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One thing that is consistent about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it, so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters ( especially younger characters ) recognize neither him nor his name:
One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.
One reason for the Dolphins ' rushing success was the blocking of their offensive line, led by future hall of fame center Dwight Stephenson, along with Pro Bowlers Bob Kuechenberg and Ed Newman.
One of her political cartoons achieved a brief international fame: she drew Adolf Hitler as a crying baby in diapers, surrounded by Neville Chamberlain and other great European leaders, who tried to calm the baby down by giving it slices of cake – Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc.
One of the most learned men of his age, he has earned his fame due to his part in ecclesiastical conflicts, and also for his intellect and literary works Analyzing his intellectual work, Tatakes regards Photios as " mind turned more to practice than to theory ".
One Wired magazine editor stated the only reason for the outfit's fame is " no doubt that the sight of Carrie Fisher in the gold sci-fi swimsuit was burned into the sweaty subconscious of a generation of fanboys hitting puberty in the spring of 1983.
One of his personal victories, he later confessed, was not using his eventual fame to ruin the career of the offending officer.
One of the house's claims to fame is the length of the house ; over 300 feet ( 91 m ).
One of the important missions during the New Republic's creation was the failed rescue mission of Sate Pestage, which bolstered the fame of New Republic.
One asks him what that day is auspicious for, and Cathbad replies that any warrior who takes arms that day will have everlasting fame.
Since their rise to fame in recent years, singer Justin Bieber, boy band One Direction and country-pop musician Taylor Swift have become recent examples of modern-day teen idols who have achieved international success, known for their devoted teen and tween fan base.
One ancient Egyptian myth preserved in the Papyrus Westcar recounts the story of Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Heqet as traveling dancers in disguise, assisting the wife of a priest of Amun-Re as she prepares to bring forth sons who are destined for fame and fortune.
One noteble player was Van Tiffin, who went on to the University of Alabama and made his mark there by kicking a 52 yard game winning field goal against Bama's arch rivial Auburn that is now known in Alabama's hall of fame as " The Kick ".
One of them, " 5 Minutes Miss Brown ", was a fictionalized account of her rise to fame.
One refers to a locally stabled trotting horse that had set a four mile ( 6 km ) record, but as the horse reached the peak of its fame in 1869, it is unlikely that the notoriety would have still been evident in 1873.
One of Claypool's claims to fame is the fact that it is the hometown of two of Indiana's basketball greats, Judi Warren, who became the first Miss Basketball of Indiana in 1976, and Kevin Ault, Mr. Basketball of Indiana of 1996.
One of Hartland's claims to fame is its prestigious college: The Hartland University.
One of the city's claims to fame is when the 1970 high school basketball team won the Minnesota State Championship.
One of Erik's employees, Valerie Wilson, also gained fame in 2006 when for the second time in four years she won a million-dollar annuity prize in the lottery.
One of Soper's claims to fame is that bull rider " Freckles " Brown, born Warren Granger Brown, was from the town.
Joe Hancock foaled circa 1925, was raised by John Jackson Hancock, and was trained by Elbert Bird Ogle in Claypool, OK. One of his many claims to fame is having never been beaten in a quarter-mile race.
One of Cameron's claims to fame is its historical beach-style swimming pool, known as Cameron City Pool-PWA Project 1196, one of a few in the entire nation.
The show first aired on CBBC on BBC One and was a children's sitcom based on the lives of the group who had moved to Miami in search of fame in America.
: The famous Abbasid Caliph Haroun al-Rashid ( of A Thousand and One Nights fame ).

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One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
One is not more true than the other.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.
One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.
One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.
One is Greece is not yet suffering from overpopulation.
One of them is that it gives meaning and purpose to life.
One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.
One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

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