In addition to Kanem-Bornu, two other states in the region, Baguirmi and Ouaddai, achieved historical prominence.

Dost Mohammad achieved prominence among his brothers through clever use of the support of his mother's Qizilbash tribesmen and his own youthful apprenticeship under his brother, Fateh Khan.

The medieval Kingdom of France emerged out of the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Francia, and achieved increasing prominence under the rule of the House of Capet, founded by Hugh Capet in 987.

Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.

He continued his scientific career and achieved considerable prominence.

In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley also achieved prominence in the New York art world.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

The noble savage achieved prominence as an oxymoronic rhetorical device after 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for a satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who wished to disassociate himself from 18th and early 19th-century romantic primitivism.

Han dynasty poetry was dominated by the fu genre, which achieved its greatest prominence during the reign of Emperor Wu.

Leptis achieved its greatest prominence beginning in 193, when a native son, Lucius Septimius Severus, became emperor.

It achieved prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.

During his tenure as bishop, Bamberg rose to great prominence, while Otto achieved fame as a missionary and as a diplomat and politician, notably during the Investiture Controversy between Emperor Henry IV and the papacy during which he remained loyal to the emperor.

The black-red-gold tricolour first appeared in the early 19th century and achieved prominence during the 1848 Revolutions.

Although any selection of James's novels as " major " must inevitably depend to some extent on personal preference, the following books have achieved prominence among his works in the views of many critics.

Enrique " Ricky " Martín Morales ( born December 24, 1971 ), better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.

* Manny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence first as film critic and later as a painter was born in Douglas in 1917.

It achieved prominence in the 19th century as a result of most residents of Pacheco relocating to Concord to avoid the devastation of fire and flood which crippled Pacheco's formerly booming economy.

One of Harmonia College's graduates achieved national prominence -- Carrie Nation, the national temperance leader, boarded at the Karrick-Parks house while living in Perryville.

Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

Union Village, along Rhode Island Route 146A achieved local prominence as an important stagecoach stop on the route along Great Road.

In the U. S., he achieved prominence in Irish American circles and founded and edited the New York Nation and the American Celt ( Boston ).

He first achieved prominence in 1990 when the contents of his on-the-record interview with then Tánaiste Brian Lenihan, in which Lenihan admitted making calls to the residence of the Irish president seeking to speak to President Hillery to urge him to refuse a Dáil dissolution in controversial circumstances ( something he had previously denied ), led to Lenihan's dismissal from government, his defeat in that year's Irish presidential election and the unexpected election of the left wing liberal Mary Robinson as President of Ireland.

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

He achieved prominence in 1772 by demanding an investigation of the East India Company alleging widespread corruption by its officials.

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.

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.

Many contemporaries of Godard and Truffaut followed suit, or achieved international critical acclaim with styles of their own, such as the minimalist films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville, the Hitchcockian-like thrillers of Henri-Georges Clouzot, and other New Wave films by Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais.

In 2009 British films grossed around $ 2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7 % globally and 17 % in the United Kingdom.

Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky and Blow.

* Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved

* The Star Trek Franchise ( 1966 to present day ), consisting of many tv series, books and feature films, depicts a golden age for Mankind, in which earthlinks have achieved unprecedented social progress, mainly through technology, and uphold tolerance as a core virtue in their relations to neighbouring alien cultures.

Herzog's films have received considerable critical acclaim and achieved popularity on the art house circuit.

Of the films they have done together, the ones that have achieved the most critical and commercial success include: Nikita ( 1990 ), the English-language films The Big Blue ( 1988 ), and Léon: The Professional.

Many of Besson's films have achieved popular, if not critical, success.

As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum ( 1980 ) and La boum 2 ( 1982 ), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress.

In these applications thin films of ferroelectric materials are typically used, as this allows the field required to switch the polarization to be achieved with a moderate voltage.

She managed to terminate her contract with the studio and achieved acclaim in films produced by David O. Selznick in the mid-1930s.

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.

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

After appearing mostly in TV films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic, he achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film, Brazil.

The sale was achieved by the duo selling their ownership of the once thought worthless I Love Lucy films back to CBS for over four million dollars.

Laurence Harvey ( 1 October 192825 November 1973 ) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films, being best known for his lead performance in Room at the Top ( 1959 ).

Bessie Love ( September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986 ) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies.

Dressler appeared in more than 40 films, and achieved her greatest successes in talking pictures made during the last years of her life.

Working in films ( in mostly bit roles ) through the 1940s, Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukor's A Double Life, in 1947.

Having carried out sustained efforts in this area over the following 10 years, the company achieved domestic production of photographic films, motion-picture films and X-ray films.