Apollo had a famous oracle in Delphi, and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae.

It was famous in antiquity for its oracle of Apollo Abaeus, one of those consulted by Croesus, king of Lydia, and Mardonius, among others.

Delphi became the site of a major temple to Phoebus Apollo, as well as the Pythian Games and the famous prehistoric oracle.

Antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of Apollo in nearby Daphne, which may have been cause for him choosing to reside there.

Pytho was the chthonic enemy of Apollo, who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece.

The name was soon changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple dedicated to Apollo in the town, containing a famous colossal statue of the god Apollo by Calamis, 30 cubits high, transported later to Rome by Lucullus and placed in the Capitol.

A famous rendition of the subject is Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne.

By the time of the Odyssey the island was already famous as the birthplace of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis.

He was chosen to be a judge between the famous musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas.

Python became the chthonic enemy of the later Olympian deity Apollo, who slew him and remade his former home and the oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece, as his own.

Some famous probes and missions include Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Vostok 1, Mariner 2, Ranger 7, Luna 9, Alouette 1, Apollo 8, and Apollo 11.

* One of the most famous symphonic poems in a mythological series composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in the 1870s is titled Le Rouet d ' Omphale, or The Spinning Wheel Of Omphale, the rouet being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used — in this version of the myth, it was Delphic Apollo who condemned the hero to serve the Lydian queen disguised as a woman.

From the early 1930s to the late 1940s, New York City's famous Apollo Theater in Harlem featured skits in which almost all black male performers wore the blackface makeup and huge white painted lips, despite protests that it was degrading from the NAACP.

The famous mission patch of Apollo 11 was the creation of Collins.

In 1895, company's president, George Gibson McMurtry, hired famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design a town for Apollo Iron & Steel's workers.

The famous red, white and blue boxing trunks first worn by Apollo Creed in his fight with Rocky in the first film make their fifth and final appearance in this film.

Perhaps the most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo program missions when man first landed on the Moon.

This camera type became also very famous when a heavily modified version of it was used in the U. S. Apollo lunar exploration program.

Sol Gittler ( Dick O ' Neill ) signs them up sight-unseen for the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, assuming from their music that they're a black band.

The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center:

The island is famous for the statue of Aphrodite ( the " Venus de Milo ", now in the Louvre ), and also for statues of the Greek god Asclepius ( now in the British Museum ) and the Poseidon and an archaic Apollo in Athens.

Mantua's most famous ancient citizen is the poet Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil ( Mantua me genuit ), who was born near the city in 70 B. C.

Marquis Gianfrancesco Gonzaga had brought Vittorino da Feltre to Mantua in 1423 to open his famous humanist school, the Casa Giocosa.

Under Francesco II the famous Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna worked in Mantua as court painter, producing some of his most outstanding works.

Though he tells us little of his own career as a commander and master at arms, he offers an extensive list of his more famous students, including Piero del Verde, Nicolò Borialino, Galeazzo di Mantua, and Azzone Francesco di Castelbarco, and details their martial exploits.

Vittorino ’ s lessons in Greek and Latin, mathematics, music, art, religion, history, poetry and philosophy were so enjoyable that his school was known as Casa Giocosa, “ Merry House .” It soon became famous all over Italy, and noble children from other cities came to Mantua to study with Vittorino.

The most famous and influential Italian troubadour, however, was from the small town of Goito near Mantua.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

The original machine, bearing its famous serial number, is still on exhibition at the Brown & Sharpe Precision Center in Providence.

In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.

Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, famous for classic purity of technique, begins its first U.S. tour in New York ( through Sept. 30 ).

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Conium maculatum has been used as a sedative and in treatments for arthritis and asthma in addition to its most famous use: as a “ humane ” method of killing criminals and philosophers.

Although relatively large for a theropod, Albertosaurus was much smaller than its more famous relative Tyrannosaurus, probably weighing less than 2 metric tons.

Aachen is also famous for its carnival ( Karneval, Fasching ), in which families dress in colorful costumes.

The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.

Then he penetrated into the Peloponnesus and captured its most famous cities — Corinth, Argos, and Sparta — selling many of their inhabitants into slavery.

Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite Amathusia remained famous in Roman times.

Aaron Copland's iconic 1944 ballet score Appalachian Spring, uses the now famous Shaker tune " Simple Gifts " as the basis of its finale.

Particularly famous for its apple crop, the valley hosts in excess of 1, 000 farms of various types, the majority being relatively small family-owned operations.

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

The area is famous for its Abadeh rugs.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

ARY is a diversified group with interests in several sectors, though it is most famous for its contribution to Pakistani television.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

Pushkar is also famous for its annual Pushkar Fair.