Deirdre ( ) or Derdriu is the foremost tragic heroine in Irish mythology and probably its best-known figure in modern times.

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.

Today, the best-known painters of the Dutch Golden Age are the period's most dominant figure Rembrandt, the Delft master of genre Johannes Vermeer, the innovative landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and Frans Hals, who infused new life into portraiture.

His best-known students-many of whom continued to correspond with him during his long life-included ( in addition to Joseph Black, who became his colleague ) Benjamin Rush, a central figure in the founding of the United States of America ; John Morgan, who founded the first medical school in the American colonies ( the Medical School at the College of Philadelphia ); William Withering, the discoverer of digitalis ; Sir Gilbert Blane, medical reformer of the Royal Navy ; and John Coakley Lettsom, the philanthropist and founder of the Medical Society of London.

Goldsmith vowed that the party would continue but his death in July deprived it of its best-known figure and the money he offered.

His best-known works are his novels about Vergil Magus, the magician that medieval legend made out of the Roman poet Virgil ; the Peregrine novels, a comic view of Europe shortly after the fall of Rome ; the Jack Limekiller stories about a Canadian living in an imaginary Central American country modelled after Belize during the 1960s, and the stories of Dr. Eszterhazy, a sort of even more erudite Sherlock Holmesian figure living in the mythical Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania, the waning fourth-largest empire in Europe.

Conservatism generally dates back to 1790 when the best-known figure of conservatism, Edmund Burke, wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The Schenken von Stauffenberg are an aristocratic Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany, whose best-known member was Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 " 20 July plot " to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Being the best-known figure in unlicensed boxing produced for McLean not only fans, but also enemies, including some of his rivals ' supporters, and some who had lost money betting on McLean's opponents.

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren ( November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002 ), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.

The best-known figure of the PS was the late poet and president, Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Elmore's best-known work is On the Brink ( 1865 ; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ), a moral genre painting depicting a young woman who has lost her money gambling, and is ' on the brink ' of responding to the blandishments of a seducer, who is depicted as a satan-like figure, luridly bathed in red light, and whispering corrupting thoughts in her ear.

One of the United Kingdom's best-known archaeological sites, the White Horse is a long Bronze Age hill figure, cut out of the turf on White Horse Hill on the Berkshire Downs, just south of the village of Woolstone.

His best-known latter day appearance is in the mini-series Batman: The Long Halloween, where he is portrayed as a Hannibal Lecter-like figure, offering insight in Batman's search for Holiday, a serial killer who uses holidays as his modus operandi.

William James Müller ( 28 June 1812 – 8 September 1845 ) was an English landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

The 1000-kilometre Kinshasa-Kisangani route on the Congo River is the longest and best-known.

In his " On the Nature of Things ," Lucretius appears to suggest this in the best-known passage on Epicurus ' position.

This epistle contains some of the best-known phrases in the New Testament, including ( depending on the translation ) " all things to all men " ( 9: 22 ), " without love, I am nothing " ( 13: 2 ), " through a glass, darkly " ( 13: 12 ), and " when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child " ( 13: 11 ).

The best-known FFT algorithms depend upon the factorization of N, but there are FFTs with O ( N log N ) complexity for all N, even for prime N. Many FFT algorithms only depend on the fact that is an th primitive root of unity, and thus can be applied to analogous transforms over any finite field, such as number-theoretic transforms.

The album contains one of Parsons ' best-known songs, " Luxury Liner ", as well as an early version of " Do You Know How It Feels ", which he revisited later on in his career.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

Irenaeus ' best-known book, Adversus Haereses or Against Heresies ( c. 180 ) is a detailed attack on Gnosticism, which was then a serious threat to the Church, and especially on the system of the Gnostic Valentinus.

The alternate mix was remastered by legendary sound engineer Steve Hoffman, who is best-known for his meticulousness in remastering high quality audiophile back catalogue recordings of artists such as Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell ( Hoffman gained international prominence for his classic work on gold-plated CDs for the DCC label ).

* Enemy characters and items based on mandrakes are found in a number of video games ; the best-known example is the Pokemon Oddish.

Machiavelli's best-known book, " Il Principe ," contains a number of maxims concerning politics, but rather than the more traditional subject of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a " new prince.

Lawrence of Rome, his best-known deacon, suffered martyrdom on 10 August, 3 days after his bishop, as Sixtus had prophesied.

His best-known work was a book on education, De Disciplinis, published in 1531, and his writings on rhetoric included Rhetoricae, sive De Ratione Dicendi, Libri Tres ( 1533 ), De Consultatione ( 1533 ), and a rhetoric on letter writing, De Conscribendis Epistolas ( 1536 ).

Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding, with which about 10 % of the Sami are connected and 2, 800 actively involved on a full-time basis.

Due to its striking uniform, it is arguably the best-known part of the Sammarinese military, and appears on countless postcard views of the republic.

The best-known application of the protocol is for access to shell accounts on Unix-like operating systems ( it can be used in a similar fashion for accounts on Windows, though that is not a very popular option due to RDP / Terminal Server ).

VT-8's first and best-known combat mission came during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.

The best-known intervention mission was ending the combined siege of a train and a primary school, which was done by South-Moluccan terrorists.

Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.

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.

In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse.

228 ( dedicated to the Habsburg field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ), which would become one of his best-known compositions.

Among the best-known Jewish ossuaries of this period are: an ossuary inscribed ' Simon the Temple builder ' in the collection of the Israel Museum, another incribed ' Elisheba wife of Tarfon ', one inscribed ' Yehohanan ben Hagkol ' that contained an iron nail in a heel bone suggesting crucifixion, another inscribed ' James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus ', the authenticity of which is suspect, and ten ossuaries recovered from the Talpiot Tomb in 1980, several of which are reported to have names from the New Testament.

Most of the best-known national anthems were written by little-known or unknown composers such as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of " La Marseillaise " and John Stafford Smith who wrote the tune for " The Anacreontic Song ", which became the tune for " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

Dean Jessee, an editor of Joseph Smith's papers and the best-known expert on handwriting and old documents in the Historical Department of the LDS Church, concluded that the document was a Joseph Smith holograph.

The best-known Poles who bore these arms were Joseph Conrad ( Korzeniowski ) and Sędziwój Ostroróg.

One of her best-known poems, " Invocation, or the Eternal Father and Mother ," was written soon after the death of her father and just over a year after the death of Joseph Smith.

Two of them were slightly famous on their own: his Uncle Pat was " Blacky the Bootblack ", whom Joseph Kennedy credited as his main influence when he sold all of his stock holdings in the summer of 1929 ( the market crashed in October ), and his aunt Pauline was one of the best-known chefs to the stars, working for Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and many other luminaries.

The best-known commentary on the Arba ' ah Turim is the Beit Yosef by Rabbi Joseph Caro: this goes beyond the normal functions of a commentary, in that it attempts to review all the relevant authorities and come to a final decision on every point, so as to constitute a comprehensive resource on Jewish law.

A descendant of Welsh Quakers who had emigrated in 1698, William Parker Foulke was an abolitionist, prison reformer, pamphleteer, philanthropist, lawyer, historian and geologist, the last of which directly led to the discovery, which was partially named for him by Joseph Leidy and for which he is now best-known.

Joseph Sullivan, the model for Inspector Lew Erskine, the fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series The FBI, was perhaps the best-known of the Bureau's Major Case Inspectors.

Joseph Simon was perhaps the best-known Jewish merchant in the county, while Dr. Isaac Cohen, one of the first residents of Lancaster, was the earliest Jewish physician in Pennsylvania.

Geefs was born at Antwerp, the eldest of six brothers in a family of sculptors, the best-known of whom are Joseph Geefs ( 1808 – 1885, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1836 ) and Jean Geefs ( 1825 – 1860, and winner of the prize in 1846 ).