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 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.

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.

Renowned for his leadership ability, McDonald cultivated the respect of the team's younger players.

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 for his ability in the wet and on fresher tyres, Schumacher closed in on Hill at a rate of over a second a lap, but ran out of time to catch him.

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

Renowned Capoeira Masters are often invited to teach abroad or even establish their own schools.

Renowned Chicago theater companies include the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ( on the city's north side ), the Goodman Theatre, and the Victory Gardens Theater.

Renowned psychologist B. F. Skinner's theories of behavior were highly influential on many early instructional theorists because their hypotheses can be tested fairly easily with the scientific process.

Renowned Italian artist, furniture designer and metal sculpture musician Harry Bertoia settled in the area, and established his Bertoia Studio on Main Street in Bally.

Renowned palmist Cheiro learnt palmistry in India where he is believed to have read ancient scriptures on palmistry.

Renowned opera singer Mary Garden put Red Rocks on the world musical map with her performance on May 10, 1911.

Renowned comic artist and advocate of the medium of comics Art Spiegelman notes that records of prosecutions against publishers and artists for making Tijuana bibles do not seem to exist ; the cartoonist added, however, that on occasion authorities seized shipments and people selling Tijuana bibles.

Renowned Turkish traveler Ovliya Calabi, who lived in the AD 17th century, wrote about Mingecevir and described it as a large settlement on the right bank of the River Kur near the Bozdag Mountain.

Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, Ericson was the principal conductor of the Orphei Drängar choir at Uppsala University from 1951 until 1991, and choirmaster until 1982 of the Swedish Radio Choir which was established on his initiative in 1951.

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.

Renowned Soviet violinist David Oistrakh gave the premiere of the First Violin Concerto on 29 October 1955 with the Leningrad Philharmonic with Mravinsky conducting.

Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about him in the chapter " Prodigies " in his book An Anthropologist on Mars.

Renowned for his personality, Jimmie Crutchfield exemplified the " team player " who was a stable and positive influence on the field and in the clubhouse.

Renowned for his work on gasoline prices, McTeague has devoted much effort on pinpointing the causes ( s ) of rising fuel prices, going as far as predicting accurately on his website gas prices the day before they are posted in key markets in Quebec and Ontario.

Renowned for playing with his heart on his sleeve, Wood always put his body on the line with trademark charging runs at the defence, or bullish tackles.

Renowned solicitor Michael Chiu, who was previously on the Board of Selectors, said: " The standard of all the entrants is always excellent and it is an arduous task to decide on the final list of awards.

Renowned DJ John Peel championed Shitmat during the later part of his life and had him feature on the show regularly.

Renowned organists on these Master Series videos are: Catherine Crozier ( vol.