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Known as " La Diva Turca " ( The Turkish Diva ) and " La Regina " ( The Queen ) in the opera world, Gencer was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire encompassing more than seventy roles.
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Known as " the Ecstasy lady ", after hiring her, he insisted that she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from tuberculosis.
Known as ' La Marechale ' she founded the Salvation Army in continental Europe
Known as " La Ciudad Jardín " (" The Garden City "), Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located in the Valparaíso Region.
Known as " La Matanza " (" The Massacre "), this campaign saw the killing of some 30, 000 people under the guise of being supporters of the insurgency.
Known works include three comic operas: Les talents à la mode, Colas, toujours Colas, and the lost La chercheuse d ' esprit.
Known as " La Bonnotte ", only around 100 tons of this top quality potato are cultivated annually and it is harvested only on the island Noirmoutier.
Known as the La Ceiba Shipyard, this company offers a complete group of marine services for all types of sea going vessels.
Known as " La Promenade ," the shopping mall connects all four buildings and the Metro station together underground.
Known in Costa Rica as La Catedral del Futbol, that means The Cathedral of Football.
* La Conchita Residents Stay Despite Known Risks, a National Public Radio story from January 2005
Known for its border blaster status in the 1950s, it now uses the name La Ranchera de Monterrey and broadcasts ranchera music.
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Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).
Known as bell metal, this alloy is also the traditional alloy for the finest Turkish and Chinese cymbals.
Known as ebegümeci in Turkish, it is used as vegetable in Turkey in various forms such as stuffing the leaves with bulgur or rice or using the boiled leaves as side dish.
Known as the The Gallipoli Campaign, or the Dardanelles Campaign, in Turkey it is referred to as the Battle of Çanakkale (), in particular the sea battle which took place on March 1915 where the Royal Navy was repulsed by Turkish forces.
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Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University andNaval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and a major United States Navy training center.
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Greetland is also home to the Rose and Crown Pub ( Known locally as " The Crown " or more affectionately " The Frown ", it is also well known to by the locals as " The Rose ", The Branch Road Inn, The Sportsman Inn, The Spring Rock, The Star, The Travelers Rest, The Queen, The Shears and a number of Working Mens Clubs.
Known for an extreme devotion to his cause, and loyalty to his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Torquemada headed an organization of ecclesiastical courts which imprisoned, tortured, and burned suspected nonbelievers at the stake.
Known as Maria the Pious ( in Portugal ), or Maria the Mad ( in Brazil ), she was the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal.
Known as the Queen of All Media, and Philippines ' Queen of Talk, both of her parents are natives from Tarlac the youngest daughter of former Philippine senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. and Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, and sister of Benigno S. Aquino, III, the current President of the Philippines.
Known as the ' Queen ' of the Senate, Lucas was a proud native of Durham, North Carolina and an alumna of Hillside High School, attending the historically black school from 1951 until 1953 and teaching French and Spanish there from 1957 until 1975.
Known as the " Harrods of the North ", it has held a Royal Warrant since 1911, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988.
Known as the Toringian Queen ( also known as the Mirror Queen ) she is extremely vain, obsessed with preserving her youth and beauty and being the fairest in the land-which backfires on her when she acquired a spell for eternal life that did not grant her eternal youth-and has a gigantic mirror in her chamber that shows her as she was in life.
Known as the " Queen of Gospel Song Writers ", and as the " Mother of modern congregational singing in America ",
Known for her loveliness, Jane was chosen to be the " Queen of Beauty " at the Eglinton Tournament in 1839.
Known as " Queen's Cottage " Queen Victoria seldom visited it and to mark her Golden Jubilee in 1887 she presented this also to the country.
Known by the African-American community as " Queen of Wynnefield ," Jackson founded the Wynnefield Academy, a private, co-educational PK-4 elementary school in 1975.
Known as one of the first women to compete with men in roping and riding events, she was called Rodeo Queen, Queen of the Western Prairie, and Queen of the Saddle ( among many other appellations ).
* Queen Elizabeth II Stakes – ( 8 ) – Rose Bowl ( 1975 & 1976 ), Trusted ( 1977 ), Homing ( 1978 ), Known Fact ( 1980 ), Teleprompter ( 1984 ), Lahib ( 1992 ), Bahri ( 1995 )
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Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named " the Swan of Catania ", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera.
Known simply as " Abigail ", she became best known to Australians as a sex symbol, starting with the television soap opera Number 96 in the early 1970s.
Known for his experimental, and at times minimalist music, he has worked in rock groups, classical ensembles, theatre, experimental opera.
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* A world in Larry Niven's Known Space stories.
Known officially as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, and then as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1976 to 1991, Albania spent much of this time under the regime of Enver Hoxha, who severely restricted citizens ' freedom and contact with the outside world.
Known as the meat of the vegetable world, edible mushrooms are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines ( notably Chinese, Korean, European, and Japanese ).
Known for a rich taste and thick pulp, it is a prolific bearer, grown around the world.
The game is intended to be set on the Ringworld itself, an enormous single world discovered at the far reaches of Known Space, a ring around a sun at approximately the orbit of the Earth.
Instead, the game and rules focused on parties of characters exploring the Ringworld itself, and, despite its vast size ( with a surface area larger than that of all of Known Space's inhabited planets put together ), many who bought the game felt limited by this one world setting.
By common convention, the boundaries of the " Known World " are those covered in the world map as originally published in the module X1, The Isle of Dread, plus Norwold, the Isle of Dawn, and ( pre Wrath of the Immortals ) Alphatia.
His suicide was described by Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known wrote: " Mr. Siegel, as he lived, and also in dying, was true to the philosophy he founded: his purpose was to be fair to the world ".
* My Corona: The Anatomy Formerly Known as the Hymen & the Myths That Surround It Scarleteen, Sex education for the real world
Known as Peruvian Coastal Spanish, Lima's Spanish is characterized by the lack of strong innotations as found in many other regions of the Spanish-speaking world.
Known as Knightmare VR, this would use avatar technology to place the dungeoneer in a full 3D computer generated world.
Known by railroad enthusiasts and historians from around the world, it is unique in design and historic value for its longevity.
Known as " America's Roller Coast ", With 15 roller coasters, Cedar Point has the third-most roller coasters in the world.
Known for their clarity of tone, they are the first cast steel chimes in the world.
Known today as Halifax Harbour, it is one of the deepest, ice-free natural harbours in the world.
Known in the animation world as one of the art's most accomplished teachers, in 1973 Canadian animator Richard Williams brought Art Babbitt to his London studio in Soho Square to deliver a series of lectures on animation acting and technique that subsequently became famous among animators.
Known as the Cross of Sacrifice this simple stone structure serves as a prototype for war memorials found in every Commonwealth War Cemetery and other war memorials around the world.
Known affectionately as " The Pharmacy " among city residents, Norwich Pharmacal became world famous for its Unguentine antiseptic dressing ( introduced in 1893 ) and Pepto-Bismol, an upset-stomach and anti-diarrhea medication ( introduced in 1901 under a different name ).
Known as " The President's Wing ," the 89th Airlift Wing continues to contribute to Andrews ' rich history as the elite Air Mobility Command wing for transporting VIPs around the world.
what news do you hear of that good Gabriel Huff-Snuff, Known to the world for a fool, and clapped in the Fleet for a rhymer?
Known as Qasr Antar, it is the highest temple of the ancient world and was documented by Sir Charles Warren in 1869.
Known as the ' Lasallian Brothers ', the Institute's spirit is of faith and zeal: to have faith in God and an ardent zeal to teach the children, helping them in developing themselves so to live as brothers and sisters in a world of justice.
Known throughout the world as the " Spice Islands ", the Indonesian islands of Maluku contributed to the introduction of its native spices to world cuisine.
" Known for parachuting in to cover the latest global hotspot, CNN ’ s Christiane Amanpour is one of the most famous journalists in the world.
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