Geelong had always been particularly subject to what Geoffrey Blainey, a notable Australian historian, author of A Game of Our Own, and Geelong supporter, termed the " tyranny of distance ".

Probably the most notable supporter of such an interpretation was Einstein:

In the sphere of foreign policy, Seddon was a notable supporter of the British Empire.

Unlike most prominent Buddhist leaders in Taiwan who have withdrawn from making political statements or have kept them private, Hsing Yun is notable in openly involving himself with Taiwanese and Chinese politics, and is a prominent supporter of the One China policy.

It has been a key associate and supporter of many notable explorers and expeditions, including those of Darwin, Livingstone, Stanley, Scott, Shackleton, Hunt and Hillary.

Hancock is a notable supporter of homeopathy, having signed several early day motions in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service.

The club's official anthem is Hereford United ( We All Love You ) which was written and performed by the late Danny Lee, a notable supporter of the club.

He was notable Conservative supporter of Labour's 1948 British Nationality Act which reaffirmed the rights of Commonwealth citizens to enter Britain without restriction, showing a commitment to the unity and indivisibility of the empire.

Among the notable candidates elected, independent candidate Li Ao won a legislative seat, whereas former DPP chairmen turned pan-blue supporter Shi Ming-teh and Hsu Hsing-liang failed to get elected in their seats.

More importantly for Frank, Rob reveals that the older man travelling with Diana is not her husband, but her father, Sir Richard Vernon, a notable supporter of the Pretender, King James.

Emanuel Swedenborg was probably both his most notable supporter and, later, staunch critic: Swedenborg began as a disciple of Dippel, but eventually dismissed him as a " most vile devil ... who attempted wicked things.

He is also notable as a supporter of Kenneth Patchen, whose Outlaw of the Lowest Planet he published in 1946, with an introduction by David Gascoyne and a preface by Alex Comfort.

Seyyed Hassan Modarres () ( c. 1870-December 1, 1937 ), was an Iranian Twelver Shi ' a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.

Jakub Świnka ( died March 4, 1314 ) was a Polish Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Gniezno and a notable politician and supporter of the idea of unification of all Polish lands under the rule of Władysław I the Elbow-high.

During the First World War, Károlyi had started out as supporter of the war, but as the war continued, Károlyi had become the war's most notable critic in Parliament.

He is also notable for having been a visible supporter of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee ( GSOC ), the NYU graduate student union, during its strike for union recognition.

A member of SDP and a Minister for Environment and Nature Protection in Kukuriku coalition Mirela Holy has been a notable supporter of LGBT rights for years, and has participated in every LGBT pride so far.

Spytek of Melsztyn ( Polish: Spytek z Melsztyna ) also known as Spytko ; 1398-1439 was a notable member of the Polish gentry, and a strong supporter of Polish cooperation with the Hussite movement against the Polish magnates.

Realizing that the name Woman's College of Alabama no longer fit its student body, the college's final name change came in 1935 when Huntingdon College was adopted in honor of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, a notable supporter of John Wesley and of Methodism.

In 1856 he became a next-door neighbour of his supporter Thomas Carlyle at Chelsea and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, both of them notable writers.

Another notable fundraiser and supporter is Dame Norma Major, wife of former prime minister Sir John Major.

Another notable supporter was the Arts and crafts architect Lady Mary Lovelace.

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1920 as a supporter of the Liberal Party, and is notable as the first Ukrainian Canadian to be elected to Manitoba's legislature.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

The crusade was a notable success for Byzantium, as Alexios now recovered a number of important cities and islands.

It is now in its 27th year and is most notable for its marquee on the silver sands playing fields.

A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC ( and later PKZIP, using the same ". zip " algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use ); also other concepts of software distribution like freeware, postcardware like JPEGview and donationware like Red Ryder for the Macintosh first appeared on BBS sites.

This is notable because, according to the comic, the Gaulish village where Asterix lives is in the Armoric peninsula, which is now Brittany.

Jones had made an earlier notable attempt at a pronunciation dictionary but it was now that he produced the first edition of his famous English Pronouncing Dictionary, a work which in revised form is still in print.

The notable exception to this was when land claims by the Connecticut-based owners of the Susquehanna Company, who had been granted titles to land claimed by Connecticut in the Wyoming Valley, in an area that is now Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.

Comedy is now one of the mainstays of the Fringe, with numerous notable comedians getting their ' break ' here, often through receipt of the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

( f ) the most notable in what is now Mali were:

The most notable of these is Mumps / II, by Professor Kevin O ' Kane ( now at the University of Northern Iowa ) and students ' project.

The plasma population of the ring current may now grow substantially, and a notable part of the addition consists of O + oxygen ions extracted from the ionosphere as a by-product of the polar aurora.

There was a wide spectrum of disco-format radio stations during the late 1970s, but virtually all of them died out during the disco backlash ; WXKS in Boston is one of the few notable survivors, now a Clear Channel Communications-owned top-40 station of considerable influence.

All notable wrestlers now enter the ring accompanied by music, and regularly add other elements to their entrance.

Other notable figures to arise from the Mfecane include Shoshangane, who expanded from the Zulu area into what is now Mozambique.

Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include the New York City Center, now used as a concert hall, Newark Symphony Hall, The Landmark Theater ( formerly The Mosque ) in Richmond, Virginia, the Tripoli Shrine Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Helena Civic Center ( Montana ) ( formerly the Algeria Shrine Temple ), and the Fox Theatre ( Atlanta, Georgia ) which was jointly built between the Atlanta Shriners and William Fox.

A notable example is the now defunct belief in the Ptolemy planetary model that held sway until changes in scientific and religious thinking were brought about by Galileo and proponents of his views.

A notable example is the word beur ( from arabe ), now widely used to describe a French-born individual of North African descent.

A number of notable games developers and development companies began their careers on the ZX Spectrum, including David Perry of Shiny Entertainment, and Tim and Chris Stamper ( founders of Ultimate Play The Game, now known as Rare, maker of many titles for Nintendo and Microsoft game consoles ).

The building is now considered architecturally notable, and has been restored.

Kenneth Wolstenholme DFC & Bar ( 17 July 1920 – 25 March 2002 ) was the football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s, most notable for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup which included the famous phrase " some people are on the pitch ... they think it's all over .... it is now!

RIM was founded in 1984 and included such notable organizations as the Communist Party of Peru ( PCP ), also known as " Sendero Luminoso " or " Shining Path ," the then Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), now known as the Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) UCPN ( M ), and the Revolutionary Communist Party USA ( RCP ( USA )).

Although not as complex as other measures, and now essentially replaced by the Human Development Index, the PQLI is notable for Morris's attempt to show a " less fatalistic pessimistic picture " by focussing on three areas where global quality of life was generally improving at the time, and ignoring Gross National Product and other possible indicators that were not improving.

Several notable leaders such as Chandra Shekhar Azad, B. R. Ambedkar, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in what is now Madhya Pradesh.