While travellers are most familiar with the Open championship courses -- like the Old Course at St Andrews or Ayrshire's Royal Troon -- Scotland's less-famed courses transport golfers on a journey to the lonely beaches, ancient forests and formidable fortresses.
The English are famed for their tendency to understatement, and of this the supreme example, to those who have been to Nuremberg, must be Milton's opinion that peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
Oslo may be one of the less notable European capitals, but there's plenty to do that is accessible if you have a few-hours lay-over before your flight to Norway's rightly famed Arctic far north.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely 436pp, Faber, £16.99 Orhan Pamuk's new novel is set in the early 1990s in Kars, a remote and dilapidated city in eastern Anatolia famed less for its mournful relics of Armenian civilisation and Russian imperial rule than for its spectacularly awful weather.
— Quentin Hardy Assessing Kurzweil: The Results Less Wrong | Ray Kurzweil, famed technologist, isn't much better at predicting the future than you.
Using two books as our guides — one by a world traveler, the other, less predictably, by a famed etiquette expert — I set out with my traveling companion, Mark, from New York City with few expectations but plenty of questions.
AT the Westport Country Playhouse, they're not shy about pointing out the less agreeable features of the famed red-barn theater.
It remains prosperous, but its welfare state is less distinctively generous, and the famed liberal state has been reined in, while skepticism of European integration and anti-Islam sentiments are increasingly loudly voiced.
Mr. Clinton vented frustrations and, still not one to use e-mail, much less a BlackBerry, found his famed instincts inadequate in a blogosphere age that amplified every intemperate outburst.
Like his last picture, Public Enemies, Mann chooses to shoot with a type of video that has less of the "snap" of famed early adopter Steven Soderbergh, but looks more like clips from your Uncle Bob's camcorder that he picked up at J&R Music World in 1991.
