Just as his apogee of fame was being reached abroad, his influence in Vienna would begin to diminish with the death of Joseph II in 1789.

Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame ( after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS ) was that it had many of the features of the original " Compiler Compiler ".

Akihabara gained some fame through being home to one of the first stores devoted to personal robots and robotics.

Some elements are associated with fame, such as appearing on the cover of Time, being spoofed in Mad, having a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, or receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

With innate talent, passion, diligence, discipline, self-motivation and tenacity, being the core factors of achieving success to becoming a celebrity, fame and fortune sometimes occurs spontaneously with relatively little effort due to sheer luck, being fortunate with connections, or simply being at the right place during the right time.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Richard Cromwell owed his 1930s movie fame in part to being personally selected by DeMille for the role as the leader of the youth gang in DeMille's poignant, now cult-favorite, This Day and Age ( 1933 ).

From 1419, he fought alongside his father, soon gaining fame for being able to bend metal bars with his bare hands.

Much later Surrealism gained the fame among the public of being the most extreme form of modernism, or " the avant-garde of modernism ".

Bradshaw, Webster, Swann, Stallworth and Harris ended up being hall of fame players on offense, while the others formed the core nucleus of their " Steel Curtain " defense, including future Hall of Famers Greene, Ham, Blount and Lambert.

She discusses his newly found fame, but he denies being a hero and drops her off for free.

It is refreshing to hear a celebrity talk cleanly about being fame-driven and about not getting the degree or the kind of fame you craved.

If I fulfill this path and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come ; if I transgress it and swear falsely.

:" If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

The work was published, after being deeply reshaped by the author and revised by friends in 1825 – 1827, at the rate of a volume a year ; it at once raised its author to the first rank of literary fame.

Another hand model, Kimbra Hickey, found fame after being featured on the cover of Twilight.

Nimoy's fame as Spock is such that both his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock ( 1975 ) and I Am Spock ( 1995 ) detail his existence as being shared between the character and himself.

Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.

Ossietzky's international rise to fame began in 1936 when, already suffering from serious tuberculosis that was not being treated, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

However, once the Beats ' popularity grew, Patchen disliked being associated with them and was highly critical of their glorification of drug use and what he perceived to be a strong desire for media attention and fame.

When the new settlement was gazetted in 1851 it was named ' Sale ' — a tribute to General Sir Robert Sale, a British army officer who won fame in the first Afghan war before being killed in battle in India in 1845.

Created as a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ( The Rutles ).

In Greek mythology, Pheme ( ; Greek:, Roman equivalent: Fama ) was the personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumors.

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN ( 5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865 ) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality.

Doll and Peto are both celebrated epidemiologists, and their fame is largely based on their pioneering work in the study mentioned.

McGregor gained international fame for his pioneering efforts in stock breeding.

Khurshīd Ahmad ( Urdu: خورشید احمد ; b. 23 March 1932 ; popularize as Professor Khurshid ), PhD, is a Pakistani prolific economist and Islamic activist who earned fame in his pioneering development of Islamic economic jurisprudence as an academic principle.

As the early 1980s progressed it became clear that the new generation of rockers were not like anything before: Los Violadores pioneering punk in Latin America ; Virus oxygenating rock with their new-wave sound ; Sumo's punkish reggae-rock growing a fanatical cult ( Luca Prodan sung mostly in English, which reduced his band's radio exposure yet their fame expanded unabated ); and Soda Stereo the buzz of the underground.

The fame of Joachimsthal for its ore mining and smelting works attracted the scientific attention of the doctor Georg Bauer ( better known by the Latin form of his name, Georgius Agricola ) in the late 1520s, who based his pioneering metallurgical studies on his observations made here.

His chief title to fame, however, is his pioneering work in the application of the art of photography to astronomical research.

Gardeners who have achieved fame through their pioneering innovations, writing or, more often, their television personas, may be classed as Celebrity Gardeners.

Loosely based on the biblical proverb, " As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he ," the small work eventually became read around the world and brought Allen posthumous fame as one of the pioneering figures of modern inspirational thought.

During the mid-to-late 1950s its airstaff included pioneering black radio disc jockey Hal Jackson, actor William Marshall ( of Blacula fame ) and Victor Bozeman, who would later become a Los Angeles-based staff announcer for NBC television.

Wheatley's first significant foray into music was as guitarist in the Brisbane pop band Bay City Union, which was fronted by singer Matt Taylor, who later achieved considerable fame in Australia as the lead singer of pioneering Australian eccentric blues band Chain.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday that " worldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry.

Jacques Vergès ( born 5 March 1925 ) is a French-Vietnamese lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired ( his future wife ) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan ( 2008 ).

A central figure in the history of Fado, Hermínia Silva conquered fame on the theatre stages in the 1930s and 1940s, adding her unmistakable singing gifts to those of a comical actress and revisteira.

Her main claim to fame was her hourglass figure of prodigious breasts coupled with a tiny 17 " waist.

They gained everlasting fame from the exploits of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of Rome's finest generals, and a towering figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat.

His choice of Hamann over such luminaries as Immanuel Kant was significant, as this odd figure, a needy hypochondriac, delved back into the German mysticism of Jacob Böhme and others, pronouncing obscure and oracular dicta that brought him fame as the " Magus of the North ".

Mackensen's high-profile public visibility in his distinctive black Life Hussars uniform was recognized by the Hausser-Elastolin company which produced a 7-cm figure for its line of Elastolin composition soldiers Mackensen's fame and familiar uniform gave rise to two separate Third Reich formations adopting black dress with Totenkopf badges: the Panzerwaffe, which claimed the tradition of the Imperial cavalry ; and Hitler's " Life Guards ," the SS.

Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics ; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets.

Pinsky, who admits in his 2009 book, The Mirror Effect, that he scored a 16 on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory ( average is 18 for celebrities ), and shares several traits with the " closet narcissist ", asserts that he was never motivated by fame to become a media figure, but from a desire to educate the public, especially the youth, on the medical facts distorted by the media.

For instance, Montorsoli included a new right arm in the central figure of the Laocoön group, upraised in a gesture of defiance, adding much to the fame of the sculpture and himself.

There, in 1907, he bought and edited the English weekly The New Age, at first with Holbrook Jackson, and became an influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, especially at the height of the magazine's fame before the First World War.

For example, Cesar Rosas, later to gain fame as one of the leaders of Los Lobos, would stare at George on stage to see how Thee Midniters ' guitarist played leads and riffs that Cesar could not figure out on his own.

Jones had gained considerable fame as a nude model and was a well-known figure in the adult world at the time of her retirement.

Shortly after achieving fame during the 2008 election, conservative figure Samuel " Joe the Plumber " Wurzelbacher announced that he was considering challenging Kaptur in the 2010 election.

By this role he earned an international fame though mostly in Eastern Europe, in the GDR he together with his colleagues became almost a cult figure.

The poet also notes the “‘ heavy change ’ suffered by nature now that Lycidas is gone — a ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament Lycidas ’ s death .” In the following section of the poem, “ The shepherd-poet reflects … that thoughts of how Lycidas might have been saved are futile … turning from lamenting Lycidas ’ s death to lamenting the futility of all human labor .” The next section is followed by that of the voice of Phoebus, “ the sun-god, an image drawn out of the mythology of classical Roman poetry, replies that fame is not mortal but eternal, witnessed by Jove ( God ) himself on judgment day .” At the end of the poem, King / Lycidas appears as a resurrected figure, being delivered by the waters that lead to his death: “ Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward .”

Regarded as a " wood " man rather than a " glove " man, York responded in his own terms slugging his way to major league fame, while his managers tried to figure out the position where he could do the least damage as a fielder.

When Hardy met Berlin in 1972, Berlin was at the height of his fame as an intellectual figure ; but he was viewed as not having written very much, and many doubted if he would leave a lasting contribution to scholarship beyond a small number of scattered essays.

Chapman's fame as a cricketer made him a popular public figure ; he and his wife, whom he married in 1925, were well known figures in fashionable society whose appearances were followed closely in the press.

Ibrahim Ferrer was not an accidental choice: not only had Orchestra Baobab written a song lauding this grand figure of Cuban music ( Hommage a Tonton Ferrer ), but Ferrer's huge burst of international fame with the Buena Vista Social Club in the 1990s mirrors the resurrection of Baobab.

* The Party Planners-Mitchell and Webb prepare a party guest list, and realise that one of the guests will bring along a famous literary or historical figure ( though the duo are unaware of the guest's fame in the context of the sketches ).

He gained international fame as a writer of French periodicals and a translator from English into French, and he is also recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the 18th century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment.