* Encyclopedia of Alabama: Black Belt Region in Alabama

These films were widely broadcast on North American television on weekend timeslots that were often colloquially known as Kung Fu Theater, Black Belt Theater, or variations thereof.

" Amateur Pankration " was first introduced to the martial arts community by Greek-American combat athlete Jim Arvanitis in 1969 and later exposed worldwide in 1973 when he was featured on the cover of Black Belt magazine.

Black Belt magazine in 1985 carried the speculation that the death of Bruce Lee in 1973 may have been caused by " a delayed reaction to a Dim Mak strike he received several weeks prior to his collapse ".

It is run by Sixth Degree Black Belt, Vince Farquharson, who is also the owner of the West Midland Tae Kwon Do clubs.

In antebellum Alabama, wealthy planters created large cotton plantations based in the fertile central Black Belt, which depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans.

By 1925, the Klan was a powerful political force in the state, as urban politicians such as J. Thomas Heflin, David Bibb Graves, and Hugo Black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of the " Big Mule " industrialists and especially the Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state.

It became the state capital in 1846, representing the shift of power to the south-central area with the growth of cotton as a commodity crop of the Black Belt and Mobile's rise as a mercantile port.

Montgomery's central location in Alabama's Black Belt makes it a processing hub for crops such as cotton, peanuts, and soybeans.

Part of what became the Black Belt of Georgia, prior to the American Civil War the county's chief commodity crop was cotton, cultivated and processed by African-American slaves.

* Black Belt Jones ( 1974 )

It is home to swamps, prairies and mountains due to the foothills of the Appalachians which end in the county, the Coosa River basin, and its proximity to the Black Belt Prairie.

Dallas County is located in the Black Belt region of the west-central portion of the state.

The county was referred to as " Bloody Lowndes ," the rusty buckle of Alabama's Black Belt.

Developed for cotton plantation agriculture in the nineteenth century, it is one of the counties in Alabama within the Black Belt of the South.

Situated in Alabama's Black Belt and having a naturally rich soil, the county became home to numerous cotton plantations and consequently a large number of slaves.

Sumter County is part of the so-called Black Belt region of central Alabama.

The rich black soil combined with ready market access via the Flint River ( bordering the county on the east ) or the Chattahoochee River ( farther west ) to make Sumter among the state's most prosperous Black Belt counties by the 1840s and 1850s.

By 1845, the cotton growers in the interior Black Belt had become some of the wealthiest in the country, and power was shifting toward the southern and central part of the state.

Both the Black Belt cotton barons and the Mobilians wanted the capital moved.

The Town sits in a geographic region known as the Black Belt.

Located in the fertile Black Belt region, Hayneville's early economy centered on cotton production.

Hayneville, like the rest of the Black Belt, has struggled to shift to a more productive economy.

* 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

The population of Black rhinos was fairly numerous until 1960, but it was severely depleted by poaching in the 1970s and early 1980s, dropping to a low of 15 individuals.

* In Vladimir Savchenko's Black Stars ( 1960 ), neutronium is mechanically and thermally indestructible substance.

His last display of explosive energy occurred on November 8, 1960 in his polemical lecture, " The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States ", delivered to students and members of the American Church in Paris.

Throughout the 1960s, Nimoy appeared in a number of other TV series including Bonanza ( 1960 ), The Rebel ( 1960 ), Two Faces West ( 1961 ), Rawhide ( episode, Incident Before Black Pass.

* Black Maria ( 1960 ), sixth anthology of drawings ( Simon & Schuster )

Also Post-Depression works, such as Henry Miller's " Tropic of Cancer " ( 1934 ) and " Black Spring " ( 1936 ), followed by works from the 1950s, such as Samuel Beckett's trilogy, may have influenced the use of stream of consciousness in later works in the 20th century ( Molloy, 1951, ( Malone Meurt ( 1951 ); Malone Dies, ( translated by Beckett, 1958 ); and L ' Innomable, 1953 ( The Unnamable, 1960 ).

In 1960, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod arrived to summon the House of Commons during a heated debate, and several members protested against the disruption by refusing to attend the ceremony.

* 1960: The Essen Jazz Festival Concert ( Black Lion )

* Black Star, working title of the 1960 western Flaming Star, and also a song recorded by Elvis Presley for the film

* The Alaskans ( 1960 ) episode Black Sand

Between 1960 and 1966 only a few long-distance " semi-fast " services remained, mainly steam-hauled by LMR ' Black 5s ' – the days of the Great Central as a true main line were over.

He is best known for Orfeu Negro ( Black Orpheus ), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro ( also known as Black Orpheus ), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

* ( edited, with Max Black ) Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, 1952 / 1960 / 1966

Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America and the second largest in the world, boasting a fleet of 36 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27, 000, serving 49

Between 1945 and 1960, Canada undertook a number of small launcher and satellite related projects under the aegis of defence research, including the development of the Black Brant rocket as well as series of advanced studies examining both orbital rendezvous and re-entry.

The church bell came from HMNZS Black Prince, a light cruiser which served the Royal New Zealand Navy with distinction until it was decommissioned in 1960.

The first incarnation of Ladysmith Black Mambazo was " Ezimnyama " (" The Black Ones "), formed by Shabalala in December 1960.

Also, the appearance in 1960 of Donald Allen's anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960 ( which divides the poets included in its pages into various schools ) was crucial: it established a legacy and promoted the influence of the Black Mountain poets worldwide.

The class included 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built for British Railways, in 1960 ; and 92203 ( named Black Prince when preserved ), which in 1983 set a record for the heaviest steam locomotive-hauled train in Britain when it started a 2, 162-ton train at Foster Yeoman quarry in Somerset.

* Black Tights ( 1960 )