He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

And of course religious life continues to center in the more famous mosques, and commercial life -- very much a social institution -- in the bazaar.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

But the famous orator felt more than vague recognition for the scene.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

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

Liberality resembles Duquesnoy's famous Santa Susanna, but rendered more elegant.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.

One of his more famous works, the Summa which is important because of is its system for determining if a war is just.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

The Battle of Marathon is perhaps now more famous as the inspiration for the Marathon race.

John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

The Cretaceous is justly famous for its chalk ; indeed, more chalk formed in the Cretaceous than in any other period in the Phanerozoic.

A famous example is the ill-fated Westward expedition of the Donner Party, and more recently the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, after which some survivors ate the bodies of dead passengers.

If one has to name a famous boxer, they are more likely to name Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, since their fame expanded beyond the sport itself.

In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram ( another " James Ingram " – not the more famous solo artist ).

This resulted in the famous " Letter to the Alexandrians ", which reaffirmed Jewish rights in the city but also forbade them to move in more families en masse.

One of the more famous edicts concerned the status of sick slaves.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

Some Howard scholars believe this Conan to be a forerunner of the more famous character.

Among the more famous regiments in the lineages of modern Indian and Pakistani Armies are: The charge of the 21st Lancers at Battle of Omdurman | Omdurman

It is derived from grand hazard, and both can be considered a variant of sic bo, a popular casino game, although chuck-a-luck is more of a carnival game than a true casino game.

A slot machine ( American English ), informally fruit machine ( British English ), the slots ( Canadian English ), poker machine or " pokies " ( slang ) ( Australian English and New Zealand English ) or simply slot ( American English ) is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.

Like most tournaments, the sponsoring casino takes an entry fee ( a percentage between 6 % and 10 %, depending on the buy-in ) and distributes the rest, hence the prize money increasing with more players.

In August 2011 the city was the scene of a terror attack on a casino, in which more than 50 people were killed.

In 2010 the state offered the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin more than 300 acres in Sullivan County in the Catskill Mountains, with permission to construct a gambling casino, and 2 acres in Madison County, to settle their part of the suit.

It is depicted as being much more powerful than it was in any of the films or books, possessing a massive undersea black market known as The Octopus, resembling Karl Stromberg's lair from The Spy Who Loved Me, a large lair built into an extinct volcano akin to the films which is used as the main base of operations, and also the personal structures of its members such as Auric Goldfinger's Auric Enterprises and casino and Dr. No's Crab Key, also returning from the films.

As one of seven Los Angeles County cities that allow casino gambling, more than $ 9. 2 million ( 65 %) of the city's revenue comes from the Hawaiian Gardens Casino.

Faced with not complying with New Jersey gaming regulations, MGM Mirage decided to sell its highly profitable Borgata hotel casino in Atlantic City in order to continue pursuing the even more lucrative Chinese market.

The name is now applied more generally to all of the east end of Montville, which is the area served by the Uncasville ZIP code, including the Mohegan reservation in northeastern Montville that is the site of the Mohegan Sun casino resort and the Mohegan Sun Arena.

He habitually has issues that require Delinda's attention, and develops a rivalry with Wolfgang Puck when the more famous chef opens a restaurant at the casino.

The show's keyboardist ( Albert Berman for most of the episodes ), however, arguably utilized the instruments in a more innovative way than others — not only for punctuation of climactic moments, but also as an element of the scripts, as in the lazy, boogie woogie riffs in the clandestine casino scenes in " Good Ghost " ( 24 November 1948 ).

Special Events is most well known for their make and take programming that allows students to enjoy fun activities such as " Build-A-Bull ," where students get the opportunity to make their own stuffed animal bull mascot, as well as tie-dye events, casino nights where students are able to compete for over $ 1, 000 in prizes and many more.

Foster rode a wave of popular dissatisfaction with the more unsavory aspects of the casino gambling that had been legalized by outgoing governor Edwin Edwards.

The vast majority of authentic casino chips are " clay " chips but can be more accurately described as compression molded chips.

Chips are also available in denominations of $ 1000 or more, depending on the wagering limits of the casino.

The World Series of Poker at one time actually used its casino tokens for the poker tournaments, but in more recent years has had special Paulson WSOP clay sets made for the tournaments.

The new location was intended to be more accessible to travelers, but the tribes consider it temporary until their proposed Columbia River Gorge casino can be built.

At the time of the fire, approximately 5, 000 people were in the hotel and casino, a 23-story luxury resort with more than 2, 000 hotel rooms.

His trail leads Chili to Las Vegas, where the loanshark finds a more interesting assignment: the casino is looking to collect from Harry Zimm, a horror film producer based in Los Angeles.

The " new " highway bypasses the Coeur d ' Alene Casino, the largest business on the reservation, with the old highway becoming an alternate route that will connect the highway to the casino and the more remote regions of the reservation.

East Asian gangs ( most notably the local Triads ), an additional Vietnamese gang ( the Da Nang Boys ), and a force of Hispanic thugs working for the local " Loco Syndicate " are evident in the San Fierro leg of the game, while three Mafia families and the Triads who all own their respective casino are more prominently featured in the Las Venturas section of the game.

Unlike a traditional casino where it is physically impossible to play at more than one table at a time, most online poker rooms permit this.