Carl Rosa did much to popularise opera across Victorian England, and the company flourished through into the mid-20th Century, touring with the standard operatic repertoire up until 1960-all sung, of course, in the " natural language of the civilised world ": English.

However, this identification is retrospective ; in fact, the authors hired Wilde after the fact, to popularise the opera in America.

During the first two years, ICI gave Flagg a large advertising budget to popularise the fabric across America.

Skiing has a long history in St. Anton: ski instructors from the area emigrated to America in the 1930s, helping to popularise the sport.

Together with her Met colleagues Fischer, Alvary, Brandt, and Seidl, she helped to popularise Wagner's music in America.

Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.

Consisting of 7 members ( 2 DJ's 5 MC's ), this was one of the first groups to popularise Swiss German ( dialect ) rap.

* An early film, Trip to Rottnest, made by the Australian Government to popularise Rottnest as a holiday destination, is thought to be one of the first of its kind.

A number of chess problem composers have specialised in SPGs, with one of the most notable examples being Michel Caillaud who did much to popularise the genre in the 1970s and 1980s.

The region not only produced one of the major figures of the revival in Ewan MacColl but also a local champion in Harry Boardman, who from 1965 onwards probably did more than anyone to popularise and record the industrial folk song of the region, in several albums and books.

His short stories helped popularise the form among Irish authors and he can be seen as one of the precursors of the most famous Irish novelist of the 20th century, James Joyce.

After attending one of his concerts in 1934, Maharani Sethu Parvati Bai of Travancore was so impressed by his talent and scholarship that she invited him to come to Thiruvananthapuram to edit and popularise the compositions of Swati Tirunal.

Merritt was acknowledged as one of the best local performers of the 1960s and 1970s and his influence did much to popularise soul music / R & B and rock in New Zealand and Australia.

Jens Jensen was one of the most influential designers to popularise native gardens.

The decision to unveil this plaque on American Independence Day was probably a political one ; the United States had not officially joined the war and the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was keen to popularise Fiske's story.

His contribution to solving the Derry / Londonderry name dispute was to popularise the jocular name " Stroke City " ( from the "/" in the city's neutral designation ), which became the title of one of his radio programmes from 1992 leading some of his friends to rename him " Gerry / Londongerry ".

The Kannur District Tourism Council has launched a ` Nadi Darshan ' ( river viewing ) programme in association with a private resort at Kattampalli as an initiative to popularise the kettuvallam for tourism promotion and as effort to let people know more about the Valapattanam River, one of the largest rivers in the region and the life stream of the district.

Widening of the franchise in the 19th century led the party to popularise its approach, especially under Benjamin Disraeli, his own Reform Act coming in 1867.

* Ocean View Tavern ( Since 2010 )-In an attempt to popularise the mostly vacant area surround Maroubra Beach, the Maroubra Bay Hotel premises was revitalised and re-opened under the name of the Ocean View Tavern.

The late Medieval period saw the recitation of certain hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, which was based on the Breviary in form and content, becoming popular among those who could read, and Bishop Challoner did much to popularise the hours of Sunday Vespers and Compline ( albeit in English translation ) in his ' Garden of the Soul ' in the eighteenth century.

Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum have continued to record and popularise the old bush ballads of Australia through the 20th and into the 21st century – and contemporary artists including Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this heritage.

As an academic, he has taught at a number of universities across the United Kingdom, and has helped popularise the discipline amongst the British public by appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television series Time Team from 1994 to 2011.

Malone had done much to popularise walking through a regular column in the Evening Herald newspaper, contributions to television programmes as well as two books on the subject.

His use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables .< ref name =" prefix ">

, Dinesh Subasinghe a star on the Sri Lankan music horizon, has a new and daring passion-to popularise Ravanahatha a violin-like instrument that Lanka king Ravana had devised and played about 5, 000 years ago. The Ravanahatha sounds like the north Indian instruments Sarangi and Esraj.

" He also said he had tried " to popularise to the people of this country, and of the Continent, those arguments with which Adam Smith, David Hume, Ricardo, and every man who has written on this subject, have demonstrated the funding system to be injurious to mankind, and unjust in principle ".

He helped to popularise the art form on the international stage.

Plank and the bands he worked with in Germany had a strong influence on mainstream rock artists, some of whom were able to popularise aspects of his production technique and his highly distinctive sonic approach.

In 1885, Hollingshead wrote to the Pall Mall Gazette, " Mr. Gilbert is somewhat severe on a style of burlesque which he did much to popularise in the old days before he invented what I may call burlesque in long clothes.

1852 by Sir Bartle Frere, the then Chief Commissioner of Sind with the help of Edward Lees Coffrey, the then postmaster of karachi for use within the province of Sind & on Bombay-Karachi route Under the Bombay Presidency, now in Pakistan ; Sir Bartle Frere was asked by the Bombay Government to undertake the upkeep of Postal service of the Sind Province and also to popularise it among the public.

In addition to early efforts to popularise archaeological study and antiquity on radio and television, he edited several popular studies of the fields.

This game is often credited alongside Manic Miner and Lode Runner with helping develop and popularise the platform game, and has gone on to be a cult classic with a number of unofficial retro remakes appearing online.

In their various writings, including their book The Art of Building a Home ( 1901 ), Parker and Unwin aimed to popularise the Arts and Crafts Movement, and as a result of their success thousands of homes were built on their pattern in the early part of the 20th century.

Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum have continued to record and popularise the old bush ballads of Australia through the 20th and into the 21st century-and contemporary artists including Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this heritage.

The song has become a classic of the genre and many artists covered it even before Rogers ' death, including Jim Post who began performing it in the 1980s, as did Makem and Clancy, and the English a cappella trio, Artisan, who went on to popularise their harmony version of it in UK folk circles throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and Portland, Maine-based folk group Schooner Fare.

They helped popularise the fashion of the early UK punk movement.

It popularised a more interactive style of gameplay with the enemies responding to the player-controlled cannon's movement, and it was the first video game to popularise the concept of achieving a high score, being the first to save the player's score.

Berlin published widely about the Enlightenment and its enemies and did much to popularise the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment movement that he characterised as relativist, anti-rationalist, vitalist, and organic, and which he associated most closely with German Romanticism.

In this endeavour she provoked about a quarter of a million housewives to take part in the labour movement and helped popularise issues such as equality for women in the workplace, school meals, clinics and playspaces for children, the fundamental value of mothering, a more humanitarian, safety-conscious, approach to the design of homes for ordinary families, and an eradication of needless drudgery and squalour from home life.

An attempt to popularise kabaddi in Great Britain was carried out by Channel 4, who commissioned a programme dedicated to the sport.

The magazine was hugely influential in the 1980s when it helped to popularise role-playing games in the UK.

Agnes Marshall was a celebrated cookery writer of her day and helped to popularise ice cream.

The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization ( WHO ) to develop and popularise the herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for past many centuries.

Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose ( 1980 ) was a one-off that helped popularise the concept.

The prominence of the distances were maintained by Roger Bannister, who ( in 1954 ) was the first to run the long-elusive four-minute mile, and Jim Ryun's exploits served to popularise interval training.

The Navy League was formed to popularise the idea of world naval power and its importance to the Empire.

Among the composers whom Grove sought to popularise was Schubert, whose music was largely neglected in England.

It was home to Lord Brabazon's Royal Aero Club which formed in Leysdown in the early 1900s to popularise ballooning.

The Minitel was introduced later to popularise the service.

The Nouvelles de la république des lettres was the first thorough-going attempt to popularise literature, and it was eminently successful.

The first computer to popularise the desktop metaphor, using it as a standard feature over the earlier command line interface was the Apple Macintosh in 1984.

An important role in the music development of that time was played by Radio Titograd, which broadcast various music programmes daily, and helped popularise the music.

It was hoped that his appointment would revitalise and popularise the Commission, which had not even produced an annual report for many years.

Cottage Rake was trained in Ireland by Vincent O ' Brien, and his successes helped to popularise the Gold Cup, and the Festival itself, with the Irish public.

Mahaquizzer was begun in 2005 as an attempt to popularise KQA-style quizzing in other parts of the country.

It was structured by the often strange obsessions of Richard Herring ; examples include his rating of the milk of all creatures and attempting to popularise the acronym of the show ( TMWRNJ ) ( in the style of Tiswas ).