A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

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

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 most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

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.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

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

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 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

Conium maculatum has been used as a sedative and in treatments for arthritis and asthma in addition to its most famous use: as a “ humane ” method of killing criminals and philosophers.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

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.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

* In the RPG Shadowrun, a number of hyperstructures such as the " Renraku Arcology " exist by 2050, most of which are mega-corporate controlled.

There have been three Grey Ghost Press editions, the most current being the Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition, which includes several suggested rules systems for common RPG elements and an example basic fantasy " build " of the game.

The Soviet Union-developed RPG-7 is the most widely distributed and used RPG in the world.

They are most effective when used in restricted terrain as the availability of cover and concealment can make it difficult for the intended target to spot the RPG operator.

Computer gamers have been able to successfully use trackballs in most modern computer games, including FPS, RPG, and RTS genres, with any slight loss of speed compensated for with an increase in precision.

" However, most ( but not all ) of those stories were really myths, propaganda, or embellished stories, and the child soldiers simply fought alongside their adult counterparts, often in Basij RPG or mine clearing teams.

His most recent RPG appearance was in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, where he is one of the three main characters and is often cited as the starring character.

Of all EarthBounds elements, however, the most lauded was its humor, being universally praised by all critics for its comedic, albeit confusing, depictions of Western culture and parody of the RPG genre.

These include Pinball Construction Set ( 1983 ), ASCII's War Game Construction Kit ( 1983 ), Thunder Force Construction ( 1984 ), Adventure Construction Set ( 1984 ), Garry Kitchen's GameMaker ( 1985 ), Wargame Construction Set ( 1986 ), Shoot ' Em-Up Construction Kit ( 1987 ), Arcade Game Construction Kit ( 1988 ), and most popularly ASCII's RPG Maker engines from 1988 onwards.

In 2002 she wrote the score for Kingdom Hearts, which she has said is the most " special " soundtrack to her, as well as a turning point in her career ; she named the soundtracks to Street Fighter II and Super Mario RPG as the other two significant points in her life as a composer.

GamesRadar featured him in " RPG Emo-Off ", in which they Cloud was the " most emo character of all JRPGs ," until he was defeated by Genesis Rhapsodos.

However, unlike most translation groups, KanjiHack was caught linking to a site to illegally download the entire then-recently-released RPG Maker 95 software ( including a copy-protection crack ).

The first game in the Famicom-based RPG series was released in 1986, and would eventually sell 1. 5 million copies in Japan, establishing Dragon Quest as the company's most profitable franchise.

" In 2010, she was included on UGO. com's list of top 25 Japanese RPG characters her for being " widely regarded as one of the most awesome characters to ever come out of Monolith's design department.

Edwards said that an RPG should use a task resolution system or combination of systems that is most appropriate for that game's GNS perspective.

Along with Marcelo Del Debbio, he is one of the most well-known RPG authors in Brazil, he is also known for creating Holy Avenger, the longest living non-child-oriented comic in Brazil, as well as several other comics such as the two Dungeon Crawlers mini-series ( taking place in the same RPG scenario of Arton from Tormenta / HolyAvenger ), Captain Ninja, Lua dos Dragões ( Moon of Dragons ) and Dragonesa.

" In 2008, IGN included him on the list of characters they would like to see in an ultimate fighting game, adding: " The Avatar may not be the first RPG adventure hero, but he's certainly the most memorable of the early gaming era.

Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, known internationally for his contributions to the fantasy RPG genre, most notably for the early Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

The Electric Playground awarded the game 9 out of 10, calling it " the most diverse and open-ended RPG to date.

Spiderweb Software is most notable for the following RPG video games:

In December 2009, UGO. com placed Sephiroth twenty-fifth on their list of " Top 25 Japanese RPG Characters " calling him " one of the most visually striking villains of all time " while praising how different he is from previous Final Fantasy villains.

Today, most RPG programmers avoid using the cycle in favor of controlling the flow of the program with standard looping constructs.