One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.

Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.

Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer ; George Grove of musical dictionary fame ; John Logie Baird, the television inventor ; Jason Statham, an actor ; the comics and film historian Denis Gifford ; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

It was Porter's fame as a " mountain man " that attracted the explorer Richard Francis Burton to him.

* William Clark ( explorer ) ( 1770 – 1838 ), American explorer of " Lewis and Clark " fame

Robert O ' Hara Burke ( 6 May 1820 or 1821 – c. 28 June 1861 ) was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer.

It is commonly ( though erroneously ) believed that Marco Polo ( 1254 – 1324 ), a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his Asiatic travels, witnessed the rope trick in India and China ; see " explanation " below for further information.

But the fame of James Bruce's travels, and of the first discoveries made by the African Association, made him determined to become an explorer of Central Africa.

Colonel Norman Dane Vaughan ( December 19, 1905 – December 23, 2005 ) was an American dogsled driver and explorer whose first claim to fame was participating in Admiral Byrd's first expedition to the South Pole.

Though he won immense fame in his own generation and helped lead the way to the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting, his works are scarcely known outside of Denmark.

Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

Ravel insisted “ I don ’ t ask for my music to be interpreted, but only that it should be played .” In the end, the feuding only helped to increase the work ’ s fame.

After the war, his fame helped MIT to recruit a research team in cognitive science, composed of researchers in neuropsychology and the mathematics and biophysics of the nervous system, including Warren Sturgis McCulloch and Walter Pitts.

The DNA work achieved the most fame because DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) plays essential roles in cell metabolism and genetics, and the discovery of its structure helped scientists understand how genetic information is passed from parents to children.

The town is named for Lt. General Jimmy Doolittle of World War Two fame who bombed Tokyo in a daring raid and helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific.

After the death of Baumgarten in 1757, Semler became head of the theological faculty, and the fierce opposition provoked by his writings and lectures only helped increase his fame as a professor.

Nordau went on to play a major role in the World Zionist Organisation ; indeed Nordau's relative fame certainly helped bring attention to the Zionist movement.

His fame as an intellectual helped draw attention to the project.

Another event helped spread Sabbatai's fame in the Jewish world of the time in the course of his second stay in Cairo.

As a lawyer his greatest public efforts were his lectures ( 1799 ) at Lincoln's Inn on the law of nature and nations, of which the introductory discourse was published and ran to several editions ; the resulting fame helped open doors for him later in life.

Despite its problems, however, Habitat's fame and success " made reputation " and helped launch his career ; Safdie has now designed over 75 buildings and master plans around the world.

Delacroix quickly embraces the show and his newfound fame ; he even wins awards for creating and writing the show, while Hopkins becomes horrified at the racist nightmare she has helped to unleash.

Brossolette's fame was helped by his media notoriety before the war on Radio-PTT and on wartime BBC emissions, his networking role that made his name or codename known and remembered over almost every Resistance member in northern France and by flattering early accounts of BCRA's chief Passy in his memoirs.

He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology ( 1888 – 1899 ) and British Birds ( 1895 ), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Day ( 1903 ), Afoot in England ( 1909 ) and A Shepherd's Life ( 1910 ), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Embittered by his fame and the lack of challenge the concept of fighting crime had become, he quit working for ACME & helped Carmen Sandiego escape in order to train to be a V. I. L. E.

Shelton's most enduring claim to fame was that he helped launch the career of a then unknown 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan.

Though much of the plot was fictional, the film was a moving tribute to Chaney and helped boost his posthumous fame.

Thus, Murat's skills in no small part helped establish Bonaparte's legendary fame and enhance his popularity with the French people.

Reiser starred for two years on television as one of two possible fathers of a teenage girl in the sitcom My Two Dads, and later rose to fame in North America as Paul Buchman on Mad About You, a long-running comedy series he helped create in which Helen Hunt co-starred as his wife.

Even Massenet's marriage to Ninon helped him a great deal in securing commissions and garnering fame in important social circles.

Snowflake's fame also helped to promote awareness of the endangered gorilla species.

Eventually Calvin rose to become leader of the team, and helped make his world one where mutants, along with other heroes, are respected and treated with a level of fame and celebrity.

At its first conference in October 1966, Friedan was elected NOW's first president, and her fame as the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique helped attract thousands of women to the organization.

In an essay on conspiracy theories originating in the Middle East, Daniel Pipes notes that " ive assumptions distinguish the conspiracy theorist from more conventional patterns of thought: appearances deceive ; conspiracies drive history ; nothing is haphazard ; the enemy always gains ; power, fame, money, and sex account for all.

The version currently most accepted in China has Yu name Bo Yi as successor because of the fame Bo Yi had achieved teaching people to drive animals with fire during hunts.

") Between 1950 and 1952, he variously worked as a door-to-door salesman for the Electrolux Vacuum cleaner company, as a Gunther Beer truck relief driver, where he achieved a certain fame for burning out three truck clutches in six weeks, and as a ticket agent for United Airlines, all before escaping into the United States Air Force, where he ultimately became head of the Policy Branch of the USAF Psychological Warfare Division, about which he would write in his humorous autobiography, Which Way to Mecca, Jack ?, that his " principal achievement " was in formulating the principle that " a 500-pound sack of propaganda leaflets, if dropped from an altitude of 13, 000 feet and provided it scored a direct hit, would drive one North Korean soldier approximately four feet into the ground.

Originally used for a single horse drawn enclosed carriage for 2-4 people, the “ Brougham ” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais ( the " promenade where the English stroll ").

Originally an enclosed carriage, drawn by a single horse, for 2-4 persons, “ Brougham ” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice, in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais ( the " promenade where the English stroll ").

Bedore gained initial fame doing an afternoon drive radio show at KQAK San Francisco.

King would not experience that same level of fame, though he is remembered as the first person to drive an internal combustion car on the streets of Detroit.

As a player he was a diminutive and pacy centre forward who played from 1979 to 1996 and shot to fame in the 1980s during spells with Charlton Athletic, Luton Town, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.

Abraham Zacuto might have an uncredited appearance in Luís de Camões's 1572 epic poem, The Lusiad, as the unnamed " old man of Restelo beach ", a Cassandra-like character that surges forward just before Vasco da Gama's departure to chide the vanity of fame and warn of the travails that await him ( Canto IV, v. 94-111 ).

One of Portuguese football's most prominent players, Pinga ( who could play either as forward or inside left ) came to natiowide fame in CS Marítimo in 1930 where he earned his first call-up to the national team.