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Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.
The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.
Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.
In the best-known version of this illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles ; the first central circle then appears smaller than the second central circle.
Around that time, Banach also began working on his best-known work, the first monograph on the general theory of linear-metric space.
Published in 1846, Typee was Melville's first book, and made him one of the best-known American authors overnight.
Some of the best-known traditions, including carnival parades and masquerade ball masquerading, were first recorded in medieval Italy.
The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source.
It was first settled by Illyric peoples, the best-known of whom were the Messapii.
His best-known assertion is that Property is Theft !, contained in his first major work, What is Property?
Their first release, " Sugar Baby Love " was an instant hit remaining at number one in the United Kingdom for four weeks in May 1974, while reaching number 37 on the U. S. chart that August, and remains their best-known record.
In 1934, he starred in the first sound film of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow, one of his best-known films.
Stead's best-known novel, with the ironic title The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940.
The Castro is one of the United States ' first and best-known gay neighborhoods, and it is currently the largest.
The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1966, but the best-known is Dolby B ( introduced 1968 ), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity practical on cassette tapes, and is common on stereo tape players and recorders to the present day.
Perhaps Zinnemann's best-known work to come out of the 1950s is High Noon ( 1952 ), one of the first 25 American films chosen in 1989 for the National Film Registry.
In his best-known book, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages ( 1971, with numerous reprints ), Lopez argued that the key contribution of the medieval period to European history was the creation of a commercial economy, centered at first in the Italo-Byzantine eastern Mediterranean, but eventually extending to the Italian city-states and over the rest of Europe.
They are also usually associated with witches, wizards and vampires ; the best-known stage version of Dracula, which first made actor Bela Lugosi prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden.
Calypso, especially a toned-down, commercial variant, became a worldwide craze with the release of the " Banana Boat Song ", or " Day-O ", a traditional Jamaican folk song, whose best-known rendition was done by Harry Belafonte on his album Calypso ( 1956 ); Calypso was the first full-length record to sell more than a million copies.
As leader of the nation's wealthiest and best-known university, Eliot was necessarily a celebrated figure whose opinions were sought on a wide variety of matters, from tax policy ( he offered the first coherent rationale for the charitable tax exemption ) to the intellectual welfare of the general public.
Lee first attracted attention performing in country music venues and shows ; however, her label and management felt it best to market her exclusively as a pop artist, the result being that none of her best-known recordings from the 1960s were released to country radio, and despite her country sound, with top Nashville session people, she did not have another country hit until 1969, and " Johnny One Time ".
Oread, one of her earliest and best-known poems, which was first published in the 1915 anthology, illustrates this early style:
The first and best-known Hobgoblin is Roderick Kingsley.
DeLorean's best-known contribution to Pontiac was the Pontiac GTO, widely considered the first muscle car.

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The best-known examples concern the collapse of the World Trade Center in the 11 September attacks, which led both to hoaxes and to reinterpretations by enthusiasts of several quatrains as supposed prophecies.
White Wolf Game Studio's Storyteller System, which is used in World of Darkness role-playing games such as Vampire: The Masquerade and live-action games under the Mind's Eye Theatre imprint, is the best-known and most popular role-playing game described as a " storytelling game ".
The World Service aims to be " the world's best-known and most-respected voice in international broadcasting, thereby bringing benefit to the UK, the BBC and to audiences around the world " while retaining a " balanced British view " of international developments.
He may be best-known for his roles as Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and as Sir Charles Lytton, a. k. a. " the Phantom ", in The Pink Panther.
Turner was married on May 11, 1963, to Geills McCrae Kilgour ( b. 1937 ) who was a great-niece of Canadian Army doctor John McCrae, the author of what is probably the best-known First World War poem In Flanders Fields, and sister of David Kilgour, a long-time Canadian Member of Parliament.
Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
He is one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War
Silver Creek's best-known resident is Howard " Bob " Ehmke, the pitching hero of the 1929 World Series.
Its main campus is a World Heritage site that was designed by some of Mexico's best-known architects of the 20th century.
* Writer John Pudney ( 1909 – 1977 )-who penned one of the best-known poems of World War II, For Johnny-was born in Langley
Her best-known book, The Camomile Lawn, set on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, was turned into a television series, and is an account of the intertwining lives of three families in rural England during World War II.
Two of her best-known skits included her as an elderly Jewish woman on Coffee Talk with Mike Myers, and her acting as Amanda Woodward in a Wayne's World skit with Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, and Phil Hartman, where Wayne has a dream that he is a character on Melrose Place.
His best-known publication is When Corporations Rule the World ( 1995 and 2001 ).
His best-known works include the Magnalia Christi Americana, the Wonders of the Invisible World and The Biblia Americana.
He is widely regarded as one of the best-known Soviet intelligence officers of the Second World War, according to Phillip Knightley, the author of The Second Oldest Profession ( 1986 ).
The String Quartet No. 4, perhaps Johnston's best-known composition has also been recorded by the Kronos Quartet, and the Kepler Quartet recorded it on a CD for the New World Records label, the first of a proposed series to document Johnston's entire cycle of string quartets.
* Eliot Asinof's book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series is the best-known history of the scandal.
His best-known book, The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, became a missionary slogan in the early 20th century.
His fame today stems from one of his poems, Achilles in the Trench, one of the best-known of the war poems of the First World War.
It is often argued that the best-known example of attrition warfare was during World War I on the Western Front.
He contributed to the satirical magazine Private Eye, of which Cook was publisher, his best-known work being the cartoon strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie.
Green was one of the best-known Jewish major league ballplayers, and the most prominent one with the New York Mets since Art Shamsky played right field for the World Champion Mets.
Another of his best-known songs, " No Man's Land ", is also World War I-themed.
The rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta ), also called the rhesus monkey, is one of the best-known species of Old World monkeys.

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