Prime Minister Tony Blair unveiled the statue in July 1999, but the sculpture omitted the former Labour leader's most famous trademark - his pipe - at the request of his wife, Lady Wilson.

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The world's most famous boy reporter with a trademark quiff set foot in India only twice.

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You may know the famous story that the president was wearing his trademark stove pipe hat and he began because he was so tall to attract fire from the Confederate forces until Holmes shouted without thinking these famous words: Get down, you fool.

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Every once in a while, some Trademark owner or the other loses rights because it becomes so famous that people starting calling the article by the trademarked name.

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Guccio and his descendants became world famous for the bamboo-handled handbag sported by the likes of Jackie Onassis and the trademark loafers worn by Frank Sinatra's set.

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