Conspicuous.

Unknown, Greenwich Pensioner Saluting Bust of Nelson, 1905

History, of all the literary productions, is the most important, pleasing, and instructive, as it is the record of the manners and customs of nations, with their religion and policy, and all their relative transactions.  It also represents to us the actions of all of those who have made themselves conspicuous on the theatre of the world.  In short, everything calculated to interest us in life is contained in history.

George Watson, from A Narrative of the Adventures of a Greenwich Pensioner Written by Himself, 1827