During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads ( known in Spanish by the name of Escuadrón de la Muerte, " Squadron of Death ") achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero for his social activism in March 1980.

Since its founding, the ULA has constantly engaged in its own brand of “ literary activism ” which has gained the group a notoriety for exposing what they see as corruption in the American literary world and for harshly criticizing corporate-promulgated literary fiction.

He gained some notoriety for his activism, notably when he was arrested outside Buckingham Palace during the Edward VIII abdication crisis and also for being the only BUF activist to win a court case against their opponents, securing £ 1000 in damages in a slander suit against an anti-fascist organisation ( although it disbanded before payment was collected ).

Ward and his forces now gained a notoriety that attracted new recruits ( for the pay was attractive, even if looting was discouraged by Ward ), and enraged local Westerners who saw Ward as an inflammatory, filibustering element sure to force the Taipings to stop the flow of trade.

" The area was part of the original Cotton Belt of Mississippi well before the more famous Delta region gained fame and notoriety for major cotton production.

Iowa Colony gained notoriety in the early 1990s as a major speed trap and was an inspiration for a Texas statute limiting municipal profits from speed traps.

Finally, with the shift to Northern Black plight and the idea of Black Power emerging in major cities across America, the Deacons became yesterday's news and organizations such as The Black Panther Party gained notoriety and became the publicized militant Black organization.

The 1 ¢ stamp achieved notoriety, at least among philatelists, because production problems ( the stamp design was too tall for the space provided ) led to a welter of plate modifications done in piecemeal fashion, and there are no fewer than seven major varieties, ranging in price from $ 100 to $ 200, 000 ( the latter for the only stamp of the 200 images on the first plate that displays the design's top and bottom ornamentation complete ).

In recent years, however, the channel has emerged as a major force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas.

The Ibar gained notoriety as being the most polluted river in Serbia ( together with its major tributary, the Sitnica ), especially from frequent spills of extremely poisonous phenol, which causes constant problems for the population of Kraljevo, since the city uses the river's water for public waterworks.

The resulting controversy made a major contribution towards the then Conservative administration's subsequent passing of the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which forbade the " promotion " of homosexuality by local government ( an article about Section 28 in The Times of May 29, 1988 notes the then-current notoriety of the book ).

Delia Smith, Norwich City's joint major shareholder, received some notoriety when, seemingly under the influence of alcohol, she took to the pitch during the half time interval, with a microphone in hand and Sky TV cameras in tow, to tell fans the side " need their twelfth man.

This notoriety led to his subsequent position as the business representative for the painter's union and as a result he became one of the major negotiators who settled the strike in June.

Welch retired from the United States Air Force as a major in 1944, and became a test pilot for North American Aviation, receiving some notoriety for reportedly being the first pilot to exceed Mach 1 in the prototype XP-86 Sabre ( two weeks before Chuck Yeager's record flight ).

Since the initial event in 2000 ( held in Risoul, France ), snowbombing has gathered much notoriety and respect in the electronic dance music world as one of the major festivals.

Jawbox gained some notoriety in the indie music community by becoming one of only two bands to move from legendary record label Dischord Records to a major label, when they signed to Atlantic Records for 1994's For Your Own Special Sweetheart ( the other band was Shudder to Think, which signed to Epic Records ).

Because of the player's notoriety as the target of a major lawsuit, the Rio is erroneously assumed to be the first DAP.

Two years later, Sinch released its second record titled, Diatribe, which gained them further notoriety and won them supporting slots with major label artists including KoЯn, Rob Zombie, Linkin Park and Chevelle.

Jennifer Wilbanks gained notoriety in the United States and internationally, and her story persisted as a major topic of national news coverage for some time after she was found and her safety was assured.

His claims that major incidents such as the Port Arthur massacre, terror attacks in Bali and Jakarta and the 2004 Asian Tsunami were the work of Israeli and American secret agents gained a measure of notoriety in Australia, America and Indonesia.

The band achieved notoriety by making their first major gig as a band an ' autobiographical ' two-act musical at the legendary DC Space in February 1987.

TheWolfWeb has gained local notoriety for two major incidents.

Nevertheless, the song's notoriety helps spur its popularity and allows it to become just the second major crossover hit in 10 years, reaching No. 15 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 singles chart ( in addition to its No. 8 peak on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart ); the song will also jumpstart McGraw's fledgling career, which had gotten off to a less-than-stellar start a year earlier.

Smith did not have the notoriety he had later, but was already a major and feared figure in the Sydney criminal world.

Beger's gained more notoriety when she was delegated by her party to serve in a special committee set up to investigate a major corruption scandal that marred the fourth term of the Polish parliament, the Rywin affair.

Browning received notoriety for his erroneous prediction that a major earthquake would occur on the New Madrid Fault around December 2 and 3, 1990.

Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.

One refers to a locally stabled trotting horse that had set a four mile ( 6 km ) record, but as the horse reached the peak of its fame in 1869, it is unlikely that the notoriety would have still been evident in 1873.

After moving to the commercial Seven Network in the late 1990s, they scored record TV ratings and gained international notoriety during the Sydney 2000 Olympics with their hit late-night Olympic commentary show The Dream.

In September 1980, riding high on the success of Frantic City and the band's unintended notoriety, Attic Records, their Canadian label, set up a series of showcase gigs in New York City, hoping to attract a US record deal.

The single's cover was spattered with real pig's blood, gaining them some notoriety in record collecting circles.

At the time of the judgement, the lawyer acting on behalf of Snyder and Brown asked that the court allow them to appeal without a printed record, on the basis that the family was destitute and unable to sell the house because of the notoriety associated with it.

After generating notoriety on the club circuit, Warrant began to attract the attention of record labels.

One of the " collector's items " with the most notoriety in record collecting is not a record at all, but merely an album cover.

Having pressed the CDs themselves, The Aquabats independently released The Return through their own record label Horchata Records in July 1996, eventually selling an impressive 24, 000 copies without any proper distribution as the band's local notoriety began to rise.

In 1982, Palmer gained notoriety when he recognized a scorekeeper's error as he pored over decades-old box scores, discovering that Nap Lajoie's 1910 batting average was several points higher than Ty Cobb's, causing the official Major League Baseball record books to be re-written.

Spectral Sound is a record label that was originally an offshoot of the more cerebral Ghostly International, but has since gained similar notoriety thanks to successful records by Matthew Dear and other techno producers.

Mantel achieved his greatest notoriety in 1979 when he and then-partner, Cowboy Frankie Lane, as Los Vaqueros Locos, sold out the 16, 000-seat Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico for an unprecedented nine weeks in a row, a record that still stands.

Distributed to friends and sold on consignment in local record stores, the tape gained modest notoriety and furthered the name of the band in the Twin Cities.

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

With such a reputation seemingly firm and in place for both Punch and Tenniel, it would stand to reason that the artist ’ s public status attracted high levels of attention and notoriety from his peers and the public ; Carroll, a regular reader of Punch, knew, of course, of Tenniel.

Widespread notoriety came after 1912, when Peter Ouwens, the director of the Zoological Museum at Bogor, Java, published a paper on the topic after receiving a photo and a skin from the lieutenant, as well as two other specimens from a collector.

As part of collection of studies conducted under the auspices of the RAND Corporation ’ s Center for Middle East Public Policy, the Palestinian Arc study has by far received the most notoriety and broad acceptance from Palestinians, Israelis, Europeans, Americans, and across the Middle East.

A number of writers and artists have gained some notoriety from eccentric public performances while intoxicated ; Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas are particularly notorious in this respect.

Lucas John Helder ( born May 5, 1981 ) is a former University of Wisconsin – Stout college student from Pine Island, Minnesota, who earned notoriety as the Midwest Pipe Bomber in May 2002.

Piano acquired notoriety as from 1992, when Genoa hosted visitors in its Old Harbour, in occasion of the Columbian Celebrations (" Colombiadi ").

The couple's notoriety in 1933 came from photos found by police as undeveloped film in a hastily abandoned hideout in Joplin, Missouri.

His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.

Earlier, on 24 September 1983, Goiko achieved notoriety for an infamous tackle on Diego Maradona in a league match at the Camp Nou, ferociously tackling the Argentine from behind and leaving him severely injured, and reportedly later keeping " the boot he had used to destroy ...( Maradona ’ s ) ankle ligaments " at home in a glass case.

Near the end of his life, Holmes attracted notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS.

The notoriety of Captain Knight's " rebellion " led to the fabrication of elaborate stories alleging Jones County's " secession " from the Confederacy and the establishment of an entity called " The Free State of Jones ".

His steadfast insistence on his own vision of realism, in addition to his notoriety from his school scandals, combined to hurt his income in later years.

The fiesta takes its name from the tamale and alludes to the town's local notoriety for a spicier version of the Mississippi Delta style boiled tamale.

* Many authors from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain refer to Herostratus to represent someone who will do anything to gain notoriety.

In spite of this newfound notoriety, the art world had already turned its attention from the now passé abstract expressionists to the " next big thing ", Pop Art, particularly the work of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist.

In the late 1960s, Gallipolis gained notoriety for the collapse of the Silver Bridge, which spanned the Ohio River from Gallipolis to Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

As sewage, industrial wastewater and urban runoff flowed freely into the river from the surrounding city, the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants, gaining such notoriety that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper's Magazine that the Charles was " foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water.

The film later achieved notoriety when a group of con-artists started selling stills from the murder scene as actual photographs of the crime.