• The fact that these volumes were owned by such a famous man means they might fetch prices roughly double that of books lacking such a provenance, says Jonathan Hill, a rare-book dealer in New York.

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  • To test this watch, I gave it to the head of our running club, a famous older man who did Ironman Triathalon, and long distance endurance events.

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  • The mountains were first sketched in 1798 by the highly regarded English cartographer James Rennell, a man already famous for mapping large parts of India.

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  • In lieu of McQueen, Kevin Costner plays the title character, a retired Secret Service man who is hired to protect a famous singer (played by Whitney Houston).

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  • This is a man who was famous for being such an excellent whip.

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  • "Bawden's acting, her comic timing, singing, dancing and stage presence were all faultless and earned her - and her more famous main man - a joyous standing ovation on a buzzy, exciting night at the Crucible, " he wrote.

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  • Looking at least a decade younger than his 71 years, Starr settles into the corner of a couch and talks about celebrity then vs. celebrity now -- this from the perspective of a man who has been famous for nearly 50 years.

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  • It was a sign that Mr Martin was his own man, not just the son of a famous veteran of Canadian politics.

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  • Ultimately, I abandoned all preconceived perceptions of my career path and stature and took a job on basic cable with a network most famous for showing reruns, along with sitcoms created by a tall, black man who dresses like an old, black woman.

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  • Washed into a sewer, Remy lands in Paris, where he makes himself known to a young man, Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), who has inherited a famous restaurant but cannot crack an egg.

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  • Nevertheless, Allen Ginsberg was said to be a generous man, giving support to less famous poets and other writers.

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  • He now wants to create a documentary on the criminal justice system, informed by the experience of being arrested not as a famous academic, but as an unrecognized black man.

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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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  • As the reader is reminded, Austerlitz was Fred Astaire's real name as well as a famous Napoleonic battle, and the experiences of Austerlitz the man merge with other traumas in European history, and with the thoughts of Mr Sebald's hypersensitive narrator.

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  • Couric is one of the few famous women who have been able to date a much younger man without the press making an enormous deal out of it.

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  • James Michener was a big man in more ways than the one for which he was famous.

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  • Applegate said she had worked on The Most Famous Man in America for 20 years, originally planning it as a university assignment.

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  • One of the Isle of Man's most famous landmarks will be lit up, following a series of repairs.

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  • Following the play-off triumph over Brechin City in May, the Whitburn man said his famous strike against Bayern had finally been eclipsed as a career highlight.

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  • Team Lewis regrouped, firing Correa and bringing in Emmanuel Steward, trainer of more than a dozen world champions at the famous Kronk gymnasium in Detroit, Michigan, and ironically the man that had masterminded McCall's win over Lewis.

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  • One of the group, a man with a silver ponytail trailing down his back, points out the sites of famous scenes from the programme in hushed tones of profoundest reverence.

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  • But Cavan will be kicking themselves for letting go the chance of a famous victory after playing with such fluency and dogged determination for most of the game with a man down.

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  • It is Misuari's personal losses and famous fervor for the cause that make some wonder if he can transform himself from a man seeking to topple the system to an integral part of it.

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  • In it, Bush describes a man who loves numbers, and she actually sings about a hundred decimal places into the famous fraction.

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  • The 70-year-old singer made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" performed Sunday night to a worshipful crowd at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre.

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  • But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?

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  • There is Ben Affleck the famous actor and director, and there is less-well-known side of the man: a thoughtful, committed advocate for change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-torn, long-misruled nation that many have written off as a basket case.

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  • Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.

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