While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still a box office success, earning a revenue of $ 136 million against a budget of $ 54 million.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While Christensen's critically acclaimed portrayal of a misunderstood teenager in Life as a House ( 2001 ) earned him Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations as well as the National Board of Review's award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year, the performance did not receive widespread public notice.

While critically acclaimed, the album received little promotion from EMI and did poorly commercially.

While acclaimed by the press in 1998 as the most realistic racing simulator ever, GPL did not sell very well, especially in the US where a Formula One-based racing game holds less appeal than it does in the rest of the world.

While the film was critically acclaimed, it has been harshly criticized as exploitative by real-life witnesses.

While critically acclaimed, sales have not met expectations, as the price of the RL is perceived to be out of its bracket.

While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was being acclaimed by the media.

While working with the British armies in America, he conducted experiments concerning the force of gunpowder, the results of which were widely acclaimed when eventually published, in 1781, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

While critically acclaimed for his style, the themes and characters of Arishima ’ s works did not appeal to many contemporary Japanese readers.

While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Marlowe Society and directed several plays, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Tom Hollander amongst the cast members.

While Asteroids ( 1979 ) allowed the player to rotate the game's spacecraft, 1982's highly acclaimed Robotron 2084 was most influential on subsequent multi-directional shooters.

While Creation Records ' releases at this time tended to be critically acclaimed, they tended not to be major commercial hits.

While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, " Monsterpiece Theater " is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, now known simply as Masterpiece.

While at Interplay, he worked on the critically acclaimed Fallout as co-Lead Programmer and was responsible for much of the engine architecture and optimizations.

While his works were never particularly successful in the west, throughout the Middle East they are both critically acclaimed and extremely popular.

While not as acclaimed or commercially successful as director Friedkin's later work, Friedkin considers this film to be one of his favorites.

While the film did not do well commercially, critically it was acclaimed, with Martin Scorsese naming Bottle Rocket one of his favorite films of the 1990s.

While some Soviet critics acclaimed it at the time of the premiere, the Second Symphony did not attain lasting success.

While critically acclaimed, the show ran for only half a season in 1975.

While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular — usually categorized as " underground rock "— they have a devoted following and are an influential and critically acclaimed band.

While the gameplay was universally acclaimed, critics were divided on the philosophical nature and execution of the game's storyline, which explores themes such as memes, social engineering, political conspiracies, censorship, and artificial intelligence.

While working for Chaosium he co-authored the second edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

While pregnant with their daughter Matilda Louise, Zia continued to perform and record, and managed to complete recording for Odditorium or Warlords of Mars one week away from childbirth.

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

While Granny frequently mentioned that she was from Tennessee, the series never specified the state from which the Clampetts moved to California.

While there, he initiated an important series of historical monographs on the history of Malaya, publishing the very first of the series in 1960.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.

While at Stein, Erasmus fell in love with a fellow canon, Servatius Rogerus, and wrote a series of passionate letters in which he called Rogerus " half my soul ".

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

While the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

" Japan Hero said, " While this movie is not the best of the Heisei series, it is still a really interesting movie.

While the Mughals had acquired firearms via the Ottoman Empire, Bahadur's Gujurat had acquired them through a series of contracts drawn up with the Portuguese, allowing the Portuguese to establish a strategic foothold in north western India.

While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

While the recording took place in a studio, each record of this series has the structure and feel of a live performance, with several first takes on each album.

While not fundamental to circuit operation, diodes connected in series with the base or emitter of the transistors are required to prevent the base-emitter junction being driven into reverse breakdown when the supply voltage is in excess of the V < sub > eb </ sub > breakdown voltage, typically around 5-10 volts for general purpose silicon transistors.

While the Giants have dominated this rivalry for most of their history, the series has been even for the last 20 years or so, with the series lead to the Eagles 22-21 through the 90 ’ s and 2000 ’ s.

While Paraguayans were busy fighting among themselves during the 1920s, Bolivians established a series of forts in the Paraguayan Chaco.

While there were videotape releases of television series before DVD, the format's limited content capacity, large size and reliance on mechanical winding made it impractical as a widespread retail item.

While primarily focused on the piano and synthesizer, this series of albums boasted a roster of collaborators that included David Sylvian, David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Nam June Paik, and Iggy Pop, among others.