Footage of the waves of the Andaman Islands also appeared in the film " Thicker than Water ", shot by cinematographer Jack Johnson, who later achieved worldwide fame as a popular musician.

Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs ( Kitab al-Aghani ).

" The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe — which also included Stan Laurel of later Laurel and Hardy fame — returned to England in June 1912.

Such acts of recognition of a saint were authoritative, in the strict sense, only for the diocese or ecclesiastical province for which they were issued, but with the spread of the fame of a saint, were often accepted elsewhere also.

Diophantus and his works have also influenced Arab mathematics and were of great fame among Arab mathematicians.

Although Morris has achieved fame as a documentary filmmaker, he is also an accomplished director of television commercials.

How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.

Italian companies also had a strong line in slapstick comedy, with actors like André Deed, known locally as " Cretinetti ", and elsewhere as " Foolshead " and " Gribouille ", achieving worldwide fame with his almost surrealistic gags.

The seventies also saw the start of the " idol eiga ", films starring young " idols ", who would bring in audiences due to their fame and popularity.

In historical terms, Hastings can claim fame through its connection with the Norman conquest of England ; and also because it became one of the medieval Cinque Ports.

Following on from the earlier communal tradition of Baal Shem, his fame as a healer spread among not only the Jews, but also the non-Jewish peasants and the Polish nobles.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

Top musicians who played on Nirvana sessions include: Lesley Duncan, Herbie Flowers, Billy Bremner ( later of Rockpile / Dave Edmunds fame ), Luther Grosvenor, Clem Cattini and the full lineup of rock band Spooky Tooth, Pete Kelly ( Keyboards ) who also co-wrote ' Modus Operandi ' on the ' Local Anaesthetic ' album.

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.

It also achieved fame in selected areas of information science, notably human-computer interaction, augmented reality, multimedia systems, and diagnostics.

Although Alma-Tadema's fame rests on his paintings set in Antiquity, he also painted portraits, landscapes and watercolors, and made some etchings himself ( although many more were made of his paintings by others ).

The secondary also had future hall of fame defensive back Rod Woodson, who missed almost the entire season with a knee injury, but returned in time for the playoffs.

Hare also obtained minor fame in an entirely different field: law reporting.

He also performed in Roger Waters ' ( of Pink Floyd fame ) 1990 production of The Wall in Berlin, as the prosecutor.

Letterbocks also formerly featured correspondence from, and has brought fame to, the late Abdul Latif, Lord of Harpole, proprietor of the ( real ) Curry Capital restaurant ( formerly the Rupali ), Bigg Market.

Her primary fame came as a member of the British / American rock band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums.

This work was also successful, and the fame of the young composer began to spread all over Italy.

Still, Rio de Janeiro carnival is considered world-wide, as the capital of the Brazilian Carnival, not only because of its historical origins, size and also world wide fame.

The unsentimental and frequently comic treatment of the banalities and intensities of the life of a British army officer in the First World War gave Graves fame, notoriety and financial security, but the book's subject is also his family history, childhood, schooling and, immediately following the war, early married life ; all phases bearing witness to the " particular mode of living and thinking " that constitute a poetic sensibility.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

During this period, Sicyon reached its zenith as a centre of art: its school of painting gained fame under Eupompus and attracted the great masters Pamphilus and Apelles as students ; its sculpture was raised to a level hardly surpassed in Greece by Lysippus and his pupils.

Strauss Jr. eventually surpassed his father's fame, and became one of the most popular waltz composers of the era, extensively touring Austria – Hungary, Poland, and Germany with his orchestra.

These and the terrestrial maps produced subsequently, which surpassed all similar publications, established the son's fame.

Both of these guesses ended up being true: the original R & B members left Jungiery one by one, and the remaining members were re-grouped with other Jungiery trainees into bubblegum-pop group La-La ; meanwhile 183 Club's fame surpassed that of 5566's in China.

His fame probably even surpassed that of his brother.

During the 80's and the 90's, the market has surpassed the fame of competitors in Quiapo, Manila and Baclaran.

By this time Wu's prestige and fame had far surpassed that of his former mentor Cao Kun, nominally head of the Zhili clique.

The 12th and early 13th centuries were the golden age of Ürgenç, it became the capital of Khorezm Empire and it surpassed in population and fame all other Central Asian cities barring Bukhara.

His fame as a sculptor almost surpassed that as a painter.

Linguet received the support of Marie Antoinette ; his fame at the time surpassed that of his rival Pierre Beaumarchais, and almost excelled that of Voltaire.

As a showcase of arts and culture, the fame of its annual theatre festival, known as the Festival of Avignon, has far exceeded the French borders.

Among the noteworthy individuals who claimed Plymouth as their birthplace or former residence, and then gained a measure of fame beyond the town's borders were:

Alexander Nevsky's fame has spread beyond the borders of Russia, and numerous churches are dedicated to him, including the Patriarchal Cathedral at Sofia, Bulgaria ; the Cathedral church in Tallinn, Estonia ; a church in Belgrade, Serbia ; and a church in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Although Breitner exhibited abroad early on, his fame never crossed the borders of the Netherlands.

Israeli Arab musicians have achieved fame beyond Israel's borders: Elias and Murkus frequently play to audiences in Europe and America, and oud player Darwish Darwish ( Prof. Elias's student ) was awarded first prize in the all-Arab oud contest in Egypt in 2003.

Its fame crossed borders, as proved by the Salernitan manuscripts kept in many European libraries, and by historical witnesses.

The fame of the lakeside town became known well outside the borders of the Kingdom of Lombardy – Venetia: even the Emperor Francis I of Austria wished to visit it in 1816 and returned in 1825 to stay in the Villas Serbelloni, Trotti and Melzi.

There, under the leadership of Ephrem the Syrian, it gained fame well beyond the borders of the Syriac speaking world.

She has not, however, reached fame beyond the Guyanan borders ; this might because all of her fights have taken place in that South American country.

The line was accepted by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon ( of Mason-Dixon line fame ) in 1763 when they were engaged to survey the borders between Maryland and the grants to William Penn ( Pennsylvania and Delaware ).

Focussing his art on representing horses and landscapes, his fame crossed borders and in 1662 was called to Paris by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the instance of Charles Le Brun, to fill the post of battle painter to Louis XIV of France.

Her fame crossed the borders of Argentina and grew throughout Latin America where she became known as La Novia de América (“ The Sweetheart of the Americas ”).