Famous battles in France include Battle of Verdun ( spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916 ), Battle of the Somme ( 1 July to 18 November 1916 ), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres

Victorian writer John Henry Haaren says in Famous Men of the Middle Ages, " The battle of Tours, or Poitiers, as it should be called, is regarded as one of the decisive battles of the world.

Famous battles include:

Famous battles and occupied places of La Grande Armée.

Famous prohibition-era gangster Machine Gun Kelly's last known bank robbery occurred on November 30, 1932 at the Citizen ’ s State Bank in Tupelo netting his gang $ 38, 000.

Famous multiple sighting occurred in the days before the 1805 fire which destroyed most of Detroit.

Famous formations from North America include the rich marine fossils of Kansas's Smoky Hill Chalk Member and the terrestrial fauna of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.

Famous Football players from Fermanagh include Roy Carroll, Harry Chatton, Barry Owens and Kyle Lafferty.

Longjing tea, also known as Dragon Well tea, is a variety of roasted green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, where it is produced mostly by hand and has been renowned for its high quality, earning the China Famous Tea title.

: For a list of some of the most noted oracular pronouncements of the Pythia, go to Famous Oracular Statements from Delphi.

Famous double bass makers come from around the world and often represent varied national characteristics.

I Love You ", Eminem's " Stan ", Leonard Cohen's " Famous Blue Raincoat ", Tom Waits's " Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis " and Bloodhound Gang's " The Ballad of Chasey Lain ".

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

By 1960, having been influenced more by jazz music than blues, Brown began incorporating jazz styled arrangements in his music, with Brown naming the Famous Flames hits " I'll Go Crazy " and " Think " as examples of his changing style away from more traditional forms of R & B and rock ' n ' roll.

The ballad, " Lost Someone ", credited with the Famous Flames, became, along with " Please, Please, Please ", an early show-stopper to Brown's shows, while the recording of the Joe Tex composition, " Baby You're Right " ( to which Brown altered completely from the original ), increased his reputation with R & B audiences.

* Mary ( elephant ), an elephant from the Sparks World Famous Shows circus

" In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff and three roguish friends of Prince Hal also waylay unwary travellers on the highway from Gravesend to Rochester, a scene also present in The Famous Victories of Henry the Fift.

Famous for fossils collected since 1870, these formations extend from as far south as Kansas in the United States to Manitoba in Canada.

* Famous people from The Hague

Famous writers and journalists from the city include P. J. O ' Rourke, Christine Brennan, Philana Marie Boles, Mari Evans, Mildred D. Taylor, and Gloria Steinem.

also got the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons originally from Paramount.

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

Famous Anglo-Saxon examples include the jewellery from Sutton Hoo and the Tassilo Chalice, though the style originated in mainland Europe.

In September 1922, he refused to accept paychecks from Famous Players until the dispute was solved, although he owed them money he had spent to pay off Jean Acker.

However, Famous Players exercised their option to extend his contract, preventing him from accepting any employment other than with the studio.

When Valentino returned to the United States, it was to an offer from Ritz-Carlton Pictures ( working through Famous Players ), which included $ 7, 500 a week, creative control, and filming in New York.

With his contract fulfilled, Valentino was released from Famous Players but still obligated to Ritz-Carlton for four films.

In literary records, the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a 4th century AD work entitled Lives of Famous Immortals.

Famous for the Godavari Pushkaralu-an event that happens once in every 12 years, celebrated with pomp and glory and attended by lakhs of people from all round the world.

It marks Paramount's return to having its own animated division for the first time since 1967, when Paramount Cartoon Studios shut down ( it was formerly Famous Studios until 1956 ).

Famous American Unitarian William Ellery Channing was a believer in the virgin birth until later in his life, after he had begun his association with the Transcendentalists.

The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television, now two separate arms, CBS Television Studios for production and CBS Television Distribution for syndicated program distribution ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET Networks, and ( until it was sold off in 2007 ) Famous Music.

The Foundation was finally managed by Mehmed Nebil Bey's son ; famous Turkish painter Doğan Yılmaz Merzifonlu Karamustafaoğlu ( Famous as Yılmaz Merzifonlu ) until 1976.

Famous residents have included comedian Jim Davidson, who grew up in Holburne Road ; interior designer Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen, who lived in a bungalow on Kidbrooke Park Road until 2004 ; and singer Sandie Shaw.

The studio evolved into Famous Players-Lasky with co-producer Jesse L. Lasky and then Paramount Pictures, of which he served as president until 1936 when he was elevated to chairman of the board.

As a result, WEM boasted two full Bay department stores until the late 1990s when one of the locations was closed, leading to a renovation ( known as Phase IV ) that added a Famous Players multiplex, a two-floor HMV location ( complete with an HMV stage, which has played hosts to autograph signings for bands, Hollywood celebrities and World Wrestling Entertainment superstars ), a $ 12. 6 million Playdium entertainment complex / arcade ( now closed ), an indoor shooting range, a Chapters bookstore with a Starbucks, as well as several other smaller stores.

He was also the President of the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians in Anadarko, Oklahoma, from 1978 until his death.

It was not until the creation of Deep Blue, IBM's attempt at a computer that could challenge the world's best players, that interest increased again, and two more books were published: Gerald M. Levitt's The Turk, Chess Automaton ( 2000 ), and Tom Standage's The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine, published in 2002.

In 1958 he left Famous to become an animation director at Hal Seeger Productions where he worked on the revival of the Out of the Inkwell series, as well as Milton the Monster, until his retirement in 1968.

He is also the leader of, and a founding member of, the Famous Five, who were originally, until the arrival of Bull, known as the Famous Four: namely Wharton, Cherry, Nugent, Bull, and Hurree Singh.

The label was distributed by Polydor Records from 1970 until 1971, during which time the now-famous logo was introduced, and then by Famous Music from 1972 to 1974, during which the progressive rock band Focus charted with their 1972 hit " Hocus Pocus ".

Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks ( including The Movie Channel ), Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET, and, until 2007, Famous Music.

Although the Fleischers left the studio at the end of 1941, Famous Studios was not officially incorporated until May 25, 1942, after Paramount's contract with Fleischer Studios had formally run its course.

Harvey purchased the rights to all of Famous ' original characters in 1959, and Huey continued to appear regularly in Harvey publications until 1972.

Late in 1974, the Famous Music record labels were sold to ABC Records ; ABC kept the Blue Thumb imprint active ( mostly for albums by the Pointer Sisters and the Crusaders, and it was also used for reissues too ) until ABC sold its labels to MCA Records in 1979.

After Sony released The Beatnuts's first hits compilation, 1999's World Famous Classics, The Beatnuts did not record another album until 2001's Take It or Squeeze It.

Famous landmarks of Atcham include Attingham Park, the seat of the Barons Berwick until that title became extinct in 1953.

Famous for its market gardens until well into the twentieth century, it is now commuter-belt territory.

Worldvision would hold distribution rights to many earlier Famous Studios cartoons ( plus most of the cartoons by Fleischer Studios ) for a short time, until being absorbed by the television division of Paramount Pictures, which originally distributed the cartoons.

The two characters continued to star in animated cartoons by Famous Studios until 1959.

Famous former residents include singer / songwriter / author Julian Cope, who lived in the village until 2006.

Famous prisoners were held in the Charenton asylum including Latude, the Comte de Sanois and Marquis de Sade ( from 1801 until his death in 1814 at the age of 74 ).