Freeman credits the popularity of an astronomer with the same last name as having inadvertently helped to spark his interest in science.

In the 6th century, religious narrations from local Christians about the Virgin Mary began to spark interest in the site among pilgrims, who founded the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation at the site of a freshwater spring, today known as Mary's Well.

The Star Wars franchise helped spark a new interest in space opera, focusing more on story and character than on scientific accuracy.

* The roots of European Scholasticism are found in this period, as the renewed spark of interest in literature and Classicism in Europe would bring about the Renaissance.

People like Forest Supervisor J. W. Humphrey promoted the scenic wonders of Bryce Canyon's amphitheaters, and by 1918 nationally distributed articles also helped to spark interest.

There were many published works that helped spark an interest in building telescopes such as Irish telescope maker Rev.

Daniel Allen Butler comments that " although it was of immense interest to Titanic buffs the world over, it lacked the spark of the original ," which by 1998 had reached its fiftieth printing.

The revival of their former television series in syndicated reruns in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped spark renewed interest in the duo, as did the televising of many of their old film hits.

Mirkin worked on the concept for a long time, basing the story on NASA's Teacher in Space Project scheme to send ordinary civilians into space in order to spark interest amongst the general public.

The growing attention from outsiders and development of expensive residential communities continues to spark intense interest and debate among members of the Roslyn community.

Paintball media has moved on to online websites such as YouTube where popular media partners such as HK army, Tech PB, Social Paintball, The WOLF's DEN, terrencomp, goblinspb, girlpaintballer, weeklypaintballshow, cnoddings, and the egoballaz have all helped to spark new interest in the sport.

At the university / college level, using appropriate technology-related projects to spark non-physics majors ’ interest in learning physics has been shown to be successful.

The 1945 book Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales includes a chapter on the Axeman entitled " Axeman's Jazz ", which helped spark renewed interest in the murders.

A mangaka will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers.

This helped spark renewed interest in the whole field of muon-catalyzed fusion, which remains an active area of research worldwide among those who continue to be fascinated and intrigued ( and frustrated ) by this tantalizing approach to controllable nuclear fusion that almost works.

A notable influence was concert pianist Salvatore Sullo from whom Corea started taking lessons at age eight and who introduced him to classical music, helping spark his interest in musical composition.

Unable to connect with his pupils and desperate to spark their interest, Rago quotes from his favorite play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which they have never heard of.

A small initial spark of interest is generated.

In Florence, the influence of classical Roman forms combined with the Byzantine artistic heritage of the region to spark an interest in volumetric, naturalistic paintings and statuary.

Parra also helped spark an interest in French chanson music, as well as in Amerindian instruments like the quena and charango.

The film was successful enough to spark interest in a sequel, and in 2000, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman appeared.

As a role model for young people from all walks of life, Miss Horner's ability to spark children's interest in the areas of reading and writing have had an indelible impact on the learning processes of impressionable generations.

In an effort to generate publicity, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen was named as the magazine's new " publisher ," but this failed to spark interest.

From time to time, the Tertangala has been known to use themes as a way to source content and spark interest amongst the student population.

It was during this period that Fisher developed an interest in amateur radio, constructing rudimentary spark transmitters and receivers.

The United Nations special envoy to Syria and Lebanon said on 22 August 2006 it could take the Lebanese army and international troops two to three months to fill a " security vacuum " in southern Lebanon and warned that " unintended " acts could spark renewed fighting.

Its capture would have had a major propaganda effect for the Russian Bolsheviks, who expected the fall of the Polish capital not only to undermine the morale of the Poles, but to spark an international series of communist uprisings and clear the way for the Red Army to join the German Revolution.

The conflict had the potential to spark another international war since Wolfgang William wanted to have the still not demobilized army of Lorraine, which continued to operate in the region despite the Peace of Westphalia, to intervene on his side, and Frederick William sought support of the Dutch Republic.

This was the spark that ignited the Asian financial crisis as the Thai government failed to defend the baht, which was pegged to the basket of currencies in which the U. S. dollar was the main component, against international speculators.

He recovers Henry Gupta's GPS scrambler which was used to lure the British Navy into Chinese waters to try and spark an international incident ss the existing Chinese government being not receptive to giving Carver Media Group Network exclusive broadcast rights in China, Carver plans to start a war to eliminate the government in favor of politicians more supportive to his plans.

With the help of Julius, the two young lovers take a train to Venice and spark an international chase.

" Taft's budget should spark economic investment in the future.

Tilak saw the spark in Mohandas Gandhi and tried his best to convince Gandhi to leave the idea of " Total Ahinsa " and try to get " Swarajya " by all means.

However, Zinzendorf saw the new group as a spark for renewal of all denominations, not a new and separate denomination.

The hardliners within CPI ( M ) saw the Naxalbari uprising as the spark that would ignite the Indian revolution.

CPI ( ML ) saw Naxalbari as the spark that would start a new Indian revolution, and the movement came to be known as ' naxalites '.

Journeying through Leipzig and Dresden, he saw the growing Prussian army, and once in the Balkans witnessed some of the troubles that would spark the first World War.

One of his eight goals for the Tractor Boys came in February 1993 as they beat Premier League title favourites Manchester United 2-1 at Portman Road, a result which saw Ipswich occupy fourth place in the league and spark hopes of a late run to the title, but instead a slump in form followed and Ipswich finished 16th.

The resultant battle saw Unicron's body destroyed, but his spark endured and possessed Megatron — now Galvatron-who grew to colossal size.

Beethoven was, according to Schindler, astonished at the quantity and quality of what he saw, claiming that " Truly in Schubert there is the divine spark.

The Stasi, East Germany's secret police, unsuccessfully attempted to spark violence by planting violent agent provocateurs in the middle of crowds.

The Stasi attempted to spark violence by planting violent demonstrators in the middle of crowds.