Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

Notable contact was made with local peoples when the envoys of the Han Dynasty journeyed to this area in the 2nd century BC.

Notable local announcers include John Sterling ( New York Stars / Charlotte Hornets television ), Spencer Ross ( New York Stars radio ), Bob Sheppard ( New York Stars PA ), Mike Patrick ( Jacksonville Sharks ), Larry King ( Shreveport Steamer ), Larry Matson ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ), Fred Sington ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ) and Eddie Doucette and Vince Lloyd ( Chicago Fire radio and TV respectively ).

Notable local journalists to cover the team include John Canzano and Jason Quick of the Oregonian and Dwight Jaynes of the Portland Tribune.

Notable local buildings include Broomfield House and Truro House, both sadly in a state of some neglect.

See also Notable local politicians

* Notable places in the Prince Frederick area include Battle Creek Cypress Swamp -- a local nature preserve — and the Arthur Storer Planetarium, which is located on the grounds of Calvert High School.

Notable local musical acts include The Ocracoke Rockers, Martin and Friends, Aaron Caswell Band, Molasses Creek, Baby Dee and the Free Mustache Rides Again and Coyote.

Notable events include curling, carriage rides, ice sculptures, and live entertainment, plus BGSU Athletic events such as hockey and basketball games and figure skating exhibition with local stars such as Scott Hamilton.

Notable inhabitants of these properties were the Markwicks ( builders and carpenters, from 1700 ) at Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( Interestingly, the current generation of notable Markwicks in Uckfield run the local picture house ), Edward Kenward ( 19th century maltster ) at the Malt House, Thomas Pentecost ( a Victorian leather cutter and local poet ) in a cottage near the Grammar School and General Sir George Calvert Clarke ( commander of the Royal Scots Greys at Balaclava ) at Church House.

Notable soccer players, such as Arne Larsen Økland, Geirmund Brendesæter and Gunnar Meling, started their careers in Bremnes IL, one of the local sports clubs.

Notable institutions located in Forest Hill are the local Montessori School, Upper Canada College, the Bishop Strachan School, and Forest Hill Public Library.

Notable local products include watermelon, musk melon, cucumber, northern plum, and wine.

Notable sights there include the church of St. Clement, the Öömrang Hüs-a museum of local history, a wind mill and the Cemetery of the Homeless.

* Notable local manufacturing industries

Notable among local attractions are the Italian Gardens on Garnish Island ( Ilnacullin ), which may be visited by boat trip.

Notable regular local broadcasts include:

Notable local places to visit are Awaji Yumebutai ( Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse ), Nojima Fault ( the focus of the Great Hanshin Earthquake ), Akashi Kaikyo National Government Park, Honpuku-ji Temple and Awaji World Park Onokoro.

Notable national initiatives include changes to electoral systems to allow universal postal voting on a trial basis, and the process introduced in the Local Government Act 2000 by which the public can, via petition, call for a referendum on whether there should be a local elected mayor.

Notable students include the local federal MP, Bruce Billson, football players Nathan Burke and Russell Greene, journalist Shaun Carney, and actress Jackie Woodburne.

Notable performances during the campaign came from the men between the posts: The previous seasons keeper David Hills ceased playing early in the season ; for several games a temporary replacement, former 1950's Chelsea goalie, Bob Robertson appeared ; new custodian Brian Gambrill signed-on for £ 300 from Canterbury City and conceded seven goals on his home debut ( in a 7 – 1 loss to Worcester City-David Gillingwater hitting the ' Town's ' lone marker ); mid-season he became injured and for several matches local amateur ' keeper Reg Gorham stepped in ( echoing the make-up of the original Ashford United club he worked for the local free-sheet newspaper ).

Notable local figures include:

Notable players who turned out for the club during this period included midfielders Giancarlo De Sisti and Francesco Rocca.

Notable supporters of the Irish CND included Peadar O ' Donnell, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

Notable natives of the city have included jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and former National Football League running back Roger Craig.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

It was later included in the King James Bible, something Isaac Newton commented on in An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.

Notable operations included the Suez Crisis, the Battle of Algiers and various offensives launched by General Maurice Challe including Operations Oranie and Jumelles.

Notable Parsons-penned songs included "$ 1000 Wedding ", a holdover from the Burrito Brothers era, and " Brass Buttons ", a 1965 opus which addresses his mother's alcoholism.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Notable English victories in the Hundred Years ' War included Crécy and Agincourt.

Notable theorists of libertarian Marxism have included Anton Pannekoek, Raya Dunayevskaya, CLR James, Antonio Negri, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maurice Brinton, Guy Debord, Daniel Guérin, Ernesto Screpanti and Raoul Vaneigem.

Notable creators of happenings included Allan Kaprow — who first used the term in 1958, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman.

Notable victims included the Polish bishops Antoni Julian Nowowiejski and Leon Wetmański, as well as the nun Mieczysława Kowalska.

The term " object-oriented database system " first appeared around 1985. Notable research projects included Encore-Ob / Server ( Brown University ), EXODUS ( University of Wisconsin – Madison ), IRIS ( Hewlett-Packard ), ODE ( Bell Labs ), ORION ( Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation or MCC ), Vodak ( GMD-IPSI ), and Zeitgeist ( Texas Instruments ).

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

Notable verse fabulists have included Aesop, Vishnu Sarma, Phaedrus, Marie de France, Robert Henryson, Biernat of Lublin, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, Félix María de Samaniego, Tomás de Iriarte, Ivan Krylov and Ambrose Bierce.

Notable UK pulps included Pall Mall Magazine, The Novel Magazine,

Notable early emo bands included Rites of Spring, Embrace, The Hated, and One Last Wish.

Notable musical partnerships in the ' 70s and ' 80s included Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Hank Jones, and Cedar Walton.

Notable daily soaps that did exist included Family Passions, Scarlett Hill, Strange Paradise, Metropia, Train 48 and the international coproduction Foreign Affairs.

Notable prime time soap operas in Canada have included Riverdale, House of Pride, Paradise Falls, He Shoots, He Scores, Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, North of 60, and The City.

Notable téléromans have included Rue des Pignons, Les Belles Histoires des pays d ' en haut, Diva, La famille Plouffe, and the soap opera parody Le Cœur a ses raisons.

Notable features have included: