His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's intention he has achieved a notable failure.

The country achieved notable economic growth during these years, while the unemployment rate would continue to rise until 2001 when it finally started falling.

Although his reign ended abruptly, he achieved some notable successes, and his efforts failed as much due to the centrifugal forces of tribal Afghanistan and the machinations of Russia and Britain as to any political folly on his part.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

Here follows a list of notable Indiana natives who have achieved success in basketball:

Historically, the group achieved a number of notable firsts in hip hop music and are credited with being the act most responsible for pushing hip hop into mainstream popular music, initiating its musical and artistic evolution and enabling its growth as a global phenomenon.

The MP18 was used in significant numbers by the German stormtroopers who, in conjunction with infiltration tactics, achieved some notable successes in the final year of the war.

The most notable accomplishment achieved during the Redskins ' 1943 season was Sammy Baugh leading the NFL in passing, punting, and interceptions.

In 1942 he achieved his first notable success by directing a Pulitzer prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Montgomery Clift and Tallulah Bankhead.

Tracy finally achieved some success by joining forces with the notable stock manager William H. Wright in the spring of 1924.

Her career as the primary actress of Fox Studios continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

A successful AIDS prevention and treatment program was also established, leading the Catholic Institute for International Relations to state, the " incredible feat of slowing the rate of new infections in Haiti has been achieved despite the lack of international aid to the Haitian government, and despite the notable lack of resources faced by those working in the health field.

He achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands ( 1973 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and made notable appearances in Wall Street ( 1987 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ), and the Mass Effect video game trilogy.

Still, he produced a number of very short stories in which he achieved notable compression of sometimes complex subjects.

The same year, Mustangs achieved the first of many notable competition successes, winning first and second in class in the Tour de France international rally.

Steward achieved his most notable early success with welterweight Thomas Hearns, whom he changed from a light hitting boxer into a devastating puncher.

In 1982 Dr. Dorothy T. Krieger, chief of endocrinology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, achieved notable success with a partial brain transplant in mice.

Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s.

The cuisine of the Ferengi has achieved little acceptance among other cultures, with a few notable exceptions.

Most of the visual effects in Labyrinth were achieved in camera, with several notable exceptions.

Another Eastern Bloc country whose women achieved notable results was Hungary.

A third notable performer, Myra English, became known as the " Champagne Lady " after recording the song " Drinking Champagne " by Bill Mack in 1963 became her signature song in Hawaii, and she achieved considerable commercial success both locally and abroad.

Galba was notable for leading the first Roman fleet into the Aegean Sea and capturing Aegina ( 210 ), but otherwise achieved little, and most of the fighting was done by the Greek allies of Rome.

The poem In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae, continues to be one of the most popular wartime poems in Canada, and has achieved a status where it is recognized as one of the country's most notable unofficial symbols.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

He had achieved considerable financial success in his tailoring business, which he sold in order to concentrate on politics.

" for the charity War Child who achieved solo success with " Leipe mocro flavour ".

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

The group achieved great success globally and scored a chain of # 1 hits.

Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit " Smalltown Boy ".

As a newcomer, she achieved a surprising measure of success, working for HBO and Stacey Keach Productions.

By local success at the Schwerpunkt, a small force achieved a breakthrough and gained advantages by fighting in the enemy's rear.

Launched in poor weather against a thinly held Allied sector, it achieved surprise and initial success as Allied air power was stymied by cloud cover.

The series has achieved enormous success, selling nearly 50 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

Afghan forces achieved success in the initial days of the war, taking the British and Indians by surprise in two main thrusts as the Afghan regular army was joined by large numbers of Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border.

Many of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, but he has never quite achieved the same success as in the 1970s.

Having achieved some of its goals, among them the establishment of state funding for the film industry and renewed international recognition for German films, the New German Cinema had begun to show signs of fatigue by the 1980s, even though many of its proponents continued to enjoy individual success.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.