* Action Comics Number 579, published by DC Comics in 1986, written by Lofficier and Illustrated by Keith Giffen, featured an homage to Asterix where Superman and Jimmy Olsen are drawn back in time to a small village of indomitable Gauls.

At a council held in London on 6 April 1152, Stephen induced a small number of barons to pay homage to Eustace as their future king ; but the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theobald of Bec, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronation ceremony on the grounds that the Roman curia had declared against the claim of Eustace.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds told from the perspective of a small town Texas sheriff ( a homage to Slim Pickens ) who finds an off-course Martian cylinder crashing down near his town ; " Heirs of the Perisphere " involves robotic Disney characters waking up in the far future ; " Fin de Cyclé " describes the Dreyfus affair from the perspective of bicycle enthusiasts.

In 1154, he accepted the regency of Gaston V of Béarn in return for the Bearnese nobles rendering him homage at Canfranc, thus uniting that small principality with the growing Aragonese empire.

All of the new members of the gang were various puns, based partially on their names ; King appeared to be a massive head with small limbs that flew on a throne and fired beams from his eyes ( an homage to the Marvel Comics villain MODOK who has been called the " The King of Comic Book Characters ").

The name " monkey stick " comes from a modern practice: in homage to the trained monkeys formerly used by buskers to solicit money from passers-by, a number of musicians have taken to fixing a small stuffed toy monkey to the tops of their instruments.

Randall played the third lead in all three Day-Hudson films and appears in a small role in Down With Love as the owner of Novak's publishing house as a homage and a connection to the previous films ; it was to be his final performance.

His design, which he named " DC-3 " in homage to the famed Douglas DC-3 airliner, was a small two-stage fully reusable shuttle with a payload capacity around.

The appearance of the exterior with its plain surfaces of specially chosen small bricks, with its dominating tower and elongated windows with pronounced keystones, pays direct homage to the Town Hall at Hilversum ( 1928 – 30 ) by W. M. Dudok, who was awarded a RIBA Gold Medal in 1935.

Just as in Time's Eye, Baxter and Clarke pay small homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey with lines lifted from the earlier book.

Pineville still celebrates Jesse James Days annually in homage to the film and the movie stars who descended on the small town to make it.

The station's final sports-era legal ID was an homage both to the station's small, but loyal following, and to the Jim Rome Show ; it contained a frequent Rome Show sign-off clip (" I think what I'm supposed to say is, ' Thank you.

* A small portion of the song was featured in the 2010 Family Guy remake of Return of the Jedi entitled It's a Trap !, in an homage to the famous scene from " Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Determined not to commit the same mistakes as his brother, Afonso III paid special attention to what the middle class, composed of merchants and small land owners, had to say.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

With such a small market, the sales revenue only covered the printing cost, while editors were paid by endowments.

Two small loans were paid off completely in 1935.

He agreed to the role only on assurance that he would be paid a large sum for what amounted to a small part, that he would not have to read the script beforehand and his lines would be displayed somewhere off-camera.

Such measures have inevitably reduced the overall number of small email-servers, and some end-users have opted to outsource to paid services instead, exacerbating the problem for those not wishing to outsource.

While this is a rather large sum, it is small compared to the many billions of dollars paid by the government and private insurance companies.

Taste is a reference to the small amount often paid out to keep a player seated and continuously betting.

The Vice Chancellor offered to do all he could and in 1969 Channell, who wanted to stay on campus and continue his social experiments, was able to persuade the VC to appoint him official University Wizard with a small honorarium paid jointly by the University Administration and the Student Union.

Under this plan, a small, elected council makes the city ordinances and sets policy, but hires a paid administrator, also called a city manager, to carry out its decisions.

Although the money he was paid is " small beer " compared with 21st-century sports stars, there is no doubt he had a comfortable living out of cricket and made far more money than any contemporary professional.

During Louchenheim's brief regime, Columbia paid $ 410, 000 to A. H. Grebe's Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the network's flagship station.

Ferrer was initially unsatisfied with the small size of his part, and accepted the role only on the condition of being paid $ 25, 000 ( more than O ' Toole and Sharif combined ) plus a factory-made Porsche.

A small professional ( paid ) standing army was stationed near the capital.

Between the two groups there was a third small group, the assimilados, comprising native blacks, mulatos, Asians, and mixed-race people, who had at least some formal education, were not subjected to paid forced labor, were entitled to some citizenship rights, and held a special identification card that differed from the one imposed on the immense mass of the African population ( the indigenas ), a card that the colonial authorities conceived of as a means of controlling the movements of forced labor ( CEA 1998 ).

In the 1969 budget, income tax was abolished for about 1 million of the lowest paid and reduced for a further 600, 000 people, while in the government ’ s last budget ( introduced in 1970 ), two million small taxpayers were exempted from paying any income tax altogether.

They are often supported by a small secretariat from the parent department and any expenditure is paid for by that department.

most work on family plantations ; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board

Under Japanese law, cash cannot be paid out directly for pachinko balls, but there is usually a small establishment located nearby, separate from the game parlor but sometimes in a separate unit as part of the same building, where players may " sell " special prizes for cash.

But in 1956, after the crackdown by the Soviets of the Hungarian Uprising, the soccer team were caught away from home, and for two years, Fritz managed their games and provided the financial backing and in small measure, paid them back for having saved his life.

The king did have a small household of Scots paid for by the English — these included Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming's nephew, Alexander Seton and Orkney's brother John Sinclair following the earl's return to Scotland.

Vallejo helped to build the town of Sonoma and even paid for the rebuilding of the small Mission chapel.

It is discovered that Hanner Coal Company, owned by Orin Hanner Sr. ( Kris Kristoffersson ), is being paid to dump toxic waste into an abandoned coal mine shaft, so Jack is assigned to go to the small town of Jackson, where his cover is that of assistant and volunteer carpenter to a local church.