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In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be ' a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants '.
Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.
* Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain
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.
His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits.
At the same time Granada bosses commissioned trailers depicting famous Coronation Street fans, including former Brookside actress Sue Johnston ( Sheila Grant ).
There are many movies which are well-remembered and looked upon fondly in the former Soviet republics ; famous lines or jokes from these movies are often quoted and some have even become a part of the Russian language as sayings and idioms.
Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.
Houses of particular historical significance ( former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses ) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of built heritage and / or of streetscape values.
: In ancient times, there was a ship, called the " Theseus " after its famous former owner.
In 1976, two former Improv-Inc members, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed Spaghetti Jam, performing Short-Form improv and Harolds in San Francisco ’ s famous Old Spaghetti Factory through 1983.
Many of his former teammates and other famous black baseball players served as pallbearers, and the Rev.
* Dmitri Kuznetsov ( born 1965 ), Russian former footballer and he has served famous club RCD Espanyol in Spain.
Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.
Twenty three candidates stood for the presidential election, with George Weah, internationally famous footballer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and member of the Kru ethnic group, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former World Bank economist and finance minister, Harvard-trained economist and of mixed Americo-Liberian and indigenous descent.
University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.
Elquemedo Willett, born 1 May 1953, famous Nevisian cricket player and former Leeward Islands and West Indies left-arm spinner, was the first Leeward Islander to play Test cricket for the West Indies in 1973, when he was 19 years old.
Trials with Smith's SS Archimedes, the first steam driven screw, led to the famous tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto ; the former pulling the latter backward at 2. 5 knots ( 4. 6 km / h ).
Many of the former cocoa-producing areas of Trinidad retain a distinctly Spanish flavour and many of the descendants of the Cocoa Panyols ( from ' espagnol ') remain in these areas including Trinidad and Tobago's most famous cricketer, Brian Lara.
The former visit came amidst the historical setting after the fall of communism, as hundreds of thousands were chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of " Freedom works !".
Perhaps the most famous and best loved pieces of modern Uyghur literature are Abdurehim Otkur's Iz, Oyghanghan Zimin, Zordun Sabir's Anayurt and Ziya Samedi's ( former minister of culture in Sinkiang Government in 50's ) novels Mayimkhan and Mystery of the years.
Addictional, major examples of Neoclassical architecture in the city includes Palazzo Belgiojoso, former grand Napoleonic residence, and Palazzo Tarsis, built by Luigi Clerichetti for Count Paolo Tarsis in 1834, famous for its ornate façade.
Nicks is known for her distinctive voice, mystical visual style, and symbolic lyrics, as well as the famous ( sometimes tense ) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist / vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.
Most famous of those was the mission of Vojtěch from the Bohemian princely Slavník clan, former bishop of Prague.

famous and Kai
*** Kawachi Genji ( 河内源氏 )-also known as Genke ; descended from Minamoto no Yorinobu ; origin of Hitachi Genji ( 常陸源氏 ), Ishikawa Genji ( 石川源氏 ); and Kai Genji ( 甲斐源氏 ); famous for 3 Kamakura shoguns.
* Takeda clan ( 武田氏 )-also known as Takeda clan of Kai ; descended from Seiwa Genji ; famous for Takeda Shingen.
Another Legend suggests that the famous Fong Sai-Yuk was a master of Dishuquan and had passed his skills to monks in the Zhuyuansi Temple ( nowadays known as Guanyuan Temple ), this was passed through various generations until a monk named Hui Kai taught the style to Zheng Yishan.
2. 0, Yutaka Izubuchi, who is famous for his designs in Patlabor designed the MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai for Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket.
While working in a bank, he had a chance to meet the famous Thai TV producer " Kai Varayuth " who saw entertainment talent in Bird.
* He became famous for his anime character roles in his career as Kagege ( Keroro Gunso ), Kai Shiden ( Mobile Suit Gundam ), Shin ( Fist of the North Star ), Asuma Shinohara ( Mobile Police Patlabor ), Piccolo ( Dragon Ball ), and Ataru Moroboshi ( Urusei Yatsura ).
It was set up in 2012 by professor Max Heng and famous hawker Chow Kai Jin, teaching students from Jurong Garden primary school.

famous and Tak
* James Tak Wu: founder of Hong Kong's famous Maxim's Catering Limited, which is Hong Kong's largest food & beverage corporation and restaurant chain.
Following the success of Bhoot, Varma produced two other experimental films: Sriram Raghavan's Ek Hasina Thi ( 2003 ), a psychological thriller, and Shimit Amin's Ab Tak Chhappan ( 2004 ), a film about an inspector in the Mumbai Encounter Squad famous for having killed 56 people in police encounters.
The most famous exemplar was real-life martial artist Kwan Tak Hing ; he became an avuncular hero figure to at least a couple of generations of Hong Kongers by playing historical folk hero Wong Fei Hung in a series of roughly one hundred movies, from The True Story of Wong Fei Hung ( 1949 ) through to Wong Fei Hung Bravely Crushing the Fire Formation ( 1970 ).

famous and International
Karr was given Koussevitzky's famous solo double bass by Olga Koussevitsky and played it in concerts around the world for 40 years before, in turn, giving the instrument to the International Society of Bassists for talented soloists to use in concert.
The Continuum hypothesis, introduced by Cantor, was presented by David Hilbert as the first of his twenty-three open problems in his famous address at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris.
Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.
Venice is served by the Marco Polo International Airport, or Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo, named in honor of its famous citizen.
Zanzibar's most famous event is the Zanzibar International Film Festival, also known as the Festival of the Dhow Countries.
Though desperately ill with the then-untreatable disease, Ferenczi managed to deliver his most famous paper, " Confusion of Tongues " to the 12th International Psycho-Analytic Congress in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 4 September 1932 .< ref >
In 1968, International Master David Levy made a famous bet that no chess computer would be able to beat him within ten years.
This phase of the Airplane's career peaked with their famous performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967.
The most famous constructivist scholar, Alexander Wendt noted in a 1992 article in International Organization ( later followed up by a book, Social Theory of International Politics ( 1999 )), that " anarchy is what states make of it ".
The most famous is probably the Angoulême International Comics Festival, an annual festival begun in 1974, in Angoulême, France.
All year round local actors of the city art groups, famous Russian and international performers, International Contests Winners and Laureates give concerts here.
The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, with former name International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, ( known by its abbreviation ITC ) is famous for its MSc, Master's, Diploma and PhD courses in Geo-Information Science for developing countries.
Shady Dale's most famous resident is Andrew Norton, former head of both Pirate Party International and the US Pirate Party.
Located on the southern tip of Seneca Lake, one of western New York's deep, glacial Finger Lakes, Watkins Glen is the site of scenic Watkins Glen State Park, but is probably best known for its role in auto racing, being the home of a street course used in road racing, a famous racetrack, Watkins Glen International, and a historic race, the Watkins Glen Grand Prix.
Llangollen is most famous for the annual Llangollen International Eisteddfod, a week long event, usually starting on the Tuesday, and ending on the Sunday of the same week.
The city is also famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the largest such event in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest.
The sinking almost caused a diplomatic conflict between Japan and Great Britain, but it was finally recognized by British jurists as in total conformity with International Law, making Tōgō famous overnight for his mastery of contentious issues involving foreign countries and regulations.
Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants.
In 1935, he became director of Heineken International, the famous beer company.
Similar to Lenin's use of it, left communists, coming from the Communist International themselves started in fact with a theory of decadence in the first place, yet the communist left sees the theory of decadence at the heart of Marx's method as well, expressed in famous works such as The Communist Manifesto, Grundrisse, Das Kapital but most significantly in Preface to the Critique of Political Economy.
Tralee is also famous for the Rose of Tralee International Festival which is held annually in August.

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