By comparing a team's odds of victory before and after a famous play, it's possible to show, in percentage terms, how "clutch" the play really was.
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
Some magazines would commission famous Tour pros to play a round of golf with the group or give a speech at dinner, but the pros weren't encouraged to mingle long.
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That night, before attending a tech rehearsal for her upcoming play, we had dinner at Hamburg Inn, a diner famous for pie milkshakes and for being a mandatory political stop for candidates during the Iowa caucuses.
Henry had got selection and motivation spot on and it was only a lack of belief in the final quarter - coupled with a streaker who halted play at the most inopportune of moments - that denied Wales a famous victory.
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But it was not revealed that Tennant used a real skull in the play's most famous scene.
The Bahamas are bursting with Bond history: Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, lived on the islands, and Sean Connery, perhaps the most famous actor to play Bond, had a home there too.
The assassination didn't come to pass, but von Kleist went on to play a key role in the most famous attempt on Hitler later that same year, and was the last surviving member of the group of German officers who tried and failed to kill the Fuehrer on July 20, 1944.
It starts with the name, which of course is a play on the great Isaac Asimov novels, from which came the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
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Perhaps the most famous example is when Richard Griffiths ordered a woman out of his West End play Heroes in 2005 after her mobile phone rang for a third time.
From 3:30 pm to 6 pm, the Prenestina Philharmonic orchestra will play some of the most famous pieces by Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Gounod to accompany a variety of performances, including by world-champion ice skaters Alessandro Spigai and Anna Remondini (on roller-skates), stilt-walkers and traditional dancers.
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