But it is most famed as the central location in The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Dundee was once famed as a city of jute, jam and journalism, but is being successfully remodelled as the city of discovery, increasing tourism and inward investment.
In fact, Aalto's almost as famed for his Bentwood armchairs and Savoy vases as his architecture.
If you are an avid gearhead, you crave a bike by a one man shop frame maker who does each as a labor of love, famed artists such as Richard Sachs or Carl Strong, guys whose entire production is 30-100 frames annually, and 100 is a lot in this category.
As famed economic journalist Hu Shuli points out, new local officials sometimes do not know the extent of obligations left by their predecessors.
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What the critics say after the finals depends, to a large extent, on whether the 51-year-old's famed drills are as successful for his goalscorers as they were for his defenders and goalkeeper during the qualifiers.
He was there to induct John Madden, the former head coach and famed NFL analyst as the seventeenth "Raidah, " as Davis put it in his Brooklyn accent, to grab football's highest honor, including the owner himself.
Picasso tended to work and rework pictures, such as his famed "Armchair Woman" series, of which Christie's has 28 examples.
Famed for seeing politics as the main focus of his life, it is unlikely that the chancellor thinks that way anymore.
If it is poised to better exploit the hidden value of its Bell Labs subsidiary, famed for such inventions as the transistor, then it's a cheap stock now.
The Balanchine "Nutcracker" has an exclusive pedigree only seven ballet companies are licensed to perform it world-wide, and it must be executed precisely as the famed choreographer wanted it.
But come hurricane season, the structure that resembles a miniature version of the famed Astrodome will double as a hurricane shelter, part of an ambitious storm-defense system that is taking shape along hundreds of miles of the Texas Gulf Coast.
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For Sunday' finish, Russia's Viatceslav Ekimov, 40, led the peloton, the main rider pack, as it arrived for the first of eight laps on the famed Paris avenue to honor him as the Tour's oldest rider.
Ticonderoga, for example, is a 72-foot wooden ketch designed by famed naval architect Francis Herreshoff as an elegant family daysailer.
As for that famed expertise, it stemmed in part from Lloyd's separation of the underwriting from the provision of capital.
It joins the US Marines famed V-22 Osprey as the second such aircraft on earth and is the first unmanned aircraft packing the technology.
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McClendon proved to be as flawed as he was famed.
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In 1868, Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, famed for his operatic comedies such as "The Barber of Seville, " died.
Krispy Kreme stumbled badly three years ago as it placed its famed doughnuts on grocery store shelves and expanded rapidly.
Krispy Kreme (nyse: KKD - news - people ) stumbled badly three years ago as it placed its famed doughnuts on grocery store shelves and expanded rapidly.
The Google Desktop search tool is as speedy and accurate as its far-famed online search engine, though some people are alarmed by a persistent (and reeking of hogwash) rumor that it potentially compromises user privacy.
As a teenager he followed producer brother Glyn into the music industry, landing a job as a tape operator at London's famed Olympic Studios, where he worked on albums including Jimi Hendrix's Axis Bold As Love.
The incredible rush to judgment Newton and Auburn endured is nothing more than a contemporary version of the kind of misplaced elitism that kept Jack Kelly, reigning Olympic Champion and now perhaps better known as the father of the late actress Grace Kelly, from rowing at the famed Henley Regatta in 1920 because he had once done manual labor as a brick layer.
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Brighton, famed for its bohemian and bacchanalian excesses as much as its piers and Royal Pavilion, is also planning a rather sombre and intellectual commemoration.
Eliot, famed for epic poem The Waste Land as well as writing the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, had written to his friend Jacob Isaacs.
"We lawyers refer to people like that not as witnesses, but as exhibits, " said famed attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who followed Jones on the show.
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The country's famed reverence for beer is ebbing, as new figures show that sales of the amber nectar fell 2.7% in 2007, the steepest decline since 2000, according to Germany's Federal Statistics Office.
As of last night, the famed Ouya Kickstarter project has now been fully funded.
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For the other 11 months of the year, Kalibo is primarily known as an entry point to the famed holiday island of Boracay.
The foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, the daughter of a famed underground fighter, served just four years as a junior intelligence officer in Mossad, Israel's intelligence service.
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