Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

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Later,he wrote some of the best known songs of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the sixties.

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She is best known for her novel "The Tale of Despereaux" about a little mouse who has some big adventures.

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Eunice Shriver was best known for creating the Special Olympics, an athletic event for people with mental disabilities.

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He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

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Wayne Brady is probably best known for his appearances on the television show "Who's Line is it Anyway?"

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She decides to make every recipe in Child's best known cookbook in one year and write her own book about the experience.

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This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

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While he was best known for his legislative battles for America's poor and disabled people, Senator Kennedy was also a leader in foreign policy.

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The final round was hosted by Alex Trebek, best known for hosting the television game show "Jeopardy!" Arjun Kandaswamy from Oregon won second place.

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Yet that is where its effects are best known, especially at the high school level.

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Some of his best known movies of the nineteen eighties include Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and the Beverly Hills Cop movies starring Eddie Murphy.

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"Dewey was perhaps the best known philosopher, educator and public intellectual of the twentieth century.

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She died many years ago, yet still is one of the best known American women.

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The Salvation Army has one of the best known campaigns in the United States.

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But he probably is best known for another invention -- the geodesic dome.

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Emperor Norton the First soon became the best known man in San Francisco.

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She was best known for her beautifully expressive paintings of women and children.

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He is probably best known for his multi-colored Rolls Royce Phantom V limousine.

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Of course "Billie Jean" is also one of Michael Jackson's best known songs.

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These are some of its best known words: Give me your tired,your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

VOA: special.2009.06.29