekly BBC radio program Children's Favourites from 1952 to 1966, and is still widely recognised by the post-war generation.

* It has been used in films such as The Parent Trap, Caveman, The Breakfast Club, A Very Brady Sequel, Short Circuit, The Bridge on the River Kwai ( perhaps the most famous use ), The Geisha Boy, Spaceballs, Brassed Off and The Card ( 1952 ).

From 1952 Mikoyan also designed missile systems to particularly suit his aircraft, such as the famous MiG-21.

During this period, the firm co-managed the famous World Bank's US $ 50 million triple-A-rated bonds offering of 1952.

On April 8, 1952, Richard scored one of the most famous goals of all time, described variously as " the greatest in the history of the game " and " most beautiful in the history of the world.

Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism ( 1952 ), The Affluent Society ( 1958 ), and The New Industrial State ( 1967 ).

In the post war year, fashion returned to prominence through Christian Dior's famous " new look " in 1947, and through the houses of Pierre Balmain and Hubert de Givenchy ( opened in 1952 ).

A famous quote from anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss says: " The barbarian is the one who believes in barbary ", a meaning like his metaphor in Race et histoire (" Race and history ", UNESCO, 1952 ), that two cultures are like two different trains crossing each other: each one believes it has chosen the good direction.

* Dennis Morgan ( born 1952 ) famous songwriter.

In June 1952, the county attorney Jack Burris was assassinated at his home near Salina in one of the most famous unsolved murders in Oklahoma history.

However, it won Decca the loyalty of the baritone Roy Henderson, who went on to record for them the first complete Dido and Aeneas of Purcell with Nancy Evans and the Boyd Neel ensemble ( Purcell Club, 14 sides, pre-1936 ); and Henderson's famous pupil Kathleen Ferrier was recorded and issued by Decca through the period of transition from 78 to LP ( 1946 – 1952 ).

Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

His famous Decca Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, and the Vienna Philharmonic was made in May, 1952, and he recorded it again in studio with the New York Philharmonic in 1960.

David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952 ) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.

The most famous painters who have been awarded the prize are, 1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt, 1944: Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1952: Tristan Klingsor, 1955: Georges Delplanque, 1957: Albert Decaris, 1958: Jean Picard Le Doux, 1963: Maurice Boitel, 1966: Pierre Gaillardot, 1968: Pierre-Henry, 1969: Louis Vuillermoz, 1970: Daniel du Janerand, 1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux ; 1975: Jean Monneret, and for 1987: André Hambourg.

Gielgud directed other actors in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably Richard Burton as Hamlet ( 1964 ), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1950 ), and Paul Scofield as the title role in Richard II ( 1952 ).

Gordon was a virtuoso particularly famous for his titanic saxophone duels with fellow tenorman Wardell Gray that were a popular live attraction and that were documented in several albums between 1947 and 1952.

The publication of a full translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Ito in 1950 led to a famous obscenity trial in Japan, extending from 8 May 1951 to 18 January 1952, with appeals lasting to 13 March 1957.

He was a successful songwriter ; one of his most famous compositions is " Every Beat of My Heart ", first recorded by The Royals in 1952 on Federal Records but which became a hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips then just ' Pips ' in 1961.

Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( both on stage and in the 1952 film ), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.