Betsy Ross is a notorious recent instance.

Some have become community, social service and day care centers; others offices, restaurants, shops, warehouses, spas and in a particularly notorious instance, that of the Limelight, a disco.

Probably the most notorious instance of scientific stubbornness was the refusal of eighteenth century astronomers to believe that stones actually fell from the sky.

The special prosecutor, he said, was disbanded because it had become ineffective, handling few cases even as notorious instances of corruption, like Officer Dowd's, flourished.

The most notorious instance of interference with the electoral process was the 1988 General Elections where many losing candidates were declared winners.

Inarguably, the most notorious instance of Wilson's relapse into cocaine usage was on the eve of Super Bowl XXIII, where the Bengals were to play the San Francisco 49ers.

Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship.

In one notorious instance in California, a school security officer broke the arm of a girl he was arresting for failing to clear up crumbs after dropping cake in the school canteen.

The most notorious instance was that of a News of the World reporter's claiming to have spent an evening with Mick Jagger, who allegedly discussed his drug use and offered drugs to companions.

The most notorious instance of lingering campaign debt is that of Senator John Glenn, an Ohio Democrat, who still owes more than $3 million to creditors from his 1984 bid for the Democratic nomination.