Although elevated to the Politburo at the 10th Congress, he was a little-known figure.

Although he is little-known to mainstream audiences, Marclay has been described as " the most influential turntable figure outside hip hop.

A little-known figure until then, he controlled the clandestine wing of the party, while Baburam Bhattarai represented the United People's Front in parliament.

Although little-known outside his native Russia, Korchmar is a prominent figure in the musical life of St Petersburg.

At the time perceptions were very different, with Reynolds certainly the dominant figure, and Gainsborough very highly reputed, but Stubbs, as a mere animal painter, seen as far less significant a figure than many other painters now relatively little-known.

Her mother, Minerva Buckner " Minnie " Machen ( November 23, 1860 – January 13, 1958 ), named her after characters in two little-known stories: Jane Howard's " Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony " ( 1866 ) and Robert Edward Francillon's " Zelda's Fortune " ( 1874 ).

Schlöndorff then adapted Bertolt Brecht's first play Baal for television and cast an little-known actor named Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the lead role, along with Margarethe von Trotta, whom he would marry the following year.

* Lycon: A little-known politician who later assisted in the prosecution of Socrates and whose wife Rhodia was often a target of comic poets ( as for example in Lysistrata ), he is named here merely as another dinner guest with Phrynichus.

At this point, a little-known American financier named Robert Vesco, head of the failing mini-conglomerate International Controls Corporation, offered his help with $ 5M, funds which had inconceiveably originated as part of a larger loan from IOS to ICC.

His Vice-President, a little-known Christian-Democrat politician named Luis Adolfo Siles, was sworn as President soon thereafter, in accordance to the Constitution.

The Blackmar – Diemer Gambit arose as a development of the earlier Blackmar Gambit, named after Armand Blackmar, a relatively little-known New Orleans player of the late 19th century who popularized its characteristic moves ( 1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. f3 ) and was the first player to publish analysis on the opening in the chess literature.

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Pogy, after the pogy ( or menhaden ), a widely-harvested but little-known fish:

Illinova had formed a joint partnership named Catlin in January 2000 with a little-known investment company named Black Thunder.

A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the " Billboard Girl ," who put the names of the acts on a placard ( similar to that of a vaudeville house ).

However, in 1832, a little-known French-Brazilian inventor Hércules Florence studied ways of permanently fixing camera obscura images, which he named " photographia ".

* The film features cameo appearances by Jinx Falkenburg and Anita Colby as themselves and a little-known starlet named Shelley Winters as one of the young autograph hounds.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

At the time of the stone's discovery, the Swedish diplomat and scholar Johan David Åkerblad was working on a little-known script of which some examples had recently been found in Egypt, which came to be known as Demotic.

In her book The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India ( 2002 ), Martine van Woerkens suggests that evidence for the existence of a Thuggee cult in the 19th century was in part the product of " colonial imaginings " — British fear of the little-known interior of India and limited understanding of the religious and social practices of its inhabitants.

A little-known fact about the stadium: the field level was actually several feet below sea level.

The team's faith in the little-known Lauda was quickly rewarded by a second-place finish in his début race for the team, the season-opening Argentine Grand Prix.

The regular Democratic candidate was John W. Davis, a little-known former congressman and diplomat from West Virginia.

Mosaic was not the first web browser for Windows ; this was Thomas R. Bruce's little-known Cello.

In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services ; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it.

His plays were produced in New York by Herbert Machiz, who was involved from 1953 until 1969 with the art work dealer John Bernard Myers to engage, at that time, little-known young artists to design the stage sets, e. g. Paul Georges, Neil Peter Jampolis and others.

It was during this period that Leadville saw its most dangerous days, finally brought under control by little-known American Old West lawman Mart Duggan.

The prestigious post went to the ( then ) little-known Dean Rusk and Stevenson was appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

There were two previous film versions of Arthur Richman's play on which this film was based, a 1925 silent version from independent Peninsula Studios, San Mateo, California with Warner Baxter in Grant's role, and a little-known early talkie made in 1929 with Henry Daniell and Ina Claire.

When Cain was returned with a small but workable majority, Kennett was again criticised within his own party, and in 1989 he was deposed as leader and replaced by Alan Brown, a little-known rural Member of the Legislative Assembly.

The feature was spread across two videotapes in letterbox format, and tape two also included Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor, a 50-minute documentary on little-known heroes of the attack, and a Faith Hill music video.

A little-known county seat war was fought in Wayne County, Indiana in 1873 between Centerville and Richmond.

A little-known responsibility of the NTSB is that it serves as a court of appeals for airmen, aircraft mechanics, certificated aviation-related companies and mariners who have their licenses suspended or revoked by the federal government.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

A function similar to hers may have been played by the little-known Vica Pota.

To further complicate things, there was a little-known state law on the books that would have transitioned the annexed territory from the Lakewood School District that served Smokey Point to the school district of the annexing city.

In 2004, Vassil Dobrev of the Institut Français d ' Archéologie Orientale in Cairo announced that he had uncovered new evidence that the Great Sphinx may have been the work of the little-known Pharaoh Djedefre ( 2528 – 2520 BC ), Khafra's half brother and a son of Khufu.

Capital markets have come to realize that right-sized resources, for individual customers, distribution substations, or microgrids, are able to offer important but little-known economic advantages over Central Plants.

Little is known about his music education after the death of his father ; his music teachers may have included Jan Willemszoon Lossy, a little-known countertenor and shawm player at Haarlem, and / or Cornelis Boskoop, Sweelinck's father's successor at the Oude Kerk.

Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry.

Many are little-known, and their often similar appearance have caused the taxonomy of the group to be rather fluid.

According to Associate Professor Henry E. Hale of Harvard University, one thing that remains unclear about the " FSB did it " theory: If the motive was to get an FSB-friendly man installed as president, why would the FSB have preferred Putin, a little-known " upstart " who had leapt to the post of FSB director through outside political channels, to Primakov, who was certainly senior in stature and pedigree and who was also widely reputed to have a KGB past?

However, recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship have led some scholars to conclude that the direct ancestor of clerical script was proto-clerical script, which in turn evolved out of the little-known vulgar or popular writing of the late Warring States to Qin period ( see Qiu Xigui, in references ).

The little-known species in this family have small, flimsy, almost globular shells, known as paper bubble gastropod shells.

The little-known species have small, flimsy, almost globular shells, known as paper bubble shells.

A little-known fact is that the NOMA Electic Company, when it was located in NY, NY, may have produced the first commercial printed circuit board in 1946 with its Party Quiz Game.

Stewie Speer might well have remained a respected but relatively little-known member of the Australian jazz scene had it not been for a series of coincidences that brought him together with Christchurch-born R & B singer Max Merritt.

Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed initially under Ludovico Cigoli, or his pupil Andrea Commodi in Rome from circa 1604 – 1613.

It used to be gospel that pinot noir could not be grown successfully beyond the Côte-d ' Or … But now I have discovered a little-known and mostly unsung young region that I think will knock the rest of the pinot noir gang for six — Central Otago.

This theory relates JHR to the fusion of African and European / American bare-knuckle fist-fighting styles known as " cutting ", which is said to have been practiced by champions such as Tom Molineaux, and also to the little-known African-American fighting skill known as " knocking and kicking ," which is said to be practiced clandestinely in parts of the Southern US and on the Sea Islands.

Performances in recent years have included a program of little-known works by Franco-Flemish composers Johannes Ghiselin, Jacquet of Berchem, Gaspar van Weebeke, Andreas de Silva, Nicolas Payen and Josquin des Prez, a quincentennial celebration of Thomas Tallis, the first Australian performance of Arvo Pärt's ' Canon of Repentance ' ( composed in 1998 ), works by Jean Richafort and his parodists, a program of works originally written for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor a concert of settings of the text ' Media vita ' ( In the midst of life ) including a performance of Gombert's own ' Missa de media vita ', German Baroque masterpieces by Johann Hermann Schein, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti's ' Stabat mater ', and an annual concert entitled ' Christmas to Candlemas ' that presents works written for the numerous Christian feast-days in the forty-day Church season that begins on Christmas Day.

* Epcot DiveQuest — A little-known attraction, certified SCUBA divers have the ability to experience a 40-minute underwater tour of the tank of the Caribbean Coral Reef Aquarium.