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.

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.

The Funanese Empire rose to eminence from its affluent and powerful home city of Oc Eo ( in nowadays Vietnam ), known in the Roman Empire as Kattigara, meaning the Renowned City.

Renowned architects, such as Carl Theodor Severin, students of the two old masters of Classicist architecture, Carl Gotthard Langhans and Friedrich Gilly, and Johann Christoph von Seydewitz built in rapid succession in the pure Classicist style: the guest house ( Logierhaus ), the parlour building ( Salongebäude ) with its prestigious ballroom in the Empire style, the Prince's Palace ( Prinzenpalais ), the Stahlbad bathing house, several town houses and the critically acclaimed Chinese-style pavilions, including the gem of garden architecture, the so-called Kamp.

Renowned as the " perfect cone " because of its almost symmetric conical shape, Mayon forms the northern boundary of Legazpi City, the largest city in terms of population in the Bicol Region.

Renowned for its fine acoustics, the church serves as a popular venue particularly for classical music.

Renowned for the quality of its products, the company was " always in the picture " in international motorcycle racing, from the mid-1920s through the 1950s, culminating in two world championship titles ( 1949 – 1950 350 cc ) and its legendary and still-unbeaten 24 hours at 100 mph ( 161 km / h ) record.

Renowned today for its gardens, it is a popular tourist site and said to be Nancy Lancaster's favorite home of all despite their divorce after only five years in 1953.

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

Renowned Irish tenor Ronan Tynan is famous for his version of the song, which has gained notoriety for its length ( his version includes the song's rarely heard prologue ).

Renowned for its flamboyance, lavish decor, clientele, and costumed dancers, the club now has a purpose-built venue in the Hockley district of Birmingham.

Renowned for its natural beauty, this lake has an adjacent settlement of approximately 600 people.

Renowned for its playability and appealing design, this board game developed a devoted fan base before going out of print in the late 1990s.

Renowned Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean was amongst its early board members.

It is also mentioned in ' The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ' ( an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ) and many other Slavic folktales.

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 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 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.

Renowned for his direct comments, in one of McManaman's broadcasts in February 2008, McManaman found himself criticised in the Liverpool press and by former Liverpool fans when his comments for Setanta after a Merseyside derby, on the ownership issue concerning debt involving Tom Hicks and George N. Gillett, Jr. at Anfield went down poorly with the supporters.

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.