He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

It was the IBM PC's first " killer application "; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment.

However, a huge blow to Fleischer Studios occurred in 1934, after the Production Code was enforced and Betty Boop's popularity declined as she was forced to have a more tame personality and wear a longer skirt.

The huge popularity of the style prompted brewers to produce porters in a wide variety of strengths.

While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

The U. S., Japan and Mexico are three countries where there is a huge market and high popularity for professional wrestling.

Petrarch later retold the story in Latin, which is probably the biggest factor that contributed to its huge popularity in subsequent centuries.

This output of published wargaming titles from British authors coupled with the emergence at the same time of several manufacturers providing suitable wargame miniatures ( e. g. Miniature Figurines, Hinchliffe, Peter Laing, Garrisson, Skytrex, Davco, Heroic & Ros ) was responsible for the huge upsurge of popularity of the hobby in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

It fell out of fashion for a while in the middle 1980s, principally due to the emergence of polyphonic and later digital synthesizers, but has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since the 1990s — with contemporary artists highlighting the instrument, including Radiohead, Portishead, The Album Leaf, D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Chick Corea, Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, The Doors and Stevie Wonder.

The Glen Island date according to author Gunther Schuller attracted " a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800 ..." With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.

The CP / M operating system ( and its huge software library featuring hits like Wordstar and dBase ) was known to be " the Z80 disk operating system ", and its success is partly due to the popularity of the Z80.

According to Tan Jing Quee in the book " Comet in our Sky ", Lee Kuan Yew was being deceptive at this time: while pretending to be on the side of the jailed labour members of the PAP, he was secretly in collusion with the British to stop Lim Chin Siong and the labour supporters from attaining power, whom Lee had courted because of their huge popularity, without which Lee would most likely not have been able to attain power.

It has gained huge popularity among off-road enthusiasts within Russia, former Soviet republics as well as Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, and is preferred by many over other legendary 4x4s such as Land Rover, Jeep and Toyota.

Over the course of 1928, as Warner Bros. began to rake in huge profits due to the popularity of its sound films, the other studios quickened the pace of their conversion to the new technology.

The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

' Chamberlain used his popularity and the cause of imperialism in the election to devastating effect, and with the Liberals split over the issue of the war, the Unionists won a huge majority in the House of Commons of 219.

The huge popularity of Love on the Dole took the production to New York in 1936, where her performance attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw.

Initially, official disapproval of Codrington had to be restrained because of the admiral's huge popularity with the public.

Upon building Disneyland in 1955, Walt Disney regained a huge amount of popularity among the public, and turned his focus at producing his most ambitious movie ; Sleeping Beauty.

Bruce Springsteen declined an invitation to play at Live Aid despite his huge popularity in 1985, later stating that he " simply did not realise how big the whole thing was going to be ".

At that time CBS radio network executives plucked Crane out partly to help stop his huge popularity from affecting the suburban ratings of their New York flagship WCBS, and partly to re-energize their flagging West Coast flagship KNX in Los Angeles.

It was not until the huge box office success of John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ) and Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), both of which spawned numerous sequels and remakes and countless imitators, that the slasher genre began to gain widespread popularity.

Nevertheless, many people in the Liberal Party believed that Seddon's popularity was a huge asset for the party, and Seddon developed a substantial following.

Following on with 1985's Dance With a Stranger, Everett began to develop a promising film career until he co-starred with Bob Dylan in the huge flop Hearts of Fire ( 1987 ).

Bloom and Vlastnik noted that it was the score that made the show successful, as the songs " Stranger in Paradise " and " Baubles, Bangles and Beads " were " huge hits on radio, television and records.

Jason was followed by The Earthly Paradise, a huge collection of poems loosely bound together in what he called a leather strapbound book.

The passerines of Australia, also known as songbirds or perching birds, include wrens, robins, the magpie group, thornbills, pardalotes, the huge honeyeater family, treecreepers, lyrebirds, Birds of Paradise and bowerbirds.

Together with its rivers, lakes and bayous, and the 65, 000 acre Boeuf Wildlife Preserve, Caldwell is a huge attraction for hunters and anglers-a Sportman's Paradise in every respect.

Williams had scored Brian De Palma's commercial failure Phantom of the Paradise, but had also written huge pop-radio hits ( such as We've Only Just Begun ( lyrics ), and ( Just An ) Old Fashioned Love Song ).

Paradise Hotel has gained huge success in Denmark, with a substantial number of viewers.

Like in Denmark, Paradise Hotel has gained huge popularity and debate in Norway.

" Paradise " became a hit again in 1988 and is still a huge party favorite in the Netherlands.

* A huge sheltering tree on a hilltop near the end of Stealing Beauty, a 1996 film by Bernardo Bertolucci, crowns a series of images evoking the primordial Paradise garden.

Film critic Miles Krueger said that " the images of the Paradise Club and the huge musical number ( Final in Technicolor ) have become basic screen literature.

Thereafter, the UK appointed Henry Salt as consul in Egypt who amassed a huge collection of antiquities.

Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK.

Massive Attack's first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK.

The album was a huge success, and went platinum in the UK, but confused some fans expecting I Should Coco part 2.

The late 1980s House music raves such as Sunrise UK, spawned the idea of holding huge parties rather than hosting more intimate parties at small clubs.

Hicks was a huge hit in the UK and Ireland and continued touring there throughout 1991.

Upper Tooting Road, which runs between Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway station, has a huge number of Asian ( UK definition i. e. Indian / Pakistani etc.

When the UK government was asked to state where in the Iraqi government's declaration there were false or inaccurate statements, the reply was that it was a confidential matter and that " huge quantities of documents remain to be translated.

" became a huge hit in the UK in mid-1979.

Initially, the group was a huge hit in the U. S. and the UK, but Humble Pie split in 1975 due to lack of later chart success, and Marriott went solo.

* In September 2003, rap-metal band Limp Bizkit played a huge free show in the park to make up for a cancelled UK date.

it also had huge international success reaching No. 1 in both Australia and New Zealand and No. 8 in the UK.

The album itself was not a huge success in the UK upon release ( reaching No. 21 ), but was later certified Silver by the BPI for sales of 60, 000 copies by 1985.

BSB's shareholders and News International ( Murdoch ) all made huge profits on their investments, the 50: 50 merged venture had an effective multi channel quasi monopoly on UK satellite pay TV.

Eager to pay off a huge tax bill upon his return the UK in the late-1970s ( Purple's excesses included their own tour jet and a home Lord rented in Hollywood from actress Ann-Margret ), Lord joined former Deep Purple band member David Coverdale's new band, Whitesnake in August 1978 ( Paice joined them in 1980 and stayed till 1982 ).

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

It was a huge success and went platinum in the UK, charting at number 6 in the UK albums chart during the competitive pre-Christmas sales.

It was a huge success and reached # 2 in the UK singles chart, staying in the charts for 14 weeks.

The single became a huge hit in early 1981, making the top ten in the UK and several other countries, and reaching no. 1 in Germany and Switzerland.

However, when the title track " Vienna " was released as a single in early 1981, it became a huge hit and spent four weeks at No. 2 in the UK singles chart and was the 5th highest selling single in the UK that year.

", reach No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in the UK singles chart despite not even being released in that country – they got there purely on the strength of the huge number of people buying import sales of the German and Dutch single releases.

The lowering of specification levels around that time ( e. g. air-conditioning and alloy wheels became optional on the UK Ghia models ) may have indicated a desire by Ford to cut costs and recoup some of the huge sums invested in the original design.

In the UK, the new Cavalier was a huge success and challenged the supremacy of the Ford Cortina as the company car of choice.