He was named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002, and again in 2005 when he also won the award for Best Traditional Track for ' Famous Flower of Serving Men '.

* Best Traditional Track: Famous Flower Of Serving Men ( performed by Martin Carthy )

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* Dead Famous ( 2001 ) is a comedy / whodunit novel, also by Ben Elton, in which a contestant is murdered while on a Big Brother-like show.

Famous as the birthplace of American-raised comedian and Hollywood film star Bob Hope, and more infamously, where the black youth Stephen Lawrence was murdered, the seat was held by high profile Tory Peter Bottomley for over two decades ( as Woolwich West and then Eltham ) before Labour gained the seat in 1997.

* Famous personages born in this year include Maria Theresa of Austria, Prince of Conti ( grandson of the Regent ), the husband of Madame de Pompadour and the Duchess of Châteauroux ;

Emily Murphy, one of the " Famous Five " who fought the " Persons Case " in the 1920s, once lived in Forest where her husband was an Anglican minister.

Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe appears in Giovanni Boccaccio's On Famous Women as biography number twelve ( sometimes thirteen ) and in his Decameron, in the fifth story on the seventh day, where a desperate housewife falls in love with her neighbor, and communicates with him through a crack in the wall, attracting his attention by dropping pieces of stone and straw through the crack.

appears in front of the Unisphere throughout the video for their song " World Famous "

* In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, there appears a Cambridge Five analogue consisting of the Famous Five from Greyfriars School, including Harry Wharton who would become Big Brother, Bob Kim Cherry ( named after Kim Philby ) who would be also known as Harry Lime and subsequently M or Mother, Francis Alexander Waverly ( possibly formerly known as Frank Nugent ) and Sir John Night ( possibly formerly known as John Bull ).

The Famous Chicken appears at the 2001 White House Tee Ball Initiative a tee-ball game on the south lawn of the White House.

Chapuys also appears as a character in William Shakespeare's play The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII under the name of Capucius.

In The Railway Series books by the Reverend W. Awdry, a character called ' Pug ' appears in the 12th book, The Eight Famous Engines.

The " Foreign Engine ", also known as the " Big City Engine ", appears in the story ' Gordon Goes Foreign ' in The Eight Famous Engines in which he debates with Gordon and Duck over the name of the terminus station in London.

A biography of William Thom appears in the book, James Hogg by Sir George Douglas ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899 ) in the " Famous Scots Series ".

Recurring characters include Chainsawsuit, a man with a series of chainsaws strapped to his body for self-defense against zombies ; Famous Chef, a caricature of Gordon Ramsay ; Lazy Cat, an ultraviolent send-up of Garfield ; Two Cops, a police officer who was accidentally enrolled in the academy twice and is regarded by all characters as two separate people ; H. P. Wuvcraft, a cuddlier version of Lovecraft ; master pickup artist Huntyr Chase ; and Straub himself, who appears in some autobiographical comics.

Famous in Madison and among biochemists, Elvehjem's name appears on university awards, buildings, a town park, and a local elementary school.

Famous Italian artists served the king: Filippino Lippi, Verrocchio, Giovanni Dalmata, and Cristoforo Foppa.

Famous as Jack Oxendine, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be the most famous forebear of tap dance.

* Orient Express: The Life and Times of the World's Most Famous Train by E H Cookridge. Detail from a copy of the first publication of the book with black and white plates by Allen Lane London in 1979 ( ISBN 0-7139-1271-7 )

Famous players include Djalu Gurruwiwi, Mark Atkins, William Barton, David Hudson and Joe Geia, as well as white virtuoso Charlie McMahon.

Famous white body color with red stripes.

Famous white Zimbabwean golfers include Nick Price, Mark McNulty and Brendon De Jonge.

The book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U. S. South during the " Dust Bowl ".

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed " Ella and her Famous Orchestra " with Ella taking on the role of nominal bandleader.

Famous photographer Dorothea Lange took many pictures of the houses for her work for the Farm Security Administration.

Famous for her adulation of and friendship with Adolf Hitler.

The greatest fixed stars among Restoration actors were Elizabeth Barry (" Famous Mrs Barry " who " forc'd Tears from the Eyes of her Auditory ") and Thomas Betterton, both of them active in organising the actors ' revolt in 1695 and both original patent-holders in the resulting actors ' cooperative.

In 2007, McLaren's song " World's Famous " was sampled by R & B singer Amerie on the song " Some Like It " from her album Because I Love It.

On September 12, 1916, Kingsport residents demanded the death of circus elephant Mary ( an Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus ) for her killing of city hotel worker Walter Eldridge, who was hired the day before as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus.

Famous for her character-based costumes, she is often a special guest at fan conventions across North America.

The children's author Enid Blyton spent time in the area and some of her adventure stories like The Famous Five ( Kirrin Island ) featured castles that were said to be based on Corfe Castle.

These three roles, wrote the prompter John Downes, " gain'd her the Name of Famous Mrs. Barry, both at Court and City, for when ever She Acted any of these three Parts, she forc'd Tears from the Eyes of her Auditory, especially those who have any Sense of Pity for the Distress't.

Famous for her libido, she was bisexual, and her affairs with both men and women were carried out in ways that were scandalous at the time.

In her Famous Studios design, Olive Oyl is very tall and very skinny with tightly wound hair and enormous feet.

Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing in clubs on New York's 52nd Street such as the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat and the Onyx Club.

Blyton created several similar groups for her detective series, including The Secret Seven, The Adventurous Four ( not to be confused with The Adventure Series ) and Five Find-Outers, but the Famous Five is the best-known and most popular of these.

Famous cases include Greyfriars Bobby who attended his master's grave for fourteen years ; Hachiko, who returned to the place he used to meet his master every day for nine years after his death ; and Foxie, the spaniel belonging to Charles Gough, who stayed by her dead master's side for three months on Helvellyn in the Lake District in 1805 ( the fact that Gough's body was eaten by his dog was ignored in subsequent Romantic accounts of the story ).

The Cameron Crowe-created movie " Almost Famous " features a scene where a Black Sabbath groupie is telling aspiring journalist William Miller ( said to be created in Crowe's own image ) about how, " Marc Bolan broke her heart, man.

Thigpen had a long and prolific theater career, and appeared in numerous musicals including Godspell, The Night That Made America Famous, The Magic Show, Working, Tintypes and An American Daughter ( for which she won her Tony Award for her portrayal of Dr. Judith Kaufman in 1997 ).

The contemporary writer Giovanni Boccaccio has left us with the following description of Queen Joanna in his On Famous Women: " Joanna, queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, is more renowned than other woman of her time for lineage, power, and character ".

Susie and her friends create a group called the Famous Five just to annoy the Secret Seven. They create a cock and bull story and send Jack and George on a wild goose chase to Tigger's Barn. But when the two realise that something mysterious is really going on at Tigger's Barn, the Secret Seven are intrigued.