It is said that 99 out of 100 chess masters have read Mein System ; consequently, most consider it to be Nimzowitsch's greatest contribution to chess.

Josephus describes as Caligula's greatest contribution to have improved the harbours at Rhegium and Sicily, thereby allowing grain imports from Egypt to increase.

Liang Shuming opined that Chiang Kai-shek's " greatest contribution was to make the CCP successful.

Also in 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt honored Beaux as " the American woman who had made the greatest contribution to the culture of the world ".

It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.

While some of his findings have endured and remain relevant to this day ( Learning Curve ), his greatest contribution to the field of memory research was demonstrating that memory can be studied scientifically.

Their greatest contribution was in promoting punk music, clothing and lifestyle in their local communities.

Calvin's greatest contribution to the English-speaking community was his sheltering of Marian exiles in Geneva starting in 1555.

The greatest contribution came from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who discovered red blood cells and spermatozoa and helped popularise microscopy as a technique.

" Charles H. McIlwain likewise observes that " the idea of the equality of men is the profoundest contribution of the Stoics to political thought " and that " its greatest influence is in the changed conception of law that in part resulted from it.

Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune.

Probably the greatest contribution to the field was made by Linus Pauling.

* Vesalius ' work on the vascular and circulatory systems was his greatest contribution to the complex and modern medicine.

After leaving office, in a television interview, Harry Truman was asked who he thought was the American who made the greatest contribution of the last thirty years.

His greatest contribution was to stir up new academic interest in Offa's Dyke.

He came to believe this was his greatest contribution during his forty-five years as a teacher.

Thus the capture of Atlanta, coming when it did, may have been Sherman's greatest contribution to the Union cause.

Sherman's greatest contribution to the war, the strategy of total warfare — endorsed by General Grant and President Lincoln — has been the subject of controversy.

This report was the " prime mover " and made the " single greatest contribution of its kind to the improvement of emergency medical services ".

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

Perhaps his greatest contribution to astronomy was the development of a classification system for stars to divide them by spectral type, stage in their development, and luminosity.

In an interview by Paul Erdős, when Hardy was asked what his greatest contribution to mathematics was, Hardy unhesitatingly replied that it was the discovery of Ramanujan.

Edward, the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the " greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years.

On Monday, May 14, 2007, Darin was awarded a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars to honor his contribution to making Las Vegas the " Entertainment Capital of the World ", and to acknowledge his reputation as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century.

The award is presented to the football team member who shows the greatest personal contribution to the team, both on and off the field.

Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.

The Gallup Organization published a poll in February 2007, a correspondents to name the greatest president in U. S. history ; Clinton came in fourth place, capturing 13 % of the vote.

The greatest resistance to Spanish rule came from the Mapuche culture, who opposed European conquest and colonization until the 1880s ; this resistance is known as the Arauco War.

The greatest stimulus to canal system building came from the Industrial Revolution with its need for cheap transport of unprecedented quantities of raw materials and manufactured items.

The greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 ), Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) and Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979.

However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup.

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

In 1946, one of the greatest players in hockey history came into the NHL with the Red Wings.

This was the greatest moment of friction between Fascism and National Socialism and Mussolini himself came down several times to reaffirm the differences in the field.

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history.

Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called Hannibal the " father of strategy ", because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal.

However, the greatest boost to Hertfordshire came during the Industrial Revolution, after which the population rose dramatically.

Of note, Botham's first 202 wickets came at 21. 20 per wicket, while his final 181 cost on average 36. 43 apiece ; the first average is one that would make Botham one of the greatest bowlers of the modern era, ranking alongside the West Indian greats Curtly Ambrose ( career average 20. 99 ), Malcolm Marshall ( career average 20. 94 ), and Joel Garner ( career average 20. 97 ), but the second average depicts a player who, as a specialist bowler, would be unable to sustain a place in many Test teams.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

" In 2010, " Alone Again Or " came in at No. 442 in a poll of the 500 greatest songs of all time conducted by Rolling Stone magazine ( it was No. 436 in the 2004 poll ).

Another notable retrospective praise came in 2003 from the British magazine, NME, which rated Forever Changes No. 6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

Gregory's greatest success came in his patronage of colleges and seminaries which he founded on the Continent for the Irish and English, among others.

His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including " Only the Lonely ", " Crying ", and " Oh, Pretty Woman ".

Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them: some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation ... Others, committing the safeguard of their lives, which were in continual jeopardy, to the mountains, precipices, thickly wooded forests, and to the rocks of the seas ( albeit with trembling hearts ), remained still in their country.

Similar to Kameny's regret at his own reaction to the shift in attitudes after the riots, Randy Wicker came to describe his embarrassment as " one of the greatest mistakes of his life ".

Westwood's greatest commercial success, however, came in 1995 with the release of the real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.

" However, Willkie's greatest support came from the party's internationalist wing, which wanted the US to provide all the aid possible to the Allies ( especially Britain ), short of a formal declaration of war.