* In Glen Cook's 1982 novel Shadowline, first in the Starfishers trilogy, a planet named the Big Rock Candy Mountain is the location for several scenes of the story.

Other influences include Glen Cook's Black Company ; Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man, The Night Watch and Galveston ; Homer's Odyssey, the Bible, and Wu Cheng ' en's Journey to the West.

Glen Cook's private detective character Garrett P. I.

The Malazan series is often compared both to Glen Cook's The Black Company series ( to whom the seventh book is dedicated ) and George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever series, John Crowley's Little, Big ( 1981 ), Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood ( 1984 ) and Glen Cook's Black Company series.

The Nana Glen property, a cattle farm ( 700 Black Angus ), includes a chapel that Crowe built for his wedding to Spencer.

Echoes of elements of " The Theatre of the Absurd " can be seen in many later playwrights, from more avant-garde or experimental playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks – in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and The America Play, for example – to relatively realistic playwrights like David Mamet – in Glengarry Glen Ross, which Mamet dedicated to Harold Pinter.

* Glen Denham, Tall Black

Glen Park is located by the Black River.

* The Black Sluice District, much of which was known as the Lindsey Level when it was first drained in 1639, extends from the Glen and Bourne Eau to Swineshead.

Both the Bourne Eau and the Glen were affected by flooding, causing failure of the banks, which was addressed in the Black Sluice act of 1765.

The Black Sluice Commissioners installed flood doors between the Glen and the Bourne Eau at Tongue End, to prevent high water levels in the Glen passing up the river to Bourne.

Only comparatively small areas ( 17, 000 ha, only just over 1 % of the estimated original 1, 500, 000 ha ) of this ancient forest remain, the main surviving remnants being at Abernethy Forest, Glen Affric, Rothiemurchus Forest, and the Black Wood of Rannoch.

* Nic Briand commented that Black Rose Army was influenced by the last half of Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home about Bob Dylan, The Kills, Zabriskie Point, the first two Public Enemy albums, Glen E. Friedman's photos of the LA punk scene, the box set of Peanuts with Charlie Brown, Joseph Szabo's Teenage, early blues players Son Lightnin Hopkins and Robert Johnson and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Zonophone has now become the home to The Cramps ' Illegal recordings in the UK alongside David Axelrod produced albums by David McCallum, the cult sitar classic Lord Sitar, Cilla Black and compilations of Capitol era material from such as Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry.

* The Black Company ( 1984 ) by Glen Cook opens in a city with many characteristics of Constantinople, including a political faction known as the Blues.

As well as 1944 Academy Award nominations for " Best Black and White Cinematography " for Glen MacWilliams, " Best Original Story " for John Steinbeck, and " Best Director " for Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat received other award considerations.

* The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage ( 1991 ) ( co-creator, with James Wong and Glen Morgan )

The true Cuillin are also known as the Black Cuillin to distinguish them from the Red Hills ( Am Binnean Dearg ) across Glen Sligachan.

All twelve Munros on Skye are Black Cuillin peaks, though one of them, Blaven, is part of a group of outliers separated from the main ridge by Glen Sligachan.

Possible locations for this dam were debated for years, and in fact the Bureau of Reclamation's first study for a dam at Glen Canyon was made in 1924, in addition to studies for locations at Black and Boulder Canyons lower on the Colorado, below Grand Canyon.

Orpat, Philips, Russell Hobbs, Morphy Richards, Crompton Greaves, Bajaj, Panasonic, Usha, Kenstar, Inalsa, Glen, Maharaja Whiteline, Westinghouse, Oster, Khaitan, Black & Decker, Sunflame, Bajaj Platini, Wipro, Greenchef, Pigeon, Prestige, Jaipan, Preethi

However, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as U2, Enya, Westlife, Boyzone, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Horslips, Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, Clannad, Stiff Little Fingers, Altan, Frank Patterson, The Corrs, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, De Dannan, The Divine Comedy, Josef Locke, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, Therapy ?, The Saw Doctors, Planxty, The Wolfe Tones, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, In Tua Nua, The Undertones, Ash, B * Witched, Nadine Coyle, The Hothouse Flowers, The Script, Two Door Cinema Club, Something Happens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Dana, Mundy, Sinéad O ' Connor, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Val Doonican, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ruby Murray, Peter Cunnah ( of D: Ream ), Daniel O ' Donnell, Bridie Gallagher, Brendan Bowyer, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Mary Black, Sir James Galway, Johnny Logan, Bill Whelan ( of Riverdance fame ), Damien Rice, Phil Coulter, Glen Hansard, and Celtic Woman achieving success nationally and internationally.

* Scotch whisky: Johnnie Walker, Buchanan's, Cardhu, Justerini & Brooks ( J & B ), Bell's, Black & White, White Horse, Logan, Caol Ila, Vat 69, Oban, Talisker, Lagavulin, Glen Ord, Glenkinchie, Dalwhinnie, Cragganmore, Singleton, Haig, Royal Lochnagar, Glen Elgin, Knockando, The Dimple Pinch

The Hunter region contains the Goulburn River National Park, Myall Lakes National Park, Barrington Tops National Park, Werakata National Park, Watagans National Park, Mount Royal National Park, Polkolbin State Forest, Putty State Forest, Chichester State Forest, Running Creek Nature Reserve, The Glen Nature Reserve, Black Bulga State Conservation Area, Myall River State Forest and Karuah Nature Reserve,

The Black Friday fires of 1939 badly damaged the area around Yarra Glen, as did the fires of 2009.

Glen Rock Electric Light and Power Company first ran electric lines through town in 1922.

Fire District 3 is the Bettlewood, Heather Glen, and Heather Woods sections and it contracts with the Westmont Fire Company Number 1 for fire protection from District 1.

In 1905 the Giant Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company opened operations in Glen Campbell.

In the final perfection of production and marketing we find that Glen Alden Company has produced 60 to 75 percent of all Plymouth ’ s fuel contribution.

At its peak, Louis Marx and Company operated three manufacturing plants in the United States: Erie, Pennsylvania, Girard, Pennsylvania, and Glen Dale, West Virginia.

Two branch railroads connected to the main line at Horseshoe Curve in the early-20th century ; both the Kittanning Run Railroad and the railroad owned by the Glen White Coal and Lumber Company followed their respective creeks to nearby coal mines.

In 1883 the railroad acquired land in northeast Pennsylvania and formed a subsidiary called The Glen Summit Hotel and Land Company.

It is divided by the Washington Railway and Electric Company which ran from Georgetown to Glen Echo for a 5 cent fare.

* August 7-There is a large audience at the Bohemian Theatre in Dublin for the first screening of the Film Company of Ireland's first film ' O ' Neill of the Glen.

Consolidated into the New River Railroad Company, with Kimball as President, these lines became the basis for Norfolk and Western's New River Division, which was soon built from New Kanawha ( near East Radford ) up the west bank of the New River through Pulaski County and into Giles County to the mouth of the East River near Glen Lyn, Virginia.

With Ruebush and John W. Howe, Kieffer founded the Kieffer, Ruebush, & Company music company circa 1873, which was moved from Singers Glen to Dayton in 1878.

These quarries provided slate for the West Castleton Railroad and Slate Company, a complex of sixty to seventy buildings that stood between Glen Lake and Lake Bomoseen.

He studied at the Actor's Studio before building up a substantial theatrical reputation on and off Broadway, including 12 years with the Theatre Company of Boston, appearances in David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel with Al Pacino and in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.

Glen Raven acquired the Astrup Company ( founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1876 by William J. O.

The railroad was originally built by the Fort Bragg Redwood Company as the Fort Bragg Railroad in 1885 to carry coast redwood logs from the dense forests at Glenela ( Glen Blair ) to a newly built lumber mill located 6. 6 miles ( 10. 6 km ) to the west at coastal Fort Bragg, California.

On April 7, 1892, the Glen Echo Sand and Building Company, a Baltzley subsidiary, borrowed a large sum of money giving the Chautauqua site as collateral.

The financial difficulties spread to the Glen Echo Railroad Company, yet another Baltzley enterprise, which, because of the Army Corps of Engineers and the city aqueduct system, had failed to bring the much anticipated street car service to the Chautauqua site and Glen Echo Village.

Tracing the history of Rapid American Corporation and its renamed form Glen Alden Corporation, one can find the succession of acquisitions Riklis used to create his financial empire, including McCrory Stores, Leeds Travelware, Gruen Watch Company, Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, Aunt Nellie's Farm Kitchens, Bargain Time, Beatrice Foods, Canadian retailer Dylex, Culligan International, Fabergé Cosmetics, J. J. Newberry stores, Lerner Shops, Lawry's Meat Specialties, Martha White Foods, Odd Lot Trading, International Playtex, the Riviera hotel and casino in Las Vegas, RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres, Samsonite, Schenley Industries, and the one-time American distributor of Dewar's whisky.