File: Raminathicket2. jpg | Room 56-The famous ' Ram in a Thicket ' figure, from Ur, circa 2600 BC

File: Standard of Ur-War. jpg | Room 56-The famous ' Standard of Ur ' figure, from Ur, circa 2600 BC

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Each civilization is led by a famous historical figure, such as Mahatma Gandhi for Indians.

Vittoria Colonna became famous in the sixteenth century as a poet and a figure in literate circles.

The slaughter effectively ended the threat to the new government, while, at the same time, made Bonaparte a famous — and popular — public figure.

First, because Hercules was a famous mythological figure, and had previously been used by the monarchy, he was easily recognized by educated French observers.

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

The most famous figure of the French resistance was Jean Moulin, sent in France by de Gaulle in order to link all resistance movements ; he was captured and tortured by Klaus Barbie ( the " butcher of Lyon ").

Alberti believed in ideal beauty, but Leonardo filled his notebooks with observations on human proportions, page after page, ending with the famous drawing on the Vitruvian man, a human figure related to a square and a circle.

The quality is “ proven ” by references to famous brand, sporting figure, racing team, some professional endorsement or some similar subjective claim.

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

In the general view of Oromo people's role in Ethiopia, Ras Gobana Dacche is a famous Oromo figure who led the development of modern Ethiopia and the political and miliatary incorporation of more territories into Ethiopian borders.

The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of Papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary.

Mozart's most famous pupil, whom the Mozarts took into their Vienna home for two years as a child, was probably Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a transitional figure between Classical and Romantic eras.

One of the main characters, the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, is based on an actual historical figure: Hans Sachs ( 1494 – 1576 ), the most famous of the historical Mastersingers.

Tantalus ( Greek, Tántalos ) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus.

Foucault died in Paris of neurological problems compounded by the HIV / AIDS virus ; he was the first famous figure in France to have died from the virus, with his partner Daniel Defert founding the AIDES charity in his memory.

A colorful figure, he claimed to be descended from Odin, was linked to two famous shieldmaidens, Lathgertha in the Gesta Danorum, and Queen Aslaug according to the Völsungasaga.

José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera de la Catrina (" skull of the rich woman ") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female.

One famous figure from the Sephardic Ashkenazic population is Glückel of Hameln.

He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School.

The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.

Although famous for horses and dancers, Degas began with conventional historical paintings such as The Young Spartans, in which his gradual progress toward a less idealized treatment of the figure is already apparent.

Before the war, in 1912, he had published the book The Good Soldier Švejk and other strange stories ( Dobrý voják Švejk a jiné podivné historky ) where the figure of Švejk appeared for the first time ; but it was only after the war in his famous novel that Švejk became a sancta simplicitas, a cheerful idiot who joked about the war as if it were a tavern brawl.

Another famous figure from the Kunduz area was Haji Nazikmir Khan.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

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

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

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 child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

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

That's because the good professor teaches only Weider methods at his famous Montreal Health Studio which is located at 1821 Mt. Royal East in Montreal.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.

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

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the White House, is the most famous address of the free world.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

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.

His famous criticism of brother Henry's `` third style '' is surely as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced.

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.

The case is famous for Lincoln's use of a fact established by judicial notice in order to challenge the credibility of an eyewitness.