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.

Even though they have supernatural powers, these deities are also souls wandering through the cycles of births and deaths just like most other souls.

Even though they have supernatural powers, these deities are also souls wandering through the cycles of births and deaths just like most other souls.

Travelling performers, itinerant traders and wandering craftsmen who spend most of their time " on the road " came to see their world as separate from those governed by legal authorities.

The generic epithet translates as ' wandering about ', the specific indicates that it is migratory ; the Passenger Pigeon's movements were not only seasonal, as with other birds, they would mass in whatever location was most productive and suitable for breeding.

As James Francis put it, " the most that can be said ... is that Apollonius appears to have been a wandering ascetic / philosopher / wonderworker of a type common to the eastern part of the early empire.

Another issue involved the need to build fences to keep farm animals from wandering into town and disturbing visitors-at the time most farms in the area were not fenced.

Of those who escaped to the provinces, after wandering about singly or in groups, most were either captured and executed or committed suicide.

Its English name refers to the bright red bead-like tips of the secondary feathers on its wings, which look like drops of sealing wax, while ' Bohemian ' refers to the Romani ( gypsies ), with a comparison to this bird's wandering, or to its ( presumed ) origin from Bohemia ( at the time, a relatively unknown " distant, eastern " place to most English speakers ).

None of the crab spiders mentioned build webs to trap prey, though all of them produce silk for drop lines and sundry reproductive purposes ; some are wandering hunters and the most widely known are ambush predators.

They colluded with Lü Bu, who was leading a wandering army, and quickly occupied most of Yan Province.

The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in Guinness World Records from 2010 to present as the world's most venomous spider.

Examination of bite records has implicated wandering males in most if not all fatal funnel-web bites to humans.

Each catalyzing muon thus spends most of its ephemeral existence of about 2. 2 microseconds, as measured in its rest frame wandering around looking for suitable deuterons and tritons with which to bind.

* The most common translation of " Ishikawa ", proposed by the missionary and researcher of the Ainu language John Batchelor ( 1854 – 1944 ) in 1935, is " a greatly wandering river ", a reference to the meandering path of the Ishikari River.

Her first serve was powerful, but offset by a wandering ball-toss, and her second serve was considered to be the most vulnerable part of her game.

Bogeyman may be called " Boogerman " or " Boogermonster " in rural areas of the American South, and was most often used to keep young children from playing outside past dark, or wandering off in the forest.

Adult ticks, for the most part, tend to climb to the top of grass and low shrubs to attach themselves to a host wandering by.

However, modern collectors and shooters have pointed out that no Jungle Carbine collector / shooter on any of the prominent internet military firearm collecting forums has reported a confirmed " wandering zero " on their No. 5 Mk I rifle, leading to speculation that the No. 5 Mk I may have been phased out largely because the British military did not want a bolt-action rifle when most of the other major militaries were switching over to semi-automatic longarms such as the M1 Garand and SKS.

As a minor change, wandering armies are now displayed according to their most powerful stack, as opposed to the generic stacks of the DOS version that corresponded to the current continent.

The modern graphical adventure games in the Zork series continue references to grues, with gurgling and growling grue sound effects audible in most shadowy or gloomy places and many points at which players can meet a gruesome death by wandering without light.

Everybody knows that he can go to another dream just by wandering, without any chance to come back, so the travel has become a way of living for most humans.

He concluded by saying that any genuine diamonds had most likely been swallowed and excreted by wandering ostriches " from a far-distant region ".

As the narrative opens, Horacio Oliveira, the main character, is wandering the bridges of Paris alone one afternoon, hoping to encounter his lover, Lucía ( most often referred to as La Maga ), and a description follows concerning the complex relationship of the two.

They concluded that ball lightning is most likely a wandering St. Elmo's fire,