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The team was just 8-15 when Lin started getting regular playing time and from there he became a world-famous phenomenon.
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Throughout the 1970s he became famous for adopting a number of different characters and personae, from glam-rock king Ziggy to the so-called Thin White Duke.
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For example, Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan writer who became famous at a young age when he wrote "The Open Veins of Latin America", a humorous account of Latin American economic history viewed as systematic exploitation of natural resources by developed countries and imperial powers.
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It may be that eventually Freddy Heineken became a little bored with the beer he made famous.
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He became the most famous man on the planet, a hero in a company of heroes, and then he simply walked away, taking a desk job at NASA and retiring two years later.
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Jambo, a silverback gorilla, became famous when he protected Levan Merrett from other gorillas when the boy fell into the enclosure in 1986.
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Roberts, from Loughor, near Swansea, became so famous that even a rumour that he was to be at a particular church or chapel would see hundreds of people turn up.
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He became a scientific supernova and humanist icon, one of the most famous faces on the planet.
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Mr Simon (whose unusual punctuation is a barrier to the uninitiated) became briefly famous in 1985 when, like Beckett, he won the Nobel.
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He became famous in China for publishing an investigation into the death, in 2003, of Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer who died in police custody after a beating.
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The now famous "swift-boating" of Kerry also painted him as undermining the Vietnam troops when he became a spokesman for anti-war veterans.
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