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.

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.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

An old weakness for burrowing in records rose up to tempt him.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.

For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose.

It rose to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the charts for 15 weeks, as if, she wrote, her fans had been " waiting to embrace it ".

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips ; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.

He was noted for his piety and austerity, and rose to become abbot of Bath Abbey.

At times he rose, at other times he shrank to the ground, he moved as if he wanted to play all the instruments himself and sing for the whole chorus.

With the tightening of environmental laws ( for example, RCRA ) in developed nations in the 1970s, disposal costs for hazardous waste rose dramatically.

He brought out a red rose and said, ' This is for you.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Pheidippides arrived during the festival of Carneia, a sacrosanct period of peace, and was informed that the Spartan army could not march to war until the full moon rose ; Athens could not expect reinforcement for at least ten days.

By AD 400, most of the constellation never rose above the horizon for Athenians.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.

His unit was later ordered to France but to his chagrin he received orders for the new tank corps, where he rose to temporary ( Bvt.

This was a burial ground for several centuries for a noble tribal dynasty known as Adi Cheras, the royal family, which rose as a paramount power in South India in the first century.

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.