In 1460 the papal legate Basilios Bessarion came to Vienna on a diplomatic mission, a humanist scholar and great fan of the mathematical sciences Bessarion sought out Peuerbach's company.

Marquise de Pompadour ( mistress of King Louis XV ), whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great fan of Boucher's, and had the painter under her protection: it is particularly in his portraits of her that this style is clearly exemplified.

BBC Formula One commentator Murray Walker, a great fan and friend of Hill, has often maintained that Schumacher did not cause the crash intentionally.

During a dinner at Verdi ’ s Milan residence during the summer of 1879, Ricordi and Faccio guided the conversation towards Shakespeare ’ s play Othello and to the librettist Arrigo Boito ( whom Ricordi claimed to be a great fan of the play also ).

When Paul Eddington visited Australia during the 1980s, he was treated as a visiting British PM by the then Australian leader, Bob Hawke, who was obviously a great fan of the show.

Jordan has a rich baseball tradition enjoyed by those who have played in Jordan, as well as the great fan support shown by locals.

The video is great, the sound is great, there are tons of extras ... Bottom line, if you're a Buckaroo fan, this is the home video version you have been waiting for ".

While subsonic engines had made great strides in increased efficiency through the 1960s with the introduction of the turbofan engine with ever-increasing bypass ratios, the fan concept is difficult to use at supersonic speeds where the " proper " bypass is about 0. 45, as opposed to 2. 0 or higher for subsonic designs.

Sports were his passion, and he was an especially great fan of the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Argonauts running back Royal Copeland.

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" Former keyboard player of rock band Yes, Rick Wakeman, who was a friend of Lord's, said he was " a great fan " and added " We were going to write and record an album before he became ill. His contribution to music and to classic rock was immeasurable and I will miss him terribly.

The Blue Bombers were presented the inaugural Best Marketing & Ticket Campaign Award at the 2012 CFL Congress for the great marketing campaign that resulted in the football club's great fan support for the 2011 CFL football season.

A great fan favorite in Brooklyn, he was perhaps the only Dodger regular never booed at their home park, Ebbets Field.

Apart from his work as a journalist and a critic, he was also a great fan of rugby league.

His mother was a great fan of Golden Age crime writers, and he discovered the genre while fetching her library-books.

With Bolsover being in close proximity to both the towns of Mansfield and Chesterfield, the fan base is mixed ; however most of the town support Chesterfield FC and are known as Spireites although there always has been and is a growing minority of Mansfield Town FC supporters in the town which creates a great rivalry between the Stags and the Spireites.

Obuchi was a great fan of the works of the late historical novelist Ryōtarō Shiba, and a particular admirer of Sakamoto Ryōma, a key figure in the events leading to the Meiji Restoration.

Visually, the tanuki in this film are depicted in three ways at various times: as realistic animals, as anthropomorphic animals which occasionally wear clothes, and as cartoony figures based on the manga of Shigeru Sugiura ( of whom Takahata is a great fan ).

In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Elektra Natchios is a student at Columbia University who has a knack for martial arts and is a great fan of Bruce Lee.

Kenneth subsequently became a great fan of Crowley's work and converted to Thelema.

The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have been to see Holmes, along with Lord Cantlemere, who is apparently no great fan of Sherlock Holmes and no believer in his deductive powers.

He was an avid fan of McGuffey's Readers first editions, and claimed as an adult to be able to quote from McGuffey's by memory at great length.

During World War I he served in the United States Navy as a wireless operator, which prompted his great interest in the young medium of radio.

Smartphones are easy to carry and easy to use, great interface design, touchscreens and fast wireless network abilities like 4G and 3G phones. more than 55 % of global 2000 organization will deploy mobile SFA project by 2011 and newer Smartphone platforms, such as Apple's iOS and Google's Android, point to a future of increasing diversity in device selecting and support for sales force.

Homebuilt equipment is encouraged ; a great number of workshops have been held in order for members to become familiar with constructing their own aerials and cables and in addition, the community regularly organizes seminars to educate aspiring network administrators on wireless technologies, protocols, routing and Linux, in real conditions of a large-scale network.

LMDS showed great promise in the late 1990s and became known as " wireless cable " for its potential to compete with cable companies for provision of broadband television to the home.

The school also has wireless internet, which is great for students who prefer to bring their own laptops to school.

They have made a form of wireless energy capable of focusing a beam of great intensity on any spot.

FCC chief Kevin Martin said that BPL " holds great promise as a ubiquitous broadband solution that would offer a viable alternative to cable, digital subscriber line, fiber, and wireless broadband solutions ".

One of Heinze ’ s great achievements came with the advent of wireless radio.

In 1891, Frederick Thomas Trouton gave a lecture which stated that, if an electrical alternator were run at a great enough cycle speed ( in more-familiar terms, if run fast enough and with enough poles ), it would generate high-frequency wireless energy.

He also noted that there were great deficiencies in artillery, wireless, and air units.

In addition, they asserted that the game has great value because of the included wireless multiplayer mode, which allows up to eight players to play the game with just one game card.

Especially over fading channels which model wireless propagation environments, adaptive modulation systems exhibit great performance enhancements compared to systems that do not exploit channel knowledge at the transmitter.

The one great drawback to wireless telegraphy in the past was its uncertainty due to the interference by atmospheric electricity, as well as by the signals of nearby stations.

However, there are a great number of security risks associated with the current wireless protocols and encryption methods, and in the carelessness and ignorance that exists at the user and corporate IT level.

Today there are a great number of security risks associated with the current wireless protocols and encryption methods, as carelessness and ignorance exists at the user and corporate IT level.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Masten eagerly accepted the offer and today the building has an archive room, a great meeting room with many pictures and histories of all the areas of Mamakating, and many artifacts of our area.

Its success with the public was great and instantaneous, and for a decade or more, Orchardson's work was more eagerly looked for at the Academy than that of anyone else.

Philip eagerly embraced Zwingli's plan of a great Protestant alliance to extend from the Adriatic to Denmark to keep the Holy Roman Emperor from crossing into Germany.

" He pressed eagerly for Clarendon's committal, and on the refusal of the Lords accused them of mutiny and rebellion, and entered his dissent with " great fury.

I expect 50 more in a day or two, and shall scatter them also — they were bought and dispersed in great numbers there, and are eagerly enquired after by numbers here — it will be republished in Boston, Portsmouth, Vermont, and at Richmond.

With the art market now eagerly accepting his work, by 1909 Hassam was enjoying great success, earning as much as $ 6, 000 per painting.

" Harry eagerly campaigned to persuade Berry's long-time friend Edith Wharton to give him a great many of the books, and in the end she kept less than 100.

He quickly displayed great cleverness in hitting the public taste, and many contemporaries of superior talent eagerly sought his aid as a collaborator.