A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

The result, coupled with the salesmanship for which American industry is famous, is considerable expenditure of funds and efforts in marginal areas.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The story is of a famous strip cartoonist, an arty individual, whose specialty is the American boy and who adopts a 10-year-old to provide him with fresh idea material.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

These lampoons include appealing to the authority of " a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London " and " the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa " ( who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706 ).

Perhaps the most famous video card in the North American market was the NewTek Video Toaster.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

* Honey Cone, an American R & B and soul singing girl group who was most famous for the # 1 hit " Want Ads "

American socialite Paris Hilton is a celebrity who is believed to typify the modern " famous for being famous " paradigm.

Building on the work of Clausius, between the years 1873-76 the American mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs published a series of three papers, the most famous one being the paper On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.

The black and red No. 3 continues to be one of the most famous logos in North American motor racing.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs " American Pie " and " Vincent ".

She has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

The products of American high schools are illiterate ; and a degree from a famous college or university is no guarantee that the graduate is in any better case.

The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military " Pep Talk " to members of the Third Army, set against a huge American flag.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

The most famous was Masada, where, in 70-73 CE, a small group of Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman legion, and Machaerus where, according to Josephus, John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas and died.

Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

The Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont about 1635, thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous experiment with a willow tree.

Accompanying his body were three of his famous students: Johann Baptist Cramer, John Field and Ignaz Moscheles.

— Jan Baptist van Helmont performed his famous tree plant experiment in which he shows that the substance of a plant derives from water, a forerunner of the discovery of photosynthesis.

Baxley was most famous for prosecuting and convicting ( with an all-white jury and minimal evidence ) Robert Edward Chambliss for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham.

Johann Strauss I ( March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849 ; ; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss, Sr., the Elder, the Father ), born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty.

Truett ( the brother of the famous pastor George W. Truett of First Baptist Church-Dallas fame ) was the first pastor and founder of Calvary Baptist Church which formed in 1907.

Above the start of the lock cut is a memorial to the famous Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon, who was baptised in the river on 3 May 1850.

* Riverside Church-an interdenominational American Baptist and UCC church in New York City, famous for its elaborate Neo-Gothic architecture and its history of social justice.

" This Mosque of Damascus is famous for containing the head of John the Baptist.

* Thomas Spurgeon-successful evangelist and son of famous English Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The painting collection includes religious art, particularly images of patron saint of the Order, St. John the Baptist, portraits of Grand Masters, Knights and clergy, sea and landscapes, depicting naval battles and views of Malta ; prints and drawings include portraits of the Knights, topographical views and maps showing the famous fortifications on their island homes, as well as prints of the English Priory and the surrounding area of Clerkenwell.

Sankey's hymns were promoted by the famous London Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon, long afterwards.

One of the TV episodes was Hill Number One, famous for featuring an early appearance by James Dean ( as John the Apostle-not John the Baptist, as is commonly thought ).

* 1662-The famous Baptist Minister John Moore was born at Oakworth Hall.

American Baptist preacher and anti-evolution campaigner William Bell Riley, " The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism ", founder of the World Christian Fundamentals Association and of the Anti-Evolution League of America was another prominent day-age creationist in the first half of the 20th century, who defended this position in a famous debate with friend and prominent young Earth creationist Harry Rimmer.

Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, Isabella Beeton ( the famous cookery writer ), who died at 28 in childbirth, Lloyd Jones ( socialist ), Co-operative Society activist, to name but a few.

Barbara Johns was the niece of Vernon Johns, the famous, black Baptist preacher and civil rights leader.

His interest grew to a furious sort of " backwards homesickness ", inspiring him to obtain Baptist orders, and eventually write his famous 1792 pamphlet, " An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of Heathen.

It was there and at subsequent New York clubs such as Tarots and his most famous nightclub, Sanctuary — a former German Baptist church at 43rd Street & 9th Avenue ( featured in the movie Klute ) — where Grasso perfected his craft.

He was immediately hired as pastor of a Baptist church whose most famous member was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who then funded the Riverside Church in Manhattan's Morningside Heights area overlooking the Hudson River, where Fosdick became pastor as soon as the doors opened in October 1930, prompting a Time Magazine cover story on October 6, 1930 ( pictured ).

He eventually became famous enough to start demanding payment for his performances and used the money to support his family and his secondary education at the Baptist Boys High School Abeokuta, where he excelled.