Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).

Cuba is famous for its old cars and trucks, which can be seen in daily use throughout the country.

The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6, 000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound ; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.

) His Pooh work is so famous that 300 of his preliminary sketches were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old.

The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph.

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.

His most famous blunder occurred when he altered 12 year old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of " potato " to " potatoe " at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992.

: But the successes and reverses of the old Roman people have been recorded by famous historians ; and fine intellects were not wanting to describe the times of Augustus, till growing sycophancy scared them away.

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

Most old Japanese swords can be traced back to one of five provinces, each of which had its own school, traditions and " trademarks " ( e. g., the swords from Mino province were " from the start famous for their sharpness ").

Historic Places and Buildings: Chowkandi graveyard is the most historic place in Karachi, famous for many hundred years old tombs.

So you throw the tape in the back of a dark closet until your old girlfriend remembers it ’ s there because you ’ re famous now and she ’ s not.

Kitt Peak is famous for hosting the first telescope ( an old 91 cm reflector ) used to search for near-Earth asteroids, and calculating the probability of an impact with planet Earth.

The area has seen an increase in tourism, particularly with regard to the beaches at the Baltic Sea, Isle of Rügen, the Mecklenburg Lakeland ( Mecklenburgische Seenplatte ), the Mecklenburg Switzerland ( Mecklenburgische Schweiz ) with its pristine nature, and the old Hanseatic towns well known for the famous Brick Gothic churches.

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.

The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance, " An old tax is a good tax ".

another important point in Tibetan Buddhism, is the famous concept of the Tulku or Trulku, which means that lamas make a " reincarnation ", and the disciples look for the child as the new " body " of their old master.

George Lucas is famous for the sweeping use of wipes in his Star Wars films, which help evoke a kinship to old pulp science fiction novels and serials ; he was inspired by a similar use of wipes by Akira Kurosawa ( as can be seen in The Hidden Fortress ).

Wonder Mike ( born Michael Anthony Wright on April 30, 1957 ) is an old school rapper, famous for being a member of The Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to produce a record, " Rapper's Delight ".

The old Fiera area is being completely rebuilt thanks to the project Citylife and will feature, amongst residences, museums and a large park, three skyscraper designed by famous international architects, from whom they will take the names: Isozaki Tower, Hadid Tower and Libeskind Tower.

The most famous of houses are Zinat-ol-Molook House and Gahavam's House, both in the old quarters of the city.

Among the most famous artists of the old master print: Albrecht Dürer produced 3 drypoints before abandoning the technique ; Rembrandt used it frequently, but usually in conjunction with etching and engraving.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

Mary Peabody Mann served as a French instructor for a time. The school was briefly famous, and then infamous, because of his original methods.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

* 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood ; renamed, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

The most famous of the French deists was Voltaire, who acquired a taste for Newtonian science, and reinforcement of deistic inclinations, during a two-year visit to England starting in 1726.

The first encyclopedias in vernacular language were translations or abridgements of works in Latin. Among them the most famous is Li livre dou Trésor, written in French by

A French translation of Chambers ' work inspired the Encyclopédie, perhaps the most famous early encyclopedia, notable for its scope, the quality of some contributions, and its political and cultural impact in the years leading up to the French revolution.

Intelligence Service was in fact " Pandora " ( 1985 ), a software developed for their thesis by two academic students of Jean-Louis Laurière, one of the most famous and prolific French AI researcher.

* 1503 – Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.

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

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

French actor Gérard Depardieu was involved in a famous row with American feminists because he mistakenly said he " assisted " a rape in his tumultuous teenage years, while what he really meant was that he had " witnessed " one such event.

Other local delicacies are the praline chocolates from local producers such as Leonidas and Dascalides, the ' neuzekes ' (' noses '), cone-shaped purple jelly-filled candies, ' babeluten ' (' babblers '), hard butterscotch-like candy, and of course, on the more fiery side, the famous ' Tierenteyn ', a hot but refined mustard that has some affinity to French ' Dijon ' mustard.

From the times of Isaac Vossius, several scholars adhered to this position, most notably the so-called " French school " during the 19th century, which included the famous chemist Marcellin Berthelot.

For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, " enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history ".

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 ").

Furthermore the museum shows the famous works of the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle.

These designs were partly an homage to the fastidious geometry of the famous French landscape architect André Le Nôtre ( 1613 – 1700 ).

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.