Sentences with phrase «names of famous people»

You can look up the names of famous people who have degrees in the same field that you do.

We've talked a little about litigation around domain names of famous people.

I also have blurbs from [insert names of famous people here], who've already read my book.»

Then the scientists showed their test subjects a series of names of famous people.

Not exact matches

We mention this because we have long noticed that the best - known quotes attributed to all sorts of long dead famous people — the ones one immediately finds on the first page that pops up when googling their names — are more often than not either garbled beyond recognition, or misattributed, or at times even completely made up.

The people of Turkey are well - acquainted with the names and teachings of dozens of other famous Sufis, but space does not allow a detailed discussion of them all.

What was really news about the Zappa children was not only that their father was a famous rock star and that all the children got incredibly unique baby names, but that unique baby names were just coming to the attention of people who decided that the name a child was given was going to impact the rest of his or her life.

And although the list of famous people with the first name Mason isn't very deep, celebrity parents tend to set baby name trends.

The first person I think of when I hear the name is Bridget is the famous French actress Brigitte Bardot.

Of course, one famous person with a similar name is the actress Audrey Hepburn, but there is another little girl on television these days with the same name.

And really, the most famous person with this name is a quintessential icon of American Film — Farrah Fawcett.

Padma is an extremely popular name in Asia and has been adopted by an unusually large number of people who ended up as famous figures, be it in the entertainment industry, education field or the political arena.

While not on the top 10 list, the name «Anderson» made a big ascent (thanks to talk show host Anderson Cooper), while others were influenced by what famous people named their child (Mason is the name of Kourtney Kardashian's son).

Famous people from history with this name include Lady Arabella Stuart who was a cousin of King James VI of Scotland.

Only a handful famous people bore Fleur as a name like St. Fleur of Beaulieu and Fleur East, to name a few.

A month associated with the mirth and merriment of St. Patrick's Day, March is a wonderful inspiration for baby names associated with Ireland, the sign of Pisces, and numerous famous people and holidays.

His Vice President mesmerised the whole world with his famous $ 15 million addressing system, his cousin, the Finance Minister sat in his room with his wife and business associates and issued a $ 2.25 bond on behalf of the people of Ghana, his ministers are inflating cost of projects in the name of «typo error» and his cousins selling our oil like tomatoes on Mallam Atta market.

These are the people who make those decisions, from lobbyists whose names stay out of the press to the famous «three men in a room» that hash out the state budget to the prosecutor who has emerged as the fourth man in that room, listening in on every deal and upending the status quo of a place that seemed like it would never change.

The coordinator promises to unveil more personalities and names of stars and famous people on board.

Similarly, they tracked the mention of people's names, a crude measure of fame, and found that people today become famous earlier in life than they used to — an average age of 29 in the mid-20th century, down from 43 in the early 19th century.

His vision was normal, and he could easily put names to the faces of famous people shown to him.

Some of the names were very famous people, like Richard Nixon, and others were public figures who were less well - known.

My clients are CEOs of companies, finance people, high profile executives, famous sports people, doctors, partners in law firms, and model / actresses to name a few.

The last but definitely not the least of things that you have to watch out for when you join a millionaire dating site is the fact that fake rich men usually drop names of well known or famous people as a way of showing competency.

It turns out watching a bunch of kinda - sorta famous people doing fake jobs and getting fake - fired in the name of charity grows old pretty fast.

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

The show has so far tackled such famous «Holmes» stories as «A Scandal in Belgravia,» in which Sherlock encounters a woman named Irene Adler; «The Hound of the Baskervilles,» in which a legend of a large dog spooks people; and «The Reichenbach Falls,» in which Sherlock goes up against the person whom many consider to be his greatest nemesis, Professor James Moriarty.

by Bill Chambers Burt Reynolds and Frank Langella are very different actors (Burt could not have pulled off Dracula, nor would Langella have ever looked at home behind the wheel of a Trans - Am) and, as it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.»

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

You might allow students to choose the format for their state reports or you might ask that all students include the same information (for example, state name, state population, state capital marked with a gold star, largest city, state nickname from its license plate, state flower, state animal, chief products, a drawing of the state flag, famous people from the state).

In a recent Ed Week blog post from Larry Ferlazzo, author Zaretta Hammond stated that a big myth (about Culturally Responsive Teaching) is that it's about motivating students of color by mentioning cultural facts or naming famous people of color.

I hope these manage to reach more young people and they will take the time to look up the names of famous women in history.

You can even make your name HUGE and people may assume you are famous, even if they've never heard of you (but it can backfire, so don't use that as strategy).

If most of us were asked to name the person most famous for helping the poor people of the Indian subcontinent, we would probably reply Mahatma Gandhi; but if you walked into many a village in Bangladesh today and asked the same question, the answer would be Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

Comment: If most of us were asked to name the person most famous for helping the poor people of the Indian subcontinent, we would probably reply Mahatma Gandhi; but I suspect that if you walked into many a village in Bangladesh today and asked the same question, the answer would be Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

The soup of famous names began to smack of name dropping yet the funniest part, the interlude in Australia, involved no celebrities, just a bunch of ordinary people helping out: I also loved that because it mentioned my home town and lots of familiar places.

Samsung, HTC, LG are just some of the few names of famous smartphone manufacturers but Meizu from Hong Kong is trying to get in the list with its newest product, the Meizu MX.. It looks elegant with its white finish at the back but a quick look at its front may cause people to mistaken it for an iPhone 4.

The very famous name in manufacturing of the world's most admired tablets is now the first choice of millions of people around the globe.

Adopted dog surprised his owner by rescuing two people caught in a riptide The Bermese mountain dog, named Nico, bounded into the water without hesitation to save a couple who were struggling in the water This dog playing the drums to White Stripes» Seven Nation Army will blow you away The cute canine lies next to its bass - playing owner as she taps out the iconic beat on the percussion instrument A dog playing the bass drum to Seven Nation Army is the best thing you'll see today This Vine is everything it promises to be, a beautiful golden retriever pup takes the role of Meg White, going thud thud thud on a bass drum whilst her owner plays one of the most famous guitar riffs in rock history Watch feisty feline take on pack of wild dogs in epic turf war battle - the winner might surprise you This is one cat that wasn't about to let five canines get the better of him - no matter how loud they barked Labrador has tumour the size of a human baby removed from his stomach WARNING: This story contains graphic images.

The Auberge du Jeu de Paume pays tribute to these famous persons who propelled Chantilly onto the world stage by naming two of the hotel's finest suites after them.

Its most famous pyramid, named Kukulkan, is one of the new seven wonders of the world — right up there with Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China and the Colosseum in Rome (the only other one I've seen in person).

MS talked about people like Lucy Lippard, Sol LeWitt, Richard Prince and Barbara Kruger, just a few of the names he mentioned of people who are famous today.

Some of the photographers» names are famous and their images well - known — Mathew Brady, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, Bob Lerner, Ernest Withers, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sal Lopes, Chuck Close — but a key to this exhibition is all the frames taken by ordinary people that depict ordinary events.

Through a careful selection of works both iconic and previously unpublished, this book explores the many ways in which Hockney has depicted the people around him, be they famous names such as Andy Warhol, Christopher Isherwood, and W. H. Auden or lifelong friends such as Henry Geldzahler and Celia Birtwell, among many others.

While his teacher Beuys's famous show «I Like America and America Likes Me» (1974) celebrated the mythical America of Indians and coyotes, Palermo paid homage to a no less magical place: his most ambitious work was called To the People of New York City (1976) and he named other abstract paintings for Coney Island and Stevie Wonder.

The owner is the famous art dealer Barbara Gladstone, the only woman on Forbes» list of America's most powerful art dealers in 2012, and recently named in The Guardian's «Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world».

Cass Sunstein, in an article on animal rights, answers unequivocally that animals can not be granted standing in their own right under existing American laws, since Congress has reserved standing to «persons», and many laws expressly reserve enforcement to persons, not animals (In the most famous of these cases, a dolphin named Kama was found not to have standing to challenge a transfer of its location under the Marine Mammal Protection Act: Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation v.

Zuckerberg is Time Person of Year Beating out other famous names like Carl Crawford of the Red Sox, Facebook co founder and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg was named the Person read more...

I could probably tell you about even more brushes with famous people, like once spotting Canadian actress Margot Kidder in the audience of a Lyle Lovett concert in Winnipeg, but I've barely got enough space left to drop one last name, and it's my brush with pop music history.