In the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, two life-forms were encountered by the characters that were non-carbon based entities.

Also from The Empire Strikes Back, the bounty hunter Zuckuss is a member of the Gand race, an ammonia-based life-form.

Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film " was the only one of those movies that actually looked good ", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.

By the time the film " The Empire Strikes Back " was released in 1980 Star Wars fanzines had surpassed Star Trek zines in sales.

In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

The Imperial AT-AT Walkers in The Empire Strikes Back

In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films.

Another more-complicated variation on stop motion is go motion, co-developed by Phil Tippett and first used on the films The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ), Dragonslayer ( 1981 ), and the RoboCop films.

the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

* May 21 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released.

He went on to star in the similarly-successful Star Wars sequels, The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) and Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), as well as The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ).

In the 1980s the use of these " blow-ups " increased with large numbers of 70 mm prints being made of some blockbusters of the period such as the 125 70 mm prints made of The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ).

For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a ' quad optical printer ' that accelerated the process considerably and saved money.

Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors, a fellow mercenary and love interest ; Lando Calrissian ( voiced by Billy Dee Williams ), the sophisticated baron-administrator of Cloud City seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ; and Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original film trilogy and leader of the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.

Lawson also portrays Antilles in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ; his own voice is used in both these films.

Wedge appears in The Empire Strikes Back as a member of the newly formed Rogue Squadron.

She is portrayed by actress Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and The Star Wars Holiday Special.

In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, set three years later, Leia is at the Rebel base on Hoth.

In a memorable scene from The Empire Strikes Back, romance blossoms between Han Solo and Princess Leia.

In The Empire Strikes Back, the theme is developed into " Han Solo and the Princess ".

He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Lando Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the administrator of Cloud City, concerned primarily with keeping the Galactic Civil War and the Empire out of his affairs.

Calrissian's life prior to The Empire Strikes Back is chronicled in The Adventures of Lando Calrissian series of novels.

The two do not see each other again until The Empire Strikes Back, set three years later.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

* Caesar: An Empire Without End, a series of radio plays for the BBC by Mike Walker

* A People's History of American Empire ( 2008 ) by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle.

In that year, Empire and Mike D signed a deal to release a number of DHR's recordings on the Beastie Boys ' Grand Royal record label in the United States.

In the past several years, several notable musicians have come from Dallas, including Erykah Badu, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Mike Nesmith of The Monkees, Neon Indian, The Polyphonic Spree, Old 97s, St. Vincent, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, LehtMoJoe, Toadies, MeatLoaf, Baboon, The Secret Machines, Dorrough, Mount Righteous, The Paper Chase, Devourment, Absu, Course of Empire, Coilback, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Reverend Horton Heat, Lone Star Trio, Sofa Kingdom, Princess Tex, End Over End, The Trees, Three On A Hill, Buck Pets, About Nine Times, Last Rites, Sara Hickman, Robin Myrick, Meredith Miller, Mildred, Orange Schubert, Picket Line Coyotes, Chomsky, The Deathray Davies, Shallow Reign, Loco Gringos, Hash Palace, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah !, Decadent Dub Team, Rigor Mortis, Karma Gettin, Lithium X-mas, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea and Alex Moore and Pantera.

* Brothers of Iron: How the Weider Brothers Created the Fitness Movement and Built a Business Empire by Joe Weider and Ben Weider, with Mike Steere, published by Sports Publishing L. L. C., 2006

In 2008, Zinn worked with Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle on creating A People's History of American Empire, a graphic novel that covers various historic subjects from A People's History of the United States as well as Zinn's own history of involvement in activism and historic events as covered in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

* A People's History of American Empire ( American Empire Project ) by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle

She later appeared in such cult classic features as The Lost Empire ( 1983 ), Repo Man ( 1984 ), Biohazard ( 1985 ) and Mike Jittlov's film The Wizard of Speed and Time ( 1989 ), where she played an assistant to a movie executive ( and designed her own costumes ).

Amtrak reacted in part to pressure from Mike Mansfield ( D-Montana ), then Senate Majority Leader, who noted that the Empire Builder bypassed Montana's major population centers.

He has appeared in various programmes, including The Beiderbecke Affair, Inspector Morse, The Brittas Empire, Andy Capp, Soldier Soldier, All Creatures Great and Small and even as a photographer who got physical with Mike Baldwin on Coronation Street.

The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, later called simply The Trigan Empire was a science fiction comic series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence.

George Kent ( University of Rhode Island, New England Conservatory, Chorus of Westerly ), Andrew Balio ( Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ), Gilbert Blais ( Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay ), Peter Chapman ( Boston Symphony Orchestra ), Jon Paul Danté ( Paramount Brass Quintet, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra ), Russell Devuyst ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra ), Kurt Dupuis (" The President's Own " U. S. Marine Band ), Anthony DiLorenzo ( Center City Brass, composer, recording artist ), Albert DiPietro ( Longy School of Music ), Joseph D. Foley ( Atlantic Brass Quintet, Wellesley College, Boston University ), William Harvey ( Oakland East Bay Symphony ), Edward Hoffman ( Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Institute ), Bruce Hopkins ( College of the Holy Cross ), Paul Jackson ( Alabama Symphony Orchestra ), Robert Lemons ( Eastern Connecticut State University ), Louis Larouche ( Québec Symphony Orchestra ), Steven Matera (" The President's Own " U. S. Marine Band ) Timothy Morrison ( Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood recording artist ), Rodney Mack ( Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia ), Niel Mueller ( North Dakota State University ), Dennis Najoom ( Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra ), Gary Peterson ( Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Grieg Academy ), William Pfund ( University of Northern Colorado, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra ), Marc Reese ( Empire Brass Quintet ), Betty Barber Rines ( Portland Symphony Orchestra ), Jay Rizzetto ( California State University, San Francisco Ballet ), John Schnell ( Portland Symphony Orchestra ), David Scott ( McNeese State University ), Lt Col Alan Sierichs ( The United States Air Force Band ), Rolf Smedvig ( Empire Brass Quintet ), Thomas V. Smith ( New York Philharmonic, Manhattan School of Music ), Edward Tarr ( trumpet soloist, historian ), James Thompson ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Eastman School of Music ), Peter Voisin ( Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ), Linn Weeda ( Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, University of Alaska Anchorage ), Alan Wenger ( Central Missouri State University ), Mike Zonshine ( Honolulu Symphony ) Earl Gaar ( Top Brass Louisville KY ).

Shearer is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, a Freeman of Newcastle upon Tyne and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.

Two decades after the Black Mesa incident, Gordon Freeman succeeds in cutting Earth off of the Combine Empire and a device that suppressed human reproduction, leading to a renewed fight between the native population and the trapped Combine forces.

) on 14 March 1901, Knight of the Order of the Garter ( KG ) on 30 May 1902, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) in 1919, was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1908 and made an honorary Freeman of Holborn in 1931.

Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.

Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.

Empire became identified with vast territorial holdings rather than the title of its ruler by the mid-18th century.

In 936, Otto I the Great was crowned as king at Aachen ; his coronation as emperor by the Pope at Rome in 962 inaugurated what became later known as the Holy Roman Empire, which became to be identified with Germany.

Army units of the Roman Empire were identified by the distinctive markings on their shields.

Jerome identified the four prophetic kingdoms symbolized in Daniel 2 as the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Medes and Persians, Macedon, and Rome.

There is no archaeological evidence of Achaemind control over modern-day Pakistan as not a single archaeological site that can be positively identified with the Achaemenid Empire has been found anywhere in Pakistan, including at Taxila.

The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.

The Queen gave her name to an era of British greatness, especially in the far-flung British Empire with which she identified.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

" He identified these as being the drive to find new and profitable commercial opportunities outside Europe as well as the desire to create an alternative trade network to that controlled by the Muslim Empire of the Middle East, which was viewed as a commercial, political and religious threat to European Christendom.

After the breakup of the Mongol Empire, the Tatars became especially identified with the western part of the empire, known as the Golden Horde.

The Age of Enlightenment identified itself with a vision of antiquity which, while continuous with the classicism of the previous century, was shaken by the physics of Sir Isaac Newton, the improvements in machinery and measurement, and a sense of liberation which they saw as being present in the Greek civilization, particularly in its struggles against the Persian Empire.

Since, at that time, Australia was preparing to attack the Ottoman Empire, those people were first speculated to be Turkish, but later identified as being from British colony of India ( modern day Pakistan ).

* As a result of this, Armstrong believed that a unified Europe ( identified by him as a " revived Roman Empire " and as the " beast " of Revelation 13 ) would oppose Jesus at his second coming in the battle of Armageddon.

Historically, a Patriarch may often be the logical choice to act as Ethnarch, representing the community that is identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed ( as Christians within the Ottoman Empire ).

Initially, with the annexation of the island by the British Empire, the " Cyprus dispute " was identified as the conflict between the people of Cyprus and the British Crown regarding the Cypriots ' demand for self determination.

While there Nearing rather boldly gave a speech at Yenching University on his book, The American Empire, in a room darkened so that audience members could not be later identified and denounced.

Usually in the former case the exact line of hereditary succession among royal individuals may be identified at any given moment during prior reigns ( e. g. United Kingdom, Sark, Nizari Ismailis, Japan, Balobedus, Sweden, Benin Empire ) whereas in the latter case the next sovereign may be selected ( or changed ) only during the reign or shortly after the demise of the immediately preceding monarch ( e. g. Cambodia, KwaZulu Natal, Buganda, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Yorubaland, The Kingitanga ).

The historical Conservative Party identified strongly with the British Empire and aimed instead to model Canadian political institutions after British ones opposing the policies of the Liberal Party which favoured Canadian nationalism and political independence from Britain as well as economically continentalist policies such as free trade and further integration with the United States rather than greater political and economic ties with the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.

Colonialism is often identified as the force which is ' against Islam ', and seems to neatly encompass British Empire experiences as well as those of modern times.

In 1596, Kawkab, the site identified with Kawkaba, was part of the Ottoman Empire, with a population of 88.

Christian anarchists point out that this marked the beginning of the " Constantinian shift ", in which Christianity gradually came to be identified with the will of the ruling elite, becoming the State church of the Roman Empire, and in some cases ( such as the Crusades, Inquisition and Wars of Religion ) a religious justification for violence.

Trajan conquered the Nabataean kingdom, annexing it to the Roman Empire, where their individual culture, easily identified by their characteristic finely-potted painted ceramics, became dispersed in the general Greco-Roman culture and was eventually lost.