• Also on tap at the Armory are a black-tie dinner (a famous quarterback also known for his good hair and beautiful wife will attend) and a Hodinkee-hosted invite-only party for collectors and enthusiasts.

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  • ARD, as it was known, was in turn indelibly famous for helping to finance a start-up technology company known as Digital Equipment, which became a classic example of venture capital gone right.

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  • Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.

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  • The official said the suspect made no mention of Cal Ripken, an indication that he might not have known she is the mother of a famous former baseball player.

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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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  • One of Aleppo's most famous anti-government activists, a man known as Abu Maryam, told CNN he was briefly detained and flogged by Islamist fighters last week.

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  • An obvious difference between modern gangsterism and its pre-revolutionary counterpart is that few gangs today are known by names unlike the famous Green Gang, a powerful force in pre-communist Shanghai, or Chongqing's Robed Brothers, who controlled the city's opium trade and gambling.

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  • The word dhimmi, which was not known before, but has become somewhat famous nowadays and including a new coinage of it, which is dhimmitude - and I think that's all good, because these words need to come out in the open.

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  • Thursday one block south of Plaza Garibaldi, a rough but famous patch of Mexico City known for its mariachis.

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  • Jim Chanos is a well known China bear these days, made famous for his many investment calls, including shorting China banks earlier this year.

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  • With up to 20 varieties flown in fresh daily, they have been doing oysters about as long as anyone, doing them perfectly, and in addition to raw bar they have a huge menu of every imaginable seafood dish, plus their rich and creamy signature oyster pan roasts, and a deep list of both famous and little known champagnes that go perfectly with oysters.

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  • In lieu of a printed location, the item might include national colors or depictions of a famous icon or be made of well-known items endemic to that locale.

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  • Though they recognised that South Africa had a relatively sophisticated fast-food industry of its own, with many brands of beef-and chicken-burgers, the idea that such a famous global brand might not be well-known on the southern tip of Africa seemed preposterous.

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  • Comparing it with adult specimens (the most famous of which is known as Lucy) should show the way that A. afarensis grew from childhood to adulthood, particularly the way the brain grew.

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  • It is a city known for its poets, politicians and its past - and famous too for struggling with division.

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  • Instead, the famous lanced competition takes place on a wooden boat, a sport officially known as water jousting (la joute nautique).

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  • That famous toxin known as conventional wisdom has built the Republican Party's problems into a nightmare from beyond the grave, and in that context creating a party spokesman may seem an inadequate response.

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  • It groups scents alphabetically by brand in racks that resemble a record shop, giving famous brands the same shelf space as little-known ones.

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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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  • Conditions are certainly perfect for the two teams, it's been a cool but sunny day in Indianapolis, a city best-known for its proud tradition of motor sport and host of the world famous Indy 500.

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  • It strikes many people as more than pure luck that Jason Fraser, one of the best-known and most controversial paparazzi, has such a knack for catching David and Victoria Beckham, when the famous footballer and his wife are supposedly unawares.

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  • His likeness, thanks to Holbein's famous portraits in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and elsewhere, is so well known that it almost qualifies as a brand.

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  • While "gets, " as they're known, garner big buzz for the interviewer, program and host network alike, the fight for the famous is a scrape for scraps compared with a decade ago.

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