The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

Other writers acknowledge his extremely high popularity at home, but suppose his occasionally rigid and even irrational political loyalties and convictions contributed greatly to Spartan decline, notably his unremitting hatred of Thebes, which led to Sparta's humiliation at the Battle of Leuctra and thus the end of Spartan hegemony.

Speed improved with the introduction of 1200 bit / s modems in the early 1980s, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The popularity of Bubble Bobble led Taito ( or its licensees ) to port to many home computers and video game consoles.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

Disco's popularity led many non-disco artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).

The continued popularity of his 1971 Brady Bunch appearance led to his being cast as himself in The Brady Bunch Movie.

The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

The period after the American Occupation led to a rise in diversity in movie distribution thanks to the increased output and popularity of the film studios of Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, and Toei.

In a bid to secure the loyalty of his troops and his own popularity with them and with the Roman people, he led them on a spectacular but brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, in which he massacred much of the tribe.

The popularity of this variation of the gin and tonic has led to the establishment of Gin Tónica bars, in which customers can choose their preferred gin, tonic, and garnish from a menu.

This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.

At the same time the rising popularity of Firefox, its status of the default browser in major distribution and the overwhelming number of its extensions led to decline of Galeon's user base.

Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".

The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U. S. and Canada.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

The popularity led to the founding of local Lindy Hop dance communities in many cities.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Groucho's previous works regained popularity and were accompanied by new books of transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and Charlotte Chandler.

His election campaign benefited from an unprecedented wave of personal popularity called " Trudeaumania " — a term coined by journalist Lubor J. Zink — which saw Trudeau mobbed by throngs of youths.

Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by the marketing campaigns written by J. Walter Thompson advertising that began in 1954, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled " We're happy little Vegemites ".

The popularity of the term dates from Andrew J. R. Mack's 1975 article " Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars " in World Politics, in which " asymmetric " referred simply to a significant disparity in power between opposing actors in a conflict.

The original scriptwriters were Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason, who were also working on the series Dick Barton whose popularity partly inspired The Archers and whose slot in the schedules it eventually took.

Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first and is still commonly used, especially in the UK, its popularity has been superseded especially in the U. S. by the method developed by J. R. Gregg in 1888.

His opera in the style of a medieval morality play, The Beauty Stone, ( with Arthur Sullivan and J. Comyns Carr ) has grown somewhat in popularity in recent years, having gained a recording, but the dialogue is often heavily abridged.

In the spring of 1988, a DJ played the track " Let's Get It Started " — a song in which he declared he was "... second to none, from Doug E. Fresh, LL Cool J, or DJ Run " — after which the track began to gain popularity in clubs.

Some, such as Thomas Pynchon, and J. D. Salinger who seem to want to avoid the " limelight " of popularity or simply want to live private lives.

In 1784 Fourcroy was chosen to succeed P. J. Macquer ( 1718 – 1784 ) as lecturer in chemistry at the college of the Jardin du Roi, where his lectures attained great popularity.

This model was originally discovered by Derek J. de Solla Price in 1965 under the term cumulative advantage, but did not reach popularity until Barabási rediscovered the results under its current name ( BA Model ).

One of the new firms to enter the field was the Kinetoscope Exhibition Company ; the firm's partners, brothers Otway and Grey Latham, Otway's friend Enoch Rector, and their employer, Samuel J. Tilden Jr., sought to combine the popularity of the Kinetoscope with that of prizefighting.

The phrase " Yellow Dog Democrat " is thought to have achieved popularity during the 1928 Presidential race between the Democratic Al Smith and Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, when Senator J. Thomas Heflin ( D-Alabama ) crossed party lines to support Hoover.

Foreign chains such as J. C. Penney previously entered the Mexican market but failed to gain popularity.

The street has now been redeveloped, but has not yet regained its former degree of popularity, with a Gala Bingo and a J D Wetherspoon's taking up much of one side of the street and the rest largely occupied by chain stores.

Writings by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton on hesychasm also helped spread the popularity of The Philokalia, along with the indirect influence of J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, which featured The Way of a Pilgrim as a main plot element.

The only high profile casualty was the J Sainsbury supermarket, which closed in 1992 due to the popularity of the store which had opened at Merry Hill three years earlier to succeed the Dudley store-combined with the onset of the recession at the start of the 1990s.

Susan J. Napier has described the popularity of the ideal magical girlfriend, for example, Belldandy and Ai to be a backlash against the " yellow cab " social phenomenon, where some Japanese women were seeking out sexual relationships with non-Japanese men.

The very first role-playing settings from the late 1960s and early 1970s ( World of Greyhawk, and Blackmoor ) were based in the fantasy genre, primarily based on the popularity of fantasy works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

This movement gained support due to the senator's great popularity in the area, and in 1988 the project was congressionally renamed “ J.

The concept gained popularity through its use in the writings of English fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien.

They gained public attention when their single " Relapse " gained popularity on alternative radio stations such as Triple J, leading them to be signed with the record label Eleven: A Music Company.

As his popularity and fortune increases, Kane runs for Governor of New York against reputedly corrupt boss J. W. Gettys.