The country's most famous myth of origin, Miorița, tells the story of a good shepherd who lets himself be murdered by jealous rivals after being warned of their plan by a talking lamb.
The Statue of Liberty is one of America's most famous icons, with a famous origin story: It was a gift from France, given to the United States around the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.
Yoko Ono, who will be forty years old in February, was an established conceptual artist and avant-garde composer when she married John Lennon, in 1969; since then she, too, has become a rock singer and songwriter (and, incidentally, the most famous person of Japanese origin in the Western world).
Apart from his most famous work, On the Origin of Species …, Darwin's other publications, such as Variations in Domesticated Animals and Plants, published in two volumes, were works that represented years of study and experimentation.
Darwin himself was perfectly aware of the problem and its dimensions and addressed it in one of the most famous passages of the Origin, the one on the evolution of the vertebrate eye [ 1].
It was there that he worked on his most famous books, including On the Origin of Species, and conducted experiments in his garden.
This exquisite 1937 novella by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, the Austrian writer and critic, provides the world's most famous painting with a new origin story.
Haig Patigian, painters Hovsep Pushman and, most notably, Arshile Gorky are the most famous American artists of Armenian origin.
And weirdest of all, we see how the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has co-opted the ancient legends of Korea's seismic origins: its most famous volcano is now "the sacred mountain of the revolution", omnipresent in the state's propaganda and art.
CHARLES DARWIN'S most famous book is called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection".
