On 15 December 1906, the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR, now the Piccadilly Line ) opened between Hammersmith and Finsbury Park serving Earl's Court from platforms in deep tube tunnels constructed beneath the surface station.

** In the distance can be seen the Great Ferris wheel at Earl's Court exhibition ground.

The first Earl's wife, the former Lady Hester Grenville, daughter of the 1st Countess Temple, had earlier been created Baroness Chatham, of Chatham in the County of Kent, also in the Peerage of Great Britain, in 1761, as at that stage her husband had wished to remain a member of the House of Commons.

The miracle of democratic America comes home to one most strongly only when one has seen the endless Great Plains of the Midwest ; ;

Great actors and actresses -- the most notable being Sarah Bernhardt -- were hired to repeat their stage performances before the camera.

The most brilliant displays are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt.

The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

The lives of numerous abbots make up a significant contribution to Christian hagiography, one of the most well-known being the Life of St. Benedict of Nursia by St. Gregory the Great.

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

The most famous is Alexander the Great, who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.

The Great Andamanese were originally 10 distinct tribes with 5, 000 people in total ; most of the tribes are extinct, and the survivors, now just 52, speak mostly Hindi.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

Arguably his most read work is his biography of Anthony the Great entitled Vita Antonii, or Life of Antony.

The Great Powers, most notably France and Austria-Hungary, reacted to this diplomatic sensation by trying to dissuade the League from going to war, but failed.

The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

" He chose to make The Great Dictator — a " satirical attack on fascism " and his " most overtly political film ".

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

A search of historical observations revealed that the spots were probably the most prominent transient features ever seen on the planet, and that while the Great Red Spot is notable for its striking color, no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the SL9 impacts have ever been recorded before.

File: Great Mosque of Djenné 3. jpg | Great Mosque of Djenné, famous building made from banco, a type of adobe

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

Construction on what would in time become the world famous Great Mosque of Córdoba was started circa the year 786.

Other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon ( 336 BC ), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar ( 44 BC ).

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

The most famous Buddhist emperor was his grandson Ashoka the Great.

The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, and the Danube and Rhine borders were strengthened with a series of mostly wooden fortifications, forts, outposts and watchtowers, the latter specifically improving communications and local area security.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

Of these, Joan became the most famous, marrying Prince Llywelyn the Great of Wales.

It is famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, game, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and fro the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.

Among the most famous paintings on the ceiling are The Creation of Adam, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood, the Prophet Isaiah and the Cumaean Sibyl.

* 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

The most famous example of this is the putative division of all the aspects of the so-called Great Goddess into a number of goddesses with more specialized functions — Gaea, Demeter, Persephone, Artemis and Hecate among them.

Several famous groups have participated in movies, such as the Ramones in Rock ' n ' Roll High School, the Sex Pistols in The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle, and Social Distortion in Another State of Mind.

* In the opening chapter of his book God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens quotes from Richard Le Gallienne's translation of Khayyam's famous quatrain:

The most famous example is It Happened One Night ; some critics believe that this portrayal of the upper class was brought about by the Great Depression, and the poor moviegoing public's desire to see the rich upper class taught a lesson in humanity.

Siberians gained in popularity with the story of the " Great Race of Mercy ," the 1925 serum run to Nome, which made dogs Balto and Togo famous.

It is Edwards ' most famous written work, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730 – 1755.

The tetrarchy of Judaea, established after the death of Herod the Great, is the most famous example of the antique tetrarchy.

The famous Royal tombs, also called the Neo-Sumerian Mausolea, located about south-east of the Great Ziggurat in the corner of the wall that surrounds the city, are nearly totally cleared.

The ancient Egyptian pyramids are the most famous historical monuments devoted to the dead ( see Great pyramid of Giza ).

A famous landmark in the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, is an anticyclonic storm known to have existed for at least 300 years.