Literary luminaries of the later 20th and early 21st centuries include novelists Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, John Grisham, and Richard Ford.
The tournament drew a total of 737,112 spectators, and television ratings were excellent, even though the U.S. team did not fare as well as predicted, despite its having on the roster such MLB luminaries as Ken Griffey, Jr., Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones, Vernon Wells, and Michael Young.
Of these luminaries, however, Avicenna remains by far the greatest.
Stung by this rejection, Scorsese edited his footage of The Band's November 1976 farewell concert into the well-received rockumentary The Last Waltz (1978), with unparalleled performance footage of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and other musical luminaries.
An understanding of material and structural theory had been accumulating for 250 years, with scientific luminaries such as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Robert Hooke, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, and Claude-Louis Navier among those who made significant contributions to these advancements.
254), the greatest theologian of the time, were the luminaries of the church of Alexandria; the Roman church still wrote in Greek and was represented by the slightly old-fashioned Hippolytus; and the church of Africa had a powerful personality, St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage.
In addition to its orchestras and institutions dedicated to classical music, Ohio also supports popular music traditions, as demonstrated by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, established in Cleveland in 1995, which offers concerts and exhibits honouring the past and present luminaries of rock and roll music.
Combining a mischievous performance with a critique of the celebrity art world, Pruitt presided over an invitation-only dinner at which he presented awards to art world luminaries in the form of light bulbs honouring Jasper Johns inserted into champagne bottles.
Many tap dance luminaries, including Ruby Keeler, the Nicholas Brothers, and Louis DaPron, began their careers in nightclubs.
Although they had little formal education, the Marxes were feted by scholars and intellectuals throughout their lives, and they counted among their personal friends luminaries such as Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, S.J. Perelman, T.S. Eliot, George Gershwin, and several other noted writers and composers.
Of him Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421 98), the biographer of 15th-century luminaries, wrote: "He did not know what avarice was: indeed, if he retained anything of his own, it was simply because no one had asked him for it".
