His advisers were men like the famous jurist Ulpian, the historian Cassius Dio and a select board of sixteen senators ; a municipal council of fourteen assisted the urban prefect in administering the affairs of the fourteen districts of Rome.

The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.

The first panoramas depicted urban settings, such as cities, while later panoramas depicted nature and famous military battles.

For all these reasons, Midi-Pyrénées is often dubbed " Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrenean desert ", in reference to the famous phrase " Paris and the French desert " coined by the French geographer Jean-François Gravier in 1947, when it was felt that the ever expanding urban area of Paris, so much larger than any other city in France, would soon attract all the French population and economy, turning the rest of the country into a desert.

The state is famous for having many popular attractions such as the Maior cajueiro do mundo ( world's largest cashew tree ), the dunes and the dromedaries of Genipabu, the famous beaches of Ponta Negra, Maracajaú and Pipa's paradise, the Carnatal the largest off-season carnival in Brazil, the Forte dos Reis Magos is a medieval fortress, the hills and mountains of Martins, the Dunas Park the second largest urban park in the country, and several other attractions.

Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city

With strict building regulations, major urban development plans, and a certain feeling for art, the king began to transform Dresden into a renowned cultural center with one of Germany ’ s finest art collections, though most of the city's famous sights and landmarks were completed during the reign of his son Augustus III.

Although it has been reported that because of Immelmann's renown among his fellow pilots and the nation at large, the Pour le Mérite became known, due to its color and this early famous recipient, as the Blue Max, this story is probably an urban legend.

There are urban myths about subliminal images allegedly being hidden within the artwork of the camel, such as a ' Manneken Pis ' - Brussels ' most famous statue-which is supposed to be standing within the camel's front left leg.

With its characteristic butterfly plan, the Piazza di Spagna is one of the most famous images in the world, as well as being one of the most majestic urban monuments of Roman Baroque style.

One urban Red-tailed Hawk, known as " Pale Male ", became famous for being the first Red-tail in decades to successfully nest and raise young in the crowded New York City borough of Manhattan.

The non-fiction book Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn made Pale Male, a Red-tailed Hawk in New York, the most famous urban Red-tailed Hawk.

1721 / 2 – 17 October 1780 ) was a Venetian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities ( Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw ).

Hip hop music is new to Bosnia and Herzegovina, but became very popular throughout the urban public with the famous rapper Edo Maajka, who is the most popular rapper in Bosnia-Herzegovina and most famous throughout the rest of the former Yugoslavia.

With a dense urban grid the city of Coimbra is famous for its monuments, churches, libraries, museums, parks, nightlife, healthcare and shopping facilities, but above all for its intense cultural life, centered on the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in Europe.

The urban heart of the city was protected by three towers: the first, Guaita, constructed in the 11th century, was famous for being impenetrable, which to a great extent discouraged attacks on the city.

The Anavros river, famous for Jason's pass, divides the Nea Demetriada district from the rest of the urban area.

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Patras is also famous for supporting an indigenous cultural scene active mainly in the performing arts and modern urban literature.

Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts famous for its rows of Victorian brownstone homes — considered one of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the United States — as well as numerous architecturally significant individual buildings and important cultural institutions such as the Boston Public Library.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

The most famous legend associated with Marathon is that of the runner Pheidippides / Philippides bringing news to Athens of the battle, which is described below.

In a famous legend, he defeated Sasaki Kojiro with a bokken he had carved from an oar while traveling on a boat to the predetermined island for the duel.

Moshe Idel comments, " This tradition in one form or another is the blueprint of the later legend of the creation of the Golem by Eliayahu's famous contemporary R. Yehudah Leow of Prague.

Much of the research on Palestrina was done in the 19th century by Giuseppe Baini, who published a monograph in 1828 which made Palestrina famous again and reinforced the already existing legend that he was the " Saviour of Church Music " during the reforms of the Council of Trent.

Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood.

The wolf, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus, probably the most famous legend of the founding of the city.

The legend was made famous in modern times through Richard Wagner's three-act opera Tannhäuser, completed in 1845.

In the summer of 1018, in one of his most famous expeditions, Bolesław I captured Kiev, where, according to legend, he notched his sword when hitting Kiev's Golden Gate.

Another famous set of six tapestries of Dame à la licorne (" Lady with the unicorn ") in the Musée de Cluny, Paris, were also woven in the Southern Netherlands before 1500, and show the five senses ( the gateways to temptation ) and finally Love (" A mon seul desir " the legend reads ), with unicorns featured in each piece.

According to legend, Isabella and Mortimer famously plotted to murder Edward in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order ( in ) which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ".

:: According to legend, Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March famously plotted to murder Edward II of England in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order in Latin which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ":

People believed that this was " the famous egg that legend says Leda brought forth ".

Diaconis left home at 14 to travel with sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon, and dropped out of high school, promising himself that he would return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read William Feller's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications.

The scientific community generally regards the Yeti as a legend, given the lack of conclusive evidence, but it remains one of the most famous creatures of cryptozoology.

A famous legend often used by SAC flight crews to illustrate LeMay's command style concerned his famous ever-present cigar.

He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784, making him famous in America and Europe.

Being the subject of a legend as old as the colony itself, the Charter Oak of Hartford, Connecticut is one of the most famous white oaks in America.

The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family.

As is the case with many other major poets of ancient Greece, Ibycus became famous not just for his poetry but also for events in his life, largely the stuff of legend: the testimonia are difficult to interpret and very few biographical facts are actually known.

This area is famous for a pagan ritual which according to legend is associated to the Cailleach.

As a famous king of the past, Maelgwn's name figures strongly in Welsh legend.

Over the years the Birdsville track became one of the country's most isolated and best known stock routes as well as a mail route made famous by outback legend Tom Kruse.