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Examples:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, President of Iran from 2005, famous for provocative speeches—Miluo river in Hunan, famous for Dragon Boat festival—Leuven (a town in Belgium famous for its university)—Buddhist monastery famous for its kungfu monks—Hai Rui (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty and integrity—Chinese astronomer (281-356) famous for determining the precession of the equinoxes—visit places famous for their scenery—a place famous for its scenery or historical relics—Yi Sunshin (1545-1598), Korean admiral and folk hero, famous for sea victories over the Japanese invaders—Akihabara, region of downtown Tokyo famous for electronics stores—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays—Torabora mountain area in east Afghanistan, famous for its caves—Pingxing pass on the Great Wall near Datong, famous for victory over the Japanese in Sep 1937—MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes—Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Beijing University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores—Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead—Maeng Saseong (1360-1438), Korean politician of the Goryeo-Joseon transition, famous for his honesty and wisdom—Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty—Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji—Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis—Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist, famous for Yang-Mills gauge theory—Zolotoy Rog or Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok (famous for its pollution)—Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonnets—Wangfujing neighborhood of central Beijing, famous for shopping—monstre sacré (i.e. artist famous for being deliberately preposterous)—lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)—Panzhihua prefecture level city in south Sichuan, bordering Yunnan, famous for steel production and pollution—Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team—village in Shaanxi province, famous among poets for its wine— |