Famously, Machiavelli argued that virtue and prudence can help a man control more of his future, in the place of allowing fortune to do so.

Famously, the Romans used their shields to create a tortoise-like formation called a testudo in which entire groups of soldiers would be enclosed in an armoured box to provide protection against missiles.

Famously, the much smaller Greek army held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians for three days before being outflanked by a mountain path.

Famously, the massively outnumbered Greek army held Thermopylae against the Persians army for six days in total, before being outflanked by a mountain path.

Famously, the massively outnumbered Greek army held Thermopylae against the Persian army for three days before being outflanked by the Persians, who used a little-known mountain path.

Famously, on March 16, 2004 during an appearance at Marshall University Kerry tried to explain his vote for an $ 87 billion supplemental appropriation for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by telling the crowd, " I actually did vote for the $ 87 billion, before I voted against it.

Famously, Fodor has attempted to ground such realist claims about intentionality in a language of thought.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

Famously, he came within two minutes of picking up a winners ' medal in 1999, only to have his hopes dashed by Manchester United, who scored two last-minute goals in the final, after he was substituted in the 86th minute of play while the team was still leading 1 – 0.

Famously, the German High Command passed Garros ' Morane to the Fokker company – who already produced Morane type monoplanes for the German Air Service – with orders to copy the latest design.

Famously, his ambulance was delayed en route to the hospital by Ranger fans who tried to turn the ambulance over.

Famously, she narrated a story starring a young Jessica Ferguson, who is now Head of Drama at the prestigious Southam College in Warwickshire, who played The Baked Bean Queen.

Famously, the audience, made up largely of members of the New York City fire and police departments ( and survivors of NYPD and FDNY personnel who were lost in the attacks ) sang the lyrics themselves until Etheridge's mic was restored.

Famously, for example, she sang a song " I've Got a Bit of a Blighty One ", about a soldier who was delighted to have been wounded because it allowed him to go back to England and get away from extremely deadly battlefields.

Famously, nuclear weapon systems that launch-on-command are fail-safe, because if the communications systems fail, launch cannot be commanded.

* Leo Strauss: Famously rejected modernity, mostly on the grounds of what he perceived to be modern political philosophy's excessive self-sufficiency of reason and flawed philosophical grounds for moral and political normativity.

Famously, he stated that the point is to know one way or the other what the solution is, and he believed that we always can know this, that in mathematics there is not any " ignorabimus " ( statement that the truth can never be known ).

Famously, Samuel Johnson claimed that A Tale of a Tub was a work of true genius ( in contrast to Gulliver's Travels where once one imagines " big people and little people " the rest is easy ) and too good to be Jonathan Swift's.

An application: Famously and controversially, in the philosophy of the Greek Anaxagoras ( at least as it is discussed by the Roman Atomist Lucretius ), it was assumed that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance: so atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

Famously, any spare space on the line his comments occupied would be filled with exclamation marks, further emphasising his " sincerity.

Famously, early versions of the Storyteller System sometimes made rolling botches ( critical failures ) more likely the higher your skill or attribute was, since a critical failure would occur if any of the dice came up as a " 1 "; the probability that at least one " 1 " will be rolled increases the more dice are rolled, and so highly-skilled characters would botch surprisingly frequently, whereas poorly-skilled characters could frequently get away scot-free.

Famously, when one of Barnum and Bailey's stage elephants died, the circus owners ordered that the elephant be pushed out onto the middle of the lake ( conveniently the lake was frozen for the winter ).

Famously vituperative attacks came from journalist H. L. Mencken, whose syndicated columns from Dayton for The Baltimore Sun drew vivid caricatures of the " backward " local populace, referring to the people of Rhea County as " Babbits ," " morons ," " peasants ," " hill-billies ," " yaps ," and " yokels.

Famously, he saw no practical use for his discovery.

Famously, the ' Stoke Newington 8 ' were arrested on 20 August 1971 at 359 Amhurst Road for suspected involvement in The Angry Brigade bombings.

Famously, Hill adopted the colours and cap design of London Rowing Club for his racing helmet-dark blue with white oar-shaped tabs.

Famously, after assuming the title Emperor of India, British monarchs would follow their signatures with the initials RI, standing for rex imperator (" king-emperor ").

Described by writer Mike Conroy as " Famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains ", the character debuted in Amazing Spider-Man # 41-43 ( Oct .-Dec. 1966 ) as a nameless thug for hire working for an Eastern Bloc country.

* San Francisco 49ers – Famously wore their 1955-era throwback uniforms for nearly all of the 1994 season and subsequent playoffs, including their Super Bowl victory ( a fashion statement that perhaps set the stage for the throwback craze in later seasons ).

Famously, Sturges sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $ 1, in return for being allowed to direct the film ; the sum was quietly raised to $ 10 by the studio for legal reasons.

Famously a call to create a version of MacDraw for Intel machines was made in the introduction to Introduction to Algorithms

Famously during the time of Rhythm and Blues, WWF announcer Gorilla Monsoon would proclaim every time Valentine got on the microphone and sang that " if you hung The Hammer for being a good singer you would hang an innocent person ".

Famously fired from the role of Marty McFly in Back to the Future, he is widely known for playing the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, and has appeared in a wide variety of films from mainstream fare like Some Kind of Wonderful to independent films like Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe, and Kicking and Screaming.

Famously used by the " Mirror Universe " version of Star Trek character Spock, in the episode " Mirror, Mirror ", it was an easy way for audiences to tell " good " Spock from " evil " Spock ( though in truth the character, while more ruthlessly logical than his counterpart, is far from evil ).

Famously, radar was developed in the UK, Germany, and the United States during the same period.

Famously, in the midst of being so giddy with delight after Life Is Beautiful was announced as the Best Foreign Film, Benigni climbed over and then stood on the backs of the seats in front of him and applauded the audience before proceeding to the stage.

Famously, this was mis-dated in Roman numerals as " 1468 ", thus apparently pre-dating Caxton.

Famously, he strung along the opposition and was expected to make his declaration of election in a broadcast on 7 September 1978.

Famously, he branded him with the nickname " cothurnus ", the name of a boot worn on the stage that could fit either foot ; Theramenes, he proclaimed, was ready to serve either the democratic or oligarchic cause, seeking only to further his own personal interest.

Famously, when she was stepping out of her carriage one day, an Irish dustman exclaimed: " Love and bless you, my lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!

Famously, he created several versions of " The Log ", which was nothing more than a length of common 4x4 lumber with a bridge, guitar neck and pickup attached.

Famously, Montgomerie was left with only one shirt to play in during the Monday playoff, a dark tartan design, which did not help his cause in the very hot playing conditions.

Famously his obituary in the journal of the Chemical Society ( of which he was a fellow ) discussed at length his skills and research but did not mention his other activity – the by then famous Bird's Custard.

Famously, he did not want to sell Claude Makélélé, as he felt he was too important to the team.

Famously contrary to Chekhov's wishes, Stanislavski's version was, by and large, a tragedy.

Famously, Straus's 1982 win was a comeback after being down to a single $ 25 chip, supposedly the origin of the common tournament poker aphorism: " a chip and a chair.

Famously married to Kabir Bedi from 1992 to 2005, retaining her married name after an amicable divorce, her first marriage was to food stylist Sunil Vijayakar.

Famously, one room of Llewelyn-Bowen's was decorated entirely in animal prints at the advice of the neighbours.

It was one of three sitcom pilots aired by the CBC, along with Getting Along Famously and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, as a viewer response poll.