The creation of classical ballet as we know it today occurred under Louis XIV, who in his youth was himself an avid dancer and performed in ballets by Pierre Beauchamp and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

He also is a certified masseur, an avid ballroom dancer and likes to make chocolate fondue.

In storyline, Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist Tank Abbott became an avid fan of 3 Count, and he began protecting them during their performances, attacking anyone who disrupted them, eventually acting as their talent manager and occasional inserting himself as a back-up dancer.

While avid devotees of music ( inviting musicians into the house to perform nightly ), the family did not approve of his desire to become a musician, so he left home at the age of 13 and took up residence with legendary ( but reclusive ) singer Abdul Wahid Khan of the Kirana gharana, cousin of the more widely-known Abdul Karim Khan.

The Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, an avid fan of P. Ramlee, presented the award to his adopted daughter, Dian P. Ramlee, in a ceremony honoring veteran artists in Kuching.

While young Lincoln's formal elementary education consisted approximately of a year's worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader.

It might also have been a pun on " all-has-read ", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.

He was also an avid reader, interested in botany ( learning the Latin nomenclature of thousands of plants ), astrology, and Middle American prehistory.

In Hot Springs, Bill attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and Hot Springs High School – where he was an active student leader, avid reader, and musician.

He was an avid fisherman, golfer, painter and bridge player, and preferred active rather than passive forms of entertainment.

* William Randolph Hearst was an avid lover of dachshunds.

He was an avid tennis player until an injury in 1940, and drank an Old Fashioned with dinner.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

He was also an avid fan of radio comedy from an early age, becoming especially drawn to that of The Goon Show.

The queen herself was an avid reader of all of George Eliot's novels, being so impressed with Adam Bede that she commissioned the artist Edward Henry Corbould to paint scenes from the book.

After an agreement was reached with the European Union ( EU ) to increase Honduras's banana quota to the EU, the large banana companies were avid for additional land for increased production to meet the anticipated new demand from Europe.

An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet " the Fowler " because he was allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king.

Edgar Degas was both an avid photographer and a collector of Japanese prints.

The game again sparked controversy throughout a period of school shootings in the United States when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were avid players of the game.

Despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch, an avid reader in his youth, had a greater interest in literature, a pursuit in which he was encouraged by his grandmother.

When Rousseau was 10, his father, an avid hunter, got into a legal quarrel with a wealthy landowner on whose lands he had been caught trespassing.

King George IV was also an avid fan of Audubon and a subscriber to the book.

Bentham was an early and staunch supporter of the utilitarian concept ( along with Hume ), an avid prison reformer, advocate for democracy, and strongly atheist.

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.

He was fond of travel, enjoying trips into the mountains, and was an avid walker.

One theory on the flag's design holds that since Lebanese member of parliament Henri Pharaon, who was involved in the making of the flag, was a long-time consul in Vienna and was an avid friend and founder of the " Austro-Lebanese Association of Friendship ", the colors could have been inspired by the Austrian flag.

While creating this character, Woo was inspired by a police officer who was a strong-willed and tough member of the police force, as well as being an avid drummer.

Brigitte is also an avid fan of equestrianism, an interest first inspired when she saw the film White Mane as a teenager.

JK, already an avid follower of hip-hop, was inspired to bridge the gap between the two ethnic cultures using his rhymes.

Chiosso's lyrics were inspired by the American crime fiction he was an avid reader of, as well as by current news.

An avid reader, Mr Dev is personally inspired by Famous Bengali writers like Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath Tagore.

With the increased costs of good kits moving upward and entertainment competition for youth moving more towards computers and video gaming in the home, the average age of the avid hobbyist is now much older than ever before — with adults making up the vast majority of enthusiasts.

Moreover, he as an avid supporter for Student rights and in 1884 the Aberdeen University Debating Society took the first steps towards the introduction of a Students ' Representative Council and later Aberdeen University Students ' Association under his support.

* She is an avid fan of Takarazuka Revue, especially towards the Moon Troupe.

Though the U. S. had established the Tank Corps in WWI using French Renault FT ( and Six Ton Model 1917 tanks, copies of Renault FTs ) and British MK tanks, and some officers like Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Jr. emerged from that war initially as avid proponents of continuing and developing an American armoured force, the rapid reduction of the forces and apathy and even antipathy towards funding and maintaining armed forces in the inter-war years led to relative stagnation of armoured doctrine in the United States.

Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.

Norman Maxon an avid outdoors man reestablished the trout hatchery and and approached National Homes of Lafayette Indiana to develop Trout Valley as a national show case for their modular homes.

Boortz was an avid listener and regular caller to the morning show, which was hosted by Herb Elfman.

He had few friends and was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan.

" Anderson himself is an avid fan of The Simpsons, and even provided his voice for an episode of the show titled " Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore ", which first aired April 6, 2006, where Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson after he admits that he never liked doing MacGyver and only did the show for the money.

An avid upright bassist, Penn frequently accompanies jazz pianist Mike Jones, who opens for the magician's Las Vegas show.

Crosland was a keen football fan and an avid viewer of the television show Match of the Day.

Godfrey was an avid equestrian, considered a master at dressage and showed his horses in the American horse show circuit.

The 1970s generation saw a gradual decrease in the number of avid mahjong players, and by the 1980s, it became common to not show any interest at all.

An avid cook and author of several books on cooking, he appeared as a regular contributor to a syndicated home improvement radio show, On The House with The Carey Brothers, giving listeners tips on culinary topics.

Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the animated show Family Guy and an avid Star Trek fan, has a guest appearance in this episode as Ensign Rivers.

Growing up, he was an avid reader of comic books like Superman and Superboy, and enjoyed the action-adventure show Adventures of Superman.

Max is an avid hip-hop fan, evidenced by his intro music on his ESPN Radio show.

The show was well received and had an avid fan base, but its ratings suffered from being moved around the television schedule in unpredictable time slots.

A frequest host of film awards ceremonies and TV variety shows, Kim was signed on as the host of MBC current affairs show W. The production team said that in a bid to make changes in the program as it marks its fifth anniversary, they found that Kim was interested in environmental and other global issues and an avid watcher of documentaries about them.

As Christian is an avid Manchester United fan he frequently appears on the Manchester United channel MUTV and has his own show, Terry Christian's Sunday Worship and regularly hosts the Live from the Red Cafe show.

Available juvenilia show her to be an avid writer since age twelve, keeping a cahier de style and publishing her first short stories in a local paper.

Though, for years, Fasoldt was the " PC " guy on the radio show, vs. Gene Wolf's Mac-expert persona, as he tried, and came to like, Apple computers and their simpler / safer operating systems, Fasoldt became an avid Mac user.

Since this performance David Letterman has become an avid fan of the band and Foo Fighters have played on the show 11 times.

An avid horse enthusiast, Édouard de Rothschild competes both nationally and internationally in equestrian show jumping.

He was a cricket and boxing enthusiast, the owner of Hackney show horses, and an avid golfer.

His favorite television show is Wall $ treet Week and he is an avid reader of The Wall Street Journal.