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.

They finally defeated an Indian confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, imposing the Treaty of Greenville, which ceded most of what is now Ohio, part of present-day Indiana, and the lands that include present-day Chicago and Detroit, to the United States federal government.

It is the second most populous county in South Carolina, behind only Greenville County.

Greenville has a proud culture of ice shanty building and annually displays some of its most technologically advanced creations on the areas many fishing lakes.

This plot is now most of downtown Greenville.

Wayne County was named for this military hero and Greenville was named for the place he was most famous for.

The Greenville R-2 School District runs throughout most of eastern Wayne County.

Unique among Orange County towns, Greenville has neither cities nor villages, and most of the communities are small clusters of houses.

Greenville is the most congested city in Eastern NC.

In the years after the American Revolution, the Shawnee were the most prominent residents of west central Ohio, growing in numbers and permanency after the 1794 Treaty of Greenville.

Some of the most prominent were Washington, the old capital of Mississippi ; " old Greenville ", where Andrew Jackson plied his occupation as a slave trader ; and Port Gibson, among others.

It is most distinctive in isolated settlements such as Louisiana, Lexington, and Bluntsville, small communities upriver from Greenville in Sinoe County.

After the Treaty of Greenville, most of the Ohio Shawnees settled at the Shawnee village of Wapakoneta on the Auglaize River, where they were led by Black Hoof, a senior chief who had signed the treaty.

After the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, most of the Shawnee bands signed the Treaty of Greenville the next year.

Quaker brothers Thomas Pim and Robert Goodbody decided to relocate Goodbody Tabacco manufacturing to Greenville near Harolds Cross after a disastrous fire in their Tullamore premises in 1886 ; as a result most of their employees were also relocated to the area, where red brick terrace housing were built in the area by the Dublin Artizans ' Dwellings Company, in which the Pim family were prominent members.

The LVRR first attempted to obtain a right of way at Greenville, but the Pennsylvania Railroad checkmated them by purchasing most of the properties needed.

By the Treaty of Greenville, the northwest Indian tribes were forced to cede most of Ohio and a slice of Indiana ; to recognize the U. S., rather than Britain, as the ruling power in the Old Northwest ; and to surrender ten chiefs as hostages until all American prisoners were returned.

Greenville is the largest city in the region and the base of most commercial activity.

On October 20, 1977, three days after the album was released ( and five dates into the band's most successful tour yet ), a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.

While most of the station's coverage area was served by South Carolina Educational Radio's Upstate outlet, WEPR in Greenville, WNCPR wanted to build a station that would be tailored to the area's interests.

Having adopted the Council-Manager form of municipal government in 1976, the City Manager of Greenville holds most of the executive power, making the Mayor a mostly ceremonial role.

( born October 27, 1940 in Greenville, Mississippi, United States ) is a traveling Christian preacher, most known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world.

In spent most of the season with the Double-A Greenville Braves of the Southern League, hitting. 249 with two homers, 36 RBIs and 36 runs scored in 89 games.

He spent most of five full seasons in the minor leagues ( in Jamestown, Greenville, Danville, Winston-Salem, Louisville, and Pawtucket ), hitting. 327 with 45 home runs and 304 RBIs.

In 1795, with the Treaty of Greenville, the tribes were forced to give up claims to most of what is now the state of Ohio.