However, in the 1980s, the competition became seen as old-fashioned and politically incorrect in its native Britain, and despite its global appeal, stopped showing on British television until Channel 5 aired it briefly in 1998, then shifted between lesser-known satellite channels, and is now webcast only and little-known in Britain.

Over their eighteen-year history, the band has released nine studio albums and enjoyed established success throughout Europe, while remaining little-known in their native Britain.

Although little-known outside his native Russia, Korchmar is a prominent figure in the musical life of St Petersburg.

Among extant freshwater turtles, only the little-known giant softshell turtles of the genera Rafetus and Pelochelys, native to Asia, reach comparable sizes. Head of a young alligator snapping turtle

Although they released several chart-topping singles in their native country, The Clean are a little-known cult band outside of New Zealand, although their influence is surprisingly far-reaching.

The Christian history of the Diocese of Baton Rouge began with little-known but heroic efforts of French missionaries among the native American peoples of the area.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

Edo grew from what had been a small, little-known fishing village in 1457 to a metropolis with an estimated population of 1, 000, 000 by 1721 ( the largest city in the world at the time ).

At the time of the stone's discovery, the Swedish diplomat and scholar Johan David Åkerblad was working on a little-known script of which some examples had recently been found in Egypt, which came to be known as Demotic.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

Prinze had a little-known talent for singing, examples of which could be heard in the background of the title song of the Tony Orlando and Dawn album To Be With You, in his appearances on their variety show, and on rare occasions on his own sitcom.

In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services ; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it.

Until 1987, when the Musée d ' Orsay acquired this little-known work ( exhibited only once since 1906 ) it had never been recognized as the masterpiece it is, let alone recognized for its relevance to the works leading up to the Demoiselles.

Whatever the truth of the first forty years of his life, he had certainly been a close and accurate observer, and had made himself acquainted with many curious and little-known phenomena, which he had stored up in a most tenacious memory.

In 2004, Vassil Dobrev of the Institut Français d ' Archéologie Orientale in Cairo announced that he had uncovered new evidence that the Great Sphinx may have been the work of the little-known Pharaoh Djedefre ( 2528 – 2520 BC ), Khafra's half brother and a son of Khufu.

Paulin Paris lived before modern research methods had been generally applied to literature, but his numerous editions of early French poems continued the work begun by Dominique Meon in arousing general interest in the then little-known epics of chivalry.

But it is little-known that Haley and his band had been around for years doing Western swing music with Haley featured as a yodeler.

) Clinton chose little-known corporate lawyer Zoë Baird for the slot, but in what became known as the Nannygate matter, in January 1993 it was revealed that she had hired a Peruvian couple, both illegal immigrants, to work in her home.

The little-known PSD was one of the very few leftist parties that survived the military repression that had characterized the 1970s and 1980s.

Nicholas D. Kristof wrote in 2008 that Grant, " a little-known American aid worker ," had " probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao, and Stalin combined " through his promotion of vaccinations and diarrhea treatments.

According to Associate Professor Henry E. Hale of Harvard University, one thing that remains unclear about the " FSB did it " theory: If the motive was to get an FSB-friendly man installed as president, why would the FSB have preferred Putin, a little-known " upstart " who had leapt to the post of FSB director through outside political channels, to Primakov, who was certainly senior in stature and pedigree and who was also widely reputed to have a KGB past?

At this point, a little-known American financier named Robert Vesco, head of the failing mini-conglomerate International Controls Corporation, offered his help with $ 5M, funds which had inconceiveably originated as part of a larger loan from IOS to ICC.

Benson had risen to prominence in jazz in the 1960s but was still relatively little-known by the general public.

Not having expected to be producing season twenty-four, Nathan-Turner was left with little time to prepare, hiring inexperienced Andrew Cartmel as script editor on the advice of a friend who had run a BBC Drama Script Unit course that Cartmel had attended, and casting little-known Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

Throughout 1991 and into 1992, Diana had been involved in secret co-operation with a previously little-known court correspondent called Andrew Morton.

Illinova had formed a joint partnership named Catlin in January 2000 with a little-known investment company named Black Thunder.

Stewie Speer might well have remained a respected but relatively little-known member of the Australian jazz scene had it not been for a series of coincidences that brought him together with Christchurch-born R & B singer Max Merritt.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

* Areto and Iphito, two little-known Amazons, whose names are only attested in inscriptions on artefacts.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

There were two previous film versions of Arthur Richman's play on which this film was based, a 1925 silent version from independent Peninsula Studios, San Mateo, California with Warner Baxter in Grant's role, and a little-known early talkie made in 1929 with Henry Daniell and Ina Claire.

Then, on May 18, 1980, the dramatic eruption of little-known Mount St. Helens shattered the quiet and brought the world's attention to the range.

The feature was spread across two videotapes in letterbox format, and tape two also included Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor, a 50-minute documentary on little-known heroes of the attack, and a Faith Hill music video.

To further complicate things, there was a little-known state law on the books that would have transitioned the annexed territory from the Lakewood School District that served Smokey Point to the school district of the annexing city.

According to Philodemus, who presented it as a little-known fact, Tyrtaeus was honoured above others because of his music, not just his verses, Pollux stated that he introduced Spartans to three choruses based on age ( boys, young and old men ) and some modern scholars in fact argue that he composed his elegies in units of five couplets each, alternating between exhortation and reflection, in a kind of responsion similar to Greek choral poetry.

During the 1981 River Tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band added Cliff's previously little-known song " Trapped " to their live set ; it achieved great prominence when included on 1985's We Are the World benefit album.

Not the Royal Wedding was promoted by a little-known radio spinoff, Not the Nuptials, transmitted on BBC Radio 1.

Lowe, a little-known actor at the time, and Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert briefly met at age 14 in 1978 in the halls of the CBS Television Studios.

2Pac shut himself into the studio with little-known producers Hurt-M-Badd and Big " D ", crafting The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory-unlike All Eyez on Me, it was devoid of high-profile Death Row guest appearances, instead showcasing Shakur's The Outlawz and Bad Azz.

Jusserand was a close student of English literature who produced some lucid and vivacious books on comparatively little-known subjects:

Despite the name, the little-known K6-2 + was based on the AMD K6-III + design ( model 13 ) with 128 KiB of integrated L2 cache and built on a 0. 18 micrometre process ( essentially a K6-III + with half the L2 cache ).