The Andes rose to fame for its mineral wealth during the Spanish conquest of South America.

Shepard Fairey rose to fame after his " Andre the Giant Has a Posse " sticker campaign, in which his art was plastered in cities across America.

In this struggle some important figures such as Count Odo of Paris and his brother King Robert rose to fame and became kings.

Gershwin was born Israel Gershowitz in New York City to Morris ( Moishe ) and Rose Gershovitz who changed the family name to Gershvin well before their children rose to fame ( it was not spelled " Gershwin " until later ).

John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 ) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member

Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries.

As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single " The Sound of Silence ".

Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964 ) is an American and Academy Award winning actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.

From then on, fame rose quickly for Borge, who won Best New Radio Performer of the Year in 1942.

Cook first rose to fame in the 1980s as the bassist of the Indie Rock band, The Housemartins who scored a UK number-one single with their a capella cover of Isley-Jasper-Isley's Caravan of Love.

Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early-to mid-1990s.

He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ) during the late 1960s, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ( Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool ) throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops.

As fashion changed to a more youthful demographic, the models that rose to fame had to be sexier for the digital age.

Models like Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Ana Beatriz Barros rose to fame on the runways of Europe in the late 1990s and dominated throughout the 2000s.

Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.

His fame rose quickly, and there was enthusiastic talk in musical circles that he was the greatest piano virtuoso of the day, possibly of all time.

As Sting's fame rose, his relationship with band founder Stewart Copeland deteriorated.

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.

In the 1990s and the 2000s, many pop music performers rose to fame.

Nico ( born Christa Päffgen ; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988 ) was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s.

She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou.

Gordon was also instrumental in launching the career of Johnny O ' Keefe, the first Australian rock star, who rose to fame by imitating Americans like Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the " Big Four " thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.

She had died before he rose to fame, and after her death he took an oath of chastity.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

The school in Weimar experienced political pressure from conservative circles in Thuringian politics, increasingly so after 1923 as political tension rose.

** List of rose cultivars named after people

During the trip, Stans killed two bongos, and after this, their desirability among wealthy hunters rose substantially.

When Red Hat's stock rose significantly after its initial public offering in 1999, they sold enough stock to recoup their initial investment, and retained some stocks.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

Global stratospheric temperatures rose immediately after the impacts, then fell to below pre-impact temperatures 2 – 3 weeks afterwards, before rising slowly to normal temperatures.

In 1927, after an intensive recruitment campaign, membership rose to 1, 200, 000

A few years after his birth, his maternal uncle Theophilus rose to the powerful position of Patriarch of Alexandria.

In August 1916, after several incidents where both combatants encroached upon the still theoretically neutral Greek territory, Venizelist officers rose up in Allied-controlled Thessaloniki, and Venizelos established a separate government there.

However, the greatest boost to Hertfordshire came during the Industrial Revolution, after which the population rose dramatically.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

First was the foundation of Edo ( in 1603 ) to whole inland economical developments, second was the Meiji Restoration ( in 1868 ) to be the first non European power, third was after the defeat of World War II ( in 1945 ) when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.

As a consequence, after Munich, Britain was considered to be the main enemy of the Reich, and as a result, the influence of ardently Anglophobic Ribbentrop correspondingly rose with Hitler.

Inflation rose sharply during World War I, but deflation returned again after World War I and during the 1930s depression.

As labour costs rose, particularly after the second world war, non-steam technologies became much more cost-efficient.

The Lombards themselves were probably made subjects of the Huns after the defeat, but the Lombards rose up against them and defeated them with great slaughter.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

Tension rose immediately after the PNDC deposed Limann in 1981.

Because parchment, prepared from animal hides, is far more durable than paper or papyrus, most palimpsests known to modern scholars are parchment, which rose in popularity in western Europe after the 6th century.

For it was the case that in these parts the nights were very short, in some places two, in others three hours long, so that the sun rose again a short time after it had set.

Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Despite his family's poor background, he performed well after entering the Church and rose quickly through the ranks.

It was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in one such ore, and named for the rose color of one of its chlorine compounds, produced after it reacted with the powerful acid mixture aqua regia.