Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.

Renowned for its coal and steel, Belgium has experienced strong industrial growth since the Middle Ages.

Renowned for his placidity, Reynolds often claimed that he " hated nobody ".

Renowned local architect Henry Ives Cobb designed several buildings for the exposition.

Renowned for his distinctive Cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over one hundred films and is one of Britain's most recognisable actors.

Renowned for the success of its cooperative education programs, it now has the largest engineering school in Canada.

Renowned for coining the term " dinosaur ".

Renowned for his performance of Shakespeare's greatest roles: Hamlet, Richard III etc.

Renowned for its prosperity and beauty, it may have been the largest city in the world at the time.

Renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for its spectacular display of spring wildflowers, Edgewood Park occupies of grasslands, chaparral, and wooded foothills between Highway 280 and the homes of Emerald Hills.

Renowned for its grand interior, some of the stained glass windows were designed by the 18th-century portraitist Sir Joshua Reynolds and contains works by Sir Jacob Epstein and El Greco.

Renowned for its healthful climate, the town earned the nickname of the English Riviera and favourable comparisons to Montpellier.

Renowned for the changes she wrought to the French and global music industry with her powerful and colourful performances, she is today still remembered by aficionados throughout the world.

Renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle outside the ring, Robinson is credited with being the originator of the modern sports " entourage ".

* Canterbury: Renowned for its cathedral.

Renowned for its vibrant colour and its ability to survive even perched on rocky, precarious cliffs, it has found an important place in New Zealand culture for its strength and beauty and is regarded as a chiefly tree ( rākau rangatira ) by Māori.

Renowned for its multi-storied houses-as mentioned by the Central Asian conqueror Babur-the city was part of the Mughal Empire in the 16th century.

The full modern English title for the work commonly known as Pantagruel is The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua and in French, Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua.

Renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan also lived in the town for several formative years while working for the Hartland Observer newspaper.

Both these limits are relaxed for Sports and Dealership licenses where a person of the " Renowned Shooters "- status is allowed a maximum of 5 arms and the dealer is allowed several arms as long as they are never armed or loaded and ammunition is kept safely locked.

Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial.

Renowned for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.

Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar, he was the founder of the House of Hillel school for Tannaïm ( Sages of the Mishnah ) and the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until roughly the fifth century of the Common Era.

Renowned mid-century literary critic Irving Howe spoke of Dreiser as " among the American giants, one of the very few American giants we have had.

Renowned in the Jewish tradition as a sage and a scholar, he is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and, as such, one of the most important figures in Jewish history.

Renowned in the Jewish tradition as a sage and a scholar, he is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and, as such, one of the most important figures in Jewish history.

Renowned as a climber, Mayo turned pro with in 2000, and became one of the Basque Country's prospects for glory.

Renowned for its emerald green waters, it is considered one of the best fly fishing streams in the Pacific Northwest for anadromous fish.

Renowned as much for her great beauty as for her singing voice ( and acting ability ), she became one of the most photographed stars of her time.

Renowned jazz singer Sarah Vaughn was one of his mentors.

Renowned British intellectual Aldous Huxley was one of the most important figures in the early history of LSD.

Renowned musician Jean Michel Jarre used one in his 2010 world tour.

Renowned film critic Richard Corliss called her performance "... the most honest, maybe the one honest portrayal in the Meyer canon and certainly the scariest.

As a World Renowned Drummer and Grammy Award Winner, Sonny is considered to be one of the greatest drummers to have come along in a while.

Renowned for its faithfulness to Christianity, tradition holds that the Convent of Our Lady of Saidnaya was constructed by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 547 AD, after he had two visions of Mary, one that indicated where to build the church and the other outlining its design.

Renowned for his work ethic, Seichō wrote short fiction while simultaneously producing multiple novels-at one point as many as five concurrently — in the form of magazine serials.

Renowned throughout his career for his trademark long, scraggly, " bushranger "- style beard, Reynoldson retired following the conclusion of the 2008 NRL season.

Renowned percussionist Emil Richards found a maker who built a set of cowbells with an extended range.

Renowned scientist George Stow excavated a cave near Smithfield in 1877 and found tools from the Late Stone Age which he described in the book, " Native races of South Africa ".

Renowned as an excellent manager of his bench, Mauch also had a reputation for provoking opposing teams with taunting, and of having a strong temperament that stressed himself and his teams excessively in the belief that he could win by sheer will.

Renowned calligraphers, they produce the Hebrew Torah scrolls and other holy texts by hand to this day.

Renowned by postwar scholars lucky to have seen it in Japan, The 47 Ronin wasn't shown in America until the 1970s.

In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector ( London, 1659 ), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.

Renowned historian Ivan Kukuljević-Sakcinski claimed that the site was occupied by the Romans and was known under the name of Helicanum.

* Renowned Vietnamese Intellectuals prior to the 20th Century ( essay by the Vietnamese historian Nguyen Khac Vien ) published by The Gioi Publishers, 2004.

Renowned soldier and military historian, Captain Cyril Longmore 44th Battalion AIF, first recorded the Australian troops doing trench digging practice on Salisbury Plain prior to embarking to Turkey and being called " diggers " by their mates as the origin of the term.

He also operated the Warner Renowned Remedies Company, which produced some products offered by mail order.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan () is an 1831 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, written after the Russian fairy tale edited by Vladimir Dahl.

Renowned as a player of huge potential, Anderton's career has been constantly frustrated by injury earning him the nickname " Sicknote " which was coined by Portsmouth goalkeeper Andy Gosney.

Renowned for the breadth of her acquaintanceship as well as for an ability to make keen and canny introductions, Weisberg was described as a " connector " by journalist Malcolm Gladwell in a January 11, 1999 New Yorker article titled " Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.

Royal Canadian Dragoon, Boer War Sculpture by Renowned sculptor Hamilton MacCarthy, Halifax Public Gardens ( 1903 ) The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the most senior cavalry regiment in Canada, having been formed on December 21, 1883, 3: 03 pm, as the Cavalry School Corps, as a result of the Militia Act of 1883, which also created the Infantry School Corps ( now The Royal Canadian Regiment ).

Renowned Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope of South Africa in 1498 and landed at Calicut ( present Kozikode of India ) by discovering the sea-route to India.

Renowned Lake District writer and walker Alfred Wainwright acknowledges the popularity of Catbells among fellwalkers of all ability by saying:

Renowned computer scientist Donald Knuth has recounted he read Syntactic Structures during his honeymoon in 1961 and was greatly influenced by it.

Renowned composers of contemporary music dedicated works to David Geringas, thus the Concerto in Do by Anatolijus Šenderovas, being played by David Geringas for the first time in 2002 and being awarded the European Composers Prize in Berlin, the Cello Concerto by Ned Rorem, world premiere 2003 in the USA, the Cello Concertos by Vytautas Laurušas and by Vidmantas Bartulis, world premiere 2004 respective 2005 in Latvia.