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André Sapir

As such, he was the coordinator of the landmark report on Europe's growth policy known as the Sapir Report.

Barregarrow

Located between the twelfth and thirteenth milestones on the famous TT course, the crossroads is a landmark on the famous road racing course.

Bevois

The name change was proposed by Southampton City Council and the Liberal Democrats, the latter arguing that “the conversion of St Lukes Church to a Sikh temple has removed the sole surviving landmark bearing the former ward name," and that the new name better reflected local community ties.

Bixby Creek Bridge

The bridge has become a regional landmark and was used in the opening sequences of the television series Then Came Bronson, the films Play Misty for Me and The Sandpiper.

Clinton and Russell

The landmark Astor Hotel that served as an anchor for the development of Times Square, the Astor Apartments, the Graham Court Apartments, and The Apthorp were among their projects for William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor.

Condictio causa data causa non secuta

Scots Law also still recognises the action of condictio causa data causa non secuta among the other condictiones, as was shown in the landmark case, in the field of unjustified enrichment (restitiution), of Shilliday v Smith (especially per Lord President Rodger).

Cosmos and Psyche

In Tikkun magazine Jordi Pigem concluded, In the last ten years, landmark works...have been reflecting and kindling a growing awareness that nature is not merely a sum of molecules obeying physical and chemical laws, but a living, sensuous, and ensouled matrix in which we fully participate and belong.

Darvel Branch

One notable landmark is a 26-arch viaduct in Newmilns, part of which crosses the River Irvine, and most of which cuts through the middle of the town.

Denfeld High School

Serving over 1000 students from grades nine to twelve, Denfeld High School has become a West Duluth landmark.

Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad

The significance of this electrification was recognized in 1982 by its designation as a National Historic Engineering Landmark by the ASME.

Eugene Dynarski

Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films: Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Westwood Studios landmark computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

Expo '70

Director Douglas Trumbull said that the design of the space freighter Valley Forge in the 1971 science fiction drama Silent Running was inspired by the Landmark Tower.

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

George W. Hunter III

Hunter concentrated his research effort on that endemic problem, and by 1951 his team had eliminated it in the Nagatoishi district of Kurume City, Japan, using a landmark program of molluscicides to control the snail host.

Godfrey Blow

Since then he has exhibited with the group, most notably in their landmark exhibition, The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.

Imperial Abbey of Corvey

The Carolingian west end of the abbey, with its landmark matching towers (built 873–885) survives, the earliest standing medieval structure in Westphalia, but the abbey church is now Baroque.

John Parker House

John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Josiah Merritt Adobe

The Benicia State Capitol Building (California State Landmark #153) included the Greek temple format but is made of stone or masonry.

Joun

Monastery Saint (in Arabic دير المخلص) of the Melkite Basilian Salvatorian Order was built on a hill covered with pine and olive trees and grape vines and located in the east side of Joun beginning of the eighteenth century, and it constitutes a landmark in the Chouf district.

Kennedy Expressway

Hubbard's Cave is a landmark frequently heard in traffic reports on radio and TV.

King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II

Songs from Johnson's first album had been covered by popular rock artists in the late sixties, including Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin, who based their "Lemon Song" partly on "Traveling Riverside Blues." The Rolling Stones placed a version of "Love In Vain" on their 1969 landmark Let It Bleed before it had been released on LP, having heard the song on a bootleg recording circulating at the time.

Landmark College

All students are required to purchase a Landmark-supported laptop, text-reader (Kurzweill 3000), speech-to-text (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), and other software is mandatory for all incoming students, regardless of psycho-educational evaluations and recommendations.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the Landmark Quiz was held in 6 cities Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.

Lara Mahal

For this landmark work, Professor Mahal was awarded and American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Pre-doctoral Fellowship.

Madeline Gleason

She was, with Helen Adam, Barbara Guest, and Denise Levertov, one of only four women whose work was included in Donald Allen's landmark anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960).

Manaia

Mount Manaia is a landmark on the Whangarei Heads, Northland, New Zealand

Marsh Hall

Marsh Hall (Yale University), a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also known as the Othniel C. Marsh House.

Martin Sostre

Sostre became a jailhouse lawyer, regularly acting as legal counsel to other inmates and winning two landmark legal cases involving prisoner rights: Sostre v. Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis.

Mother Jones

Mother Jones' Prison, formerly a National Historic Landmark in West Virginia

Natalia Chernogolova

The following short article and interview by London art critic John Thaxter appeared as part of a brochure for her participation in the Landmark Arts Centre art fair and exhibition in Teddington, Greater London, in June 2009; it was written to provide buyers of her work with a brief career summary.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Denton County, Texas

The National Historic Landmark Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior.

New York Life Insurance Building

the New York Life Building, also in New York City, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, headquarters of New York Life from 1928 to the present day

Otap

Abrskil Cave (or "Abrskila") is a notable landmark in the area and it is named after the hero of the Abkhazian national epos, Abrskil.

Plains of Abraham

The Mayor of Quebec City, Jean-Georges Garneau, in 1908 appointed a landmark commission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court François Langelier.

PlayMotion

Their internal Funlab is an R&D incubator allowing for free thought and autonomous action which has produced many games and technologies throughout the years, including a landmark 5-screen, 250 player experience at Disney's Epcot in Orlando, Florida.

Point State Park

He brought in Wright, by that time a preeminent architect, who had done numerous other projects for Kaufmann in the past, including Kaufmann's landmark home at Fallingwater and an unbuilt design for a parking garage.

Richard Easterlin

He became interested in demography and population studies through his participation as a Research Associate from 1953 to 1955 in the landmark Study of population Redistribution and Economic Growth in the United States conducted by Simon Kuznets and Dorothy Thomas.

S. R. Bommai

S. R. Bommai v. Union of India was a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of India, where the Court discussed at length, the provisions of Article 356 of the Constitution of India and related issues.

Sarah Weddington

Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945), is an American attorney, law professor, and former Texas state legislator best known for representing "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court.

Scott Lochmus

Previously, Mr. Lochmus served as Senior Director at Sony Music Studios, in charge of production, where he directed and produced award-winning videos of every soundtrack recorded by Celine Dion from 1996 to 2008, including her landmark duet with Barbra Streisand, as well as Dion’s “One Year, One Heart” ABC Family TV Special, and two widely acclaimed documentaries, “Let's Talk About Love,” and “Taking Chances,” among others.

Seagram Building

The Seagram Building's plaza was also the site of a landmark planning study by William H. Whyte, the American sociologist.

See's Candies

Laurance A. See's 1962 divorce from his wife Elizabeth led to a landmark community property ruling by the California Supreme Court.

Shecky's Media, Inc.

The New York event is held in Manhattan's landmark Puck Building.

Sucat railway station

The station's major landmark is the Sucat Thermal Power Plant located behind the station on Manuel A. Quezon Avenue beside the shores of Laguna de Bay.

Taipei Municipal Song Shan Senior High School

United Daily News Group, Taipei City Hall, National Police Agency, Taipei Dome, Taipei 101 and Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall are the landmark buildings situated nearby.

The Landmark Hotel and Casino

The implosion of The Landmark was used in the film Mars Attacks!, and in the closing credits of The Cooler.

The Wayward Cloud

The film was shot in various landmark locations in the area, including Dragon and Tiger Pagodas and Love River.

Ward Homestead

Ward Homestead is a notable landmark because it is the combined work of three great 20th century figures, architect John Russell Pope and landscape designers, the Olmsted Brothers.

Whitby Abbey

Though the abbey fell into ruin, it remained a prominent landmark for sailors and helped inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula.

World War II Lost Films

Featuring the voices of well-known actors, including Rob Lowe and LL Cool J, this visually astonishing landmark series presents the story of World War II through the eyes of 12 Americans who experienced the conflict firsthand.


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