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In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.
And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.
So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The best known field of application for builders is in heavy-duty, spray-dried detergent formulations for household use.
As long as the bar prefers to adduce evidence by written deposition, rather than viva voce before an authoritative judicial officer, I fear that the antiquated rules will remain unchanged, and expensive prolixity remain the best known characteristic of Equity ''.
G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.
Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.
Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.
" His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:
The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.
Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.
Jackson Pollock is the artist best known for starting that revolution.
Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).
Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.
* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).
Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.
* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music
* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead
He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

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The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.
The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.
In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.
He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).
Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face.
Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.
The film was well received by critics and is regarded by many as one of the best films of 1973.
Their programming continues to be unique by also showcasing the best new Comedy features, Music Documentaries, and Maine made films.
The best known of these film-makers was Edwin S. Porter, who started making films for the Edison Company in 1901.
Their declared programme was to make films using only the best dramatists, artists and actors.
Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.
The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.
David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.
One of the most noticed and best reviewed films of 2010 was the drama Of Gods and Men ( Des dieux et des hommes ), about the Assassination of seven monks in Tibhirine, Algeria.
* White Sun of the Desert, one of the best loved Soviet films of all time.
In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.
Among the best known of these films are In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Went the Day Well?
Just as the British Film Commission has played a crucial role in attracting the biggest and best international studios to produce their films here, so we must incentivise UK producers to chase new markets both here and overseas.
The American Film Institute named it one of the best films ever made, putting it at the top of the list of AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers, a list of what AFI considers to be the most inspirational American movies of all time.
Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).
Screenwriter William Goldman identified Schaffner in 1981 as being one of the three best directors ( then living ) at handling ' scope ' ( a gift for screen epics ) in films.
Veteran Godzilla actor Akihiko Hirata, who appeared in several past Godzilla films ( best known of his role of Professor Serizawa from Godzilla ) was slated to play Professor Hayashida ; however, he had died from throat cancer before production began.

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