A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the White House, is the most famous address of the free world.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

Conium maculatum has been used as a sedative and in treatments for arthritis and asthma in addition to its most famous use: as a “ humane ” method of killing criminals and philosophers.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

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You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.

That bank handles most of the paper work for Diversified Growth Stock Fund, Fundamental Investors, Diversified Investment Fund and Television-Electronics Fund.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

The fiber was originally used for making twines and ropes ; now most abacá is pulped and used in a variety of specialized paper products including tea bags, filter paper and banknotes.

On the Infinite was Hilbert ’ s most important paper on the foundations of mathematics, serving as the heart of Hilbert's program to secure the foundation of transfinite numbers by basing them on finite methods.

PPM are most of the time referring to A4 paper in Europe and letter paper in the United States, resulting in a 5-10 % difference.

By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.

Although most early codices were made of papyrus, papyrus was fragile and supplies from Egypt, the only place where papyrus grew and was made into paper, became scanty ; the more durable parchment and vellum gained favor, despite the cost.

The competence between papers for having more cartoons than the rest from the mid-1920s, the growth of large-scale newspaper advertising during most of the thirties, paper rationing during World War II, the decline on news readership ( as television newscasts began to be more common ) and inflation ( which has caused higher printing costs ) beginning during the fifties and sixties made Sunday strips being published on smaller and more diverse formats.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Building on the work of Clausius, between the years 1873-76 the American mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs published a series of three papers, the most famous one being the paper On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.

It was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper " The complexity of theorem proving procedures " and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field.

Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory ( see ROM ), flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices ( e. g. hard disks, floppy discs and magnetic tape ), optical discs, and early computer storage methods such as paper tape and punched cards.

In one paper presented at an ABA conference on class actions in 2007, authors commented that " competing cases can also provide opportunities for collusive settlement discussions and reverse auctions by defendants anxious to resolve their new exposure at the most economic cost.

One of the earliest, and probably the most well-known, is DIN 476 — the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes in 1922 — adopted in 1975 as International Standard ISO 216.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used.

He ended the paper by calling for a " very extended study of all the various existing stocks of languages, in order to determine the most fundamental properties of language "-almost a program statement for the modern study of linguistic typology, and a very Boasian approach.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.