Since its foundation in 1808 the Prints and Drawings collection has grown to international renown as one of the richest and most representative collections in the world.

For this they gained their most renown nickname, " Big Blue ".

) accords her renown for hosting literary salons and surrounding herself with philosophers and poets, the most famous of these being Cassius Longinus.

The Republic of Metz ruled until the 15th century and was the most prosperous period of the city, being renown as " Metz, the Rich One ".

The merle scho sang, ' Haill, Roiss of most delyt, Haill, of all flouris quene and soverane ,’ The lark scho song, ' Haill, Rois, both reid and quhyt, Most plesand flour, of michty cullouris twane ;’ The nychtingaill song, ' Haill, naturis suffragene, In bewty, nurtour and every nobilness, In riche array, renown, and gentilness.

Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.

The renown and prestige of Mayfair could have grown in the popular mind because it is the most expensive property on the British Monopoly set.

During the eleven years spent by Foscolo in London, until his death there, he enjoyed all the social distinction which the most brilliant circles of the English capital confer on foreigners of political and literary renown, and experienced all the misery which follows on a disregard of the first conditions of domestic economy.

Elkin High School athletics is one of the most renown 1A programs in the state.

An indication of the renown in which Ockeghem was held is the number of laments written on his death in 1497 ; among the most famous of the musical settings of these many poems is Nymphes des bois by Josquin des Prez.

Despite his later renown as a scientist, he spent most of his time devouring English literature, although he showed a remarkable gift for mathematics as well.

He achieved worldwide renown as the most liberal foreign minister in the history of the USSR, but was never nearly as popular in his own country.

The most famous heroic tenor of his age, Tamagno performed in a total of 26 countries, garnering renown for the extreme power of his singing, especially in the upper register.

The band Bahraini Osiris has achieved some international renown since the 1980s with its style of progressive rock, most recently including elements of Bahraini folk music.

The " kill clause " also applies to the spoils of war-thus, in theory, the prey's most powerful fetishes and the like may be garnered by the Garou with the highest renown.

One of the most renown was at Cahokia, where archaeologists found these stockpiles with drills and drillbits, as well as large quantities of finished beads.

She is the daughter of neurosurgeon Alfred Harrington and physician / geneticist Allison Benton-Ramirez y Chou Harrington, both with towering renown and fame of their own among the Manticore and Beowulf medical establishments ; and her father is known to have one of the most beneficial and dominant genetically modified gene variations that he has passed onto Honor.

The most renown rally driver who emerged from that competition series was the Spanish Carlos Sainz, the winner in the first edition of the ' Copa Panda ' rally.

He was the first native Italian polyphonist of international renown, and with Philippe Verdelot, one of the first to write madrigals, in the infancy of that most popular of all sixteenth-century Italian musical forms.

The following speech was made by Major Roche to the populace: Being appointed, through the favour of most excellent governor, to raise a body of men for the service of his Majesty, I think it most happy circumstance of my life to be the instrument of leading you to honour and renown.

Among Spix most renown discoveries is the species Spix's Macaw, named after the explorer.

to General Napoleon Bonaparte as " one of the men most competent to bring renown to Italy and to build there useful waterworks and do good work in mathematics and physics " and praised his ability in the art of civil engineering and military architecture.

Tilden, who was one of the most famous athletes in the world for many years, today is not widely remembered despite his former renown.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg / Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains.

Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train.

Competition from the railway network from the 1830s, and in the 20th century the roads, made the smaller canals obsolete for most commercial transportation, and many of the British canals fell into decay.

The most prominent Czech railway company is the state-owned České dráhy ( ČD ) ( English: Czech Railways ).

Among the most popular year-round tourist attractions in Rio, the Corcovado railway, access roads, and statue platform are commonly crowded.

Road transport in Finland is the most popular method of transportation, particularly in rural areas where the railway network does not extend to.

One of the most important objectives for both Guards was the seizure of Haapamäki, a railway junction northeast of Tampere which connected both western-eastern and southern-northern Finland.

The British Army in Egypt recognised this before the war and had the Eighth Army begin construction of several " boxes " ( localities with dug-outs and surrounded by minefields and barbed wire ), the most developed being around the railway station at Alamein.

A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct.

Of those that have been identified most were built for use at Killingworth itself or for the Hetton colliery railway.

Other important railway stations countrywide include Szolnok ( the most important railway intersection outside Budapest ), Tiszai Railway Station in Miskolc and the stations of Pécs, Győr, Debrecen, Szeged and Székesfehérvár.

They are also more fuel-efficient in most circumstances and are used in heavy road vehicles, some automobiles ( increasingly so for their increased fuel efficiency over gasoline engines ), ships, railway locomotives, and light aircraft.

His father built much of the Hungarian railway system, but lost most of his fortune in 1899 when bad weather caused a railway building project to go over budget.

Because of their low-rise construction ( most were simple one-story buildings, anything more than two floors with outside corridors being rare ) with large car parks, the number of rooms which would fit on any given amount of land was low compared to the high-rise urban hotels which had grown around railway stations.

National Rail is a title used to promote passenger railway services, and providing some harmonisation for passengers ( e. g. tickets to all London Terminals ), while Network Rail is the organisation owning and managing most of the fixed assets ( tracks, signals etc.

In most cities the main railway station is located near a city centre and is well connected to the local transportation system.

Gdańsk Główny ( PKP station ) | Gdańsk Main Station, one of Poland's most important railway terminals

Parma is also located on the Michigan Central Railroad, which was historically the most significant and is currently the only railway from Detroit to Chicago.