The Police Department, of course, had a much more practical use for the photos, which now sit in the New York City Police Museum and were taken in -- or slightly after -- the era of the rogues' gallery: that pinup collection of dips, perps, murderers and ne'er-do-wells popularized by the 19th-century New York lawman Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes.
He succeeded in stabilizing, as well as popularizing, what has long been seen as one of the world's top opera houses.
Ramones is considered to have established the musical genre of punk rock, as well as popularizing it years afterward.
It gave Williams an opportunity to show off his quick wit and improvisational skills in prime time and made him a household name as well as popularizing his catchphrases, "Na-Nu Na-Nu" and "Shazbot".
One of the most well known traditions popularized by St. Francis is the live nativity.
"It wasn't me lobbying that got all those signatures," said Paul. "It was the issue, how well it was popularized.
The first song Kelly Clarkson sang for "American Idol" judges 10 years ago was "At Last," the well-worn number popularized by Etta James that is used by bluesy performers to show their mettle.
But conspiracy theories also flourished well before they were popularized by the movies, and although films and the Internet can spread those theories wider and faster, the greatest impetuses are usually the government officials or other authority figures who suppress information or engage in cover-ups.
The nonparametric procedures include ARCH filters and smoothers designed to measure the volatility over infinitesimally short horizons, as well as the recently popularized realized volatility measures for fixed-length time intervals.
