New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

One of the last trials-by-jury in Malaysia was the notorious Mona Fandey case in 1994.

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in what would become a notorious debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

* Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 45 ( 1905 ), a notorious, and now defunct case by the US Supreme Court that regulation of working time ( for bakeries ) to limit workers to a 10-hour day.

Another example was the case of the province of Venice, which was handed to the Franciscan inquisitors, who quickly became notorious for their frauds against the Church, by enriching themselves with confiscated property from the heretics and the selling of absolutions.

Bhaskara used it to give the solution x = 1766319049, y = 226153980 to the notorious N = 61 case.

A notorious case was the signature of Johannes Vermeer on the fake " Supper at Emmaus " made by the art-forger Han van Meegeren.

Such a huge statutory amount considered by the legislative organ is based on several extremely serious food quality incidents in the past two years, such as the notorious Sanlu tainted milk powder case.

A notorious murder case in Kansas City, Missouri referred to the baby victim as Precious Doe.

One notorious UK case is that of Colin Stagg, a man who was falsely accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell, in which a female police officer posed as a potential love interest to try to tempt Stagg to implicate himself.

Ida and her husband Marc followed on the notorious refugee ship SS Navemar with a large case of Chagall's work.

Although Luzin was alleged to plagiarize in science and indulge in anti-Sovietism by some of his students in 1936, Lavrentiev did not participate in the notorious political persecution of his teacher which is known as the Luzin case or Luzin affair.

In the most notorious case, the Khmer Rouge communist group exploited thousands of desensitized conscripted children to commit mass murders and other inhuman acts during the Cambodian genocide.

The most notorious case of this took place on the Seinfeld television series ; it has also happened on other shows including The X-Files, Stargate SG1 and the short-lived Ellery Queen series.

However, in the case of universes that are rewritten or revised by different writers, editors or producers, this continuity may be violated, by accident or by design — film productions are notorious for altering fictional canon of written series.

Destrehan was briefly notorious for the case of Gary Tyler, a black student who was accused by local officials of a shooting in 1974.

An especially notorious case is that of Carmine " Mimi " Scialo-a feared and respected soldier of The Colombo Family who had control over the vast area of Coney Island.

Ballantine served as Counsel for Sir Charles Mordaunt in the then notorious divorce case against his wife.

Stunts such as withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at diplomatic functions which the Governor-General attended, or in one notorious case the sight of O ' Kelly and Defence Minister Frank Aiken storming out of a diplomatic function at the French Legation when McNeill, the guest of honour, had arrived, damaged O ' Kelly's reputation and image, particularly when the campaign backfired.

Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife, Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker – Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand.

This may be particularly the case with infamous or notorious figures.

During the notorious trial of Karla Homolka, alt. fan. karla-homolka was created to get around the Canadian news blackout on the case.

* probable-Jacques Chausson, French writer involved in a notorious criminal case ( died 1661 )

As to benefits to employees, it is notorious for its callous disregard except where it depends on them for services.

ANOVA is difficult to teach, particularly for complex experiments, with split-plot designs being notorious.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

Canberra is notorious for hot, dry summers, and cold winters with occasional fog and frequent frosts.

A notorious recent example is Fragments ( 1995 ) by ' Binjamin Wilkomirski '( Bruno Grosjean ).

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

Cretan society is well known for notorious family and clan vendettas which remain on the island to date.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

Most of the student side-kicks got cancelled and DirkJan left university, first for jail ( DJ is a notorious Kabouter abuser ) and then to wander the globe and indeed space.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

His full-length portrait of Karl Jensen-Hjell, a notorious bohemian-about-town, earned a critic's dismissive response: " It is impressionism carried to the extreme.

The most notorious film is Guy Debord's Howls for Sade of 1952.

The industry is notorious for unusual accounting methods which are collectively labeled Hollywood accounting.

Banksy is one of the world's most notorious and popular street artist who continues to remain faceless in today's society.

CityRail, Sydney's train network is notorious for vandalism.

*" Exit Through The Gift Shop " ( 2010 ) is a documentary produced by the notorious artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art.

Certain Loa can become obstinate, for example the Ghede are notorious for wanting just one more smoke, or one more drink, but it is the job of the Houngan or Mambo to keep the spirits in line while ensuring they are adequately provided for.

The Disney Corporation is notorious among cultural study scholars for “ reinventing ” traditional childhood myths ( Koven, “ Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey ”, 176-195 ).

While he became notorious for his " mumbling " diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.

Village legend tells of the notorious Colonel John " Blackbeard " Mohune who is buried in the family crypt under the church.

Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

* The comic strip For Better or For Worse is notorious for using non-onomatopoeic verbs as onomatopoeias, such as " Scrape ," to indicate a person shaving, or " Tie ," to illustrate someone tying a string around a package.