Until recent years, few people without some genuine claim to fame wrote or published autobiographies for the general public.

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 ".

In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home.

In historical terms, Hastings can claim fame through its connection with the Norman conquest of England ; and also because it became one of the medieval Cinque Ports.

The celebration was organized by Abraham de Vries, a Coster fan who became Haarlem's first librarian in 1821 and who received a commission from the city fathers to acquire Costeriana, or material relating to Coster's claim to fame.

A plaque commemorating this claim to fame was displayed at Ditton railway station until it was closed in 1994 when the plaque was moved to the ticket office on the Liverpool bound platform of the nearby Widnes railway station.

( Monti would go on to claim his rightful fame by celebrating another spiritual outsider, much akin to Pierrot — the Gypsy.

He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet.

Of particular note is the relationship between Rivers and Haddon, the latter of whom regarded the fact he had induced Rivers to come to the Torres Straits as his claim to fame.

He did not reunite with his family until 1933, when he went back to England to make The Ghoul, extremely worried that his siblings would disapprove of his new, macabre claim to world fame.

Assen's main claim to fame is the TT Circuit Assen the motorcycle racing circuit, where on the last Saturday in June the Dutch TT is run.

The same year The Insects became unavailable for co-production and having parted ways with Nellee Hooper, the band were introduced to Neil Davidge, a relatively unknown producer whose main claim to fame thus far had been an association with anonymous dance-pop outfit DNA.

His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite ( and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus ).

Critics claim that because some scientists ( and biological research companies ) wanted glory and fame ( and lucrative patent rights ), research progress was delayed and more people needlessly died.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

Unlike most of the other mining towns in the county, Copperopolis ' claim to fame is not gold, but copper.

Perhaps Fellows ' greatest claim to fame was as the location of a fictional event.

Although the first modern settlements date back to the 1920s and 1930s, Rancho Mirage got its claim to fame after World War II.

Perhaps Ramona's greatest recent claim to fame comes from Thoroughbred horse breeding.

Another claim to fame is that the Tri-State Marker is located just on the border of Thompson.

Cobden's claim to fame is its unique mascot, an Appleknocker, or a man with freckles wearing overalls, a flannel shirt, a straw hat, and chewing on a piece of straw.

Another more controversial claim to fame was the local house church established for a time in the 1970s by Hobart Freeman.

The town's annual celebration represents Long Grove's claim to fame: The Strawberry Festival.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission, or its duly authorized representatives, with respect to such claim.

if a receiver or trustee for any such partnership or corporation, duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, makes an assignment of the claim, or any part thereof, with respect to which an award is made, or makes an assignment of such award, or any part thereof, payment shall be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear ; ;

Even now no such claim is asserted.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

Beyond its connection to author Sterling North's boyhood and its onetime place as Wisconsin's premiere tobacco city, Edgerton's other major claim to fame is its association with Pauline Jacobus.

Orderic went on to claim that Ranulf was " educated from boyhood with base parasites among the hangers-on of the court ".

The neighborhood's greatest claim to fame is as the site of the birthplace of Walt Disney, whose boyhood home is located at 2156 North Tripp Avenue

This supports the claim that the place was his father's hometown.

In 1833 she travelled to his hometown to claim her paternal inheritance, which was in possession of an uncle.

Brushy Bill's claim is promoted by the " Billy the Kid Museum " in his hometown of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas.

The city also lays claim to be the birthplace and hometown of Mori Motonari, the famous Warring States era daimyo of the 16th century.