Famous examples include the War of the Roses, as well as the Jacobite Uprisings.

Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

Chorion Limited of London now owns and handles the intellectual properties and character brands of Blyton's Noddy and the well known series the Famous Five.

He was the editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as an actor and producer ( Vampirella ).

After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.

Famous natives of Leeuwarden include stadtholder William IV of Orange, graphic artist M. C. Escher, and dancer-spy Mata Hari, as well as the theologian Dr. N. H. Gootjes.

Famous Dons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries included Scotti and Maurel, as well as Portugal's Francisco d ' Andrade and Sweden's John Forsell.

Famous Otellos of the past have included Tamagno, the role's trumpet-voiced creator, as well as Giovanni De Negri, Albert Alvarez, Francisco Viñas, Giuseppe Borgatti, Antonio Paoli, Giovanni Zenatello, Renato Zanelli, Giovanni Martinelli, Aureliano Pertile, Francesco Merli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Frank Mullings, Leo Slezak, Jose Luccioni, Ramón Vinay, Mario del Monaco, James McCracken, Jon Vickers and Carlo Cossutta.

Famous for their " Black Bart " floats, this still active general store is filled with many necessities of life and food as well as antiques from the area.

Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki and Gackt sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as a way for singers to make a names for themselves.

Two of the singles from the album (" Buffalo Gals " and " Double Dutch ") became top-10 hits in the UK, with " Buffalo Gals " a minor hit in some major cities in the U. S. Duck Rock features clips of " The World's Famous Supreme Team Show " throughout the course of the album between songs, as well special vocal appearances from the duo themselves.

Famous examples include Tristes Tropiques ( 1955 ) by Claude Lévi-Strauss, The High Valley by Kenneth Read, and The Savage and the Innocent by David Maybury-Lewis, as well as the mildly fictionalized Return to Laughter by Elenore Smith Bowen ( Laura Bohannan ).

Famous examples include the Sony Minidisc format, as well as the now-obsolete CD-MO format.

Today Universal Music Enterprises manages MCA's rock, pop, and urban back catalogues ( including those from ABC Records and Famous Music Group ) in conjunction with Geffen-UME and Geffen have re-released various albums from MCA in the years since, as well as several compilations.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Famous sporting personalities are parodied as well, with the most famous ( and oldest ) coach in Blood Bowl's background being Tomolandry the Undying ( Tom Landry ), and one of the most recently added stars being the Ogre thrower, Brick Far ' th ( Brett Favre ).

Famous residents born or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP, TV and National Lottery draw presenter Jenni Falconer, singers Amy Macdonald and Lena Martell, as well as former Miss Scotland and Miss United Kingdom Nieve Jennings and actor and rock singer Steve Valentine.

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.

Prior to the opening of SilverCity, in the late 1990s there was a Famous Players theatre located near the Palace Casino, as well as a second Cineplex Odeon below Ed's Recreation Centre ( formerly Red's ), on the main level with the Gourmet Court ( Phase III ).

), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

Famous for his polarizing nature, he was well known for smoking a cigar when he thought a victory was assured, a habit that became, for many, " the ultimate symbol of victory " during his Boston tenure.

Like Tudor Square, Rhineland is not home to any attractions but does include a wide variety of gift shops as well as a Nathan ’ s, Famous Famiglia Pizzeria, and the Central PA's Kosher Mart.

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.

Famous alumni include Arik Einstein, Tony Cliff, Ernest Mandel, Mordecai Anielewicz, Abraham Leon, Benny Morris, Eliane Karp, Leopold Trepper, Amnon Linn, Zahara Rubin, Abba Hushi, Sam Spiegel, Irv Weinstein, Manès Sperber, Leon Rosselson, José Gurvich, Milo Adler Gilles and even Isser Harel and Menachem Begin who were briefly members before joining Mapai and the right wing Betar respectively, as well as Kerem B ' Yavneh's Rabbi Avraham Rivlin.

Giovanni Boccaccio provided a digest of what was known of Circe during the Middle Ages in his De claris mulieribus ( Famous Women, 1361-1362 ).

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.

Famous Brâncuși works include the Sleeping Muse ( 1908 ), The Kiss ( 1908 ), Prometheus ( 1911 ), Mademoiselle Pogany ( 1913 ), The Newborn ( 1915 ), Bird in Space ( 1919 ) and The Column of the Infinite ( Coloana infinitului ), popularly known as The Endless Column ( 1938 ).

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

Famous African trade ports such as Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Kilwa were known to Chinese sailors such as Zheng He and medieval Islamic historians such as the Berber Islamic voyager Abu Abdullah ibn Battua.

The five women who initiated the case are known in Canada as the Famous Five.

After quitting Metro, Valentino took up with Famous Players-Lasky, a studio known for films that were more commercially focused.

Famous Persian scientist Ibn Sina ( known to the West as Avicenna ) produced treatises and works that summarized the vast amount of knowledge that scientists had accumulated, and was very influential through his encyclopedias, The Canon of Medicine and The Book of Healing.

Between 535 and 615 of the Oracles of Delphi are known to have survived since classical times, of which over half are said to be accurate historically ( see the article Famous Oracular Statements from Delphi for some examples ).

Famous musical acts from Tijuana include the world known singer Julieta Venegas, hip-hop band Tijuana Rap, and international indie punk bands like Delux & Los Kung-Fu Monkeys

Cold Bay has one store, Bearfoot Inn Alaska, formerly known as the World Famous Weathered Inn.

Famous residents and property owners within the area now known as Mettawa have included two-time presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, city planner Edward H. Bennett and more recently, news anchor and rancher Bill Kurtis.

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.

Easter Road is an all-seated stadium, split into four geographic sections, known as the Famous Five ( formerly North ), East, South and West Stands.

Famous local Sheikhs include Abdirahman bin Isma ' il al-Jabarti, an early Muslim leader in northern Somalia ; Abadir Umar Ar-Rida, the patron saint of Harar ; Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Sheikh of the riwaq in Cairo who recorded the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt ; Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Zayla ' i, scholar who played a crucial role in the spread of the Qadiriyyah movement in Somalia and East Africa ; Shaykh Sufi, 19th century scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist ; Abdallah al-Qutbi, polemicist, theologian and philosopher best known for his five-part Al-Majmu ' at al-mubaraka (" The Blessed Collection "); and Muhammad Al-Sumaalee, teacher in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca who influenced many of the prominent Islamic scholars of today.

Famous attractions include the Buddhist temples of Hiraizumi, including Chūson-ji and Mōtsū-ji with their treasures, Fujiwara no Sato, a movie lot and theme park in Esashi Ward, Oshu City, Tenshochi, a park in Kitakami City known for its big, old cherry trees and Morioka Castle in Morioka City.

Famous locations are known of Ulm area ( e. g., Turritellenplatte of Ermingen ).

They're also known for their often-ribald live performances, which were only matched by that of James Brown and The Famous Flames in terms of musical spectacle.

Famous ancient Christian thaumaturges include Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea, also known as Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus, Saint Menas of Egypt, Saint Nicholas of Myra, Saint Seraphim of Sarov, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Ambrose of Optina and Saint John of Kronstadt.

She is best known as the wife of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s.

* In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, there appears a Cambridge Five analogue consisting of the Famous Five from Greyfriars School, including Harry Wharton who would become Big Brother, Bob Kim Cherry ( named after Kim Philby ) who would be also known as Harry Lime and subsequently M or Mother, Francis Alexander Waverly ( possibly formerly known as Frank Nugent ) and Sir John Night ( possibly formerly known as John Bull ).